Question

An instructor has given a short quiz consisting of two parts. for a randomly selected student, let x = the number of points earned on the first part and y = the number of points earned on the second part. suppose that the joint pmf of x and y is given in the accompanying table. y p(x, y) 0 5 10 15 x 0 0.02 0.06 0.02 0.10 5 0.04 0.13 0.20 0.10 10 0.01 0.15 0.16 0.01 (a) if the score recorded in the grade book is the total number of points earned on the two parts, what is the expected recorded score e(x + y)? (enter your answer to one decimal place.) (b) if the maximum of the two scores is recorded, what is the expected recorded score? (enter your answer to two decimal places.)

Answer 1

To find the expected recorded score, we need to find the sum of (x + y) times P(x +y), which gives us 14.4. The expected recorded score goes through the same process, but we only use the maximum scores and this gives us 9.75