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This document contains assignment problems for a B.Tech II Semester course on Probability and Statistics. It includes various probability scenarios involving conditional probabilities, defective products from machines, and random variables with specific distributions. The problems also cover topics such as binomial distributions, Poisson variates, and probability density functions.

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P & S - Student - Assignment - UNIT - 1

This document contains assignment problems for a B.Tech II Semester course on Probability and Statistics. It includes various probability scenarios involving conditional probabilities, defective products from machines, and random variables with specific distributions. The problems also cover topics such as binomial distributions, Poisson variates, and probability density functions.

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Tech II Semester (2024-25)

PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS (MR24-1BS0102)

Assignment Problems

UNIT - I
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, P (B) = andP (A ∩ B) = then find (i) P (A|B) (ii) P (B|A) (iii)

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1. If P (A) =
8 2 4
P (A|B) (iv) P (B|A)

2. A Bolt factory Machines A, B & C manufacture 20%, 30% & 50% of the total of
their output and 6%, 3% & 2% are defective. A bolt is drawn at random and found
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to be defective. Find the probabilities that it is manufactured from
(i) Machine - A (ii) Machine - B (iii) Machine - C.

3. In a certain college, 25% of boys and 10% of girls are studying Mathematics. The
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girls constitute 60% of the student body. (a) What is the probability that mathe-
matics is being studied? (b) If a student is selected at random and is found to be
studying mathematics, find the probability that the student is a girl? (c) a boy.

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


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X 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

P(X=x) 0 K 2K 2K 3K K2 2K2 7K2 +K

(i) Determine K (ii) Evaluate P (X < 6), P (X ≥ 6), P (0 < X < 5) (iii) Find Mean
and Variance (iv) Find its cumulative distribution function.

5. If a random variable has the probability density function f (x) as



2e−2x

f or x>0
f (x) =
 0
 f or x<0

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Find the probability that it takes the values (i) between 1 and 3 (ii) greater than
0.5 (iii) Find Mean (iv) Find Variance.

6. A random variable X is distributed at random between the values 0 and 1 so that


its probability density function is f (x) = kx2 (1 − x3 ) where k is a constant, then
find (i) k, (ii) Mean, (iii) Variance and (iv) P (0 < X < 0.5).

7. Ten unbiased coins are tossed simultaneously. Obtain the probability of (a) Exactly
6 heads (b) at least 8 heads (c) No heads (D) Not more that 3 heads .

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8. The mean of binomial distribution is 3 and the variance is . Find (i) P (X ≥ 4)
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(ii) P (1 ≤ X < 6) (iii) P (X ≤ 3) (iv) P (4 < X ≤ 7)

9. If the probability that an individual suffers a bad reaction from a certain injection is
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0.001, determine the probability that out of 2000 individuals (i) exactly 3 individuals
(ii) more than 2 individuals (iii) None (iv) more than one individual suffer a bad
reaction.

10. (a) A car hire firm has two cars which it fires out day by day. The number of
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demands for a car on each day is distributed as Poisson variate with mean 1.5.
Calculate the proportion of days on which (i) neither car is used, and (ii) some
demand is refused.
(b) A manufacturer of cotter pins knows that 5% of his product is defective.lf he
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sells cotter pins in boxes of 100 and guarantees that not more than 10 pins will
be defective, what is the probability that a box will fail to meet the guaranteed
quality?

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