p(x) Compute E(X), E(X²), and V(X). x ft3 (X) = x²) = (X) = If the price of a freezer having capacity X is 61X – 650, what is the expected price paid by the next customer to buy a freezer? What is the variance of the price paid by the next customer?
Continuous Probability Distributions
Probability distributions are of two types, which are continuous probability distributions and discrete probability distributions. A continuous probability distribution contains an infinite number of values. For example, if time is infinite: you could count from 0 to a trillion seconds, billion seconds, so on indefinitely. A discrete probability distribution consists of only a countable set of possible values.
Normal Distribution
Suppose we had to design a bathroom weighing scale, how would we decide what should be the range of the weighing machine? Would we take the highest recorded human weight in history and use that as the upper limit for our weighing scale? This may not be a great idea as the sensitivity of the scale would get reduced if the range is too large. At the same time, if we keep the upper limit too low, it may not be usable for a large percentage of the population!
![An certain brand of upright freezer is available in three different rated capacities: 16 ft, 18 ft, and 20 ft. Let X = the rated capacity of a freezer of this
brand sold at a certain store. Suppose that X has the following pmf.
16
18
20
p(x)
0.3
0.2
0.5
(a) Compute E(X), E(X²), and V(X).
x ft3
E(X) =
E(x?) =
V(X) =
(b) If the price of a freezer having capacity X is 61X – 650, what is the expected price paid by the next customer to buy a freezer?
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(c) What is the variance of the price paid by the next customer?
(d) Suppose that although the rated capacity of a freezer is X, the actual capacity is h(X) = X - 0.009x2. What is the expected actual capacity of the
freezer purchased by the next customer?
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