A shot is fired at a very large circular target. The horizontal and vertical coordinates of the point of impact are independent random variables each having a standard normal density. Here the center of the target is taken as the origin. What is the density function of the distance from the center of the target to the point of impact? What are the expected value and the mode of this distance?
Continuous Probability Distributions
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Normal Distribution
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A shot is fired at a very large circular target. The horizontal and vertical coordinates of the point of impact are independent random variables each having a standard normal density. Here the center of the target is taken as the origin. What is the density
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