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5.29 A Homeowner Plants 6 Bulbs Selected at Random From A Box Containing

This document contains several probability word problems involving concepts such as binomial, hypergeometric, Poisson, and continuous random variables. It asks the reader to calculate probabilities using the given probability distributions and density/mass functions. Examples include finding the probability of outcomes when planting bulbs, selecting committees, choosing defective missiles, polling voters, traffic accidents, customer arrivals to a service facility, shelf lives of medicine bottles, vacuum cleaner use, bond maturity times, speeders spotted by radar, and outcomes of laboratory equipment. Formulas are provided and the reader is asked to set up integrals or summations to calculate the desired probabilities.

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5.29 A Homeowner Plants 6 Bulbs Selected at Random From A Box Containing

This document contains several probability word problems involving concepts such as binomial, hypergeometric, Poisson, and continuous random variables. It asks the reader to calculate probabilities using the given probability distributions and density/mass functions. Examples include finding the probability of outcomes when planting bulbs, selecting committees, choosing defective missiles, polling voters, traffic accidents, customer arrivals to a service facility, shelf lives of medicine bottles, vacuum cleaner use, bond maturity times, speeders spotted by radar, and outcomes of laboratory equipment. Formulas are provided and the reader is asked to set up integrals or summations to calculate the desired probabilities.

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5.

29 A homeowner plants 6 bulbs selected at random from a box containing


5 tulip bulbs ‫ شتلة الخزامى‬and 4 daffodil bulbs ‫شتلة النرجس البري‬. What is the
probability that he planted 2 daffodil bulbs and 4 tulip bulbs?
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X: number of tulip bulbs.
X~H(N=9, n=6, k=5)

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5.31 A random committee of size 3 is selected from 4 doctors and 2 nurses.


Write a formula for the probability distribution of the random variable X
representing the number of doctors on the committee. Find P(2 ≤ X ≤ 3).
X: number of doctors on the committee. N=4+2=6
X~H(N=6, n=3, k=4)
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5.32 From a lot of 10 missiles, 4 are selected at random and fired. If the lot
contains 3 defective missiles that will not fire, what is the probability that
X: number of defective missiles.
X~H(N=10, n=4, k=3)
( )( ) ( )( )
( )
( ) ( )
(a) all 4 will fire?
( )( )
( )
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(b) at most 2 will not fire?

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5.40 It is estimated that 4000 of the 10,000 voting residents of a town are
against a new sales tax. If 15 eligible voters are selected at random and
asked their opinion, what is the probability that at most 7 favor the new tax?

NOTE: If n is small compared to N, then a binomial distribution B(n; p = K/N) can be used to
approximate the hypergeometric distribution h(N;K; n). The approximation is good when n/N ≤
0.05.

Since
We can use Binomial as approximation to Hypergeometric.

X: number of voters who favor the new tax.


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5.56 On average, 3 traffic accidents per month occur at a certain intersection.


What is the probability that in any given month at this intersection
( )
( )
, X: number of accident per month.
X~ Poisson (3)

(a) exactly 5 accidents will occur?

( )
( ) ( )

(b) fewer than 3 accidents will occur?


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(c) at least 2 accidents will occur?
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5.67 The number of customers arriving per hour at a certain automobile


service facility is assumed to follow a Poisson distribution with mean λ = 7.
, X: number of customers arriving per hour.
X~ Poisson (7)
(a) Compute the probability that more than 10 customers will arrive in a 2-
hour period.
X: number of customers arriving in two hours.
( ) ( )
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(b) What is the mean number of arrivals during a 2-hour period?


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3.6 The shelf life, in days, for bottles of a certain prescribed medicine is a
random variable having the density function

( ) {( )

Find the probability that a bottle of this medicine will have a shell life of

(a) at least 200 days;

P(X>200)= ∫ ∫ ( )
( )

let u=x+100 , x=u-100 , dx=du , 200 <x < >> 300 < u <

P(X>200)= ∫ ( ) [ ] [ ]

[ ]
( )

(a) anywhere from 80 to 120 days.

P(80<X<120)= ∫ [ ( )
]
( )
3.7 The total number of hours, measured in units of 100 hours, that a family
runs a vacuum cleaner over a period of one year is a continuous random
variable X that has the density function

( ) {

Find the probability that over a period of one year, a family runs their
vacuum cleaner
(a) less than 120 hours;
( )
P(X < 1.20)= ∫ ∫ ( ) [ ] [ ]

(b) between 50 and 100 hours.


P(0.5 <X< 1)= ∫ [ ]

3.9 The proportion of people who respond to a certain mail-order solicitation


is a continuous random variable X that has the density function
( )
( ) {

(a) Show that P(0 < X < 1) = 1.

( )
P(0 <X< 1)= ∫ ( ) [ ] [ ]

(b) Find the probability that more than 1/4 but fewer than 1/2 of the people
contacted will respond to this type of solicitation.
( )
( ) ∫ ( ) [ ]

[( ) ( ) ]
3.12 An investment firm offers its customers municipal bonds that mature
after varying numbers of years.
Given that the cumulative distribution function of T, the number of years to
maturity for a randomly selected bond, is

( )

{
Find
(a) P(T = 5);
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(b) P(T > 3);
( ) ( ) ( )
(c) P(1.4 < T < 6);
( ) ( ) ( )
(d) P(T ≤ 5 | T ≥ 2).
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Discrete random variables
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Continuous random variables
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3.14 The waiting time, in hours, between successive speeders spotted by a
radar unit is a continuous random variable with cumulative distribution
function:

( ) {

Find the probability of waiting less than 12 minutes between successive


speeders:
To convert from minute to the hours: 12/60 =1/5 =0.2 h , P(x< 0.2)
(a) using the cumulative distribution function of X;

( )
P(X< 0.2) = P(X 0.2) = F(0.2)= = 0.7981
(b) using the probability density function of X.
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( ) ( )

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∫ [ ]
3.17 A continuous random variable X that can assume values between x = 1
and x = 3 has a density function given by f(x) = 1/2.
(a) Show that the area under the curve is equal to 1.
( )
∫ ( ) .

∫ [ ]

(c) Find P(2 < X < 2.5).


( ) ∫ [ ]

(d) Find P(X ≤ 1.6).


( ) ∫

4.50 For a laboratory assignment, if the equipment is working, the density


function of the observed outcome X is
( )
( ) {

Find the variance and standard deviation of X.


( ) ∫ ( ) ∫ ( ) [ ]

( ) ∫ ( ) ∫ ( ) [ ]

( ) ( ) [ ( )] [ ]
√ ( )

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