e) What is the expected value of X - 3?  f) What is the expected value of 6X?  g) What is the expected value of  X2?

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1. The error, X, in measuring the length of a rivet (in micrometers) has the following probability density function
f(x)= 20·x·(3−x)^3/243 for  0 ≤ x ≤ 3 and 0 otherwise.

e) What is the expected value of X - 3? 

f) What is the expected value of 6X? 

g) What is the expected value of  X2

h) What is the probability that X is greater than its expected value? 

i) What is the expected value of  X3−3X+1? 

j) What is the 55th percentile of X? 

k) What is the probability that X is within 0.4 of its expected value? 

l) What is the probability that X = 2?

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