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This document contains 8 questions for a statistics assignment. The questions cover topics like binomial and Poisson distributions, probability, mean, standard deviation, and experiments with success/failure outcomes. Students are asked to calculate probabilities and determine values for random variables related to situations like doing homework, sampling pages from a catalog, asking people about health conditions, receiving text messages, selecting defective tools, and drawing marbles from a box.

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Furqan Khan - Assignments - 302 - Stats

This document contains 8 questions for a statistics assignment. The questions cover topics like binomial and Poisson distributions, probability, mean, standard deviation, and experiments with success/failure outcomes. Students are asked to calculate probabilities and determine values for random variables related to situations like doing homework, sampling pages from a catalog, asking people about health conditions, receiving text messages, selecting defective tools, and drawing marbles from a box.

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Evening: STAT-302 (S) Assignments Date: 22-1-2021

Max. Marks: 40 Due Date: 3-2-2021


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Q.1 Approximately 70% of statistics students do their homework in time for it to be


collected and graded. Each student does homework independently. In a statistics class
of 50 students, what is the probability that at least 40 will do their homework on time?
Students are selected randomly.
a. This is a binomial problem because there is only a success or a __________, there
are a fixed number of trials, and the probability of a success is 0.70 for each trial.
b. If we are interested in the number of students who do their homework on time, then
how do we define X?
c. What values does x take on?
d. What is a "failure," in words?
e. The words "at least" translate as what kind of inequality for the probability question
P(x ____ 40).

Q.2 In the 2013 Jerry’s Artarama art supplies catalog, there are 560 pages. Eight of the
pages feature signature artists. Suppose we randomly sample 100 pages. Let X = the
number of pages that feature signature artists.
a. What values does x take on?
b. What is the probability distribution? Find the following probabilities:
i. the probability that two pages feature signature artists
ii. the probability that at most six pages feature signature artists
iii. the probability that more than three pages feature signature artists.
c. Using the formulas, calculate the (i) mean and (ii) standard deviation

Q.3 The lifetime risk of developing pancreatic cancer is about one in 78 (1.28%). Let X =
the number of people you ask until one says he or she has pancreatic cancer. Then X
is a discrete random variable with a geometric distribution: X ~ G (1/78) or X ~
G(0.0128).
a. What is the probability of that you ask ten people before one says he or she has
pancreatic cancer?
b. What is the probability that you must ask 20 people?
c. Find the (i) mean and (ii) standard deviation of X

Q.4 Text message users receive or send an average of 41.5 text messages per day.
a. How many text messages does a text message user receive or send per hour?
b. What is the probability that a text message user receives or sends two messages per
hour?
c. What is the probability that a text message user receives or sends more than two
messages per hour.

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Q.5 Ten percent of the tools produced in a certain manufacturing process turn out to be
defective. Find the probability that in a sample of 10 tools chosen at random, exactly
2 will be defective, by using (a) the binomial distribution, (b) the Poisson
approximation to the binomial distribution.

Q.6 If the probability that an individual will suffer a bad reaction from injection of a given
serum is 0.001, determine the probability that out of 2000 individuals, (a) exactly 3,
(b) more than 2, individuals will suffer a bad reaction.

Q.7 A box contains 6 blue marbles and 4 red marbles. An experiment is performed in
which a marble is chosen at random and its color observed, but the marble is not
replaced. Find the probability that after 5 trials of the experiment, 3 blue marbles will
have been chosen.

Q.8 Assume that the probability of a specimen failing during a given experiment is 0.1.
What is the probability that it will take more than three specimens to have one
surviving the experiment?

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