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The document contains selected practice questions from a textbook for a Mid#2 Exam, focusing on probability and random variables. It includes problems related to marginal pmf, expected values, variance, and examples of probability mass functions. Additionally, it discusses the relationship between random variables X and Y, including their independence.

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PraticeQuestions Mid#2

The document contains selected practice questions from a textbook for a Mid#2 Exam, focusing on probability and random variables. It includes problems related to marginal pmf, expected values, variance, and examples of probability mass functions. Additionally, it discusses the relationship between random variables X and Y, including their independence.

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Mid#2 Exam

Selected Questions for practice from Textbook

Chapter#5: 5.11, 5.17, 5.20, 5.25, 5.27, 5.43, 5.46, 5.61, 5.66 , 5.68, 5.99, 5.105
ECS 315 EXAM 1 — Name ID 2010/1

(b) P [V > 3] = 0 because all elements in the support of V are ≤ 3.


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(c) P [V < 3] = 1 − pV (3) = 54
≈ 0.759.

(d) P [V 2 > 1] = 1 because the square of any element in the support of V is > 1.

(e)

(f)

(g) W = V 2 − V + 1. So, when V = −2, 2, 3, we have W = 7, 3, 7, respectively. Hence, W


takes only two values, 7 and 3. the corresponding probabilities are
67
P [W = 7] = pV (−2) + pV (3) = ≈ 0.62.
108
and
41
P [W = 3] = pV (2) = ≈ 0.38.
108
Hence, the pmf of W is given by
 41 
 108 , w = 3,  0.38, w = 3,
67
pW (w) = , w = 7, ≈ 0.62, w = 7,
 108
0, otherwise. 0, otherwise.

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(h) EV = 18
≈ 0.7222
281
(i) EV 2 = 54
≈ 5.2037
1517
(j) Var V = EV 2 − (EV )2 = 324
≈ 4.682.
√
(k) σV = Var V ≈ 2.1638

(l) EW = 5.4815
Problem 6. (16 pt) The input X and output Y of a system subject to random perturbations
are described probabilistically by the following joint pmf matrix:

y 2 4 5
x
1 0.02 0.10 0.08
3 0.08 0.32 0.40
 

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ECS 315 EXAM 1 — Name ID 2010/1

(a) (2 pt) Find the marginal pmf pX (x).


(b) (2 pt) Find the marginal pmf pY (y).
(c) (2 pt) Find EX
(d) (2 pt) Find P [X = Y ]
(e) (2 pt) Find P [XY < 6]
(f) (2 pt) Find E [(X − 3)(Y − 2)]
(g) (2 pt) Find E [X(Y 3 − 11Y 2 + 38Y )]
(h) (2 pt) Are X and Y independent?

Problem 7. (2 pt) A random variables X has support containing only two numbers. Its
expected value is EX = 5. Its variance is Var X = 3. Give an example of the pmf of such a
random variable.
√ √
Solution: We first find σX = Var X = 3. Recall that this is the average deviation
√
from the mean. Because X takes only two values, we can make them at exactly ± 3 from
the mean; that is √ √
x1 = 5 − 3 and x2 = 5 + 3.
In which case, we automatically have EX = 5 and Var X = 3. Hence, one example of such
pmf is
 1 √
2
, x = 5 ± 3
pX (x) =
0, otherwise
We can also try to find a general formula for x1 and x2 . If we let p = P [X = x2 ], then
q = 1 − p = P [X = x1 ]. Given p, the values of x1 and x2 must satisfy two conditions:
EX = m and Var X = σ 2 . (In our case, m = 5 and σ 2 = 3.) From EX = m, we must have

x1 q + x2 p = m; (1.1)

that is
m p
x1 = − x2 .
q q
From Var X = σ 2 , we have E [X 2 ] = Var X + EX 2 = σ 2 + m2 and hence we must have

x21 q + x22 p = σ 2 + m2 . (1.2)

Substituting x1 from (1.1) into (1.2), we have

x22 p − 2x2 mp + pm2 − qσ 2 = 0




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