III Sem B.

E: Applied Mathematics – III 20CSE31A / 20ISE31A

Binomial Distribution
18. Find the binomial probability distribution which has mean 2 and variance 4⁄3.
19. If the mean and variance of a binomial distribution is 3 and 9⁄4, then find the following
(i). Value of 𝑛, (ii). 𝑃(𝑋 ≥ 1) and (iii). 𝑃(𝑋 ≤ 7)
20. Determine the binomial distribution for which mean is two times the variance and sum of mean and
variance is 3. Also find 𝑃(𝑋 ≤ 3).
21. The probability that a pen manufactured by a company will be defective is . If 12 such pens are
manufactured, find the probability that
(i). Exactly 2 will be defective. (ii). At least 2 will be defective. (iii). none will be defective.
22. When a coin is tossed 10 times, find the probability of getting (i). Exactly 8 heads, (ii). At least 5
heads, (iii). At most 6 heads
23. If the probability that a new-born child is a male is 0.6, then the probability that in a family of 5
children there are (i). Exactly 3 boys, (ii). At least 4 girls, (iii). At most 2 boys, (iv). No girl
24. The probability that a bomb dropped from a plane will strike the target is 1⁄5. If 6 bombs are
dropped, find the probability that (i). Exactly 2, (ii). At least 2 will strike the target
25. The probability that an engineering student will graduate is 0.4. Determine the probability that out of
10 students, (i). None, (ii). Three and (iii). At least seven will graduate.
26. If the chance that one of the ten telephone lines is busy at an instant is 0.2. What is the probability
that (i). No line, (ii). All lines, (iii). At least one line, (iv). At most two lines are busy
27. The probability that a person aged 60 years will live up to 70 years is 0.65. What is the probability
that out of 10 persons aged 60 years, at least 7 of them will live up to 70 years.
28. In a consignment of electric lamps, 5% are defective. If a random sample of 8 lamps are inspected
then what is the probability that one or more lamps are defective?
29. If on an average 1 vessel in every 10 is wrecked, find the probability that out of 5 vessels expected to
arrive, at least 4 will arrive safely.
30. In a quiz contest of answering ′𝑌𝑒𝑠′ or ′𝑁𝑜′, what is the probability of guessing at least 6 answers
correctly out of 10 questions asked? Also find the probability of the same if there are 4 options for a
correct answer.
31. An airline knows that 5% of the people making reservations on a certain flight will no turn up.
Consequently their policy is to sell 52 tickets for a flight that can only hold 50 people. What is the
probability that there will be a seat for every passenger who turns up?
32. In 256 sets of 12 tosses of a coin, in how many cases one can expect 8 heads and 4 tails.
33. In sampling a large number of parts manufactured by a machine, the mean number of defectives in a
sample of 20 is 2. Out of 1000 such samples, how many would be expected to contain at least 3
defective parts.
34. Out of 800 families with 5 children each, how many would you expect to have (i). 3 boys, (ii). 5 girls,
(iii). Either 2 or 3 boys, (iv). At least 2 girls? (Assume equal probabilities for boys and girls).
35. If the mean and standard deviation of the number of correctly answered questions in a test given to
4096 students are 2.5 and √1.85. Find an estimate of the number of candidates answering correctly
(i). 8 or more questions (ii). 2 or less and (iii). 5 questions.
36. Five dice were thrown 96 times and the number of times an odd number actually turned up in this
experiment is given in the below table. Fit a binomial distribution to this data and calculate the
expected frequencies.
No. of dice showing 1 or 3 or 5 0 1 2 3 4 5
Observed frequency 1 10 24 35 18 8
37. Four coins are tossed 100 times and the following results were obtained. Fit a binomial distribution
for the data and calculate the theoretical frequencies.
Number of heads 0 1 2 3 4
Frequency 5 29 36 25 5

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38. Fit a binomial distribution to the following data and compare the theoretical frequencies with the
actual ones
𝑥: 0 1 2 3 4 5
𝑓: 2 14 20 34 22 8
39. Fit a binomial distribution to the following frequency distribution
𝑥: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
𝑓: 13 25 52 58 32 16 4

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