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Homework 5

Due Friday, Nov. 7
Note: we'll cover sections 7.1-7.4,7.6

1.
Chapter 6, p.269: 16,18,23,31
2.
Chapter 7, p. 313: 4
3.
Roll two fair, six-sided dice. One die is red, the other blue. Let X represent the number on the blue die , and let Y represent the largest of the two numbers showing.
(a)
Write a table with the joint distribution of X and Y.
(b)
Write the marginal distribution of X and the marginal distribution of Y.
(c)
What's the expected value of Y? of X?


 

Robert Gould
rgould@stat.ucla.edu