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This document contains 5 problems involving probability calculations: 1. A student buys ICs from 3 suppliers with different defect probabilities. What is the probability a randomly selected IC is defective, and the probability it came from supplier A given it is defective? 2. Given a CDF, find the value of K that makes it valid, the value of F(3), and the probability X is between 2 and infinity. 3. For a girl scout troop visiting 8 houses, what are the probabilities of selling cookies to exactly 5 houses, the expected number of sales, and the probability the 3rd sale was at the 6th house? 4. For a car with 5 traffic lights, each with a 0

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This document contains 5 problems involving probability calculations: 1. A student buys ICs from 3 suppliers with different defect probabilities. What is the probability a randomly selected IC is defective, and the probability it came from supplier A given it is defective? 2. Given a CDF, find the value of K that makes it valid, the value of F(3), and the probability X is between 2 and infinity. 3. For a girl scout troop visiting 8 houses, what are the probabilities of selling cookies to exactly 5 houses, the expected number of sales, and the probability the 3rd sale was at the 6th house? 4. For a car with 5 traffic lights, each with a 0

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A student buys 1000 integrated circuits (ICs) from supplier A, 2000 ICs
from supplier B, and 3000 ICs from supplier C. He tested the ICs and found
that the conditional probability of an IC being defective depends on the
supplier from whom it was bought. Specifically, given that an IC came from
supplier A, the probability that it is defective is 0.05; given that an IC came
from supplier B, the probability that it is defective is 0.10; and given that an
IC came from supplier C, the probability that it is defective is 0.10. (i).If the
ICs from the three suppliers are mixed together and one is selected at
random, what is the probability that it is defective? (ii). And a randomly
selected IC is defective, what is the probability that it came from supplier A?

2. The CDF of the random variable X is defined by


F(x)=¿ {0; x<0¿¿¿¿
(a). Find the value of K is the function a valid CDF?
(b). Find F(3)
(c). P [ 2< X< ∞ ]
3. The members of a Girl Scout troop are selling cookies from house to house
in a suburban town. The probability that they sell a set of cookies (that is,
one or more packs of cookies) at any house they visit is 0.4.
(a). If they visited eight houses in one evening, what is the probability that
they sold cookies to exactly five of these houses?
(b). If they visited eight houses in one evening, what is the expected number
of sets of cookies they sold?
(c). What is the probability that they sold their third set of cookies in the
sixth house they visited?
4. A car has five traffic lights on its route. Independently of other traffic lights,
each traffic light turns red as the car approaches the light (and thus forces the
car to stop at the light) with a probability of 0.4.
(a). Let K be a random variable that denotes the number of lights at which
the car stops. What is the PMF of K?
(b). What is the probability that the car stops at exactly two lights?
(c). What is the probability that the car stops at more than two lights?
(d). What is the expected value of K?
5. The number of typing mistakes that Ann makes on a given page has a
Poisson distribution with a mean of 3 mistakes.
(a). What is the probability that she makes exactly 7 mistakes on a given
page?
(b). What is the probability that she makes fewer than 4 mistakes on a given
page?
(c). What is the probability that Ann makes no mistake on a given page?

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