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Transcribed Image Text:7. A continuous random variable X has the following probability density function (pdf).
fx(x) = {A
Scx(1 – x), 0 <x<1
otherwise
7.3 Compute P (x > -) from the cdf of X.
7.4 Compute P (X > ) from the pdf of X.
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