An engineering statistics class has 40 students; 60% are electrical engineering majors, 10% are industrial engineering majors,

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An engineering statistics class has 40 students; 60% are electrical engineering majors, 10% are industrial engineering majors, and 30% are mechanical engineering majors. A sample of four students is selected randomly without replacement for a project team. Let X and Y denote the number of industrial engineering and mechanical engineering majors, respectively.

Determine the following:

(a) fXY (x, y) 

(b) fX (x) 

(c) E(X )

(d) fY|3 (y) 

(e) E(Y | X = 3)

(f) V (Y | X = 3)

(g) Are X and Y independent?

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Applied Statistics And Probability For Engineers

ISBN: 9781118539712

6th Edition

Authors: Douglas C. Montgomery, George C. Runger

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