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If you have a difficulty you may try making REASONABLE assumptions. State
the assumption and how that assumption limits your answer. Show all your work and
justify all your answers. Marks are given for how an answer is arrived at not just the
answer itself.
1. You are given two independent random variables X and Y with the following
marginal distributions:
0.5e-°- * 5
x > 0
9i?) = 0 otherwise
1 0< y < 1
h(y) =
0 otherwise
U = 3X + Y
V = X + 2Y
2. A travelling salesperson based in Montreal must visit Hull, Quebec City, Trois
Rivieres, Chicoutimi and Sherbrooke, over the next two weeks in one long trip.
In making travel plans he/she would like to select the route that minimizes
travel time. To this end he/she figures out the total distance required for each
of the possible routes.
z=i *
n
1 _ r-n+l
f(x)=pq*- 1
/(*) =
1
1 -(*-^)
-(x-u)2 2
1 =2