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Compute the Moment Generating function for the following distributions knowing only f(x), E(x), and Var(x) Uniform...

Compute the Moment Generating function for the following distributions knowing only f(x), E(x), and Var(x)

Uniform (over (a,b))
Bernoulli
Binomial
Geometric
Negative Binomial

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