Acharya Institute of Technology

Bangalore-107

Question Bank
Name of the Faculty: Dr. Surekha Desai
Title of the Subject / Subject Code: Mathematics for Computer Science/ BCS301
Academic Year / Semester: 2023-24 / I
Module-I
Probability Distribution and Joint probability distribution with Markov Chain rule

1. Define: i) Random variable ii) Discrete probability distribution with an example.

[June-2023]
2. Derive mean and standard deviation of the binomial distribution.
3. Derive mean and standard deviation of exponential distribution. [June-2018]
4. The p.d.f of a variate X is given by the following table. Find the value of k . Find its mean
and standard deviation. Also find p(x ≥5) and p(3< x ≤ 6).
x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
P(x ) k 3k 5k 7k 9k 11k 13 k
[June-2013,
16]
5. The p.d.f of a variate X is given by the following table. Find the value of k . Find Probability
distribution function of X . Also find p(x <6), p (x ≥ 6) and p(3< x ≤ 6).
x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
P(x ) 0 k 2k 2k 3k K
2 2
2k 7k +k
2

[Jan-2015, July-2019, Jan-2020, July-2022]

6. The probability distribution of a finite random variable X is given by
X: -2 -1 0 1 2 3
P(x ) 0.1 K 0.2 2K 0.3 K
:
Find ‘ ’, mean and variance of X .
K [Jan, June-2023]

7. The frequency of accidents per shift in a factory is shown in the following table:
Accidents per 0 1 2 3 4
shift
Frequency 192 100 24 3 1
Calculate the mean numbers of accidents per shift. Find the corresponding Poisson
distribution.
[June-2023]
8. Explain the terms: (i) Null hypothesis (ii) Confidence intervals (iii) Type-I and Type-II
errors.
[June-2018]
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9. The probability density of a continuous random variable is given by P( x )= y 0 e , -10< x <.
Find
y 0 . Also find the mean. [July-13, Jan -2015]

{
2
p( x )= cx for 0<x <3
c p(x ≤1),
10. Find the constant , such that the 0 elsewhere is a p.d.f. Also find (i)
(ii) p(1 ≤ x ≤ 2), (iii) p(x ≤2), (iv) p(x >1), (v) p(x >2).
[Jan-2018, Jan-2020, July-2022]
11. The joint probability distribution for following data
X −2 −1 4 5
Y
1 0.1 0.2 0 0.3
2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0

Determine the marginal distributions of X and Y also calculate E( x ) , E( y ) ,COV( xy )

.
[July -2023]

12. The joint probability distribution of desecrate random variables X and Y is given below:

Y 1 3 6
X
1 1/9 1/6 1/18
3 1/6 1/4 1/12
6 1/18 1/12 1/36

Determine (i) marginal distribution of X and Y (ii) Are X and Y statistically independent?

13. The I.Q. of students in a certain college is assumed to be normally distributed with mean 100
and variance 25. If two students are selected at random, find the probability that (i) both of
them have I.Q. between 102 and 110 (ii) at least one of them have I. Q. between 102 and 110
(iii) at most one of them have I.Q. between 102 and 110.
14. Derive mean and variance of Poisson distribution. [Jan-2023]

15. In a normal distribution 31% of the items are under 45 and 8% are over 64. Find mean and
standard deviation of the distribution. [Jan-2023]
16. The joint probability distributions of two random variables x and y as follows:
X −4 2 7
Y
1 1/8 1/4 1/8
5 1/4 1/8 1/8
 Determine, i) E [ X ] , E [ Y ] ii) Are x and y are independent random variables?
iii) E ( XY ) iv) C OV ( X ,Y ) v) ρ ( X , Y ) [June-18,
Jan-2023]

17. A die is tossed thrice. A success is getting 1 or 6 on a toss. Find the mean and variance of the
number of successes. [Dec -2011]
18. Given 2% of the fuses manufactured by a firm are defective, find, by using Poisson
distribution, the probability that a box containing 200 fuses has i) no defective fuses ii) 3 or
more defective fuses iii) at least one defective fuse. [Dec -
2010, July2022]
19. The probability that a pen manufactured by a company will be defective is 0.1. If 12 such
pens are selected, find the probability that (i) exactly 2 will be defective, (ii) at least 2 will be
defective, (iii) none will be defective. [Dec -17, Jan-2020]
20. The number of telephone lines busy at any instant of time is a binomial variate with the
probability that a line is busy is 0.1. If 10 lines are chosen at random, what is the probability
that: (i) no line is busy (ii) At least 5 lines is busy (iii) at most 3 lines are busy.
21. The probability that an individual suffers a bad reaction from an injection is 0.001. Find the
probability that out of 2000 individuals, more than 2 will get a bad reaction.
[Jan-2018, July-19]
22. Out of 800 families with 5 children each, how many families would you expect to have i) 3
boys ii) 5 girls iii) either 2 or 3 boys iv) at most 2 girls, assuming equal probabilities for boys
and girls. [July-2022]
23. Alpha- particles are emitted by a radioactive source at an average of 5 emissions in 20
minutes. What is the probability that there will be (i)exactly 2 emissions (ii) atleast 2
emissions in 20 minutes?
[June -2011]
24. The probability that a man age 60 will live up to 70 is 0.65. What is the probability that out
of 10 men, now at the age of 60, (i) at least 7 will live up to 70 (ii) exactly 9 will live up to 70
(iii) at most 9 will live up to 70. [June -2009]
25. If X is an exponential distribution with mean 4, evaluate i) P(0< x<1) ii) P(x >2) and
iii) P(−¿ x <10). [Dec -2017]
26. Suppose 300 misprints are randomly distributed throughout a book of 500 pages, find the
probability that a given page contains (i) exactly three misprints (ii) less than three misprints
and (iii) four or more misprints.
27. Find the unique fixed probability vector of the matrix [ ]
1/4 3/ 4
5/6 1 /6
. [Jan-2023]

28. Define the following: i) Probability vector ii) Fixed points iii) State space. [Jan-2023]
29. The length in time(minutes) that a certain lady speaks on a telephone is a random variable

{
−x
5
with probability density function f (x)= A e , for x> 0 Find the value of the constant A.
0 , elsewhere
What is the probability that she will speak over the phone for i) More than 10 minutes ii)
Less than 5 minutes iii) Between 5 and 10 minutes. [July-2022]
30. The marks of 1000 student in an examination follows a normal distribution with mean 70 and
standard deviation 5. Find the number of student whose marks will be i) less than 65 ii) More
than 75 and iii) between 65 and 75. [Dec-2016, Dec-2017, July-2019]
31. In a normal distribution, 31% of the items are under 45 and 8% are over 64. Find the mean
and standard deviation, given that A(0.5)=0.19 and A(1.4 )=0.42, where A(z ) is the area
under the standard normal curve from 0 to z >0. [Dec-2012]
32. In a test on 2000 electric bulbs, it was found that the life of an electric bulb is a normal
variate with mean life of 2040 hrs and s.d of 60 hrs. Find the probability that a randomly
selected bulb will burn for (i) more than 2150 hrs (ii) less than 1950 hrs (iii) more than 1920
hrs, but less than 2160 hrs.
[Jan-2015]

[ ]
0 1 0
33. Given the matrix A= 0 0 1 then show that A is a regular stochastic matrix.
1/2 1 /2 0
[June-2018]
34. The life of an electric bulb is normally distributed with average life of 2000 hrs and s. d of 60
hrs. Out of 2500 bulbs, find the number of bulbs that are likely to last between 1900 and
2100 hours. Given that p(0< z< 1.67)=0.4525. [Dec-2013, Jan-2020]
35. In an examination 7% of students score less than 35% marks and 89% of students score less
than 60% marks. Find mean and standard deviation if the marks are normally distributed.
Given that A(1.2263)=0.39 and A(1.4757)=0.43. [June-2012, Jan-2020]

36. A sample of 100 dry battery cells tested to find the length of life produced by a company and
following results are recorded: mean life = 12 hrs, standard deviation = 3hrs. Assuming data
to be normally distributed, find the expected life of a dry cell: (i) have more than 15 hrs
(ii) between 10 and 14 hrs. [June -2011]

37. In a certain town the duration of a shower is exponentially distributed with mean 5 min.
What is the probability that a shower will last for i) 10 min or more ii) less than 10 min iii)
between 10 min and 12 min. [June-
2013]
38. Suppose that the student IQ scores form a normal distribution with mean 100 and standard
deviation 20. Find the percentage of students whose (i) score is less than 80 (ii) score falls
between 90 and 140, (iii)score more than 120.
39. The length of telephone conversation in a booth has been exponentially distributed and found
on an average to be 5 mints. Find the probability that a random call made
1) Ends in less than 5 minutes.
2) Between 5 and 10 minutes [Jan-2020]
40. If X is normal variate with mean 30 and standard variation 5, find the probabilities that i)26
≤ x ≤ 40 ii) x≥ 45 iii) |x−30|>5. Given that ∅ (1)=0.3413,
∅ (0.8)=0.2881 , ∅ (2)=0.4772 ,∅ (3)=0.4987.
[July-2022]