ProblemSheet06MT3073 CRV

Department of Mathematics
Muhammad Ali Jinnah University

Islamabad Campus
MT3073 Engineering Statistics

Assignment 06
Continuous Random Variable
Q1.
Explain in each case why the given equation cannot serve as that of a probability density of a
continuous random variable that takes on values on the interval from 1 to 4:
1
a)
f ( x ) = for 1 x 4;
4
2
b)
f ( x ) = (4x - 7 ) for 1 x 4.
15
Q2.
Explain in each case why the given equation cannot serve as that of a probability density of a
continuous random variable on the interval from 0 to 10:
1
a)
f ( x ) = (x - 4) for 0 x 10.
10
1
b)
f ( x) =
(64 - x 2 ) for 0 x 10.
307
Figure below shows the graph of the uniform distribution of a random variable that takes on
values on the interval from 2 to 10. Find the probabilities that this random variable will take
on a value
a)
less than 7; b)
Between 2.4 and 8.8 c)
more than 7 d)
exactly 7
Q3
1
8
f (x) =
1
8
x
8
100
Diagram for Q3
Q4.
Q5.
Find z if the area between z and z is

a)
0.4038;
b)
0.8812;
c)
0.3400;
d)
0.9576
A random variable has a normal distribution with =10. If the probability that the random
variable will take on a value less than 82.5 is 0.8212, what is the probability that it will take
on a value greater than 58.3?
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Dr. Rashid Ali
Department of Mathematics
Muhammad Ali Jinnah University

Islamabad Campus
Q6.
The lifetime of a certain electronic component is a random variable that has the exponential
dist. with the mean = 2,000 hours. Find the probabilities that such a component will last
a)
at most 2,400 hrs;
b)
at least 1,600 hrs;
c)
between 1,800 and 2,200 hrs
Q7.
According to medical research, the time between successive reports of a rare tropical disease
is a random variable having the exponential distribution with the mean = 120 days. Find the
probabilities that the time between successive reports of the disease will
a)
Exceed 240 days;
b)
Exceed 360 days;
c)
Be less than 60 days.
Q8.
If the time to assemble a computer desk from a kit is a random variable having the normal
distribution with = 55 minutes and = 12 minutes, what are the probabilities that this desk
can assembled in
a)
less than 45 minutes;
b)
anywhere from 45 minutes to 60 minutes;
c)
anywhere from 45 minutes to 75 minutes?
Q9. A taxi service based at an airport can be characterized as a transportation system with one
source terminal and fleet of vehicles that take passengers from the terminal to different destinations.
Each vehicle returns to the terminal after some random trip time and makes another trip. To improve
the vehicle-dispatching vehicle decisions involved in such a system (e.g., how many passengers
should be allocated to a waiting taxi?), Sims and Templeton (1985) used queuing theory (see case
study 5.2) to model and to evaluate the system. In their model, they assumed travel times of
successive trips are independent exponential random variables with =.05.
a)
b)
c)
What is the mean trip time for the taxi service?

What is the prob. that a particular trip will take more than 30 min.?
Two taxis have just been dispatched. What is the probability that both will be gone for
more than 30 minutes? That at least one of the taxis will return within 30 minutes?
Q10. Use the normal distribution to approximate the probability that at most 12 of 50 patients will
get a headache from using a certain kind of medication, if the probability is 0.22 that any one patient
will get a headache from using the medication.
Q11. A safety engineer feels that 30% of all industrial accidents in his plant are caused by failure of
employees to follow instructions. If this figure is correct, find, approximately, the probability that
among 84 industrialized accidents in this plant anywhere from 20 to 30 (inclusive) will be due to
failure of employees to follow instructions.
Q12. Given a Poisson process with on the average arrival per unit time, find the probability that
there will be no arrivals during a time interval of length t, namely, the probability that the waiting
times between successive arrivals will be at least of length t.
Ans. (P(waiting time > t) = e t
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah University

MT3073 Engineering Statistics

Continuous Random Variable

Find z if the area between z and z is

Dr. Rashid Ali

Muhammad Ali Jinnah University

What is the mean trip time for the taxi service?

Dr. Rashid Ali

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