STA1503/201/1/2013

Tutorial Letter 201/1/2013

Distribution Theory I
STA1503

Semester 1

Department of Statistics

SOLUTIONS TO ASSIGNMENT 1

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Question 1

(a) P.A [ B/ D P.A/ C P.B/ P.A \ B/ D 0:7 C 0:2 0:1 D 0:8:

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(b) P. A/ P.A/ D 1 0:7 D 0:3:
P.A \ B/ 0:1
(c) P.AjB/ D D D 0:5:
P.B/ 0:2
(d) A and B are not independent since

P.A \ B/ D 0:1 6D :7 0:2 D P.A/P.B/ or P.AjB/ D 0:5 6D 0:7 D P.A/:

Question 2

(a) P.A/ D 0:40:

(b) P.B/ D 0:37:

(c) P.A \ B/ D 0:10:

(d) P.A [ B/ D P.A/ C P.B/ P.A \ B/ D 0:40 C 0:37 0:10 D 0:67:

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(e) P. A/ P.A/ D 1 0:4 D 0:6:

(f) P.A [ B/ D 1 P.A [ B/ D 1 0:67 D 0:33:

(g) P.A \ B/ D 1 P.A \ B/ D 1 0:1 D 0:90:

P.A \ B/ 0:1
(h) P.AjB/ D D D 0:27:
P.B/ 0:37
P.A \ B/ 0:1
(i) P.BjA/ D D D 0:25:
P.A/ 0:4

Question 3

Y has a binomial distribution with n D 15, p D 0:2 and k D 10: Using Table I in Appendix III,

P.Y 10/ D 1 P.Y 9/ D 1 1 D 0:0:

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Question 4

Let X be the number of people who recover. Then X has a binomial distribution with n D 15 and
p D 0:4:

(a)

15
P.X D 5/ D .0:4/5 .0:6/10 D P.X 6/ P.X 5/
5
D 0:4032 0:2173 D 0:1859 (from the binomial tables):

(b)

P.X 10/ D 1 P.X < 10/ D 1 P.X 9/

D 1 0:9662 D 0:0338 (from the binomial tables):

Question 5

Let X be the required number of tosses until r heads appear. Then

r x r
x 1 1 1
P.X D x/ D ; x D r; r C 1; r C 2; :::
r 1 2 2
3 2 5
4 1 1 1 6 3
(a) P.X D 5/ D D6 D D :
2 2 2 2 32 16
(b) If r D 1, then

x 1
P.X D x/ D p.1 p/x 1
D p.1 p/x 1
; x D 1; 2; 3; :::
0

Question 6

From the definition of a hypergeometric random variable, it is clear that the random variable X has
a hypergeometric distribution with m D 6, k D 2 and n D 4: Thus,

6 2
x 4 x
P.X D x/ D ; x D 2; 3; 4:
8
4

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 (a)

6 2
2 2 15
P.X D 2/ D D :
8 70
4
6 2
3 1 40
P.X D 3/ D D :
8 70
4
6 2
4 0 15
P.X D 4/ D D :
8 70
4

(b) Hence,
15 40
P.1 X 3/ D P.2 X 3/ D C
70 70
55 11
D D
70 14