Actuary Tong has to study for two actuarial exams: Exam P and Exam FM. The amount of study time that Actuary Tong will spend on each exam in a day follows a continuous random variable that ranges from o to i hour. The amount of study time that Actuary Tong spends on both exams in a day has a joint density function that is equal to the sum of the study times that Actuary Tong spends on each exam in a day. Caleulate the probability Actuary Tong spends at least half an hour in a day studying for exactly one of the exams. A 0.45 0.50 0.55 0.60 0.65
Continuous Probability Distributions
Probability distributions are of two types, which are continuous probability distributions and discrete probability distributions. A continuous probability distribution contains an infinite number of values. For example, if time is infinite: you could count from 0 to a trillion seconds, billion seconds, so on indefinitely. A discrete probability distribution consists of only a countable set of possible values.
Normal Distribution
Suppose we had to design a bathroom weighing scale, how would we decide what should be the range of the weighing machine? Would we take the highest recorded human weight in history and use that as the upper limit for our weighing scale? This may not be a great idea as the sensitivity of the scale would get reduced if the range is too large. At the same time, if we keep the upper limit too low, it may not be usable for a large percentage of the population!
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