Binomial Distribution Problems

1) Find MGF of Binomial Distribution.

Problems: Part – 1
3) The mean of a binomial distribution is 20 and S.D is 4. Determine the parameters of the distribution.
4) Comment the following : The mean of a binomial distribution is 3 and variance is 4.
5) The mean and S.D of a binomial distribution are 5 and 2 Determine the distribution.
6) In a binomial distribution consisting of 5 independent trials, probability of 1 & 2 success are 0.4096 and
0.2048 respectively. Find the parameters P of the distributions.
7) The mean and variance of a binomial variate are 8 and 6. Find 𝑃 𝑋 ≥ 2 .
8) If X is a binomial random variable with expected value 6 and variance 2.4 Find 𝑃 𝑋 = 5 .
9) The mean and variance of a binomial distribution are 4 and 4/3. Find 𝑃 𝑋 ≥ 1 .

Part – 2
10) Find the probability that in tossing a fair coin 5 times, there will appear a) 3 heads b) 3 tails & 2 heads c)
atleast 1 head and d) Not more than 1 tail.
11) A pair of dice is thrown 4 times. If getting a doublet is considered a success, find the probability of 2
success.
12) A machine manufacturing screws is known to produce 5% defective. In a random sample of 15 screws,
what is the probability that there are i) Exactly 3 defectives, ii) Not more than 3 defectives.
13) If 10% of the screws produced by an automatic machine are defective. Find the probability that of 20 screws
selected at random, there are i) Exactly two defectives ii) atmost three defectives iii) atleast two defectives
and iv) between one and three defectives (inclusive).
14) Out of 800 families with 4 children each, how many families would be expected to have i) 2 boys and 2
girls, ii) at least 1 boy iii) at most 2 girls and iv) children of both genders. Assume equal probabilities for
boys and girls.
15) In a large consignment of electric bulb 10% are defective. A random samples of 20 is taken for inspection.
Find the probability that i) All are good bulbs, ii)Atmost there are 3 defective bulbs iii) Exactly there are 3
defective bulbs.

Part – 3
16) Suppose that 𝑃 𝑋 = 0 = 1 − 𝑃 𝑋 = 1 . If 𝐸 𝑋 = 3, 𝑉𝑎𝑟 𝑋 , 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑃(𝑋 = 0)
17) Write the usual notation find ‘p’ for a binomial random variate ‘X’ if 𝑛 = 6 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑓 9𝑃 𝑋 = 4 =
𝑃 𝑋=2 .
18) The probability of a bomb hitting a target is 1/5. Two bombs are enough to destroy a bridge. If six bombs
are aimed at the bridge, find the probability that the bridge is destroyed.
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19) If X follows 𝐵 3, 3 and Y follow𝐵 5, 3 find 𝑃 𝑋 + 𝑌 ≥ 1 .
20) If the mgf of a random variable X is of the form 0.4𝑒 𝑡 + 0.6 8 What is the mgf of 3X+2 evaluate 𝐸 𝑋 .
21) During war one ship out of nine was sunk on an average in making a certain voyage. What is the probability
that exactly 3 out of a convey of 6 ships would arrive safely.
22) If X is a binomial distributed random variable with parameters n and p. What is the distribution of 𝑌 = 𝑛 −
𝑋.
23) The probability of a man hitting a target is ¼ i) If he fires 7 times, what is the probability of his hitting the
target atleast twice? ii) How many times must be fire so that the probability of hitting the target atleast once
is greater than 2/3?
24) A variate takes values, 0,1,2…n with frequencies proportional to the binomial coefficients 1, 𝑛𝐶1 , , 𝑛𝐶2 ….,
𝑛𝐶𝑛 . Find the mean and variance of the distribution and show that the variance is half the mean.

Part – 4
25) 6 dice are thrown 729 times. How many times do you expect atleast three dice to show 5 or 6.
26) 10 coins are thrown simultaneously. Find the probability of getting atleast 7 heads.
27) In 256 sets of twelve tosses of a coin, howmany cases may one expect eight heads and four tails?
28) 4 coins were tossed simultaneously. What is the probability of getting i) 2 heads ii) atleast 2 heads iii)
atmost 2 heads.
29) Find the probability that in tossing a fair coin 5 times, there will appear i) 3 heads ii) 3 tails and 2 heads iii)
atleast 1 head iv) not more than 1 tail.
30) A pair of dice is thrown 4 times. If getting a doublet is considered a success, find the probability of 2
success.
31) Five coins are flipped. If the outcomes are assumed independent find the probability mass function of the
number of heads obtained.
32) A perfect cubic die is thrown a large number of times in sets of 8. The presence of a 5 or 6 is treated as a
success. In what percentage of the sets can we expect 3 success.
33) An irregular 6 faced die is thrown such that the probability that it gives 3 even numbers in 5 thrown is twice
the probability that it gives 2 even numbers in 5 throws, howmany sets of exactly 5 trials can be expected to
give no even number out of 2500 sets.
34) Assume that half of the population is vegetarian sothat the chance of an individual being a vegetarian is ½.
Assuming that 100 investigators take samples of 10 individual each to see whether they are vegetarian,
howmany investigateors would you expect to report that three people or less were vegetarians?
35) In a certain town, 20% samples of the population is literate and assume that 200 investigators take samples
of two individuals to see whether they are literate. Howmany investigators would you expect to report that 3
people or less are literates in the samples?
36) It is known that screws produced by a certain company will be defective with probability 0.01
independently of each other. The company sells the screws in packages of 10 and offers a money back
guarantee that atmost 1 of the 10 screws is defective. What is the proportion of packages sold must the
company replace?
37) A Machine manufacturing screws is known to produce 5% defective . In a random sample of 15 screws,
what is the probability that there are i) Exactly three defectives ii) Not more than three defective.
38) In a large consignment of electric bulbs 10% are defective. A random sample of 20 is taken for inspection.
Find the probability that, i) All are good bulbs, ii) Atmost there are 3 defective bulbs, iii) Exactly there
are 3 defective bulbs.
39) An irregular six faced die is thrown and the expectation that in 10 throws it will give five even numbers is
twice the expectation that it will give four even numbers. Howmany times in 10,000 sets of 10 throws each,
would you expect it to give no even number.
40) A coin having probability p of coming up heads is successively flipped until the 𝑟 𝑡ℎ head appears, argue that
X, the number of flips required will be n, 𝑛 ≥ 𝑟 with probability.
𝑛 − 1 𝑟 𝑛−𝑟
𝑃 𝑋=𝑛 = 𝑝 𝑞 , 𝑛 ≥ 𝑟.
𝑟−1