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Assignment # 4

Probability and Statistics


Max marks:10 Submission Date:2nd May, 2024
Q .1:- The proportion of people who respond to a certain mail-order solicitation is a continuous
random variable X that has the density function

f(x) = k(x+2) , 0 <x< 1,

=0, elsewhere.

(a) Find the value of k.

(b) Find the probability that more than 1/4 but fewer than 1/2 of the people contacted will
respond to this type of solicitation.

(c ) Find the mean and variance of X.

Q.2:- Find a formula for the probability distribution of the random variable X representing the
outcome when a single die is rolled once.Also find the mean and variance of X.

Q.3:- A shipment of 7 television sets contains 2 defective sets. A hotel makes a random purchase
of 3 of the sets. If x is the number of defective sets purchased by the hotel, find the probability
distribution of X.Also find its mean.

Q.4:- The density function of the continuous random variable X, the total number of hours, in
units of 100 hours, that a family runs a vacuum cleaner over a period of one year, is given as

f(x) = x , 0 <x< 1,

=2–x , 1 ≤ x < 2,

= 0, elsewhere.

Find the average number of hours per year that families run their vacuum cleaners.

Q.5:- If a dealer’s profit, in units of $5000, on a new automobile can be looked upon as a random
variable X having the density function

f(x) = 2(1 − x), 0 <x< 1,

= 0, elsewhere

find the average profit per automobile.

Q.6:-The probability distribution of X, the number of imperfections per 10 meters of a synthetic


fabric in continuous rolls of uniform width, is given as;

X 0 1 2 3 4

f(x) 0.41 0.37 0.16 0.05 0.01

Find the average number of imperfections per 10 meters of this fabric. Also find standard
deviation.

Q.7:- In testing a certain kind of truck tire over rugged terrain, it is found that 25% of the trucks
fail to complete the test run without a blowout. Of the next 15 trucks tested, find the probability
that.

(a) from 3 to 6 have blowouts.


(b) fewer than 4 have blowouts

(c) more than 5 have blowouts.

Q. 8:- A safety engineer claims that only 40% of all workers wear safety helmets when they eat
lunch at the workplace. Assuming that this claim is right, find the probability that 4 of 6 workers
randomly chosen will be wearing their helmets while having lunch at the workplace.

Q.9:- A company is interested in evaluating its current inspection procedure for shipments of 50
identical items. The procedure is to take a sample of 5 and pass the shipment if no more than 2
are found to be defective. What proportion of shipments with 20% defectives will be accepted?

Q.10:- Among 150 IRS employees in a large city, only 30 are women. If 10 of the employees are
chosen at random to provide free tax assistance for the residents of this city, use the binomial
approximation to the hypergeometric distribution to find the probability that at least 3 women are
selected. Also compute the probability using hypergeometric distribution

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