NUV/SBL/SYBBA/Sem-3/Quantitative Techniques-II/21-22

UNIT-6-ASSIGNMENT-DISCRETE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION

1. Given the following probability distribution, Find:

xi 0 1 2 3 4 5
pi 0.18 0.39 0.24 0.14 0.04 0.01

a. E(x)
b. E(4x)
c. E(4x+5)
d. E(x2)
e. E(2x+5) 2
f. V(x)
g. V(3x)
h. V(3x+7)
i. Sd(x)

2. Given the following probability distribution, Find :

xi 1` 2 3 4 5
pi 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.1

a. E(x)
b. V(x)
c. E(4x+3)
d. V(9x-3)
e. V(9)

3. A dealer in ready-made garments has studied his records and notices that for the past 310
working days in an year, the demand for the trousers has varied as follows. Find the
expected demand of the trousers?

Demand(in hundreds) 5 6 7 8 9 10
No. of days 20 60 80 120 20 10

4. In Binomial Distribution, If ‘n’=3 and ‘p’=0.3. Find: p(x=0),p(x=3), p(x≤2), p(1≤x ≤3)

5. Warranty records show the probability that a new car needs warranty repair in first 90 days
is 0.5. If a sample of three new cars is selected, what is the probability that:
a. None of them needs repair
b. One of them needs repair
c. Two of them needs repair
d. At least one of them needs repair
e. More than one needs repair
f. Maximum one car needs repair
g. At the most two cars need repair
h. Mean and Standard Deviation of the distribution

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6. An important part of the customer service responsibilities of a telephone company relates to

the speed with which troubles in residential service can be repaired. Suppose past data
indicate that the likelihood is 0.7 that troubles in residential service can be repaired the same
day. For the first five troubles reported on a given day, what is the probability that:
a. None of the five troubles will be repaired on the same day
b. All five will repaired on the same day
c. 2 troubles will be repaired on the same day
d. At least three will be repaired on the same day
e. At the most 4 troubles will be repaired on the same day
f. What are the mean and standard deviation of the probability distribution?

7. It is observed that 20% of the students of FYBBA eat and chit-chat at canteen during the
Statistics lecture and rest attend the class. What is the probability that less than 80% of the
students in a randomly selected sample of 20 attend the lecture?

8. Arrivals at a bus-stop follow a Poisson distribution with an average of 4.5 every quarter of
an hour. Calculate the probability of fewer than 3 arrivals in a quarter of an hour.

9. Changi Airport,Singapore assures that you get your baggage within 12 minutes. If on an
average 6 people claim per day that they don’t get their baggage within the specified time,
What is the probability that on a particular day, there will be:
a. Five claims
b. Fewer than five claims
c. Five or more claims
d. At least five claim
e. At most five claims
f. More than 5 claims

10. If the average no. of cars arriving at the take away window at take-away restaurant window
during the 15 minute period on weekdays morning is 10.What is the probability
a. Exactly five people will come today morning during 15 minutes
b. Exactly one person will come in three minutes
c. More than 10 but less than 15 people will come in 10 minutes

11. Messages arrive at the rate of 48 per hour on your mobile between 11am-12noon. Compute
the probability of receiving:
a. Exactly 3 messages in 5 minute interval of time
b. Exactly 10 messages in 15 minute interval of time.
c. If you take 5 minutes to read a message and reply for it, at the maximum how
many unread messages will accumulate by then in your inbox? What is the
probability that no message will accumulate?

12. For a Normal Probability Distribution with Mean=100 and Standard Deviation=10. What is
the probability that:
a. X>75
b. x≥75

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c. X<70
d. x≤70
e. X>112
f. 75<x<85
g. X<80 or x>110
13. Given a normal probability distribution with Mean=100 and standard deviation=10.Find:
a. 10% values are less than what x value
b. 15% of values are above what value of x
c. 85% are above what value of x
d. 70% values are below what value of x
e. 80% values are between which two values of x symmetrically distributed
about the mean
14. In a normal distribution with standard deviation of 100, probability that value of random
variable is less than 300 is 33%. Find the mean.
15. The wages of the workers are normally distributed. Find the mean and standard deviation
of the distribution, if:
a. 33% gets less than Rs.600 and 30.5% get more than Rs.790.
b. 67% gets more than Rs.600 and 69.5% gets less than Rs.790
16. Indian Airlines has the policy of employing women as airhostess whose height is between
62 inches and 69 inches. If the height of Indian women is normally distributed with mean
height of 64 inches and standard deviation of 3 inches, out of 1000 applications received
find the number of applicants that would be:
a. Too tall
b. Too short
c. Of acceptable height
17. The average time taken by a student to complete Mid Semester Statistics paper was 80
minutes with standard deviation of 10 minutes. How many percent of the students will:
a. Complete the exam in one hour or less
b. Complete the exam in more than 60 minutes and less than 75 minutes
c. If the class has 60 students and 90 minutes are given for the exam, how
many students will not be able to finish the exam in time?
18. The income for a group of 10,000 persons were found to be normally distributed with
average income being Rs.750 and standard deviation of income being Rs. 50.What is the
lowest income among richest 250?
19. Average annual amount a college student spends on eating out is Rs. 6312.It is found that
the amount spent is normally distributed.
a. If 5% of the students spend less than Rs.1000 in eating out. What is the
standard deviation of the amount spent?
b. What is the probability that student spends between Rs.4000 and Rs. 6000?
c. What is the minimum amount spent by the 3% students who spend the
maximum in eating out?

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