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The document contains a worksheet for a Probability and Random Processes course at Addis Ababa Science & Technology University, focusing on additional problems related to probability and random variables. It includes various assignment questions that require calculating probabilities, analyzing random variables, and finding constants related to probability density functions. The problems cover both discrete and continuous random variables, exploring concepts such as joint distributions and independence.

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Work Sheet-II

The document contains a worksheet for a Probability and Random Processes course at Addis Ababa Science & Technology University, focusing on additional problems related to probability and random variables. It includes various assignment questions that require calculating probabilities, analyzing random variables, and finding constants related to probability density functions. The problems cover both discrete and continuous random variables, exploring concepts such as joint distributions and independence.

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Addis Ababa Science & Technology University

Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Probability and Random Processes (EEEG-3101)


Work sheet-II
Additional Problems On Probability (chapter 1)
(Assignment Questions: 1&3)
1. There are two coins. The first coin is fair. The second coin is such that P(H) = 0.4.
You are given one of the two coins, with equal probabilities between the two
coins. You flip the coin seven times and five of the seven outcomes are H. What
is the probability that your coin is the fair one?
2. Choose two numbers uniformly but without replacement in {0,1,2,...,10}. What is
the probability that the sum is less than or equal to 10 given that the smallest is
less than or equal to 5?
3. You flip a fair coin repeatedly. What is the probability that you have to flip it
exactly 10 times to see six heads"?
4. A man has 5 coins in his pocket. Two are double-headed, one is double- tailed,
and two are normal. The coins cannot be distinguished unless one looks at them.
a. The man shuts his eyes, chooses a coin at random, and tosses it. What is the
probability that the lower face of the coin is heads?
b. He opens his eyes and sees that the upper face of the coin is a head. What is
the probability that the lower face is a head.
c. He shuts his eyes again, picks up the same coin, and tosses it again. What is
the probability that the lower face is a head?
d. He opens his eyes and sees that the upper face is a head. What is the
probability that the lower face is a head?
Problems On Random Variables (chapter2)
(Assignment Questions: 4,6 & 7)
1. The pdf of a continuous random variable X is given by:
k (1 − x 4 ), −1 ≤ x ≤ 1
f X ( x) = 
0, otherwise

where k is a constant

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Find
a. The value of k c. P(|X|<1/2)
b. The cdf of X d. The mean, variance and second moment of
X

2. A continuous random variable  has a pdf of   = , where −∞ <  < ∞
and  is a constant. Find
a. the value of  c.  ≤   ≤ 1

b. the cdf of 
3. A random variable X has the following cdf:
 0, if ( x < 0)
 0.3, if (0 ≤ x < 2)

FX ( x ) = 
0.3 + 0.2 x, if (2 ≤ x < 3)
 1, if ( x ≥ 3)
a. Explain why FX is a cdf; d. Find P(0 < X < 3) and P(X < X < 3);
b. Find P(X = 0); P(X = 1); P(X = 2); P(X = e. Find f X (x) ;
3); f. Find P[X ≤ 1.4 X ≤ 2.2] ;
c. Find P(0.5 < X < 2.3); g. Calculate E(X).
4. The joint pdf of two continuous random variables X and Y is given by
ke − x e −2 y , x > 0, y > 0
f XY ( x , y ) = 
0 , otherwise
where k is a constant.
a. Determine the value of k c. Are X and Y independent?
b. Find the marginal pdf of X and d. Find the following
probabilities.
Y.
i. P ( X + Y ≤ 8) iii. P ( X < Y )

iii P ( X − Y ≤ 10) iv. P ( X 2 < Y )

5. Suppose that two continuous random variables X and Y have joint pdf given by:
k ( 2 x + y ), 2 < x < 6, 0 < y < 5
f XY ( x, y ) = 
0, otherwise
Where k is a constant

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a. Find the constant k. d. Are X and Y independent?
b. Find the joint cdf of X and Y. e. Find the conditional pdf of X
c. Find the marginal cdf and pdf and Y.
of X and Y.
f. Determine the mean, variance, covariance and correlation coefficient of X and
Y.
g. Evaluate the following probabilities
i. P(3 < X < 4, Y > 2) iii. P( X > 3)

ii. P( X + Y > 4) iv. P(0 < y < 2)

6. The continuous random variable X and Y have joint pdf


 π π
k sin( x + y ), 0 ≤ x ≤ , 0 ≤ y ≤
f XY ( x , y ) =  2 2
0, otherwise

Where k is a constant
Find
a. The value of k. d. The mean, variance and
b. The joint cdf of X and Y. covariance of X and Y.
c. The marginal pdf of X and
Y.
7. Let the joint pmf of two discrete random variable X and Y be given by:

 k ( xi + y j ), xi = 1, 2, 3 ; y j = 1, 2
PXY ( xi , y j ) = 
 0, otherwise

Where k is a constant

a. Find the value of k.


b. Find the marginal pmf of X and Y.
c. Are X and Y independent?

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