So what is the question just comment on this I can help
Answer:
Both would work.
Step-by-step explanation:
If we call Jackie's apples a, then Mark has a - 4 apples. Therefore, together they have a + (a - 4) apples, and we know that they have a total of 12 apples so we can write a + (a - 4) = 12 to represent the situation. On the other hand, if Mark has a apples, then Jackie has a + 4 apples, so we can also write a + (a + 4) = 12 to represent the situation as well. Therefore, both of the equations would work. Hope this helps!
I'll leave the computation via R to you. The are distributed uniformly on the intervals , so that
each with mean/expectation
and variance
We have
so that
Now,
and
We have
because and are independent when , and so
giving a variance of
and so the standard deviation is
# # #
A faster way, assuming you know the variance of a linear combination of independent random variables, is to compute
and since the are independent, each covariance is 0. Then
and take the square root to get the standard deviation.
I think that jeremy should learn how to do his own math