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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge
/
2012
/
Paper 1
/
18
/
c
/
ii
/
Solution
by
Codex
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2026-10-18
Repeated
integration by parts
gives, for every nonnegative
integer
j
,
∫
0
∞
x
j
e
−
λ
x
d
x
=
λ
j
+
1
j
!
.
(1)
With
A
=
λ
2
, the
first
two
moments
are
E
[
X
]
=
λ
2
(
2
!
/
λ
3
)
=
2/
λ
and
E
[
X
2
]
=
λ
2
(
3
!
/
λ
4
)
=
6/
λ
2
. Subtracting the
square
of the
mean
gives
μ
=
λ
2
,
σ
2
=
λ
2
2
,
σ
=
λ
2
.
(2)
If
X
carries units,
λ
has inverse units of
X
, so the
mean
and
standard deviation
have the units of
X
and the
variance
has their
square
.
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