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EE 170.

Signals and Noise in Communication Systems

Problem Set 3

 A student is known to arrive late for class 40% of the time. If the class meets five times a week.
Find: the probability that the student is late for at least three classes in a given week; the
probability that the student will not be late at all during a given week.
 Three guns, each containing 5 chambers, are placed in a box in such a way that the probability of
picking gun 1 is 0.25, the probability of picking gun2 is 0.45 and the probability of picking gun3 is
0.3. Gun 1 has 1 loaded chamber, gun 2 has 2 loaded chambers and gun 3 has 3 loaded
chambers. A man is blindfolded, forced to choose a gun from the box, place it to his head and
pull the trigger. If the man survived this ordeal, what is the probability that he chose gun 2 from
the box?
 A submarine attempts to sink an aircraft carrier. It will be successful only if two or more
torpedoes hit the carrier. If the sub fires three torpedoes and the probability of a hit is 0.4 for
each torpedo, what is the probability that the carrier will be sunk? What is the probability that
the carrier will survive that attack?
 In a culture used for biological research the growth of unavoidable bacteria occasionally spoils
results of an experiment that requires at least three out of four cultures to be unspoiled to
obtain a single datum point. Experience has shown that about 6 of every 100 cultures are
randomly spoiled by the bacteria. If the experiment requires three simultaneously derived,
unspoiled data point for success, we find the probability of success for any given set of 12
cultures (three data points of four cultures each); we treat individual datum points first as a
Bernoulli trial problem with N=4 and p= P{good culture}=0.94. Find the probability of a
successful experiment.
 The probability of each switch being closed in the figure below is 0.7. Find the probability of
having a continuous connection between the two end terminals.

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