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This document provides a list of practice problems for students based on Chapter 2 of the textbook "Probability and Statistics". It notes that some examples and exercises from the text should not be attempted due to ambiguities or errors. Instead, it recommends 8 practice problems covering topics like calculating probabilities of unions and intersections of events, independent and pairwise independent events, and the probability of events in a satellite launch operation.

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This document provides a list of practice problems for students based on Chapter 2 of the textbook "Probability and Statistics". It notes that some examples and exercises from the text should not be attempted due to ambiguities or errors. Instead, it recommends 8 practice problems covering topics like calculating probabilities of unions and intersections of events, independent and pairwise independent events, and the probability of events in a satellite launch operation.

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Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

2nd Semester 2010-11

Probability and Statistics

Practice problems based on chapter 2

Some problems in the text have some ambiguity or errors. The


following is the list of problems from the text which need not be
attempted : Solved Ex. 2.4.1, Exercises 11, 30, 35, 36, 41 from ch. 2.

Instead, the following problems are recommended for practice.

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1. If A, B are events of a sample space such that P[ A] = , P[ B ] = , prove
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that (i) P[ A ∪ B ] ≥ , (ii) ≤ P[ A ∩ B ] ≤ .
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2. If A, B, C are events of a sample space such that P[ A] = P[ B ] = P[C ] = ,
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P[ A ∩ B ] = P[C ∩ B ] = 0, P[ A ∩ C ] = ,
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find the probability of the following events :


(i)at least one of A, B, C occurs , (ii) neither of A, B, C occurs, (iii) exactly one of A, B, C occurs.

3. In a medical survey conducted by a hospital, it was found that, of all


the cancer deaths 20% were due to oral cancer and 30% due to lung
cancer. It was also found that 60% of all cancer ailments result in
death and 40% of all cancer patients have oral cancer. Find the
probability that (i) a patient with oral cancer dies, (ii) a cancer patient
has lung cancer and he dies. Identify the sample space and all
relevant events.

4. On winning the toss on a random day in November, Dhoni is likely to


choose to bat with probability 0.1 if it is a rainy day and is likely to
choose to bat with probability 0.7 if it is a non-rainy day. Among the
November days on which Dhoni wins the toss, 3% of the days are
rainy. If on a random day in November on which Dhoni wins the toss,
he has chosen to bat, what is the probability that the day is rainy? If
Dhoni has chosen to field on a random day in November on which he
won the toss, what is the probability that the day is rainy?
5. Draw a card randomly from a pack of cards. Then without putting it
back, shuffle the pack well and then pick the top card. Record the
drawn cards in sequence. Let A : first card is an ace and B : second
card is a spade. Are A and B independent? Let C : first card is an ace
and D : second card is an ace. Are C and D independent? Justify your
answers.

6. Give 3 events which are pair-wise independent but not independent.


Justify. ( Note that events A1 , A2 ,..., An of a sample space are called
pairwise independent if for every i ≠ j , P[ Ai ∩ A j ] = P[ Ai ]P[ A j ] .)

7. In a satellite launch operation, the probability of the failure of launch


is: 0.01 when for the system both the software and the hardware are
approved, 0.25 when the software is approved but the hardware is not,
0.3 when the hardware is approved but the software is not, and 0.6
when neither the software nor the hardware is approved. The
probabilities are 0.5, 0.3 and 0.75 that respectively the software is
approved, the hardware is approved, at least one of the software or
hardware is approved. Find the probability that (a) the satellite launch
fails, (b) both the software and the hardware were approved given that
the satellite launch succeeded.

8. Suppose A1 , A2 ,..., An are events of a sample space with


P ( A1 ∩ A2 ∩ ... ∩ An ) ≠ 0 then show that
P ( A1 ∩ A2 ∩... ∩ An ) = P ( A1 ) P ( A2 | A1 ) P ( A3 | A1 ∩ A2 )... P ( An | A1 ∩... ∩ An −1 ) .

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