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1. Accidentally, two depleted batteries got into a set of five batteries. To remove the two
depleted batteries, the batteries are tested one by one in a random order. Let the random
variable X denote the number of batteries that must be tested to find the two depleted
batteries. What is the probability mass function of X?
2. You roll a fair dice twice. Let the random variable X be the product of the outcomes of
the two rolls. What is the probability mass function of X? What are the expected value
and the standard deviation of X?
3. The following game is offered. There are 10 cards face-down numbered 1 through 10.
You can pick one card. Your payoff is $0.50 if the number on the card is less than 5 and
is the dollar value on the card otherwise. What are the expected value and the standard
deviation of your payoff?
4. A lot of 8 TV sets includes 3 defectives. If 4 of the sets are chosen for shipment to a
hotel, how many defective sets can they expect?
5. A group of m people simultaneously enter an elevator at the ground floor. Each person
randomly chooses one of the r floors 1, 2, . . . , r as the exit floor, where the choices of the
persons are independent of each other. The elevator only stops on a floor if at least one
person wants to exit on that floor. No other people enter the elevator at any of the floors
1, 2, . . . , r. What are the expected value and the standard deviation of the number of
stops the elevator will make?
6. The density function of the continuous random variable X is given by f(x) = c(x + x) for
0 < x < 1 and f(x) = 0 otherwise. What is the constant c?
7. Tou roll a fair dice twice. Let the random variable X be the product of the outcomes of
the 2 rolls. What are the E(X) and Var(X)?
8. Let Y be a continuous random variable with PDF g(y)=2y, 0<y<1; Find CDF.
9. Z has a pdf P(Z=z)=
; z=0,1,2,.n. If Y=Z/n, find the
probability function of Y.
10. A random sample of 4 policy-holders is taken from a group of 8, comprising 3 men and 5
women. Find the probability function of X, the number of female policy holders.
11. PDF of X is given by
f(x)=k.
= 0, o.w.
Find (i) k, (ii) P(0.5
(iii)
12. A continuous RV X has the following CDF:
, x>0.
= 0, o.w.
Find the expected life of this type of device.
21. The weekly demand for Pepsi, in thousands of liters, from a local chain of efficiency
stores, is a continuous random variable X having the probability density
f(x)= 2(x-1), 1<x<2
= 0, o.w.
Find the mean and variance of X.
22. Suppose that X is a random variable for which the
m.g.f. is as fotllows:
m(t)= 1/5
for < t <.
Find the probability distribution of X. Hint: It is a simple discrete distribution.
10. During a laboratory experiment the average number of radioactive particles passing
through a counter in 1 millisecond is 4. What is the probability that 6 particles enter the
counter in a given millisecond?
11. 10 is the average number of oil tankers arriving each day at a certain port city. The
facilities at the port can handle at most 15 tankers per day. What is the probability that on
a given day tankers have to be turned away?
12. In a manufacturing process where glass products are produced, defects or bubbles occur,
occasionally rendering the piece undesirable for marketing. It is known that, on average, 1
in every 1000 of these items produced has one or more bubbles. What is the probability
that a random sample of 8000 will yield fewer than 7 items possessing bubbles?
13. The number of traffic accidents per week in a small city has a Poisson distribution with
mean 3. What is the probability of exactly 2 accidents occurring in 2 weeks?
14. The probability that a machine produces a defective item is 0.02. Each item is checked as
it is produced. Assuming that these are independent trials, what is the probability that at
least 100 items must be checked to find one that is defective?
15. What is the probability that the 5th head is observed on the 10th independent flip of a coin?
16. It is known that screws produced by a certain machine will be defective with probability
0.01 independently of each other. If we randomly pick 10 screws produced by this
machine, what is the probability that at least two screws will be defective?
17. A manufacturer of inkjet printers claims that only 5% of their printers require repairs
within the first year. If of a random sample of 18 of the printers, four required repairs
within the first year, does this tend to refute or support the manufacturers claim?
18. You have a thoroughly shuffled deck of 52 cards. Each time you choose one card from the
deck. The drawn card is put back in the deck and all 52 cards are again thoroughly
shuffled. You continue this procedure until you have seen all four different aces. What are
the expected value and the standard deviation of the number of times you have to draw a
card until you have seen all four different aces?
19. A quiz consists of 24 multiple choice questions. Each question has 5 possible answers, only
one of which is correct. If you answer the questions completely based on guessing, what is the
probability that
a) You will answer exactly 4 wrong?
b) You will answer exactly 4 correctly?
c) You will answer at least 20 correctly?
d) You will answer at most 3 wrong?
e) You will answer at most 3 correctly?
20. A bag contains R red balls and W white balls. Each time you take one ball out of the bag
at random and without replacement. You stop as soon as all red balls have been taken out
of the bag. What is the expected number of white balls remaining in the bag when you
stop?
21. After correcting 50 pages of a book, a proof reader finds that there are on an average 2
errors per 5 pages. How many pages would one expect to find with 0,1,2,3 and 4 errors in
1000 pages of the first print of the book?
22. A certain airline finds that 4% of the persons making reservations on a certain flight will
not show up for the flight. Consequently their policy is to sell 75 reserved seats on a plane
that has exactly 73 seats. What is the probability that for every person who shows up for a
flight there is a seat available?