Meagan Rodda

This is the HSC hub Mathematics curriculum support from the New South Wales Department of Education. My name is Meagan Rodda. This question is from the NESA sample exam and incorporates material from the statistical analysis strand in the mathematics advanced course. This question looks at a probability density function.

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A continuous probability distribution is represented by a function called a probability density function, where X is the random variable. The mode is the maximum point of the probability density function. In this probability density function, the highest point is 0.8 comma 0.6, so we can automatically rule out options A and D. The highest point occurs when X equals 0.8, so therefore the mode is 0.8 and the correct answer is C.

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