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Part CCSIR NET June 2024degrees-of-freedom-follow-the-denominator

Degrees of freedom follow the denominator

Let be a random sample from the N(2, 4) distribution and be a random sample from the N(−2, 5) distribution, where denotes a normal distribution with mean and variance . Assume that the two random samples are mutually independent. Let , Ȳ Ȳ. Which of the following statements are true?

  1. A.The distribution of X̄ + Ȳ is N(0, 2/3)
  2. B.The distribution of is
  3. C.The distribution of is
  4. D.The distribution of Ȳ is

You have the answer. Trap Analysis is why the other three were written.

Not a worked solution repeated four times — the specific reasoning error each wrong option was built to reward.

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Related counterexample: The maximum of independent exponentials is exponential

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