Suppose that Alejandro is planting a garden of tulips. Let X be the Bernoulli random variable that returns 1 if the tulip is red, and 0 otherwise. Suppose Y is another Bernoulli random variable, independent of X, that returns 1 if the tulip survives longer than 30 days, and 0 otherwise. Both X and Y have parameters 1/2. Let Z be the random variable that returns the remainder of the division of X+Y by 2. For example, if X 1 and Y = 0, Z = remainder()= 1 (a) Prove that Z is also a Bernoulli random variable, also with parameter 1/2. (b) Prove that X, Y, Z are pairwise independent but not mutually independent. (c) By computing Var[X+Y+Z] according to the alternative formula for variance and using the variance of Bernoulli r.v.'s, verify that Var[X+Y + Z] = Var[X] +Var[Y] +Var[Z] (observe that this also follows from the proposition on slide 5 of the lecture segment entitled "Binomial distribution").

Suppose that Alejandro is planting a garden of tulips. Let X be the Bernoulli random variable that returns 1 if the tulip is red, and 0 otherwise. Suppose Y is another Bernoulli random variable, independent of X, that returns 1 if the tulip survives longer than 30 days, and 0 otherwise. Both X and Y have parameters 1/2. Let Z be the random variable that returns the remainder of the division of X+Y by 2. For example, if X 1 and Y = 0, Z = remainder()= 1 (a) Prove that Z is also a Bernoulli random variable, also with parameter 1/2. (b) Prove that X, Y, Z are pairwise independent but not mutually independent. (c) By computing Var[X+Y+Z] according to the alternative formula for variance and using the variance of Bernoulli r.v.'s, verify that Var[X+Y + Z] = Var[X] +Var[Y] +Var[Z] (observe that this also follows from the proposition on slide 5 of the lecture segment entitled "Binomial distribution").

Algebra & Trigonometry with Analytic Geometry

13th Edition

ISBN:9781133382119

Author:Swokowski

Publisher:Swokowski

Chapter10: Sequences, Series, And Probability

Section10.8: Probability

Problem 32E

See similar textbooks