QA –CC107-Assignment: 2

1) A pen company averages 1.2 defective pen per carton produced (200 pens). The number of
defects per carton is Poisson distributed.

a) What is the probability of selecting a carton and finding no defective pens?

b) What is the probability of finding eight or more defective pens in a carton?
c) Suppose a purchase of these pens will quit buying from the company if a carton contains
more than three defective pens. What is the probability that a carton contains more than
three defective pens?
2) Suppose 18 major computer companies operate in the United States and that are 12 located
in California’s Silicon Valley. If three computer companies are selected randomly from the
entire list, what is the probability that one or more of the selected companies are located in the
Silicon Valley?

3)Arthur Andersen Enterprise Group /National Small business United , Washington conducted
a national survey of small –business owners to determine the challenges for growth for their
business. The top challenge selected by 46 % of the small business owners, was the economy.
A close second was finding qualified workers (37 %). Suppose 15 % of the small business
owners selected both the economy and finding qualified workers as challenges for growth. A
small business owner is randomly selected.

a) What is the probability that the owner believes the economy is a challenge for growth if
the owner believes that the finding qualified worker is challenge for growth ?

b) What is the probability that owner believes neither that the company is a challenge for
growth nor that finding qualified worker is challenge for growth ?

4) A survey was taken of U.S. companies that do business with firms in India. One of the
questions on the survey was: Approximately how many years has your company been trading
with firms in India? A random sample of 44 responses to this question yielded a mean of
10.455 years. Suppose the population standard deviation for this question is 7.7 years. Using
this information, construct a 90 % confidence interval for the mean number of years that a
company has been trading in India for the population of U.S. companies trading with firms in
India.

Note: The assignments to be submitted on plain different A4 size papers of assignment in

file, in appropriate manner, writing matters of question and then solutions in terms of
calculation and charts if required. The previous class test paper/s has to be solved as practice
work of examples as a revision by all students.

Signature: Vijayendra S. Gupta Date:19/10/10