Chapter 6 Homework
(Starnes, Yates & Moore, 4th edition)

Section 6.1: Discrete and Continuous Random Variables

  1. Discrete Random Variables
  2. Continuous Random Variables
  3. Probability Distribution
  4. mean (expected value) of a random variable
  5. variance and std dev of a random variable
  6. Summary p352

Section 6.2: Transforming and Combining Random Variables

  1. Linear Transformations (360, 361, 362)
  2. mean and variance of sum of random variables (365, 367)
  3. mean and variance of difference of random variables (371)
  4. Independent random variable definition (365)
  5. Summary p. 377

Section 6.3: Binomial and Geometric Random Variables

  1. Binomial Setting (383)
  2. Binomial random variable and distribution
  3. Binomial formulas (387, 388, 391)
  4. Sampling without replacement condition (394)
  5. Normal Approximation for Binomial (395)
  6. Geometric Setting (397)
  7. Geometric random variable and distribution
  8. Geometric Formulas (399, 401)
  9. Summary p 403

Exercises

Section 6.1
p 353

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27-30

Section 6.2
p 378

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39-41
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57-59
63
61
65
66

Section 6.3
p 403

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101-103

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