Moment generating functions of continous probability distributions

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derive the MGF hence find their mean and variance
1 weibull distribution
2 pareto distribution
3 lognormal distribution
 
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Okay, what have you done? What are the the formulas for those distributions and what are their "moments"?

Do you know the definition of "moment generating function"?
 

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