Help please: Alice throws darts at a circular target of radius r and is equally likely to hit any point in the target. Let X be the distance of Alice’s hit from the center. Find the PDF, the mean and the variance of X.

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Alice throws darts at a circular target of radius r and is equally likely to hit any point in the target.
Let X be the distance of Alice’s hit from the center. Find the PDF, the mean and the variance of
X.

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Here given that Alice throws darts at a circular target of radius r and is equally likely to hit any point in the target.
Let X be the distance of Alice’s hit from the center.

Then, we have to find the value of PDF, mean and variance of X.


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