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Assignment-02

Probability and Statistics


B. Tech.-III Sem, Fall: 2022-23

Q.1: The probability that a married man watches a certain television show is 0.4 ,and the
probability that a married woman watches the show is 0.5.Theprobability that a man
watches the show, given that his wife does, is 0.7. Find the probability that
(a) a marriedcouple watches the show;
(b) a wife watches the show, given that her husband does;
(c) at least one member of a married couple will watch the show.
Q.2: The total number of hours, measured in units of 100hours, that a family runs a vacuum
cleaner over a period of one year is a continuous random variable X that has the density
function

Find the probability that over a period of one year, a family runs their vacuum cleaner-
a) less than 120 hours.
b) (b) Between 50 and 100 hours.
Q.3: On average, a text book author makes two word processing errors per page on the first
draft of her text book. What is the probability that on the next page shewill make.
(a) 4or more errors?
(b) no errors?

Q.4: A lot containing 7 components is sampled by a quality inspector; the lot contains 4 good
components and 3 defective components. A sample of 3 is taken by the inspector. Find the
expected value and Variance of the number of good components in this sample.
Q.5: Given a normally distributed variable X with mean 18 and standard deviation 2.5.

(a) findP(X<15)
(b) The value of k such that P(X<k)=0.2236.
(c) The value of k such that P(X>k)=0.1814.
(d) P(17<X<21)
Q.6: A soft-drink machine is regulated so that it discharges an average of 200 milliliters per cup.
If the amount of drink is normally distributed with a standard deviation equal to 15
milliliters,
(a) what fraction of the cups will contain more than 224 milliliters?
(b) what is the probability that a cup contains between 191 and 209 milliliters?
(c) how many cups will probably overflow if 230 milliliter cups are used for the next 1000
drinks?
(d) below what value do we get the smallest 25% of the drinks?

Q.7: Joint density function of two continuous random variable X&Y is-
cxy 0  x  4,1  y  5
f  x, y   
 0 otherwise 
Find (i) The value of c (ii) Find the marginal distribution of X and Y.
Q.8: In a certain industrial facility, accidents occur infrequently. It is known that the
probability of an accident on any given day is 0.005 and accidents are independent of each
other.
(a) What is the probability that in any given period of 400 days there will be an accident on
one day?
(b)What is the probability that there are at most three days with an accident?

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