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PSG COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY, COIMBATORE - 641 004

SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS, MAY 2018

BE / (SW) BE – BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING / EEE / ECE / ICE Semester : 4

15D401 / 15E401 / 15L401 / 15U401 PROBABILITY AND RANDOM PROCESSES

Time : 3 Hours Maximum Marks : 100

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Answer ALL questions. Each question carries 20 Marks.
2. Subdivision (a) carries 3 marks each, subdivision (b) carries 7 marks each and
subdivision (c) carries 10 marks each.
3. Normal Area Table is to be permitted.
4. Course Outcome : Qn.1 Qn.2 CO2 Qn.3 CO3 Qn.4 CO4 Qn.5 CO5
CO1
Table ……
.
1. a) A microcomputer system consists of a microprocessor CPU chip and a random
access main memory chip. The CPU is selected from a lot of 100, of which 10 are
defective, and the memory chip is selected from a lot of 300, of which 15 are
defective. What is the probability that both the chips are defective?
b) i) Find the system reliability of the following : (5)

0.7
0.8
0.8
i/p 0.6 o/p
0.97 0.9 0.8 0.93

0.8 0.6

ii) Give an example of a real time parallel system. (2)

c) i) State and prove Baye’s theorem. (4)
ii) A binary communication channel carries data as one of two types of signals
denoted by 0 and 1. Owing to noise, a transmitted 0 is sometimes received as a
1 and a transmitted 1 is sometimes received as 0. For a given channel, assume
a probability of 0.94 that a transmitted 0 is correctly received as 0 and a
probability of 0.91 that a transmitted 1 is received as 1. Further assume a
probability of 0.45 of transmitting a 0. If a signal is sent, determine
(1) probability that a 1 is received.
(2) probability that a 1 was transmitted, given that a 1 was received. (6)

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2. a) When the basketball player LeBron James shot two free throws, each shot was
equally likely either to be good or bad. Each shot was good was worth 1 point. What
is the PMF of X , the number of points that he scored?
b) The number of hits at a web site in any time interval is a Poisson random variable. A
particular site has an average   2 hits per second. What is the probability that
there are no hits in an interval of 0.25 seconds? What is the probability that there are
no more than two hits in an interval of one second?
c) The peak temperature T , in degrees Fahrenheit, on a July day in a city is a

Gaussian random variable with a variance of 225. With probability 1 , the

2
temperature T exceeds 10 degrees. What is P[T  32] , the probability the

temperature is above freezing? What is P[T  0] ? What is P[T  60] ?

3. a) Figures (i) and (ii) below represents the surfaces f1 ( x, y ) are f 2 ( x, y) and their

limits on XY plane. Are they valid joint probability density functions? Why?
z
z

f1(x,y):
z=10-x

(0,50,0) y
y x2+y2=1
x
1
f2(x,y): z = -

x
fig (i) fig(ii)

b) For n  0,1, ..... and k  0,1, ....,100 , the joint PMF of random variables N and K is

100 n e 100 100  p k 1  p 100 k

  k 
PN , K (n, k )   n!   . Find the marginal PMFs PN (n) and

 0 otherwise

PK (k ) also find P( N  0) .

 8xy , 0  y  x  1
c) Random variables X and Y have joint PDF f X ,Y ( x, y)   .
0 , otherwise
Find the joint CDF FXY ( x, y) .

4. a) Given that X and Y are continuous random variables such that X is defined in the
interval (2, 5) and Y is defined in the interval (1, 7) . Give a joint PDF f XY ( x, y) of
your choice in this interval.
b) Find the moment generating function of exponential random variable and find its first
two moments about mean.
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c) i) Random variables X and Y have joint PDF

4 xy , 0  x  1, 0  y  1
f X ,Y ( x, y)  
0 .
 , otherwise
1) What are E(X ) and Var(X ) ?

2) What are E (Y ) and Var(Y ) ?

3) What is Cov( X , Y ) and  X ,Y ?

4) What is E ( X  Y ) ?

5) What is Var( X  Y ) ?
(OR)
ii) J and K are independent random variables with probability mass function
0.2 j  1
0.6 j  2 0.5 k  1

PJ ( j )   , PK (k )  0.5 k  1 .
0.2 j  3
 0 otherwise
0 otherwise
1) Find E (J ) and Var(J ) .

2) Find E(K ) and Var(K ) .

3) Find MGF of M  J  K .
3
4) Find E ( M ) .

5) Find PM (m) .
5. a) Give one real time example for each of the following stochastic processes
(i) continuous time continuous value
(ii) discrete time continuous value
b) X n is a wide sense stationary random sequence with auto correlation R X (K ) . The

random sequence Yn is obtained from X n by reversing the sign of every other

random variable in X n : Yn  (1) X n .

n

(i) Is Yn wide sense stationary?

(ii) Are X n and Yn jointly wide sense stationary?

Justify your answer by finding relevant autocorrelations and expectations.
c) i) A white Gaussian noise process W (t ) with auto correlation RW ( )   0  ( ) is

 1
, 0t T
passed through the moving-average filter h(t )  T . For the
0 , otherwise
output Y (t ) , find the expected value E (Y (t )) , the input-output cross-correlation

RWY ( ) and the auto correlation RY ( ) .

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(OR)

ii) A wide sense stationary process X (t ) has auto correlation RX ( )  Ae , b  0.

Derive the power spectral density function S X ( f ) and calculate the average
2
power E ( X (t )) . Using this discuss, the time structure of V (t ) with
0.5  2 
RY ( )  e and W (t ) with RW ( )  e .

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