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The document contains exercises related to binomial, Poisson, exponential, and normal distributions. It includes problems on calculating probabilities, means, and variances for various scenarios involving these statistical distributions. Each section provides specific questions to solve, focusing on real-world applications of these concepts.

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Binomial&poison

The document contains exercises related to binomial, Poisson, exponential, and normal distributions. It includes problems on calculating probabilities, means, and variances for various scenarios involving these statistical distributions. Each section provides specific questions to solve, focusing on real-world applications of these concepts.

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Binomial Distribution Exercises

1. Assume that the probability of a certain hunter shooting and actually hitting a pheasant is 0.4. Find the
probability that the hunter:
(a) will hit exactly four of the next five pheasants.
(b) will hit at least four of the next five pheasants.
(c) will hit at least one and less than four of the next five pheasants.
2. A company that manufactures LEDs claims that only 5% will need to be adjusted by a technician before being
sold. If an appliance dealer buys 20 of these LEDs to sell:
(a) how likely is it that more than three of them will need to be adjusted?
(b) Find the mean value and the variance of the number of LEDs needing to be adjusted.
3. Let X represent the number of newborns with major structural or genetic birth defects. Then X has a binomial
distribution with parameters n = 50 and p = 0.03.
(a) What is the probability of having exactly 2 newborns with genetic birth defects?
(b) What is the probability of having less than or equal to 2 newborns with genetic birth defects?
(c)
4.

Poison Distribution Exercises


1. The number of interruptions in broadcast follows a Poisson distribution. It is known that in 15% of the
broadcasts, the number of interruptions is less than 1.
(a) Calculate the probability that, at 3 broadcasts, the number of interruptions will not exceed 5.
(b) Find the probability that, in 6 broadcasts, the number of interruptions will exceed 4 and will not be greater
than 7.
2. Customers arrive at a travel agency at a 3-minute mean rate from 10:00a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Suppose the arrival of
clients follows a Poisson process.
(a) Calculate the probability that no customer will arrive between 12:50 and 1:00p.m.
(b) In 12 20-minute periods between 10:00a.m. and 2:00p.m., calculate the probability that at least 3 of them
have less than 2 customers.
3. The manager of an industrial unit plans to buy a machine of one of the types: A or B. For each day of operation,
the number of repairs for machine A, X, follows a Poisson distribution with mean 0.96. The daily cost of these
repairs is = 160 + 40 . For type B, let Y be the Poisson random variable that indicates the number of
daily repairs, with mean 1.12, and cost associated given by = 128 + 40 . Suppose the repair time is
negligible and that every night the machines are cleaned so that they operate as if they were new the next day.
(a) Find the probability of the type A machine suffering more than 2 repairs per night.
(b) Determine the probability of the number of repairs in the type B machine being greater than 1 knowing that
it was less than 3.
(c) What is the machine that minimizes the expected daily cost?
4. Messages arriving at a server of a given company follow a Poisson distribution of mean 0.14 per hour.
(a) A period of 5 hours was considered. What is the expected number of messages in this period?
(b) What is the probability that no message will arrive in a 5-hour period?
(c) In 7 days, randomly selected, what is the probability of the number of messages arriving per hour to the
server being 0 in 4 of those days?
5.
Exponential Distribution Exercises
1. The lifespan of a platform scale (in days) is an exponentially distributed random variable, with mean µ = 3300
days.
(a) Calculate the percentage of platform scales whose useful life is less than 4500 days.
(b) Find the proportion of platform scales with lifespan greater than 3500 days.
2. Let X be an exponential r.v. of parameter λ = 0.4 sec, which measures the time interval between two consecutive
accessions to the database of a doctor’s office.
(a) Compute the mean and the variance of X?
(b) Calculate the probability of the interval between two accessions being greater than 2.25sec, knowing that it
was less than 2.75sec?
(c) Consider a new random variable that counts the number of accesses in 5sec in the database. Find the
probability that this number is greater than 2.
3. A manufacturer of decanter ampules knows that the useful life of such ampules is exponentially distributed and
that 90% have a life time of less than 30 days.
(a) Determine the expected durability of each ampule.
(b) Which proportion of ampules have a life time greater than 35 days?
(c) A given company intends to purchase a large quantity of ampules for its laboratory. To this end, he combined
with the manufacturer a random ampule test:
(i) if the ampule lasts less than 5 days, the buyer pays 2$ per ampule;
(ii) if the ampules last between 5 to 25 days, the buyer pays 25$ per ampule;
(ii) if the ampules last more than 25 days, the buyer pays 90$ per ampule.
Find the expected price for each ampule.
4.

Normal Distribution
1. The diameter of a glass rod follows a normal distribution. It is known that half of the rods have a diameter
greater than 10mm and that 20% is less than 7mm.
(a) Determine the probability of a randomly chosen rod having a diameter less than 11.5mm.
(b) Consider a set of 12 rods randomly chosen from a batch. Find the probability of less than half of them having
a diameter less than 10mm.
2. In the ketchup factory of the XPTO brand, the quantities that go into ketchup bottles follow a normal
distribution of mean 360ml and standard deviation of 5ml. Once every 30 minutes, a bottle is selected at
random from the production line, and its contents are weighed accurately. If the quantity of the bottle is less
than 355ml or above 365ml, the bottle is withdrawn from production.
(a) Calculate the probability that a bottle will be removed from production.
(b) Determine the probability that no bottles will be withdrawn from the production line on working day (8h).
(c) Find the probability of exactly one bottle being withdrawn on a production day (8h).
(d) Calculate the probability that a bottle will be withdrawn from production if the machines are refined and the
mean quantity by bottle becomes 363ml with a standard deviation of 3ml.
3. One factory produces petri dishes, of which 5% are defective. 1500 petri dishes have been produced.
(a) Calculate the expected number of defective dishes.
(b) Determine the standard deviation of defective dishes.
(c) Calculate the (approximate) probability of producing less than 79 defective dishes.
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