Q. Is it possible to have a uniform probability distribution and an exponential probability distribution such that the continuous random variables with these distributions would have the same expected value and variance? Give an example demonstrating that this is possible or an explanation of why this is impossible.

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Q. Is it possible to have a uniform probability distribution and an exponential probability distribution such that the continuous random variables with these distributions would have the same expected value and variance? Give an example demonstrating that this is possible or an explanation of why this is impossible.

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