5) Given below is a bivariate distribution for the random variables x and y. f(x, y) x y 0.2 50 80 0.5 30 50 0.3 40 60 Compute the covariance and correlation for x and y. Are x and y positively related, negatively related, or unrelated? Is the variance of the sum of x and y bigger, smaller, or the same as the sum of the individual variances? Why?

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5) Given below is a bivariate distribution for the random variables x and y.

f(x, y) x y
0.2 50 80
0.5 30 50
0.3 40 60
  1. Compute the covariance and correlation for x and y. Are x and y positively related, negatively related, or unrelated?
  2. Is the variance of the sum of x and y bigger, smaller, or the same as the sum of the individual variances? Why?
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