ASSIGNMENT

GROUP-1

• The life in hours of a certain kind of radio tube has the pdf f(x)=

Find (i) the distribution function F(x)

(ii) the probability that the life of tube is 150 hours.
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 Let take a customer who goes for shopping and lets suppose
the time he spends in the shop is exponentially distributed
with a mean value 15 minutes. Then what will be the
probability that the customer will spend more than 20 minutes
in shopping? What is the probability that the customer will
spend more than 20 minutes in the bank given that he is still in
the shop after 15 minutes?

GROUP-2

• (a)Four coins are tossed. What is the expectation of the number of

heads.

• (b) The diameter of an electric cable is assumed to be a continous

virate with p.d.f f(x) = 6(x)(1-x), 0 x 1. Verify that the above is p.d.f.
Also, find the mean and variance.
 • At an urgent care facility, patients arrive at an average rate of one
patient every seven minutes. Assume that the duration between arrivals
is exponentially distributed.
(a)Find the probability that the time between two successive visits to the
urgent care facility is less than 2 minutes.

GROUP-3

• Determine the constant ‘C’ so that the following function can serve as
the probability distribution of a discrete random variable with the given
range
f(x) = cs, x = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

• Define CDF and PDF of a continuous random variable. How does the PDF
of a continous random variable differ from pmf of a discrete variable?

Find k so that , zero, elsewhere, is a proper

pdf of a continuous probability distribution.
• Evaluate (i) expected (or mean) (ii) Variance and (iii) SD and (iv)
MGF for the following probability distributions

(a) Distribution Bernaulli (b) Continuous Uniform Distribution. (c) exponential

Distribution

GROUP-4

• Define a MGF of a random variable.

Evaluate (i) expected (or mean) (ii) Variance and (iii) SD and (iv) MGF
for the following probability distributions
(a) Geometric Distribution (b) Gamma Distribution. (c) beta
distribution.
 • Find the expected value of the product of points on n dice

• X denotes the profit that a man can make in business. He may

earn Rs. 2800 with probability ½, he may lose Rs. 5000 with
probability 3/10 and he may neither lose nor gain with
probability 1/5. Show that the mathematical expectation is -
100

GROUP-5

• The time X(in years) required to complete a software project has a pdf of
the form
f(x)=kx(1-x) for 0<x<1 and zero elsewhere. (i) Find k (ii) Find the
probability that the
project will be completed in less than four months.
• Explain a Gamma Distribution. Find its Mean value, Variance and
Coefficient of Variation.
• A petrol pump is supplied with petrol once a day. If its daily volume of
sales (X) in thousands of litres is distributed by: f(x) = 5(1-x)4, 0≤x≤1.what
must be the capacity of its tank in order that the probability that its
supply will be exhausted in a given day shall be 0.01?

GROUP-6

• A random variable x has the following probability function;

Value of x : -2 -1 0 1 2

P(x) : 0.1 k o.2 2k 0.3 k

Find the value of k and calculate mean and variance.

  An urn contains 4 white and 3 red balls. Three balls are drawn,
with replacement, from this urn. Find 𝜇, 𝜎 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝜎 2 for the
number of red balls drawn.
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 If a r.v. X has the MGF M(t) = , obtain the standard deviation
3−𝑡
of X.

GROUP-7

• Define cdf (Commulative distribution function) and pdf of a continuous

random variable. Find k so that , zero,
elsewhere, is a proper pdf of a continuous probability distribution.
• In an amusement fair, a competitor is entitled for a prize if he
throws a ring on a peg from a certain distance. It is observed that only
30% of the competitors are able to do this. If someone is given 5
chances, what is the probability of his winning the prize when he has
already missed 4 chances?