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This document contains 10 problems related to probability and statistics. The problems cover topics like binomial, Poisson, and hypergeometric distributions and calculating probabilities of events using formulas, tables, and simulations. Several problems involve calculating probabilities for random variables related to business scenarios like employee demographics, product defects, and daily events.

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Tutorial 3 PDF

This document contains 10 problems related to probability and statistics. The problems cover topics like binomial, Poisson, and hypergeometric distributions and calculating probabilities of events using formulas, tables, and simulations. Several problems involve calculating probabilities for random variables related to business scenarios like employee demographics, product defects, and daily events.

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MTH3003

SECOND SEMESTER SESSION 2019/20


TUTORIAL 3

1. Let x be a binomial random variable with n = 7, p = 0.3. Find these values:


(a) P(x = 4)
(b) P(x ≤ 1)
(c) P(x > 1)
(d) µ = np
(e) 𝜎 = √𝑛𝑝𝑞

2. Let x be a binomial random variable with n = 20, p = 0.1.


(a) Calculate P(x ≤ 4) using the binomial formula.
(b) Calculate P(x ≤ 4) using cumulative binomial table.
(c) Calculate the mean and standard deviation of the random variable x.

3. Of all the Harry Potter books purchased in a recent year, about 60% were purchased for
readers 14 or older. If 12 Harry Potter fans who bought books that year are surveyed, find
the following probabilities.
(a) At least five of them are 14 or older.
(b) Exactly nine of them are 14 or older.
(c) Less than three of them are 14 or older.

4. Let x be a Poisson random variable with mean µ = 2. Calculate these probabilities.


(a) P(x = 0)
(b) P(x = 1)
(c) P(x > 1)
(d) P(x = 5)

5. Children who are injured 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.

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(b) A child will sustain two or more injuries during the year.
(c) A child will sustain at most one injury during the year.
(d) Calculate the mean and standard deviation for x, the number of injuries per year
sustained by a school-age child.

6. The average number of traffic accidents on a certain section of highway is two per week. Assume
that the number of accidents follow a Poisson distribution with µ = 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.

7. A candy dish contains five blue and three red candies. A child reaches up and selects
three candies without looking.
(a) What is the probability that there are two blue and one red candies in the
selection?
(b) What is the probability that the candies are all red?
(c) What is the probability that the candies are all blue?

8. Ten 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?

9. A company has 12 employees who hold managerial positions. Of them, seven are female and 5
are male. The company is planning to send three managers to a conference. If three managers are
randomly selected out of 12,

(a) find the probability that all three of them are female
(b) find the probability that at most one of them is a female

10. Lots of 40 components each are called unacceptable if they contain as many as 3 defectives or
more. The procedure for sampling the lot is to select 5 components at random and to reject the
lot if a defective is found.

(a) What is the probability that exactly 1 defective is found in the sample if there are 3
defectives in the entire lot?
(b) Find the mean and variance of the random variable.

**Questions marked red must be sent to the demonstrator**

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