a) Mrs Legodi, a registered student at the University of Limpopo, tossed a fair coin three times. She decided to let X to be a random variable that takes the value 1 if the outcome of a toss is a head and the value 0 otherwise. She also defined Y to be a random variable of the total number of heads in the three tosses. i) What will be her joint probability mass function (PMF) of X and Y? ii) Find the P(X = 0, Y = 1]. iii) Determine the marginal PMF of X. iv) Show whether or not X and Y independent without using marginal PMFs of X and Y.

a) Mrs Legodi, a registered student at the University of Limpopo, tossed a fair coin three times. She decided to let X to be a random variable that takes the value 1 if the outcome of a toss is a head and the value 0 otherwise. She also defined Y to be a random variable of the total number of heads in the three tosses. i) What will be her joint probability mass function (PMF) of X and Y? ii) Find the P(X = 0, Y = 1]. iii) Determine the marginal PMF of X. iv) Show whether or not X and Y independent without using marginal PMFs of X and Y.

Calculus For The Life Sciences

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Chapter12: Probability

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