AP Statistics › How to find the mean of the sum of independent random variables
If is a random variable with a mean of
and standard deviation of
, what is the mean and standard deviation of
?
An experiment is conducted on the watermelons that were grown on a small farm. They want to compare the average weight of the melons grown this year to the average weight of last year's melons. Find the mean of this year's watermelons using the following weights:
If you have ten independent random variables , normally distributed with mean
and variance
, what is the distribution of the average of the random variables,
Suppose you have three independent normally distributed random variables, , such that
has mean
and variance
,
has mean
and variance
,
has mean
and variance
.
What is the probability that the sum, , is less than
?