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The random variable x has the following continuous probabil
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The random variable x has the following continuous probability distribution in the range 0 ≤ x ≤ \(\sqrt{2}\), as shown in the coordinate plane with x on the horizontal axis:
The probability that x < 0 = the probability that \(x > \sqrt{2} = 0\).
What is the median of x?
A. \(\frac{\sqrt{2} - 1}{2}\)
B. \(\frac{\sqrt{2}}{4}\)
C. \(\sqrt{2}^{-1}\)
D. \(\frac{\sqrt{2} + 1}{4}\)
E. \(\frac{\sqrt{2}}{2}\)
The random variable x has the following continuous probabil
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03 Mar 2018, 04:34
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A median value of any probability distribution divides the area under the probabaility distribution in two equal parts.
Best understood with following image.
Now in our case we need to split the triangular distribution along a line \(x=?\) (parallel to y axis) such that area of the right half is same as the left half.
Area of right half = \(\frac{1}{2} \times\) Area of the larger triangle.
Now look at the figure below and we have marked out the hight and length of the triangle as x. Now height = length for this triangle because the given line has slope 1.
Area of right half = \(\frac{1}{2} \times x^2\)= \(\frac{1}{2} \times \frac{1}{2}\times \sqrt{2}^2\).
Solving for x we get x =1. So median value has to be \(\sqrt{2}-1\) (refer to the figure above)
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Best understood with following image.
Now in our case we need to split the triangular distribution along a line \(x=?\) (parallel to y axis) such that area of the right half is same as the left half.
Area of right half = \(\frac{1}{2} \times\) Area of the larger triangle.
Now look at the figure below and we have marked out the hight and length of the triangle as x. Now height = length for this triangle because the given line has slope 1.
Area of right half = \(\frac{1}{2} \times x^2\)= \(\frac{1}{2} \times \frac{1}{2}\times \sqrt{2}^2\).
Solving for x we get x =1. So median value has to be \(\sqrt{2}-1\) (refer to the figure above)
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Carcass wrote:
The random variable x has the following continuous probability distribution in the range 0 ≤ x ≤ \(\sqrt{2}\), as shown in the coordinate plane with x on the horizontal axis:
The probability that x < 0 = the probability that \(x > \sqrt{2} = 0\).
What is the median of x?
A. \(\frac{\sqrt{2} - 1}{2}\)
B. \(\frac{\sqrt{2}}{4}\)
C. \(\sqrt{2}^{-1}\)
D. \(\frac{\sqrt{2} + 1}{4}\)
E. \(\frac{\sqrt{2}}{2}\)
The probability that x < 0 = the probability that \(x > \sqrt{2} = 0\).
What is the median of x?
A. \(\frac{\sqrt{2} - 1}{2}\)
B. \(\frac{\sqrt{2}}{4}\)
C. \(\sqrt{2}^{-1}\)
D. \(\frac{\sqrt{2} + 1}{4}\)
E. \(\frac{\sqrt{2}}{2}\)
\(\sqrt{2}^{-1}\) and \(\frac{\sqrt{2}}{2}\) are the same expression. One is the rationalized form of the other. Thus they should be both right.
