The experiment is to toss two balls into four boxes in such a way that each ball is equally likely to fall in any box. Let X denote the number of balls in the first box. a. What is the CDF of X? b. What is the density function of X?

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The experiment is to toss two balls into four boxes in such a way that each ball is equally likely to fall in any box. Let X denote the number of balls in the first box.
a. What is the CDF of X?
b. What is the density function of X?



Show that the following are probability density functions (pdf's):
fi(x) = e-*1(0,00) (x)
b. f2(x) = 2e-2×Ic0,00)(x)
а.
Transcribed Image Text:Show that the following are probability density functions (pdf's): fi(x) = e-*1(0,00) (x) b. f2(x) = 2e-2×Ic0,00)(x) а.
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