Jimma University

College of Natural Sciences

Department of Statistics

Probability and statistics assignment for undergraduate 2nd year software

Engineering students

Instruction: workout the following questions (show all necessary steps)

1. The median and mode of the following wage distribution are birr 33.5 and birr 34 respectively
.However three frequencies are missing determine their values

Wage 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 Total

Frequency 4 16 F1 F2 F3 6 4 230

2. Suppose that the following data represents yield of sorghum for 40 experimental plots, The
yields are expressed in the form of midpoint (class mark) like 12.5,17.5,X,27.5,Y,and 37.5 with
corresponding frequencies 6,12,9,6,5,2 respectively. Then

a) Find the value of X and Y

b) Find the class limit and class boundaries

c) Compute less than and more than commulative frequencies

d) Present the data by using the appropriate graph

3. The data on the amount of time (in hours) that 40 college students devoted to leisure activities
during a typical school week is given as follows

23 24 18 14 20 24 24 26 23 21 16 15 19 20 22 14 13 20 19 27

29 22 38 28 34 44 23 19 21 31 16 10 19 18 12 20 15 21 25 16

a) Construct a grouped frequency distribution for the given data

b) Compute all quartiles

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 c) Calculate the quartile deviations
d) Calculate the 90th percentile

4. In a Factory employing 3000 persons, five percent earn less than 3 birr per hour, 580 earn
from birr 4 to 7 per hour, 30 percent earn from 8 to birr 11 per hour, 500 earn from birr 12 to 15
per hour, 20 percent earn from 16 to 19 per hour and the rest earn birr 20 or more per hour. What
is the median and modal wage?

5. The following data presents grouped frequency distribution for result (mark) of 85 student’s
on Introduction to Statistics final examination. Construct the full grouped frequency distribution
based up on the given information?

Class Class boundary Class Freq. Cf (less Cf (more rf. rcf (less
limit Mark than than type) than type
type)
8.5 85
71
65
49
28
48.5 12

6. A chess tournament has 10 competitors, of which 4 are Russian, 3 are from the United States,
2 are from Great Britain, and 1 is from Brazil. If the tournament result lists just the nationalities
of the players in the order in which they placed, how many outcomes are possible?

7. Two factors A and B are engaged in some activity .Their average weekly wages and standard
deviation is as follows:

Factor mean wages standard wages number of wages

A 460 50 100
B 490 40 800

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 a) Which factory pay larger amount as weekly wages?

b) Which factory shows greater variability in the distribution of wages?

c) Find the standard deviation of the combined data

d) Which factory shows greater uniformity and greater consistent in the distribution of
wages?

8. A shipment of two boxes, each containing 6 telephones, is received by a store. Box1 contains
one defective phone and box 2 contains 2 defective phones. After the boxes are unpacked, a
phone is selected and found to be defective. Then,

a) Find the probability that defective phone is selected

b) Find the probability that the selected defective phone is came from box 2.
9. Suppose that A and B are two events associated with an experiment. If the probability that A
or B occurs is 0.6 while probability that event A occurs equal to 0.4. What is the probability
that B occurs.
(a) Assume that A and B are Mutually Exclusive

(b) Assume that A and B are dependent if p(A/B) = 0.04

(c) What is P(A/AUB)

10. A random variable X has the following probability function.

X -2 -1 0 1 2 3

Then find p(x) 0.1 K 0.2 2k 0.3 k

a) Value of k

b) E (2x+5)

C) V (3X+2)

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11. Among 15 clocks there are two defectives .In how many ways can an inspector chose three
of the clocks for inspection so that:
a) There is no restriction.
b) None of the defective clock is included.
c) Only one of the defective clocks is included.
d) Two of the defective clock is included
12. Suppose that an examination consists of six true and false questions, and assume that a
student has no knowledge of the subject matter. The probability that the student will guess
the correct answer to the first question is 30%. Likewise, the probability of guessing each
of the remaining questions correctly is also 30%.

a) What is the probability of getting more than three correct answers?

b) What is the probability of getting at least two correct answers?

c) What is the probability of getting at most three correct answers?

d) What is the probability of getting less than five correct answers?

13. The joint pdf of the random variable ( is given by

(
( { ,

Then,

a) Find the value of K

b) The marginal distribution of X and Y
c) Show that whether or not X and Y are independent

14. Let the joint pmf of X and Y is given by:

( ( ( ( ( (
P(x) = {

a) Find the value of the constant k.

b) Calculate P(X<Y), P(X+Y≤4) and P (Y≥X)

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 15. The cdf of X is given by F(X) ={ ( Then

a). Find f(x)

b). Expectation of X
c). Variance of X
d). Find p(X )

16. Suppose that p(X 0.29) =0.75, where x is continuous random variable with some
distribution defined over (0, 1), If Y=1-X determine K so that p(Y =0.25.

17. If 3 books are picked at random from a shelf containing 5 novels, 3 books of poems, and
dictionary, in how many ways this can be done if
a) There is no restriction.
b) The dictionary is selected?
c) 2 novels and 1 book of poems are selected?

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