2024 Makeup MAT2227 Engineering Maths QP
2024 Makeup MAT2227 Engineering Maths QP
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Answer all the questions.
1A) In a certain college, 4% of the boys and 1% of the girls are taller than 1.8m. Furthermore, 60% of the students are girls. If a (3)
student is chosen at random and is found to be taller than 1.8m, what is the probability that the student is a girl.
1B) The odds that person X speaks the truth are 3:2 and the odds that person Y speaks the truth are 5:3. In what percentage of cases (3)
are they likely to contradict to each other on an identical point?
1C) (4)
2A) (3)
2B) (3)
2C) (4)
3A) It is known that disks produced by a certain company will be defective with probability .01 independently of each other. The (3)
company sells the disks in packages of 10 and offers a money-back guarantee that at most 1 of the 10 disks is defective. What
proportion of packages is returned? If someone buys three packages, what is the probability that exactly one of them will be
returned?
3B) In an experiment of tossing a fair dice, let X be the number of tosses required to get any one of the numbers 2, 4, or 6. Find the (3)
moment generating function of X and hence find its mean.
3C) (4)
4A) An Urn initially contains 5 black balls and 5 white balls. The following experiment is repeated indefinitely. A ball is drawn from the (3)
Urn, if the ball is white, it is put back in the urn otherwise it is left out. Let be the number of black balls remaining in the urn
after draws from the urn. Find the Transition probability matrix.
4B) (3)
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4C) (4)
5A) (4)
5B) (3)
5C) (3)
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