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SEHH1070 Tutorial Exercise 5 PDF

This document contains 13 problems involving probability distributions including uniform, normal, exponential distributions. The problems involve computing probabilities, means, variances, percentiles, and finding values that satisfy given probability conditions for random variables modeled by these distributions.

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SEHH1070 Tutorial Exercise 5 PDF

This document contains 13 problems involving probability distributions including uniform, normal, exponential distributions. The problems involve computing probabilities, means, variances, percentiles, and finding values that satisfy given probability conditions for random variables modeled by these distributions.

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SEHH1070 Tutorial Exercise 5

1. A continuous random variable X is uniformly distributed between a and 60.

(a) If P X  30  0.75 , find the value of a.


(b) Find E  X  .

2. The random variable x is known to be uniformly distributed between 10 and 20.


(a) Compute P  X  15 .
(b) Compute P 12  X  18 .
(c) Compute E ( X ).
(d) Compute Var ( X ).

3. Given that Z is a standard normal random variable, compute the following probabilities.
(a) P(1.98  Z  0.49)
(b) P(0.52  Z  1.22)
(c) P(1.75  Z  1.04)

4. Given that Z is a standard normal random variable, find z for each situation.
(a) The area to the left of Z is 0.2119.
(b) The area between  Z and Z is 0.9030.
(c) The area between  Z and Z is 0.2052.
(d) The area to the left of Z is 0.9948.
(e) The area to the right of Z is 0.6915.

5. The manager of a well known hair salon conducted a survey on his customers. Study results
showed that the length of stay of all customers followed a normal distribution with a mean
of 50 minutes and a standard deviation of 12 minutes. 63 percent of the customers would
tip their hair stylists.

(a) Find the probability that a randomly selected customer will stay in the hair salon fewer
than 40 minutes.
(b) What is the 15 percentile of the length of stay for all customers?

6. An investment portfolio contains a large number of corporate stocks. Over the past few
years the rates of return on these corporate stocks follow a normal distribution, with a mean
of 13.1% and a standard deviation of 5.7%.

(a) Find the proportion of these corporate stocks that had a rate of return higher than 18%.
(b) Find the proportion of these corporate stocks that had a negative rate of return.
7. The life of a compact fluorescent light blub is normally distributed with a mean of 18
months and a standard deviation of 5 months. The company that produces the light blub is
considering a warranty for the light blub.

(a) What proportion of the light bulbs have a life of more than 28 months?
(b) What proportion of the light bulbs last between 12 and 27 months?
(c) If the manager of the company wants to replace less than 7% of the light bulbs under a
warranty, how many months of use should the warranty cover?

8. A machine in a manufacturing process is operating properly if the lengths of an important


component are normally distributed with mean of 2.17 m and standard deviation of 0.21 m.

(a) Find the probability that one randomly selected component has a length greater than
2.20 m.
(b) Find the probability that, if four components are randomly selected, all four have
lengths exceeding 2.20 m.
(c) Find value of K, if the probability that one randomly selected component has a length
greater than K m is 0.8888.

9. A large group of secondary school students is invited to participate in a study of lifestyles.


In a study period of 30 days, each student is required to record their number of hours of
sleep each day. It can be assumed that the distribution of the number of hours of sleep per
day is normally distributed with a mean of 7.4 hours and a standard deviation of 0.7 hour.

(a) What proportion of the students in the study obtain more than 8 hours of sleep per day?
(b) Find the value of the first quartile in the distribution of the number of hours of sleep per
day.
(c) For a random sample of 5 students taken from the study, find the probability that at least
two of them will sleep less than 8 hours per day.
(d) For a random sample of 5 students taken from the study, find the expected value and the
standard deviation of number of students who will sleep less than 8 hours per day.

10. The time (in minutes) between telephone calls at an insurance claims office has the
following exponential probability distribution.
f x   0.50e 0.50x for x  0

(a) What is the mean time between telephone calls?


(b) What is the probability of having 30 seconds or less between telephone calls?
(c) What is the probability of having 1 minute or less between telephone calls?
(d) What is the probability of having 5 or more minutes without a telephone call?
11. The delivery time of a product after placing an order follows an exponential distribution
with a mean of 5 days.

(a) What is the probability that an order takes longer than 1 week for delivery?
(b) What is the probability that exactly two of five orders take longer than 4 days for
delivery?

12. The length of life of a certain type of electronic part is exponentially distributed, with a
mean of 400 hours. Find the probability that a randomly selected part will fail within the
first 300 hours.

13. During admission period, telephone calls arrive at a community college hotline at the rate
of 20 per hour. Assume that the arrival time between consecutive telephone calls follows an
exponential distribution. Find the median arrival time between consecutive telephone calls.

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