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The document is an assignment for a Descriptive Statistics course at the University of Ilesa, containing various statistical problems. It includes questions on permutations, combinations, probability calculations, and distributions related to runners, teams, pencils, families, orders, jobs, salesmen, and marbles. The assignment aims to assess students' understanding of key statistical concepts and their application.

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General Assignment - STA 111

The document is an assignment for a Descriptive Statistics course at the University of Ilesa, containing various statistical problems. It includes questions on permutations, combinations, probability calculations, and distributions related to runners, teams, pencils, families, orders, jobs, salesmen, and marbles. The assignment aims to assess students' understanding of key statistical concepts and their application.

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UNIVERSITY OF ILESA, ILESA, OSUN STATE, NIGERIA

FACULTY OF COMPUTING
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
FIRST SEMESTER – 2024/2025 SESSION
STA 111: Descriptive Statistics (Computer Science) - General Assignment

1. Twelve runners are hoping to take part in a race, but the track has only eight lanes.
In how many ways can six of the eight runners be assigned to lanes?

2. Find the number of distinct permutations of the letters of the following words:
i. MISSISSIPPI
ii. ISOSCELES
iii. RIGIDITY

3. The manager of a mini-football team has a squad of 10 players. He needs to choose


6 to play in a match. How many possible teams can be chosen?

4. A team of 7 people, which must contain 4 men and 3 women, is chosen from 8 men
and 7 women. How many different teams can be selected?

5. A wholesale stationer stocks heavy (2B), medium (HB), fine (2H) and extra fine
(3H) pencils which come in packs of 10. Currently in stock are 4 packs of 3H, 28
packs of 2H, 70 packs of HB and 16 packs of 2B. If a pack of pencils is chosen
randomly for inspection, what is the probability that they are:
i. medium
ii. heavy
iii. not very fine
iv. neither heavy nor medium.

6. A number of families of a particular type were measured by the number of children


they contain to give the following frequency distribution.
Number of children 0 1 2 3 4 5 or more
Number of families 6 14 11 4 1 1
Use the information above to calculate the probability (relative frequency) that
another family of this type will have:
i. 2
ii. 3 or more
iii. less than 2 children.

7. The Purchase department has analyzed the number of orders placed by each of the
5 departments in the company by type for this financial year as given in Table below.
Order
Type Sales Purchase Production Accounts Maintenance Total
Consumables 20 24 8 16 8 76
Equipment 2 6 18 2 2 30
Special 0 0 8 2 4 14
Total 22 30 34 20 14 120
An error had been found in one of these orders. What is the probability that the
incorrect order:
i. was for consumable?
ii. was not for consumable?
iii. came from Maintenance?
iv. came from Production?
v. came from Maintenance or Production?
vi. came from neither Maintenance or Production?
vii. was an equipment order from Purchase?

8. A firm is independently working on two separate jobs. There is probability of only


0.3 that either of the jobs will be finished on time.
Find the probability that:
i. both
ii. neither
iii. just one
iv. at least one
v. of the job is finished on time.
9. Two vacuum cleaner salesman A and B must each make two calls per day, one in
the morning and one in the afternoon. A has probability 0.3 of selling a cleaner on
any call, while B (a novice) has probability 0.2 of a sale. A works independently of
B and, for each salesman, morning and afternoon results are independent of each
other. Find the probability that, in one day:
i. A sells two cleaners
ii. A sells just one cleaner
iii. B makes at least one sale
iv. Between them, A and B make exactly one sale

10. A bag contains four red and six blue marbles. Four marbles are selected at
random without replacement and the number, X, of blue marbles is counted.
Find the probability distribution of X.

11. A random variable R has the probability distribution shown below.


r 1 2 3 4
P(R =r) 0.2 p 0.6 q
Given that E(R) = 6, find p and q

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