Statistics for Engineers and Scientists
4th Edition
ISBN: 9780073401331
Author: William Navidi Prof.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 4.1, Problem 1E
After scoring a touchdown, a football team may elect to attempt a two-point conversion, by running or passing the ball into the end zone. If successful, the team scores two points. For a certain football team, the
- a. Let X = 1 if successful, X = 0 if not. Find the
mean and variance of X. - b. If the conversion is successful, the team scores 2 points; if not the team scores 0 points. Let Y be the number of points scored. Does Y have a Bernoulli distribution? If so, find the success probability. If not, explain why not.
- c. Find the mean and variance of Y.
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Statistics for Engineers and Scientists
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