Assignment I

(EC629: PROBABILITY AND RANDOM PROCESSES)

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What is the probability that two randomly chosen numbers in the interval (0, 1) will have
a sum not greater than 1 and product no greater than 2/9?
A student takes a multiple -choice test consisting of two problems. The first problem has
three choices and second five. The student tick options randomly. If X= number of correct
answers, determine E [X], 2X.
For random variables X and Y (density function shown in the figure), determine
probabilities: P{ |X| < }, P{ |Y| < }. Also find E(X), E(Y), Var(X) and Var(Y).
Given fX (x) = 0.5 cos (x) for /2 < x < +/2, and Y = sin | x |, determine Y and Y2
Suppose that the error in reaction temperature, oC, for a controlled laboratory experiment
is a continuous random variable X having the pdf
fx(X)
fX(x) = x2/3, -1<X<2
= 0, otherwise
fy(Y)
Verify above as a pdf (b) Find P(0<X1) (c) Find F X(x) (d) Verify the answer
of (b) from
(c).
Let a function fX(x) is defined for a random
0 variable X as follows:
+1
-1
+1
fX(x)= /x
X>
=0
X<
(a) Check whether fX(x) is pdf or not. (b) Find bound on such that E(X) and Var(X)
exist. Assume that >0 is an integer. (c) Find E(X) and Var(X) considering the bound in
(b).
Let a function fX(x) is defined for a random variable X as follows:
fX(x) = x
0<X1
= 2-x 1X2
= 0
otherwise
(a) Check whether fX(x) is pdf or not. (b) Draw the function fX(x). (c) Find FX(x)
(d) Find P(0.3<X1.5 )

Assignment II
(PROBABILITY AND RANDOM PROCESSES)
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Given fX (x) = 0.5 cos (x) for /2 < x < +/2, and Y = sin | x |, determine Y and Y2
Let a function fX(x) is defined for a random variable X as follows:
fX(x)=/x+1 X>
=0
X<
Check whether fX(x) is pdf or not. (b) Find bound on such that E(X) and Var(X) exist.

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Assume that >0 is an integer. (c) Find E(X) and Var(X) considering the bound in (b).
If t is any positive real number, show that following function can represent a probability
mass function of the random variable X having the value 1,2,3Also find E(X),
Var(X) and P(X p + q/Xp).

P(X=x) = e-t(1-e-t)x-1
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Let a function fX(x) is defined for a random variable X as follows:

fX(x)=1/2 e-x/2
x>0
=0
Otherwise
a. Check whether fX(x) is pdf or not.
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b. Show that r order row and central moments are r!2 and r!2 (-1)k/k!
respectively
k=2
A box contains 2n tickets among which nCi tickets bear the number i, i=0, 1, 2, . n. A
group of m tickets are drawn from the box. What is the expectation of the sum of their
number?
Let the fX(x) is defined for a random variable X as follow:
th

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fX(x)= ( + 1) x 0x1, 1
=0
other wise
Find E(log X) and E(1/X)

Assignment III
(PROBABILITY AND RANDOM PROCESSES)
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Given fXY (X, Y) = e y for 0 x y < . Determine: fx (x), fy (y)

Given FXY (X, Y), let Z= Max (X, Y), and W = Min (X, Y). Determine FZW (Z, W).
A shooter hits a circular target of radius R uniformly across its surface. If X is the
distance of a random hit from the centre, determine E [X], and 2X.

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Given fXY(X, Y) = e x u(x) e y u(y); and Z = X+Y, W = X/(X+Y), determine fZW(Z, W).
Are Z and W independent?
The diameter of a circle is measured approximately. Assuming that the measured value
is distributed uniformly in (a, b), find the distribution and density function of the
areas of the circle

Assignment IV
(PROBABILITY AND RANDOM PROCESSES)
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If Y = aX + b, determine rXY(correlation coefficient)

Given Y = X3, fX (x) uniform in (-1, 1), determine linear MMSE of Y in terms of X.
How would the linear estimate change if fX (x) = | x | in (-1, 1).
A random point (X, Y) is uniform in the square shown below.

R
0

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Determine linear MMSE of Z = XY, and the error in the estimate.

If Z = X + Y, where X and Y are independent, and X is uniform in (-10, 10) and Y is
uniform in (0,1), determine MMSE estimates of Z in terms of X