39. A photographic supply business accepts orders on each of two different phone lines. On each line
Question:
39. A photographic supply business accepts orders on each of two different phone lines. On each line the waiting time until the rst call is exponentially distributed with mean 1 minute, and the two times are independent of one another. Let X be the shorter of the two waiting times and let Y be the longer. It can be shown that the joint pdf of X and Y is f (x, y)
2 e(xy), 0 x y q.
a. Find the marginal density of X.
b. Find the conditional density of Y given X x.
c. Find the probability that Y is greater than 2, given that X 1.
d. Are X and Y independent? Explain.
e. Find the conditional mean of Y given X x. Is a linear function of x?
f. Find the conditional variance of Y given X x.
Step by Step Answer:
Modern Mathematical Statistics With Applications
ISBN: 9780534404734
1st Edition
Authors: Jay L Devore