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Exam Date & Time: 19-Mar-2024 (10:45 AM - 12:45 PM)

MANIPAL ACADEMY OF HIGHER EDUCATION

ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS - IV [MAT 2227]
Marks: 30 Duration: 120 mins.
A
Answer all the questions. Section Duration: 20 mins
Select the correct answer for the following questions
1) Probability that among seven persons, no two were born on the same day of the week is
(0.5)
1) 0.00612 2) 0.00412 3) 0.00312 4) 0.00212
2) If A and B are two independent events such that P(A)=0.2 and P(B)=0.3, then
is (0.5)

1) 0.14 2) 0.13 3) 0.12 4) 0.11

3) Mr. Ramesh, a cricket analyst figures that there is a 40 percent chance that team India
will be playing world cup 2024 finals. If team India is in the world cup finals, then he is
80 percent certain that India will win the world cup 2024. What is the probability that
India will win the world cup 2024? (0.5)

1) 0.31 2) 0.32 3) 0.33 4) 0.34

4) A professor uses either a car or a bike to reach his office. The probabilities that he will
come to office by car or bike are 0.3 and 0.7, respectively. If he comes by car, the
probability that he will be late is 0.4, and the probability being late if he comes by bike
is 0.2. What is the probability that the professor reaches late to office on a particular (0.5)
day?

1) 0.24 2) 0.25 3) 0.26 4) 0.27

5)
The value of k for which the function is the probability

density function of X is (0.5)

1) -0.5 2) 0.5 3) -0.25 4) 0.25

6) The value of computed using the below given cumulative distribution
function F(x) of the random variable X is (0.5)
x 0 10 20 30 40 50

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F(x) 0.1 0.3 0.65 0.85 0.95 1

1) 0.55 2) 0.65 3) 0.75 4) 0.85

7) The time (in hours) required to repair a machine is an exponentially distributed random
variable with parameter
. What is the probability that a repair time exceeds 2 hours?
(0.5)

1) 2) 3) 4)

8) You arrive at a bus stop at 10 AM , knowing that the bus will arrive at some time
uniformly distributed between 10 AM and 10:30 AM. What is the probability that you
will have to wait longer than 10 minutes?
(0.5)

1) 1/3 2) 2/3 3) 4/3 4) 2/5

9) If X and Y are two random varibales such that Y=10X+4, then the correlation
coefficient between X and Y is
(0.5)
1) -1 2) 1 3) -0.1 4) 0.1
10) If the random variable X has a Poisson distribution such that P(X=1) = P(X=2). Then
P(X=3) is ______.
(0.5)
1) 0.1804 2) 0.8196 3) 0.1353 4) 0.8647
B
Answer all the questions.
Any missing data can be assumed suitably.
11) The lifetime of a color television picture tube is a normal random variable with mean 8.2
years and standard deviation 1.4 years. What percentage of such tubes lasts

(i) more than 10 years;

(4)
(ii) less than 5 years;

(iii) between 5 and 10 years?

12) The random variables X and Y have the joint density function given by
.
(4)
Find (i) (ii) Marginal distribution function of X and Y.

13) For special security in a protected area, it was decided to put three lighting bulbs on each
(3)
pole. If each bulb has a probability 0.3 of burning out in the first 100 hours of service,

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calculate the probability that at least one of them is still good after 100 hours. How
many bulbs would you need on each pole to ensure 99% safety that at least one is good
after 100 hours?

14) From a vessel containing 3 white and 5 black balls. 4 balls are transferred into an empty
vessel. From this vessel a ball is drawn and is found to be white. What is the probability
that out of four balls transferred, 3 are white and 1 black? (3)

15) A man alternatively tosses a coin and throws a die, beginning with coin. What is the
probability that he will geat a head before he gets a ‘5 or 6’ on die?. (3)

16) If X, Y and Z are uncorrelated random variables with standard deviation 5, 12 and 9,
respectively. Evaluate the correlation coefficient between U=2X+Y and V=Y+3Z. (3)

17) The lifetime in hours of electronic tubes is a random variable having probability density
function given by . Compute the expected lifetime of such a
(3)
tube and also determine its variance.

18) A coin is tossed until a head appears. If X denotes the number of tosses required to get a
head. Find the moment generating function of X. (2)

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