Is My Schrödinger's Equation Homework Correct?

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I'm having a little trouble whit this homework assignment. Any help would be greatly appreciated. =)

Homework Statement



Explain if the following statements are true or false:

a) Wavefunctions \phi1 and \phi2 are solutions to the time independent Schrödinger's equation, that correspond to the energies E1 and E2. Now theta=c1\phi1+c2\phi2 is the solution to the same schrödinger's equation and the energy corresponding to the state \Theta is 1/2(E1+E2)

b)The wavefunction that depicts the particles state is \Theta=-i/3\phi1+2\sqrt{2}/3\phi2, where \phi1 and \phi2 are the wavefunktions from question a). When measuring the energy of one million of these identical particles' 11,1% of them show the energy E1


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Use:

\left < E \right > = \langle \Theta \mid \hat{H} \mid \Theta \rangle

and the fact that the probability of getting E1 is the square of the modulus of the coefficient that accompanies it in the wave-function expansion.
 
Thanks. I think I got it. Could you still tell me if the statements are true or false so that i would be certain that i got them right?
 
To solve this, I first used the units to work out that a= m* a/m, i.e. t=z/λ. This would allow you to determine the time duration within an interval section by section and then add this to the previous ones to obtain the age of the respective layer. However, this would require a constant thickness per year for each interval. However, since this is most likely not the case, my next consideration was that the age must be the integral of a 1/λ(z) function, which I cannot model.
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