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Find P(X+Y>1/2) for given joint density function
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[QUOTE="Peter_Newman, post: 6493880, member: 656585"] Hey everybody, :smile: I have a joint density of the random variables ##X## and ##Y## given and want to find out ##P(X+Y>1/2)##. The joint density is as follows: $$f_{XY}(x,y) = \begin{cases}\frac{1}{y}, &0<x<y,0<y<1 \\ 0, &else \end{cases}$$ To get a view of this I created a plot: [ATTACH type="full" width="285px"]283235[/ATTACH] As usual I would split the area up into two sub areas (see red dots) and doube integrate this. In this case for instance my calculation is the following: $$P(X+Y>1/2) = P(Y>1/2 - X) = \int_{y=0.5}^{1} \int_{x=0}^{y} \frac{1}{y} \, dx dy + \int_{0.25}^{0.5} \int_{x=0.5-y}^{y} \frac{1}{y} \, dx dy \approx 0.5 + 0.1534 \approx 0.6534$$ The solution should be ##P(X+Y>1/2) = \frac{\ln(2)}{2}##, which I can not explain, that why I'am asking here. I think in my integral there could be a mistake, but I don't see the error... I would be very happy for answers to this! Thank you! :smile: [/QUOTE]
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