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Part 2 Module 3 and 4

The document presents a series of statistical problems involving normal, binomial, gamma, and Poisson distributions. It covers various scenarios including tensile strength measurements, machine lifespan warranties, probabilities of alcoholism among adolescents, survival times in biomedical studies, quality control in manufacturing, and customer arrivals at a service facility. Each problem requires calculations of probabilities, means, and standard deviations based on given parameters.

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Part 2 Module 3 and 4

The document presents a series of statistical problems involving normal, binomial, gamma, and Poisson distributions. It covers various scenarios including tensile strength measurements, machine lifespan warranties, probabilities of alcoholism among adolescents, survival times in biomedical studies, quality control in manufacturing, and customer arrivals at a service facility. Each problem requires calculations of probabilities, means, and standard deviations based on given parameters.

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Part 2

1. The tensile strength of a certain metal component is normally distributed with a mean of
10,000 kilograms per square centimeter and a standard deviation of 100 kilograms per
square centimeter. Measurements are recorded to the nearest 50 kilograms per square
centimeter.
a) What proportion of these components exceed 10,150 kilograms per square centimeter in
tensile strength?
b) If specifications require that all components have tensile strength between 9800 and
10,200 kilograms per square centimeter inclusive, what proportion of pieces would we
expect to scrap?
2. An engineering firm produces machines with an average life of 8 years and standard
deviation of 2 years. The firm wishes to introduce a warranty scheme in which it would
like to replace all the dysfunctional machines under warranty with new ones. But they do
not wish to do so for more than 5% of the machines they produce. If the lifespan of the
machine is assumed to follow a normal distribution, how long a guarantee period should
be offered?
3. In a city, 4% of the adolescents are alcoholic. Out of the 100 adolescents randomly
selected, what is the probability that
a) between 8 and 18 of them are alcoholics?
b) fewer than 5 are alcoholics?
4. In a biomedical research study, it was determined that the survival time, in weeks, of an
animal subjected to a certain exposure of gamma radiation has a gamma distribution with
α = 5 and β = 10.
a) What is the mean survival time of a randomly selected animal of the type used in the
experiment?
b) What is the standard deviation of survival time?
c) What is the probability that an animal survives more than 30 weeks?
5. A firm assembling electronics has a record of 98% perfect assemblies. They export the
assembled items in a lot of 50 units.
a) What is the probability that a lot will contain more than 2 defectives?
b) What is the probability that a lot will contain at most one defective?
6. In a textile manufacturing company, 2% of the items are known to be defective. The
quality control team decides to select 200 items produced by the company for
examination. If none of the units are found to be defective, the process continues. Use the
normal approximation to the binomial to find
a) the probability that the process continues given the sampling plan described;
b) the probability that manufacturing continues even if the process has gone bad (i.e., if the
frequency of defective items has shifted to 4.0% of the units).
7. The systolic blood pressure X of 30-year-old men is approximately normally distributed
with a mean of 123 mmHg and standard deviation of 6 mmHg.
a) Find the probability that the blood pressure of a randomly selected 30-year-old man
exceeds 127mmHg.
b) Out of 250 randomly selected men of 30 years old, find the probability that the blood
pressure of at least 80 of them is more than 127. Use the normal approximation to the
binomial to find the answer.
8. According to a telephone operator, the average time for each call is 3.2 minutes. This
time follows an exponential distribution.
a) What is the probability that the call time exceeds 5 minutes?
b) What is the probability that call completes in 2 minutes?
9. The surface of a circular dart board has a small center circle called the bull’s-eye and 20 pie-
shaped regions numbered from 1 to 20. Each of the pie-shaped regions is further divided into
three parts such that a person throwing a dart that lands in a specific region scores the value
of the number, double the number, or triple the number, depending on which of the three
parts the dart hits. If a person hits the bull’s-eye with probability 0.01, hits a double with
probability 0.10, hits a triple with probability 0.05, and misses the dart board with probability
0.02, what is the probability that 7 throws will result in no bull’s-eyes, no triples, a double
twice, and a complete miss once?
10. If the probability that a fluorescent light has a useful life of at least 800 hours is 0.9, find
the probabilities that among 20 such lights
a) exactly 18 will have a useful life of at least 800 hours;
b) at least 15 will have a useful life of at least 800 hours;
c) at least 2 will not have a useful life of at least 800 hours.
11. The probability that a patient recovers from a delicate heart operation is 0.9. What is the
probability that exactly 4 of the next 6 patients having this operation survive?
12. The probability that a patient recovers from a delicate heart operation is 0.9. What is the
probability that exactly 4 of the next 6 patients having this operation survive?
13. The probability that a patient recovers from a delicate heart operation is 0.9. What is the
probability that exactly 4 of the next 6 patients having this operation survive?
14. The number of customers arriving per hour at a certain automobile service facility is assumed
to follow a Poisson distribution with mean λ = 7.

a) Compute the probability that more than 10 customers will arrive in a 2-hour period.
b) What is the mean number of arrivals during a 2-hour period?

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