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From: stevev@tekchips.UUCP (Steve Vegdahl)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: conditional probability problem
Message-ID: <730@tekchips.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Apr-84 07:32:02 EDT
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Posted: Thu Apr 26 07:32:02 1984
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Y and Z are independent random variables, uniform distribution on [0,1].
The random variable X is max(Y, Z).

Given that Y > 0.5, what is the expected value of X? the probability
distribution for X?

Given that X > 0.5, what is the expected value of Y? the probability
distribution for Y?

		Steve Vegdahl
		Tektronix, Inc.