Chapter 15: Q4P (page 749)

Suppose that Martian dice are 4-sided (tetrahedra) with points labeled $1 - 4$ . When a pair of these dice is tossed, let x be the product of the two numbers at the tops of the dice if the product is odd; otherwise $x = 0$ .

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The required values are mentioned below.

$\begin{matrix} μ = 1 \\ var (x) = \frac{21}{4} \\ σ = \frac{\sqrt{21}}{2} \end{matrix}$

Step by step solution

Given Information

Martian dice is tossed

Definition of the cumulative distribution function

The likelihood that a comparable continuous random variable has a value less than or equal to the function's argument is the value of the function.

Find the values

The random variables are given below.

$\begin{matrix} x_{1} = 1 \\ p (x_{1}) = 1 / 16 \\ x_{2} = 0 \\ p (x_{2}) = 2 / 16 \end{matrix}$

Solve further.

$\begin{matrix} x_{3} = 3 \\ p (x_{3}) = 2 / 16 \\ x_{4} = 0 \\ p (x_{4}) = 3 / 16 \end{matrix}$

Solve further.

$\begin{matrix} x_{6} = 0 \\ p (x_{6}) = 2 / 16 \\ x_{8} = 0 \\ p (x_{8}) = 2 / 16 \end{matrix}$

Solve further.

$\begin{matrix} x_{9} = 9 \\ p (x_{9}) = 1 / 16 \\ x_{12} = 0 \\ p (x_{12}) = 2 / 16 \end{matrix}$

Solve further.

$\begin{matrix} x_{16} = 0 \\ p (x_{16}) = 1 / 16 \end{matrix}$

The mean is given below.

$\begin{matrix} μ = \sum x_{i} p (x_{i}) \\ μ = \frac{1}{16} + \frac{6}{19} + \frac{9}{16} \\ μ = 1 \end{matrix}$

The variance is given below.

$\begin{matrix} var (x) = \sum {(x_{i} - μ)}^{2} p (x_{i}) \\ var (x) = \frac{2}{16} + \frac{3}{16} + \frac{2}{16} + \frac{2}{16} + \frac{1}{16} + \frac{4 \times 2}{16} + \frac{64}{16} \\ var (x) = \frac{21}{4} \end{matrix}$

The standard deviation is given below.

$\begin{matrix} σ = \sqrt{var (x)} \\ σ = \sqrt{\frac{21}{4}} \\ σ = \frac{\sqrt{21}}{2} \end{matrix}$

The graph is shown below.

Hence, the required values are mentioned below.

$\begin{matrix} μ = 1 \\ var (x) = \frac{21}{4} \\ σ = \frac{\sqrt{21}}{2} \end{matrix}$

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Suppose that Martian dice are 4-sided (tetrahedra) with points labeled $1 - 4$ . When a pair of these dice is tossed, let x be the product of the two numbers at the tops of the dice if the product is odd; otherwise $x = 0$ .

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Definition of the cumulative distribution function

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Suppose that Martian dice are 4-sided (tetrahedra) with points labeled 1−4. When a pair of these dice is tossed, let x be the product of the two numbers at the tops of the dice if the product is odd; otherwisex=0.

Short Answer

Step by step solution

Given Information

Definition of the cumulative distribution function

Find the values

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Suppose that Martian dice are 4-sided (tetrahedra) with points labeled $1 - 4$ . When a pair of these dice is tossed, let x be the product of the two numbers at the tops of the dice if the product is odd; otherwise $x = 0$ .