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S2 Chapter 5: Continuous Uniform Distribution

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RECAP: Discrete Uniform Distribution

Description

Params

Outcomes

Prob Func

Each discrete outcome is equally likely to happen.

These are all based on the parameters we set.

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Continuous Uniform Distribution

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Examples

 

 

 

 

 

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Test Your Understanding

S2 Edexcel Jan 2013

 

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Clearly by inspection/symmetry…

 

(e.g. if I think of a number randomly between 2 and 6, the mean number will be 4!)

 

I remember as “a twelfth of the squared width”

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Click for Proof

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Quickfire (in your head)

 

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It’s just the width of the rectangle times the height. However, you are expected to know (it was once an exam question!) how also to do it by integration, as you did in the previous chapter:

 

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Past paper questions on provided sheet.

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Q2

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Q3

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