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Question 3. A college collects data on its students physical exercise time per week. Use \( \mathrm{X} \) to denote a studen
Question 3. A college collects data on its students' physical exercise time per week. Use to denote a student's sex with male being 1 and female being 0 . And is the weekly physical exercise time in terms of hours. The following table shows the joint probabilities in parentheses. a) What is the marginal distribution of , and what is the mean of ? (5 points) b) What is the male student's share in this college? What is the female student's share in this college? (5 points) c) Given , what is the conditional distribution of ? What is ? points) d) Given , what is the conditional distribution of ? What is ? (5 points) e) Use your answers in a) to d) to verify the Law of Iterated Expectations. ( 5 points)


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To solve the given questions, let's calculate the required probabilities and expectations step by step.

a) The marginal distribution of Y can be obtained by summing the joint probabilities for each value of Y.

For Y = 2: P(Y = 2) = P(X = 0, Y = 2) + P(X = 1, Y = 2) = 0.2 + 0.12 = 0.32
For Y = 4: P(Y = 4) = P(X = 0, Y = 4) + P(X = 1, Y = 4) = 0.1 + 0.04 = 0.14
For Y = 8: P(Y = 8) = P(X = 0, Y = 8) + P(X = 1, Y = 8) = 0.3 + 0.24 = 0.54

The marginal distribution of Y is as follows:

Y = 2: P(Y = 2) = 0.32 Y = 4: P(Y = 4) = 0.14 Y = 8: P(Y = 8) = 0.54


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