QUESTION BANK

UNIT II
PART A

1) Suppose the duration X in minutes of long distance calls from your

(1 / 8e − ( x / 8) ) forx > 0
home,follows exponential law with PDF f(x)=  . Find
 0otherwise
P[x>5], P[3 ≤ X ≤ 8], P [X ≤ / X ≥ 4], mean and variance of X.
1 for 0 < x < 1
2) Let X be a RV with pdf f(x)=  . If Y = -2 log X find the PDF
 0otherwise
of Y and E(Y).

3) If X is binomially distributed RV with E(X) = 2 and var(X) = 4/3. Find P[X

=5].

4) A RV is uniformly distributed over [0,2 π ] . If Y = cos X then

1. Find PDF of Y and X

2. E(X) and E(Y)
5) The life time of a component measured in hours is Weibull distribution
with parameter α = 0.2 and β = 0.5. Find the mean life time of the
component.
6) If X is a Poisson variate such that P[X=2] = 9 P[X=4] + 90 P[X=6] find the
variance.
7) For a BD mean is 6 and SD is 2 . Find the first two terms of the
distribution.
8) If the RV X is uniformly distributed over (-1,1). Find the density function of
Y = sin ( π x / 2).
9) The life length [in months] X of an electronic component follows an
exponential distribution with parameter λ = (1/2). What is the probability
that the components survives atleast 10 months Given that already it had
survived for more than 9 months.
10)If M things are distributed among ‘a’ men and ‘b’ women find the number
of things received by men is odd.
PART B
1. Let X be the length in minutes of a long distance telephone
(1 / 10)e − ( x / 10) forx > 0
conversation. The PDF of X is given by f(x)=  .
 0otherwise
2. The life time X in hours of a component is modeled by Weilbull
distribution with β = 2 starting with a large number of components
. It is observed that 15% of the components that have lasted 90
hours fail before 100 hours. Find the parameter α .
3. State central limit theorem in Lindberg – Levy form. A random
sample of size 100 is taken from a population whose mean is 60
and variance is 400. Using CLT with what probability can we assert
that the mean of the sample will not differ from µ = 60 by more than
4? Area under the standard normal curve from z =0 to z=2 is
0.4772.
4. If the life X [in years] of a certain type of car has a Weibull
distribution with parameter β = 2. Find the value of α given that
the probability that the life of the car exceeds 5 is e-0.25 for these
values of α and β find the mean and variance of X.
5. It is known that the probability of an item produced by a certain
machine will be defective is 0.05. If the produced items are sent to
the market in packets of 20, find the number of packets containing
at least exactly and at most 2 defective items in a consignment of
100 0 packets using Poisson approximation to Binomial distribution.
6. State and prove the memoryless property of the exponential
distribution and geometric distribution.
7. The daily consumption of milk in a city in excess of 20,000 litres is
approximately distributed as an gamma variate with the parameters
k=2 and λ = (1 /10,000).the city has a daily stock of 30,000 litres.
What is the probability that the stock is insufficient on a particular
day?
8. Derive the mgf of negative binomial distribution. Also obtain its
mean and SD.
9. Prove that poisson distribution is the limiting case of binomial
distribution.
10. Find the MGF of a poisson distribution and hence find its mean and
variance.
11. A coin is tossed until the first head occurs, assuming that the tosses
are independent and the probability of a head occurring is p, find
the value of p so that the probability that an odd no of tosses is
required is equal to 0.6. can you find a value of p so that the
probability is 0.05 that an odd no of tosses is required.
12. The number of PC sold daily at a computer world is uniformly
distributed with the minimum of 2000 PC and a maximum of 5000
PC . find i)the probality that daily sales will fall between 2500 and
3000 PC.ii)what is the probability that the computer world will sell
atleast 4000 PC s ? iii) what is the probability that the computer
world will sell exactly 2500 PC s?
13. Define the pdf of normal distribution and standard normal
distribution. Write down the important properties of its distribution.
14. Six dice are thrown 729 times . how many times do you expect
atleast three dice to show 5 or 6.
15. define binomial distribution . You have a dozen eggs in your
refrigerator but do not realize that four of those are rotten . You
select four eggs at random to make omletts for breakfast . what is
the probability that i) None is rotten. Ii) one is rotten and iii) all are
rotten.
16. The number of monthly breakdown of a computer is a random
variable having a poisson distribution with mean = 1.8. find the
prob. That this computer will function for a month . i) without a
breakdown. Ii)with only one breakdown.iii)with atleast one
breakdown.
17. The atoms of radioactive elements are randomly disintegrating. If
every gram of this element on average emits 3.9 alpha particles per
second , what is the prob. that during the next second the no. of
alpha particles emitted from one gram is i) atmost 6 . ii) atleast 2 iii)
atleast 3 and atmost 6.
18. Find the mgf of an exponential RV and hence find its mean and
variance and first two moments of X.
19. Fit a poisson distribution for the following data
X 0 1 2 3 4 5 total
F 142 156 69 27 5 1 400

20. Prove that poisson distribution is the limiting case of binomial

distribution