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Assignment 4: IC252 - IIT Mandi

This document outlines an assignment involving probability distributions and concepts. It contains 5 questions about joint, marginal, and conditional probabilities of random variables. Question 1 involves the joint and marginal probabilities of machine malfunctions and technician calls. Question 2 involves finding several probabilities given a joint distribution. Question 3 examines student classifications by year and museum visits. Question 4 looks at coin tosses and heads. Question 5 analyzes cards drawn from a deck. For each question, point values are provided for parts a through c.

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Assignment 4: IC252 - IIT Mandi

This document outlines an assignment involving probability distributions and concepts. It contains 5 questions about joint, marginal, and conditional probabilities of random variables. Question 1 involves the joint and marginal probabilities of machine malfunctions and technician calls. Question 2 involves finding several probabilities given a joint distribution. Question 3 examines student classifications by year and museum visits. Question 4 looks at coin tosses and heads. Question 5 analyzes cards drawn from a deck. For each question, point values are provided for parts a through c.

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Assignment 4

IC252 - IIT Mandi


Submission Deadline: 27 March, 2022

1. Let X denote the number of times a certain numerical control machine will malfunction: 1, 2,
or 3 times on any given day. Let Y denote the number of times a technician is called on an
emergency call. Their joint probability distribution is given as

Table 1: pX,Y (x, y)


x
1 2 3
1 0.05 0.05 0.10
y 3 0.05 0.10 0.35
5 0.00 0.20 0.10

(a) Evaluate the marginal distribution of X. [1]


(b) Evaluate the marginal distribution of Y . [1]
(c) Find P (Y = 3|X = 2). [1]
2. If the joint probability distribution of X and Y is given by
x+y
pX,Y (x, y) = ,
30
for x = 0, 1, 2, 3; y = 0, 1, 2, find
(a) P (X ≤ 2, Y = 1); [2]
(b) P (X > 2, Y ≤ 1); [2]
(c) P (X > Y ); [2]
(d) P (X + Y = 4). [2]
3. Each student in a certain BTech program was classified according to her year in university (1st,
2nd, 3rd, 4th year) and according to the number of times that she had visited a certain museum
(never, once, or more than once). The proportions of students in the various classifications are
given in the following table:

Never Once More than once


1st year 0.08 0.10 0.04
2nd year 0.04 0.10 0.04
3rd year 0.04 0.20 0.09
4th year 0.02 0.15 0.10

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(a) If a student selected at random from the BTech program is “3rd year”, what is the proba-
bility that she has never visited the museum? [2]
(b) If a student selected at random from the BTech program has visited the museum more
than once, what is the probability that she is “4th year”? [2]

4. A fair coin is tossed four times, and the random variable X is the number of heads in the first
three tosses and the random variable Y is the number of heads in the last three tosses.
(a) What is the joint probability mass function of X and Y ? [2]
(b) What are the marginal probability mass functions of X and Y ? [2]
(c) Are the random variables X and Y independent? [1.5]

5. Two cards are drawn without replacement from a pack of cards, and the random variable X
measures the number of hearts drawn and the random variable Y measures the number of
clubs drawn.
(a) What is the joint probability mass function of X and Y ? [2]
(b) What are the marginal probability mass functions of X and Y ? [2]
(c) Are the random variables X and Y independent? [1.5]

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