In a certain city, the daily consumption of electric power, in millions of Kilowatt-hours, is a random variable X having a gamma distributions with mean is 6 and variance is 12. (a) Find the values of a and 3. (b) Find the probability that on any given day the daily power consumption will exceed 11 million kilowatt-hours.

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Section13.2: Expected Value And Variance Of Continuous Random Variables
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In
a certain city, the daily consumption of electric power, in millions of Kilowatt-hours,
is a random variable X having a gamma distributions with mean is 6 and variance is
12.
(a) Find the values of a and 3.
(b) Find the probability that on any given day the daily power consumption will
exceed 11 million kilowatt-hours.
Transcribed Image Text:In a certain city, the daily consumption of electric power, in millions of Kilowatt-hours, is a random variable X having a gamma distributions with mean is 6 and variance is 12. (a) Find the values of a and 3. (b) Find the probability that on any given day the daily power consumption will exceed 11 million kilowatt-hours.
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