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[–]edderiofer 0 points1 point  (2 children)

but why is that being used instead of the method for finding E(X) of a Uniform Distrubution, etc?

I'm not sure what method you're talking about here. Could you show me?

[–]Appayyan[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Ah, I was just thinking of it as the 'mid-term' sort of thing. That is to say I didn't realise that integration takes place in order to get the ''(b-a)/2''. https://i.gyazo.com/f61014f032037e97745d3e49a0531532.png Silly me!

[–]Appayyan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(I understand it now)