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Probability & Statistics

Assignment(Group 2)
(Wipro ID from 40034051 to 40035036)
Note: Submit the assignment on or before 9th Contact session
(05/09/2021) in Taxila
1. The Probability that a new airport will get an award for its design is 0.16, the
probability that it will get an award for the efficient use of material is 0.24, and the
probability that it will get both awards is 0.11. What is the probability that
a)it will get at least one of the two awards
b)only one of two awards.

2. A fuse box contains 20 fuses of which 5 are defective. If 2 fuses are selected at
random and removed from the box in succession. What is the probability that
both fuses are defective if
a) if the first fuse is replaced
b) if the first fuse is not replaced

3. Let X be a random variable having an unknown distribution with mean m=8 and
variance s2=9 (standard deviation s =3). Find the following probability: (a) P(-4
<X< 20) (b) P(|X-8| ³ 6)

4. A consulting firm rents cars from 3 agencies, 20% from agency D, 20% from
agency E, and 60% from agency F. If 10% of the cars from D, 12% of the cars
from E, and 4% of the cars from F have bad tires, What is the probability that the
firm will get a car with bad tires.

5. The probability distribution of X, the number of imperfections per 10 meters of a


synthetic fabric in continuous rolls of uniform width is given below. Find Mean
and Standard deviation
x 0 1 2 3 4
f(x 0.41 0.37 0.16 0.05 0.01
)

6. A shipment of 100 digital voice recorders contains 25 that are defective. If 10 of


them are randomly chosen for inspection what is the probability that 2 of the 10
will be defective
a) by using the Hyper geometric distribution
b) by approximating the hypergeometirc probability by the binomial probability

7. Assume that on the average one telephone number out of fifteen called between 2
pm and 3pm on wee days is busy. What is the probability that if 6 randomly
selected telephone numbers are called
(i) not more than three (ii) at least three of them will be busy.
8. The joint probability distribution of two random variables X and Y is given by

f(x,y) x
2 4
1 0.1 0.15
y
3 0.2 0.3
5 0.1 0.15
i) Evaluate the marginal distributions of X and Y
ii) Find P(Y=3/X=2)

9. At a cafeteria the customers arrive at an average of 0.3 per minute. Find the
probability that
a)exactly 2 customers arrive in a 10 minute span
b)2 or more customers arrive in a 10 minute span
c) exactly one customer arrives in a 5 minute span and one customer arrives in
the next 5 minute span.

10. The lifetime of a color television picture tube is a normal random variable with
mean 8.2 years and standard deviation 1.4 years. What is the probability of such
tubes lasts a) more than 10 years b) less than 5 years c) between 5 and 10 years.

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