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Subject Code BSM2922

Subject Engineering Statistics Credit 2

1. A box has seven components, four are good and three are defective. Three components are selected at random
without replacement. Let Z be the number of good components.
a) Show your tree diagram. b) Find the probability distribution of Z.

2. A box contains 11 grey and 8 white bags. Two bags were taken from the box, without returning of the first bag
before taking the second bag. Find
a) P(exactly two white bags). b) P(two bags with different colour).
c) P(at most one grey bag).

3. The number of adults living in homes on a randomly selected city block is described by the following probability
distribution. What is the probability that 4 or more adults reside at a randomly selected home?
Number of adults, x 1 2 3 4 or more
P( X = x) 0.25 0.50 0.15 p

4. In a recent little league softball game, each player went to bat 4 times. The number of hits made by each player is
described by the following probability distribution. What is the mean of the probability distribution?
Number of hits, x 0 1 2 3 4
P( X = x) 0.10 0.20 0.30 0.25 0.05

5. The number of adults living in homes on a randomly selected city block is described by the following probability
distribution. What is the standard deviation of the probability distribution?

Number of adults, x 1 2 3 4
P( X = x) 0.25 0.50 0.15 0.10

6. Suppose a random variable X has the following probability function.

x 1 3 4 7 9 10 14 18
P( X = x) 0.11 0.07 0.13 0.28 0.18 0.05 0.12 0.06

Find a) X is at least 10 b) X is more than 10

c) X is less than 4 d) X is at least 4 and at most 9
e) X is more than 3 and less than 10

7. Suppose a discrete random variable X has probability function given by

x 3 5 7 8 9 10 12 16
P( X = x) 0.08 0.10 0.16 0.25 0.20 0.03 0.13 0.05

Find the probability that:

a) X > 9 b) X ≥ 9 c) X < 3 d) 5 < X ≤ 9
e) 4 < X < 11 f) X ≥ 7 g) X < 12
8. The probability distribution function for the random variables X is given as follows.
x -1 0 1 2
P( X = x) 1 2 1 3
7 7 7 7

a) Find P(−1 ≤ X < 2) b) Find E (2 x − 3)

c) Find V (4 x + 1)

9. The discrete random variable X takes the values between 0 and 6 inclusive, each with a probability given by
1 | 3 − x | . Find the expected value and variance of X.
P( X = x) = −
4 16

10. Given the probability distribution function of discrete random variable of Y.

(2 y + 1)
P (Y = y ) = ; y = 1, 2,3, 4 and 5.
k
a) Find the constant k. b) Construct a cumulative distribution function of Y.

11. Given the following unction :

x
81
P( X = x) =   ; y = 1, 2,3.
72
a) Show that the function is probability distribution function of discrete random variable X.
b) Find P ( X > 1)
c) Find the mean of X
d) Find the variance of X.

12. Given the probability distribution function below.

1
 8 (2 − x), 0 ≤ x ≤1

1
P ( X = x ) =  x, 1≤ x ≤ 3
8
0, otherwise


a) Find the cumulative distribution function, F ( x).
b) Find P ( X ≥ 1) using the cumulative distribution function.
c) Find P (1 < X ≤ 3) using the cumulative distribution function.

13. The following is a probability density function of continuous random variable.

2
 (6 + x − x ) , 0≤ x≤3
2
f ( x) =  27
0, otherwise.
a) Calculate P (0 < X < 1 12 ) . b) Calculate P ( X > 2) .
c) Find the mean of X.

14. If X is a continuous random variable with probability density function,

 kx
5, 0≤ x<2
 2
x
f ( x) =  , 2≤ x<3
7
0, otherwise


a) Find the value of k . b) Find the cumulative distribution function of X .
c) Evaluate P (1 ≤ X ≤ 4) d) Calculate E ( X ) and V ( X ).
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TUTORIAL 1 (Answers) Page 1

Subject Code BSM2922

Subject Engineering Statistics Credit 2

z 0 1 2 3
1. b) P (Z = z) 1
35
12
35
18
35
4
35

28 88 116
2. a) 171 b) 171 c) 171

3. 0.1

4. 1.75

5. 0.79

6. a) 0.23 b) 0.18 c) 0.18 d) 0.59 e) 0.59

7. a) 0.21 b) 0.41 c) 0 d) 0.61 e) 0.74 f) 0.812 g) 0.82

8. a) 74 b) − 97 c) 20.245

9. 3, 52
0 ; y <1
 3 ;1 ≤ y < 2
 35
 358 ; 2 ≤ y < 3
10. a) k = 35, b) F ( y ) =  15
 35 ;3 ≤ y < 4
 24 ;4 ≤ y < 4

35

1 y≥5
3
11. b) 7 c) 11
7 d) 26
49

0 ;x < 0
 1 ;0 ≤ x < 1
 4
12. a) F ( x) =  83 ;1 ≤ x < 2 b) 3
4 c) 5
8
5 ;2 ≤ y < 3
8
1 ;x ≥ 3

13. a) 0.667 b) 0.1605 c) 1.167

 0 ;x < 0
 x2 ;0 ≤ x < 2

14. a) 5
b) F ( x) =  x3 42 8 c) 41
d) 2.448 e) 0.2263
 21 − 21 ; 2 ≤ x < 3
21 42

 1 ;x ≥3