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Nanyang Business School

AB1202 – STATISTICS AND ANALYSIS

Tutorial :4
Topics : Expectation

1. Let X have the Bernoulli distribution with a success probability of 0.3. That is, assume
that X is either 0 or 1 with Pr(X=1)=0.3.
(a) E(X)=?
(b) Var(X)=?

2. Find E(X) where X is the outcome when we roll a fair dice.

3. An appliance has a maximum lifetime of one year. The time X until it fails is a random
variable with a continuous distribution with the p.d.f.

{
f ( x )= 2 x for 0< x <1
0 otherwise
What is the expectation of X?

4. A product has a warranty of one year. Let X be the time at which the product fails.
Suppose that X has a continuous distribution with the p.d.f

{
0 for x< 1
f ( x )= 2
3
for x ≥1
x
(a) Use R to calculate Pr( x ≥ 1)=? Pr(1.0 ≤ x ≤ 1.5)=?
(b) What is the expected time to failure?
(c) Suppose users must pay $100/unit of time for using the product (until it fails). How
much on average will a user pay for using five such products?

5. If an integer between 1 and 50 is chosen at random (1 and 50 inclusive), what is the


expected value? (HINT: “at random” means each number in the sequence has an equal
probability to be picked-- in effect a uniform distribution)

6. In a class of 50 students, the number of students ni of each age i is shown in the


following table:
Age i ni
18 10
19 32
20 5
21 2
25 1
If a student is to be selected at random from the class, what is the expected value of the

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age?

7. Suppose that three random variables X 1 , X 2 , X 3 form a random sample from a


distribution and , determine the value of
E ( X 1) =E ( X 2 ) =E ( X 3 ) =5

E(2 X 1−3 X 2 + X 3−4).

8. Suppose that X and Y are independent random variables for which Var(X)= 3 and
Var(Y)=2.
(1) Find the value of Var(X+Y).
(2) Find the value of Var (2X+3Y+1).

9. Suppose that a random variable X can take each of the five values -2,0,1,3 and 4 with
equal probability. What is the variance of X?

10. Suppose the distribution of numerical scores of course A resembles a normal distribution
with mean = 70 and standard deviation =2 (random variable denoted as A ¿. For course
B, the score distribution resembles a normal distribution with mean = 80 and standard
deviation=2 (random variable denoted as B¿. For course C, the score distribution
resembles a normal distribution with mean=70 and standard deviation=1 (random
variable denoted as C ¿ .
(1) Knowing the properties of expectations and variances you just learned this week,
what would you do to convert (i.e., add, subtract, multiply, divide it by certain
numbers) the distribution of course A to that of course B (i.e., let them have the
same mean and variance)?
(2) Same as (1), but now convert the distribution of course A to that of course C.
(3) Same as (1), but now convert the distribution of course A to a normal distribution
with zero mean and unit variance (i.e., the so-called standard normal distribution).

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