ose your waiting time for a bus in the morning is uniformly distributed on [0, 8], whereas waiting time in the evening is uniformly distributed on [0, 10] independent of morning waiting time. a. If you take the bus each morning and evening for a week, what is your total expected waiting time? [Hint: Define rv's ?1, … , ?10 and use a rule of expected value.] b. What is the variance of your total waiting time? c. What are the expected value and variance of the difference between morning and evening waiting times on a given day? d. What are the expected value and variance of the difference between total morning waiting time and total evening waiting time for a particular week
Continuous Probability Distributions
Probability distributions are of two types, which are continuous probability distributions and discrete probability distributions. A continuous probability distribution contains an infinite number of values. For example, if time is infinite: you could count from 0 to a trillion seconds, billion seconds, so on indefinitely. A discrete probability distribution consists of only a countable set of possible values.
Normal Distribution
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Suppose your waiting time for a bus in the morning is uniformly distributed on [0,
8], whereas waiting time in the evening is uniformly distributed on [0, 10] independent
of morning waiting time.
a. If you take the bus each morning and evening for a week, what is your total
expected waiting time? [Hint: Define rv's ?1, … , ?10 and use a rule of
value
b. What is the variance of your total waiting time?
c. What are the expected value and variance of the difference between morning
and evening waiting times on a given day?
d. What are the expected value and variance of the difference between total
morning waiting time and total evening waiting time for a particular week?
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