PES UNIVERSITY

100-ft Ring Road, BSK III Stage, Bangalore – 560 085

Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Session: AUG-DEC 2024
UE23MA242A: Mathematics for Computer Science Engineers

Classwork Problems
# UNIT_1 Questions Exercise
Number
1 A physical education professor wants to study the physical fitness levels 1.1
of students at her university. There are 20,000 students enrolled at the
university, and she wants to draw a sample of size 100 to take a physical
fitness test. She obtains a list of all 20,000 students, numbered from 1 to
20,000. She uses a computer random number generator to generate 100
random integers between 1 and 20,000 and then invites the 100 students
corresponding to those numbers to participate in the study. Is this a
simple random sample?
2. Each of the following processes involves sampling from a population. 1.1
Define the population, and state whether it is tangible or conceptual.

a). A shipment of bolts is received from a vendor. To check whether the

shipment is acceptable with regard to shear strength, an engineer reaches
into the container and selects 10 bolts, one by one, to test.
b). The resistance of a certain resistor is measured five times with the
same ohmmeter.
c). A graduate student majoring in environmental science is part of a
study team that is assessing the risk posed to human health of a certain
contaminant present in the tap water in their town. Part of the assessment
process involves estimating the amount
of time that people who live in that town are in contact with tap water.
The student recruits’ residents of the town to keep diaries for a month,
detailing day by day the amount of time they were in contact with tap
water.
d). Eight welds are made with the same process, and the strength
of each is measured.
e). A quality engineer needs to estimate the percentage of parts
manufactured on a certain day that are defective. At 2:30 in the
afternoon he samples the last 100 parts
to be manufactured.
3. For a list of positive numbers, is it possible for the standard deviation to 1.2
be greater than the mean? If so, give an example. If not, explain why not. (Summary
Statistic)
4 In a certain company, every worker received a $50- per-week raise. How 1.2
does this affect the mean salary? The standard deviation of the salaries?
5 True or false: For any list of numbers, half of them will be below the 1.2
mean.
6 In a sample of 20 men, the mean height was 178 cm. In a sample of 30 1.2
women, the mean height was 164 cm. What was the mean height for
both groups put together?
7. Is the sample mean always equal to one of the values in the sample? If 1.2
so, explain why. If not, give an example.
8 There are 10 employees in a particular division of a company. Their 1.2
salaries have a mean of $70,000, a median of $55,000, and a standard
deviation of $20,000. The largest number on the list is $100,000. By
accident, this number is changed to $1,000,000.
a) What is the value of the mean after the change?
b) What is the value of the median after the change?
c)What is the value of the standard deviation after the change?
9 Below are the durations (in minutes) of 40-time intervals 4.10
between eruptions of the geyser Old Faithful in
Yellowstone National Park.

91 51 79 53 82 51 76 82 84 53
86 51 85 45 88 51 80 49 82 75
73 67 68 86 72 75 75 66 84 70
79 60 86 71 67 81 76 83 76 55

Construct a normal probability plot for these data. Do

they appear to come from an approximately normal
distribution?
10 Below are the durations (in minutes) of 40 eruptions of 4.10
the geyser Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park.

4.1 1.8 3.2 1.9 4.6 2.0 4.5 3.9 4.3 2.3
3.8 1.9 4.6 1.8 4.7 1.8 4.6 1.9 3.5 4.0
3.7 3.7 4.3 3.6 3.8 3.8 3.8 2.5 4.5 4.1
3.7 3.8 3.4 4.0 2.3 4.4 4.1 4.3 3.3 2.0

Construct a normal probability plot for these data. Do

the data appear to come from an approximately normal
distribution?
11 Suppose that we extract an individual at random from a population Chebyshev’s
whose members have an average income of $40,000, with a standard inequality
deviation of $20,000. What is the probability of extracting an individual
whose income is either less than $10,000 or greater than $70,000?

12 A dataset of exam scores has a mean of 75 and a standard deviation of Chebyshev’s

10. Determine the minimum proportion of exam scores that lie between Inequality
55 and 95.
13 A factory produces light bulbs with a mean lifespan of 1,000 hours and a Chebyshev’s
standard deviation of 100 hours. Using Chebyshev's Inequality, find the inequality
minimum proportion of light bulbs that will have a lifespan between 800
and 1,200 hours
14 Determine the MSE of the estimator 𝜇̂ = 𝑋̅ of the parameter µ of the
Poisson(µ) distribution
15 Determine the MSE of the estimator 𝜇̂ = 𝑋̅ of the parameter p of the
Bernoulli Distribution(p)
16 Let X1…..Xn be a random Sample from Bernoulli Distribution(p).Find
MLE of p
17 Let X1…..Xn be a random sample from a Population with
Poisson(𝜆).Find MLE of 𝜆.
18 A 500-page book contains 250 sheets of paper. The thickness of the 4.11
paper used to manufacture the book has mean 0.08 mm and standard
deviation 0.01 mm.
a). What is the probability that a randomly chosen book is more than
20.2 mm thick (not including the covers)?
b). What is the 10th percentile of book thicknesses?
c). Someone wants to know the probability that a randomly chosen page
is more than 0.1 mm thick. Is enough information given to compute this
probability? If so, compute the probability. If not, explain why not.
19 Bottles filled by a certain machine are supposed to contain 12 oz of 4.11
liquid. In fact, the fill volume is random with mean 12.01 oz and
standard deviation 0.2 oz.
a). What is the probability that the mean volume of a random sample of
144 bottles is less than 12 oz?
b). If the population mean fill volume is increased to 12.03 oz what is the
probability that the mean volume of a sample of size 144 will be less
than 12 oz?
20 A simple random sample of 100 men is chosen from 4.11
a population with mean height 70 in. and standard deviation
2.5 in. What is the probability that the average
height of the sample men is greater than 69.5 in?