Department of Mathematics M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore - 560 054 Engineering Mathematics - IV Sub. Code: EC/TE/IT/EE MAT41 Question Bank _ Ten UNIT -IV j Probability Distributions i _A’Find the mean and §.D of the binomial probability distribution 2. The mean and variance of a binomial variate X with parameters (n, p) are 16 and 8, Find the distribution of X. 3. The probability that a bomb dropped from a plane will strike the target is 1/5. If six bombs are dropped, find the probability that () Exactly two will strike the target. (ii) At least two will strike the target. fn 100 sets of ten tosses of an unbiased coin, in how many cases should we expect (i 7 heads and 3 tails (ii) at least 7 heads 5. Stating the assumptions derive Poisson distribution as a limiting case of the binomial distribution. Also find mean and variance of the Poisson distribution. 6. A communication channet receives independent pulses at the rate of 12 pulses per Micro second. The probability of transmission error is 0.001 for each micro second. Compute the probability of (i) no.error during a micro second (ii) one error per micro second (iii) atleast one error per micro second. (iv) two errors (v) atmost two errors, i | 2.2% of the fuses manufactured by.a firmare found to be defective. Find the probability that i a Box containing 200 fuses contains (i) no defective fuses (ii) 3 or more defective fuses. 8. The probability that a pen-manwfactured by a company will be defective is 0.1. If 12 such pensare selected, find the probability that (i) exactly 2 will be defective (ii) at least 2 will be defective (ii) none wilhbe defective. 9. Ina certain factory turning out razor blades, there is a small chance of 0.002 for any blade to bbe defective. The blades are supplied in packets of 10, use Poisson distribution to calculate the approximate number of packets containing no defective, one defective and two defective blades respectively in atconsigament of 10,000 packets 10. If the probability of a bad reaction from a certain injection is 0.001, determine the chance that out of 2,000 individuals more than two will get a bad reaction. _BIFFit a Poisson distribution to the set of observations: x 0 1 2 3 4 f 122 60 15 2 1 12. A source of liquid is known to contain bacteria with the mean number of bacteria per cubic centimeter equal to 3. Ten 1c.c, test-tubes are filled with the liquid, Assuming that Poisson distribution is applicable, calculate. the probability that all the test-tubes will show growth i, e contain atleast 1 bacterium each. 13. The probabilities of a Poisson variate taking the values 3 and 4 are equal. Calculate the probabilities of the variate taking the values 0 and 1. 14, Find the expectation of the function (x)= xe"* in a Poisson distribution 15. A car hire firm has 2 cars, which it hires out day by day. The demand for a car on each day is distributed as a Poisson distribution with mean 15. Calculate the probability that on a certain day (i) neither car is used and (i) some demand is refused 7-01-2011 to 14-05-201116. Alpha particles are emitted by a radioactive source at an average rate of 5 in.a 20 minute interval. Using Poisson distribution, find the probability that there will be (i) two emissions and (ii) atleast two emissions in a particular 20 minute interval. A7-Find the mean and S.D of the Normal probability distribution 18. Ina normal distribution , 31% of the items are under 45 and 8% are over 64, Find the mean and standard deviation of the distribution, 19. Ina test on 2000 electric bulbs, it was found that the life of a particular make, was normally distributed with an average life of 2040 hours and S D of 60 hours. Estimate the number of bulbs likely to burn for (i) more than 2150 hours, (ii) less than 1950 hours and (ii) more than 1920 hours and but less than 2160 hours . ; 20. Ina certain town the duration of the shower is exponentially distributed with mean 5 minutes. What is the probability that a shower will last for: (i) 10 minutes or more (ii) less than 10 minutes (iii) between 10 and 12 minutes. 21. The marks obtained by a number of students in a certain subject are approximately normally distributed with méan 65 and $.D 5. If 10 students are selected at random from this group what is the probability that atleast 1 of them would have scored above 75? 22. Find the mean and variance of Exponential distribution * 7%. Find thé mean and variance of Gamma distribution _A®. Find the mean and variance of Uniform distribution 25. In a certain city ; the daily consumption of electric power in millions of K W /hrs can be treated as a RV having a Gamma distribution with parameters = ¥2 and k=3. If the power plant of this city has a daily capacity of 12 millions K W/hrs, what is the probability that this power supply will be in adequate on any given day? 26. If a company employes n sales persons, its gross sales in thousands of rupees may be regarded as a RV having a Gamma distribution with 2= %s and k=80Vn. If the sales cost is | Rs, 8000 per salés person, How many sales persons should the company employ to maximize the expected profit? 27. Ina certain.town, the duration ‘of the shower is exponentially distributed with mean 5 minutes. Whatis the probability that a shower wil last for: (iJ 10 minutes of more (ii) less than 10 minutes (iii) between 10 and 12 minutes. 28. The length of telephone conversation ina booth has been an exponential distribution and found on an average to be 5 minutes, Find the probability that a random call made form his booth (i) ends less than 5 minutes (ii) between 5 and 10 minutes. 29. The sales per day in a shop is exponentially distributed with the average sale amounting to Rs. 100 and net profit is 8%. Find the probability that the net profit exceeds Rs. 30 on two consecutive days, 30. In a certain town the distribution of a shower is exponentially distributed with mean 5 minutes. What is the probability that a shower will last for: (i) 10 minutes or more (ii) less j than 10 minutes (iii) between 10 ain 12 minutes. 31. Find mean and variance of uniform distribution. 32. Ifa ticket is drawn from a box containing 10 tickets numbered 1 to 10 inclusive. Find the probability that the number x drawn is (a) less than 4 (b) even number (iii) prime number (iv) find the mean and variance of the random variable X.33. If a card is selected at random from an ordinary pack of 52 cards, find the probability that (a) card is a spade (b) card is a face card i., Jack, queen or king (c) card is a spade face card. 34. Find the probability that a card drawn at random from 50 cards numbered 1 to 50 is (a) prime (b) ends in the digit 2(c) divisible by 5. 35. Two marbles are drawn from a box containing’ 4 red and 8 black marbles. Find the probability that (a) both are red (b) both are black (c) atleast one is red. | Joint Probability Distributions 36. Evaluate (3) Marginal distribution of X and Y (ii) EOCY) (ii) 0, aud 0, when two cards are selected at a random from a box which contains five cards numbered 1, 1, 2, 2 and 3. Find the joint distribution of X and Y, where X denotes the sum and Y denotes the maximum of the two numbers drawn. Also determine Cov(X,¥) and p(X). ATA fair coin is tossed three times. Let X denote 0 or 1 according as the head or tail occurs on the first toss. Let ¥ denote the number of heads which occur. (i) Find the marginal distributions of X and Y, (ii) determine the joint distribution of X and Y and (jii)Cov(%Y). 28. The joint distribution of two variables X and Y are given below x} 4 2 7 1 1/8 1/4 178 , 5 14 1/8 va | Compute the following (J) EX)and E(Y) (i) EQY) (ii) a, and o, (iv) COVKY) @) pC) 39, Given the following bivaraite probability distribution, obtain (j) marginal distribution of Xand ¥ (ii) The conditional distribution of X given Y = 2. x =; A 0 L Q 1/15. 2/15 ais (ae 3/15. 2/15 1/1s 2 2/15 1/15 2/15 40. The joint distribution of two variables X and Y are given below Y x 2 a 4 5 1 01 02 0 | 03 _ | 2 02 01 or [0 j Evaluate the following (i) E(X)and E(Y) (ii) E(XY) (iil) 0 , and a, (iv) COVOGY) —(v) POY) } 41. The joint probability distribution of two random variables X and Y is given by the f following table - : 1 3 9 2 1/8 1/24 aja { 4 1/4 1/4 0 6 1/8 ya | 1/2 | Find Marginal distribution of X and Y and evaluate COV(XY), ) (XY)