Engineering Mathematics _IV_Assignments_1_2

Q1. A and B play a game in which their chances of winning are in the ratio 3: 2. Find A’s
chance of winning at least three games out of the five games played.
Q2. If 20% of the bolts produced by a machine are defective, determine the probability
that, out of 4 bolts chosen at random. (i) 1, (ii) 0, and (iii) at most 2 bolts will be
defective.
Q3. The probability that an entering university student will graduate is 0.4. Determine the
probability that out of 5 students (i) none, (ii) at least 1, and (iii) all will graduate.
Q4. What is the probability of getting a total of 9 (i) twice and (ii) at least twice in 6 tosses
of a pair of dice?
Q5. An insurance company insures 4000 people against loss of both eyes in a car accident.
Based on previous data, the rates were computed on the assumption that on the average
10 persons in I,00,000 will have car accident each year that results in this type of injury.
What is the probability that more than 3 of the insured will collect on their policy in a
given year?
Q6. Car hire firm has 2 cars, which it hires out day by day. The number of demands for a
car on each day is distributed as a Poisson distribution with mean 1.5. Calculate the
proportion of days on which (i) car is used, and (ii) the proportion of days on which
some demand is refused.
Q7. X normally distributed and the mean of X is 12 and extended b series 4. find out the
probability of the following:
(i) X ≥ 20 (ii) X≤ 20 and (iii) 0 ≤ X ≤ 12.
Q8. The marks obtained by a number of students for a certain subject are assumed to be
approximately normally distributed with mean value 65 and with a standard deviation
of 5. If 3 students are taken at random from this set, what is the probability that exactly
2 of them will have marks over 70?
Q9. In a distribution exactly normal, 10.03% of the items are under 25-kilogram weight and
89.97% of the items are under 70-kilogram weight. What are the mean and standard
deviation of the distribution?
Q10. In an examination it is laid down that a student passes if he secures 30% or more marks.
He is placed in the first, second or 3rd division according as he secures 60% or more
marks, between 45% and 60% Marks and marks between 30% and 45% respectively.
He gets distinctions in case he secures 80% or more marks. It is not noticed from the
result that 10% of the students failed in the examination, whereas 5% of them of trained
distinction. Calculate the percentage of the students placed in the second division.
(Assume normal distribution of marks.)
Q11. Open the equations of two lines of regression for the following data:
X: 65 66 67 67 68 69 70 72
Y: 67 68 65 68 72 72 69 71.
Q12. Any partially destroyed laboratories record of an analysis of correlation data, the
following results only are legible:
Variance of X= 9. Regression equation: 8X-10Y+ 66 =0, 40 X -18 Y = 214.
What are: (i) the mean value of X &Y, (ii) the correlation coefficient between X&Y,
and (iii) the standard deviation of Y?
Q13. Calculate the coefficient of correlation and opting the line of regression for the
following data:
X: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Y: 9 8 10 12 11 13 14 16 15.
Q14. Calculate the coefficient of correlation between X&Y using the following data:
X: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Y: 9 8 10 12 11 13 14 16 15.
Q15. Find the angle between the two lines of regression. Interpret the case when r ±1, 0.

Q16. Calculate the coefficient of correlation between X&Y using the following data:
X: -10 – 5 0 5 10
Y: 5 9 7 11 13.
Q17. Subway trains on a certain line run every half hour between midnight and 6:00 in the
morning. What is the probability that a man entering the station at a random time during
this period will have to wait at least 20 minutes?
Q18. If X is uniformly distributed with mean and variance 4/3. Find P (X < 0).
Q19. Marks obtained by a number of students are found to be distributed normally with mean
64 and variance 25. If 3 students are taken randomly find the probability that 2 of them
have marks more than 70.
Q20. The time (in hours) required to repair a machine is exponentially distributed with
parameter β=1/2. (i) What is the probability that repair time exceeds 2 hours. (ii) What
is the conditional probability that a repair takes at least 10 hours given that its duration
exceeds 9 hours?
Q21. There are 3 true coins and one false coin with ‘head’ on both sides. A coin is chosen at
random and tossed 4 times. If ‘head’ occurs all the 4 times what is the probability that
the false coin has been chosen and used?
Q22. A bolt is manufactured by 3 machines A, B and C. A turns out twice as many items as
B, and machines B and C produce equal number of items. 2% of the bolts produced by
A and B are defective and 4% of bolts produced by capital C are defective. All bolts
are put into 1 stock pile and 1 is chosen from this pile. What is the probability that it is
defective?
Q23. A continuous random variable X that can assume any value between x = 2 and x = 4
has a density function given by f(x) = k (1 + x). Find P (X < 4).
Q24. A random variable X has mean equal to 12 and variance equal to 9 and an unknown
probability distribution. Find P (6 < X < 8).
Q25. A fair die is tossed 720 times. Use Tchebycheff’s inequality to find a lower bound for
the probability of getting 100 to 146 sixes.