Expected value and variance of dependent random variable given expected value and variance

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I have calculated E(Y) for this problem and found it to be 0. However, I am now stuck on Var(Y). I seem to get stuck with either $E(Y^2)$ or $E(X^2)$ when solving it and I'm not sure how to solve those statements.

Let X be a random variable with expected value $\mu$ and variance
$\sigma^2$. Let $Y = (X – \mu)/\sigma$. Compute E(Y) and Var(Y).

Best Answer

Note that $$ EY^2=\frac{1}{\sigma^2}E[(X-\mu)^2]=\frac{1}{\sigma^2}\sigma^2=1 $$ by the (original) definition of variance whence $$ \text{Var}(Y)=EY^2-(EY)^2=1-0=1 $$

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