Suppose X has a uniform distribution over the points {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6} and that g(x) = sin(π 2 x). a. Determine the distribution of Y = g(X) = sin(π 2 X), that is, specify the values Y can take and give the corresponding probabilities.
b. Let Z = cos( π 2 X). Determine the distribution of Z.
c. Determine the distribution of W = Y 2 + Z2. Warning: in this example there is a very special dependency between Y and Z, and in general it is much harder to determine the distribution of a random variable that is a function of two other random variables. This is the subject of Chapter 11.
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