Consider a country that imports steel and exports au- tomobiles. The value per unit of cars exported is mea- sured in units of thousands of dollars per car by the random variable X. The value per unit of steel imported is measured in units of thousands of dollars per ton of steel by the random variable Y. Suppose that the coun- try annually exports 10 cars and imports 5 tons of steel. Compute the mean and variance of the trade balance, where the trade balance is the total dollars received for all cars exported minus the total dollars spent for all steel imported. The joint probability distribution for the prices of cars and steel is shown in Table 4.11.
Consider a country that imports steel and exports au- tomobiles. The value per unit of cars exported is mea- sured in units of thousands of dollars per car by the random variable X. The value per unit of steel imported is measured in units of thousands of dollars per ton of steel by the random variable Y. Suppose that the coun- try annually exports 10 cars and imports 5 tons of steel. Compute the mean and variance of the trade balance, where the trade balance is the total dollars received for all cars exported minus the total dollars spent for all steel imported. The joint probability distribution for the prices of cars and steel is shown in Table 4.11.
Consider a country that imports steel and exports au- tomobiles. The value per unit of cars exported is mea- sured in units of thousands of dollars per car by the random variable X. The value per unit of steel imported is measured in units of thousands of dollars per ton of steel by the random variable Y. Suppose that the coun- try annually exports 10 cars and imports 5 tons of steel. Compute the mean and variance of the trade balance, where the trade balance is the total dollars received for all cars exported minus the total dollars spent for all steel imported. The joint probability distribution for the prices of cars and steel is shown in Table 4.11.
Consider a country that imports steel and exports au- tomobiles. The value per unit of cars exported is mea- sured in units of thousands of dollars per car by the random variable X. The value per unit of steel imported is measured in units of thousands of dollars per ton of steel by the random variable Y. Suppose that the coun- try annually exports 10 cars and imports 5 tons of steel. Compute the mean and variance of the trade balance, where the trade balance is the total dollars received for all cars exported minus the total dollars spent for all steel imported. The joint probability distribution for the prices of cars and steel is shown in Table 4.11.
Transcribed Image Text:Table 4.11 Joint Distribution of Automobile
and Steel Prices
Price of Automobiles (X)
Price of
Steel (Y)
$3
$4
$5
$4
0.10
0.15
0.05
$6
0.10
0.20
0.10
$8
0.05
0.15
0.10
Definition Definition Measure of central tendency that is the average of a given data set. The mean value is evaluated as the quotient of the sum of all observations by the sample size. The mean, in contrast to a median, is affected by extreme values. Very large or very small values can distract the mean from the center of the data. Arithmetic mean: The most common type of mean is the arithmetic mean. It is evaluated using the formula: μ = 1 N ∑ i = 1 N x i Other types of means are the geometric mean, logarithmic mean, and harmonic mean. Geometric mean: The nth root of the product of n observations from a data set is defined as the geometric mean of the set: G = x 1 x 2 ... x n n Logarithmic mean: The difference of the natural logarithms of the two numbers, divided by the difference between the numbers is the logarithmic mean of the two numbers. The logarithmic mean is used particularly in heat transfer and mass transfer. ln x 2 − ln x 1 x 2 − x 1 Harmonic mean: The inverse of the arithmetic mean of the inverses of all the numbers in a data set is the harmonic mean of the data. 1 1 x 1 + 1 x 2 + ...
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