RAMCO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Department of Mathematics
Academic Year: 2023-2024 (Even Semester)

TUTORIAL SHEET

Degree, Semester& Branch: IV Semester B. Tech. AI & DS – ‘A’

Course Code & Title: MA3391 Probability and Statistics
Name of the Faculty member: Dr. G. Selvaraj
Tutorial No.: 1 Date:
Questions:
Part A
1. If two fair dice are tossed, find the probability of getting the sum of the outcomes of the
two dice is equal to 7 or 11. [CO1, L2]
1 1 1
2. Let A and B be two events such that P  A   , P  B   and P  A  B   . Compute
2 3 6

P  B A  and P A  B .  [CO1, L2]
3. A lot of integrated circuit chips consists of 10 good 4 with major defects and 2 with minor
defects. Two chips are randomly chosen from the lot. What is the probability that at least
one chip is good? [CO1, L2]
4. State the law of total probability and state under which situation it could be used.
[CO1, L2]
Part B
5. A lot of 100 semiconductor chips contain 20 that are defective. Two are selected randomly,
without replacement, from the lot. (i) What is the probability that the first one selected is
defective? (ii) What is the probability that the second one selected is defective given that
the first one was defective? (iii) What is the probability that both are defective?
[CO1, L3]
6. Of three types of spark plugs, 6% of Type A spark plugs are defective, 4% of Type B spark
plugs are defective, and 2% of Type C spark plugs are defective. A spark plug is selected
at random from a batch of spark plugs containing 50 Type A plugs, 30 Type B plugs, and
20 Type C plugs. The selected plug is found to be defective. What is the probability that
the selected plug was of Type A? [CO1, L3]
7. A student buys 1000 integrated circuits (ICs) from supplier A, 2000 ICs from suppliers B,
and 3000 ICs from supplier C. He tested the ICs and found that the conditional probability
of and 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. If the ICs from the tree
suppliers are mixed together and one is selected at random, what is the probability that it is
defective? [CO1, L3]
8. An aircraft maintenance company bought equipment for detecting structural defects in
aircrafts. Test indicate that 95% of the time the equipment detects defects when actually
exist, and 1% of the time it gives a false alarm that indicates the presence of a structural
defect when in fact there is none. If 2% of the aircrafts actually have structural defects,
what is the probability that an aircraft actually has a structural defect given that the
equipment indicates that it has a structural defect? [CO1, L3]
CO1: Students will be able to use the fundamental knowledge of the concepts of probability
distributions which can describe real life phenomenon
L1: Remember; L2: Understand; L3: Apply

Signature of the Faculty member HOD

Form No. AC 09a Rev.No. 00 Effective Date: 18.01.2016
 RAMCO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Department of Mathematics
Academic Year: 2023-2024 (Even Semester)

TUTORIAL SHEET

Degree, Semester& Branch: IV Semester B. Tech. AI & DS – ‘A’

Course Code & Title: MA3391 Probability and Statistics
Name of the Faculty member: Dr. G. Selvaraj
Tutorial No.: 2 Date:
Questions:
Part A
1. Consider a random experiment of tossing a fair coin three times. If X denotes the number
heads obtained, find P  X  2  . [CO1, L2]
2. A continuous random variable 𝑋 has the probability density function given by
 1  x 2  , 1  x  5
f  x   . Find  and P ( X  4) . [CO1, L2]
 0, otherwise
3. If X is a discrete random variable with the following distribution, find the mean and
variance of X. [CO1, L2]
x: 1 2 3 4
p  x : a 2a 3a 4a
1
4. Let M X  t   , t  1 , be the moment generating function of a random variable X .
1 t
Find E  X  and E  X 2  . [CO1, L2]
Part B
5. If the probability mass function of a continuous random variable X is given by
 1 5 
P  X  x   kx 3 , x  1, 2, 3, 4. , find the value of k , P   X   X  1 , mean and
 2 2 
variance of X . [CO1, L3]
6. Find the mean and variance of the random variable X if the probability density function
 x, 0  x 1

of X is given by f  x    2  x , 1  x  2 . [CO1, L3]
 0, otherwise

x 1
 3  1 
7. Let P  X  x      , x  1, 2,3,.... be the probability mass function of a random
 4  4 
variable X . Obtain (A) P  X  5  (B) the moment generating function M X  t  , of the
random variable X and (C) E  X  and Var  X  . [CO1, L3]
 2e
2 x
x0
8. A random variable X has the probability density function f ( x)   . Obtain the
 0 x0
moment generating function and the first four moments about the origin. Find mean and
variance also. [CO1, L3]
CO1: Students will be able to use the fundamental knowledge of the concepts of probability
distributions which can describe real life phenomenon
L1: Remember; L2: Understand; L3: Apply

Signature of the Faculty member HOD

Form No. AC 09a Rev.No. 00 Effective Date: 18.01.2016

 RAMCO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Department of Mathematics
Academic Year: 2023-2024 (Even Semester)

TUTORIAL SHEET

Degree, Semester& Branch: IV Semester B. Tech. AI & DS – ‘A’

Course Code & Title: MA3391 Probability and Statistics
Name of the Faculty member: Dr. G. Selvaraj
Tutorial No.: 3 Date:
Questions:

Part A

1. The mean and variance of a binomial distribution are 5 and 4. Determine the distribution.
[CO1, L2]
2. State the memory less property of Geometric distribution. [CO1, L2]
3. Messages arrive at a switch board in a Poisson manner at an average rate of six per hour.
Find the probability for exactly two messages arrives within one hour. [CO1, L2]
4. If X is normally distributed with mean 8 and standard deviation 4, find P (10  X  15) .
[CO1, L2]

Part B

5. The probability of an individual suffering a bad reaction from an injection of a certain

antibiotic is 0.001. Out of 2000 individuals, use Poisson distribution to find the probability
that exactly three suffer. Also, find the probability of more than two suffer from bad
reaction. [CO1, L3]
6. If the probability that an applicant for a driver’s license will pass the road test on any given
trial is 0.8, what is the probability that he will finally pass the test on the 4th trial? Also find
the probability that he will finally pass the test in less than 4 trials. [CO1, L3]
7. Electric trains in a particular route run every half an hour between 12 Midnight and 6 a.m.
Using uniform distribution, find the probability that a passenger entering the station at any
time between 1.00 a.m. and 1.30 a.m. will have to wait at least twenty minutes.
[CO1, L3]
8. The savings bank account of a customer showed an average balance of Rs.150 and standard
deviation Rs.50.Assuming that the account balances are normally distributed
(i) What percentage of account is over Rs.200?
(ii) What percentage of account is between Rs.120 and Rs.170?
(iii) What percentage of account is less than Rs.75?. [CO1, L3]

CO1: Students will be able to use the fundamental knowledge of the concepts of probability
distributions which can describe real life phenomenon
L1: Remember; L2: Understand; L3: Apply

Signature of the Faculty member HOD

Form No. AC 09a Rev.No. 00 Effective Date: 18.01.2016

 RAMCO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Department of Mathematics
Academic Year: 2023-2024 (Even Semester)

TUTORIAL SHEET

Degree, Semester& Branch: IV Semester B. Tech. AI & DS – ‘A’

Course Code & Title: MA3391 Probability and Statistics
Name of the Faculty member: Dr. G. Selvaraj
Tutorial No.: 4 Date:
Questions:
Part A
1. Find the value of k for which the function given by f  x, y   kxy for x  1, 2, 3 and
y  1, 2, 3 can serve as a joint probability distribution. [CO2, L2]
2. The joint probability density function of two random variables X and Y is given by
 2 xy
x  ; 0  x  1; 0  y  2
f  x, y    3 . Find P Y  X  . [CO2, L2]
0 ; otherwise
3. Let X and Y be two discrete random variables with joint probability mass function
1
 (2 x  y ), x  1, 2 and y  1, 2
P ( x, y )  18 . Find the p.m.f. of X and Y. [CO2, L2]
0, otherwise
6
 ( x  y );0  x  1; 0  y  1
2
4. The Joint p.d.f of (X,Y) is given by f  x, y    5 . Find the
0 ; Otherwise
marginal p.d.f of X and Y. [CO2, L2]
Part B
5. A fair coin is tossed three times. Let X be a random variable that takes the value 0 if the
first toss is a tail and the value 1 if the first toss is a head. Also, let Y be a random variable
that defines the total number of heads in the 3 tosses. (1) Determine the joint probability
mass function of X and Y. (2) Are X and Y independent? [CO2, L3]
x y
6. The joint distribution of X and Y is given by f  x , y   , x  1, 2, 3 y  1, 2. . Find
21
marginal distributions and conditional distributions. [CO2, L3]
7. Let the joint probability density function of (X,Y) be given as
Cxy 2 0  x  y  1
f  x, y    . Determine (1) the value of C (2) the marginal probability
 0 otherwise
density functions of X and Y (3) the conditional probability density function f  x | y  of X
given Y = y. [CO2, L3]
8. The joint probability density function of random variables X and Y is
5y
 , 1  x  1, x  y  1
2
f  x, y    4 . Find the marginal probability density functions of
 0, otherwise
X and Y. Are the random variables X and Y independent? Justify your result. [CO2, L3]
CO2: Students will be able to apply the basic concepts of one and two dimensional random
variables in engineering applications
L1: Remember; L2: Understand; L3: Apply

Signature of the Faculty member HOD

Form No. AC 09a Rev.No. 00 Effective Date: 18.01.2016

 RAMCO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Department of Mathematics
Academic Year: 2023-2024 (Even Semester)

TUTORIAL SHEET

Degree, Semester& Branch: IV Semester B. Tech. AI & DS – ‘A’

Course Code & Title: MA3391 Probability and Statistics
Name of the Faculty member: Dr. G. Selvaraj
Tutorial No.: 5 Date:
Questions:

Part A

1. If X and Y are independent random variables, prove that Cov ( X , Y )  0 . [CO2, L2]
2. If the joint p.d.f. of (X, Y) is given by f ( x, y )  24 y (1  x ), 0  y  x  1 . Find E(XY).
[CO2, L2]
3. The two regression equations of two random variables X and Y are 4x – 5y + 33 = 0 and
20x – 9y = 107. Find the mean values of X and Y. [CO2, L2]
4. What is the angle between the two regression lines? [CO2, L2]

Part B

5. The joint probability mass function of discrete random variable (X,Y) is given by
1 2 3 2
P  X  1, Y  0   , P  X  1, Y  1  , P  X  1, Y  0   and P  X  1, Y  1  .
8 8 8 8
Compute the correlation coefficient,  XY of X and Y. [CO2, L3]
6. Let X and Y be continuous random variables with joint probability density functions
1
f  x , y    x  y  , 0  x  1, 0  y  2 . Determine the correlation coefficient of the
3
random variables X and Y. [CO2, L3]
7. Obtain the two regression lines from the following data: [CO2, L3]
x: 62 64 65 69 70 71 72 74
y: 126 125 139 145 165 152 180 208
8. Two random variables X and Y have the joint probability density function
 c  4  x  y  , 0  x  2, 0  y  2
f  x, y    . Find the equations of two lines of
 0, otherwise
regression. [CO2, L3]

CO2: Students will be able to apply the basic concepts of one and two dimensional random
variables in engineering applications
L1: Remember; L2: Understand; L3: Apply

Signature of the Faculty member HOD

Form No. AC 09a Rev.No. 00 Effective Date: 18.01.2016

 RAMCO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Department of Mathematics
Academic Year: 2023-2024 (Even Semester)

TUTORIAL SHEET

Degree, Semester& Branch: IV Semester B. Tech. AI & DS – ‘A’

Course Code & Title: MA3391 Probability and Statistics
Name of the Faculty member: Dr. G. Selvaraj
Tutorial No.: 6 Date:
Questions:
Part A
x
 ,1  x  5
1. Let X be a continuous random variable with p.d.f. f  x    2 , find the p.d.f. of
0, otherwise
Y  2X  3. [CO2, L2]
2. If X has an exponential distribution with parameter 1. Find the probability density
function of y  x . [CO2, L2]
  
3. If X is uniformly distributed random variable in   ,  , find the probability density
 2 2
function of y  tan x . [CO2, L2]
4. State central limit theorem. [CO2, L2]
Part B
5. The joint probability density function of the continuous random variable (X,Y) is given as
 e   x  y  x  0, y  0
f  x, y    . Find the probability density function of the random
 0 otherwise
X
variable of U  . [CO2, L3]
Y
6. Let X and Y be two continuous random variables with joint probability density function
 4 xy , 0  x  1, 0  y  1
f  x, y    . Determine the joint probability function of the
 0, otherwise
random variables U  X 2 and V  XY and hence obtain the marginal probability function
of U . [CO2, L3]
7. If X 1 , X 2 , X 3 ,..., X n are Poisson variates with parameter   2 , use the central limit
theorem to estimate P 120  Sn  160  , where S n  X 1  X 2  X 3  ...  X n and n  75 .
[CO2, L3]
8. Assume that the random variable Sn is the sum of 48 independent experimental values of
the random variable X whose probability density function is given by
1
 , 0 x4
f  x  3 . Find the probability that Sn lies in the range 108  Sn  126 .
 0, otherwise

[CO2, L3]
CO2: Students will be able to apply the basic concepts of one and two dimensional random
variables in engineering applications
L1: Remember; L2: Understand; L3: Apply

Signature of the Faculty member HOD

Form No. AC 09a Rev.No. 00 Effective Date: 18.01.2016