QUIZ

(1) A coin is tossed three times. Find the probability of getting exactly
(a) no head.
(b) one head.
(c) two heads.
(d) three heads.

(2) A survey from the Teenage Research in UTHM found that 30% of teenage consumers received
their spending money from part-time jobs. If five teenagers are selected at random, find the
probability that
(a) none has a part-time job.
(b) exactly two have part time jobs.
(c) not more than three of them will have part-time jobs.
(d) greater than three will have part-time jobs.
(e) at least three of them will have part-time jobs.

(3) Public Opinion reported that 5% of Malaysians are afraid of being alone in a house at night. If a
random sample of 20 Malaysian is selected, find these probabilities by using the binomial table.
(a) There are exactly five people in the sample who are afraid of being alone at
night.
(b) There are at most three people in the sample who are afraid being alone at night.
(c) There are at least three people in the sample who are afraid being alone at night.

(4) The TV10 television shows 60 minutes has been successful for many years. That show recently
had a share of 20, meaning that among the TV sets in use, 20% were tuned to 60 minutes (based on
data from Aryssa Media Research). Assume that an advertiser wants to verify that 20% share value by
conducting its own survey, and a pilot survey begins with 10 households having TV sets in use at the
time of a 60 minutes broadcast.
(a) Find the probability that none of the households are tuned to 60 minutes.
(b) Find the probability that at least one household is tuned to 60 minutes.
(c) Find the probability that at most one household is tuned to 60 minutes.
(5) Car color preferences change over the years and according to the particular model that the
customer selects. In a recent year, suppose that 10% of all luxury cars are randomly selected. Let the
sample of luxury cars are 20. Find the following probabilities:
(a) at least five cars are black.
(b) At most six cars are black.
(c) Between three and five cars (inclusive) are black.

(6) A coin is tossed four times. Find the mean, variance and standard deviation of the number of heads
that will be obtained.

(7) A home security system is designed to have a 99% reliability rate. Suppose that nine homes
equipped with this system experience an attempted burglary. Find the probabilities of these events:
(a) at least one of the alarms is triggered.
(b) More than seven of the alarms are triggered.
(c) Eight or fewer alarms are triggered.

(8) The Haniss Department Store has experienced a 3.2% rate of customer complaints and attempts to
lower this rate with an employee training program. After the program, 850 customers are tracked and
it is found that only 7 of them filed complaints. Assuming that the training program has no effect, find
the mean and standard deviation for the number of complaints in such groups of 850 customers.

(9) In the case of the thin copper wire, suppose that the number of flaws follows a Poisson distribution
with a mean of 2.3 flaws per millimeter. Find the probability
(a) exactly two flaws in one millimeter of wire.
(b) ten flaws in five millimeter of wire.
(c) at least one flaws in two millimeters of wire.

(10) Suppose that the number of customers that enter a bank in an hour is a Poisson random variable,
and suppose that PX 0 0.05 . Determine the mean and variance of X.

(11) When a computer disk manufacturer tests a disk, it writes to the disk and then tests it using a
certifier. The certifier counts the number of missing pulses or errors. The number of errors on a test
area on a disk has a Poisson distribution with 0.2 .
(a) What is the expected number of errors per test area?
(b) What percentage of test areas has two or fewer errors?
(12) The average number of traffic accidents on a certain section of highway is two per week.
Assume that the number of accidents follows a Poisson distribution with 2 .
(a) Find the probability of no accidents on this section of highway during a 1-week period.
(b) Find the probability of at most three accidents on this section of highway during a 2-week
period.

(13) Parents who are concerned that their children are children prone can be reassured, according to
a study conducted by the Department of Pediatric at the University of Malaysia. Children who are
injuries two or more times tend to sustain these injuries during a relatively limited time, usually 1 year
or less. If the average number of injuries per year for school-age children is two, what are the
probabilities of these events?
(a) A child will sustain two injuries during the year.
(b) A child will sustain two or more injuries during the year.

(14) According to the research of some lecturers at UTHM, the average number of accidental
drowning per year in Parit Raja is 6. Find the probability there will be
(a) between 4 and 8 accidental drowning per year.
(b) Fewer than 3 accidental drowning per year.

(15) Which of the following are qualifying for the application of the Poisson probability distribution?

(a) The number of customers coming to a grocery store during a one-hour interval.
(b) The arrival of commercial airplanes at Senai Airport.
(c) The number of television sets sold at a department store during a given week.
(d) The arrival of patients at a physicians office.
(e) The number of defective items in the next 100 items manufactured on a machine.
(f) The number of defects in a five-meter-long ion rod.

(16) If there are 200 typographical errors randomly distributed in a 500-page manuscript, find the
probability that a given page contains exactly three errors.