JAGANNATH UNIVERSITY
B. Tech IV Semester Branch- CSE-
Subject- POT
Assignment-l
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Solve any 15 Questions
QI. State and prove the total law of probability
Q2. If Ac B then prove that the P(A)
Owherea > 0 and a constant.
Find the component's reliability and its mean time to failure
Q.18 From a lot of 10 items containing 3 defectives, a sample of 4 items is drawn at random. If
the sample is drawn without replacement and the replacement and the random variable X
denotes the number of defective items in the sample, find:
(i) the probability distribution of X
(ii) POXS 1) P(X< 1) P(0«X«2).
Q.19 Define the following with example
Random Variable
Discrete random variable
Gil) Continuous random variable
(iv) Probability mass function
Distribution function
Probability density funtion
Q.20 Let X be continuous random variable with pdf
axO=6), P(090, given that X>9,
Q24.The amount of the bread (in hundreds of Pounds )X that a certain bakery is able to sell a in
a day is found to be a numerical valued random phenomenon, with pdf as f(x) =
kx forOsx<5
(«a =xforS3
Find (i) k (i) pdF f(x).
26 A continuous random variable has the following pdf fx{x) = 3x’, 0 b) = 0.05
27 Arandom variable X has the following probability distribution:
xm 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Pox) fo k 2k 2k 3k ra ae 7e+K
© semmed vith OK Scmner(Find ) Evaluate P(x <6), P (0 1/2, find the minimum value ofc.
sind 1S2
Q.28 Prove that the following are probability density functions (pdf):
P(X=1)="Cpiq™
P(X:
ov2n
Q1 From a lot of 25 items contains 5 defectives, a sample of 4 items is drawn at random (i) without
replacement (i) with replacement. Find the expected number of defectives in the sample,
2, Thirteen cards are drawn simultaneously from deck of 52. If aces count 1, face cards 10 and others
according to denomination find the expectation of the total score on 13 cards.
3. Let the random variable X assumes the value ‘’ with the probability law P(X=r)
the mgf of X and hence its mean and variance.
=q"p, 1=1,2,3.. Find
Q4, The first moments of a distribution about the value 4 of a variable are -1.5,17,-30, and 108. Find (i)
Moments about mean, (i) Moments about origin, (il) Moments about the point
5. The failure rate for a certain type of component is A(t) = at, t 2 0 where a > 0 anda constant.
Find the component's reliability and its mean time to failure
Q6. Obtain the p.gf for the probability mass function of X given by (x)
23...
ae”
Q7. Let {Xn > 1} be a Bernoulli Process with Probability of success p at each of the trial Xs Suppose a
success is referred as to as arrival in the process. Let {T,,n > 1}be a stochastic process, where T
denotes the number of trials up to and including the first success. Find out the first order probability
distribution of {Tn} and find its mean and variance.
8. Prove that sum of two independent Poisson processes is a Poisson process.
9. Prove that difference of two independent Poisson processes is not a Poisson process.
© semmed vith OK Scmner10. Suppose that the customers arrive at a bank according to a Poisson process with a mean rate of
three per minute. Find the probability that during a time interval of 2 minutes (i) Exactly 4 customers
arrive, (i) More than 4 customers arrive,
ASSIGNMENT-I
Solve any 10 Questions
1 From a lot of 25 items contains 5 defectives, a sample of 4 items is drawn at random (i) without
replacement (i) with replacement. Find the expected number of defectives in the sample,
2. Thirteen cards are drawn simultaneously from deck of 52. If aces count 1, face cards 10 and others
according to denomination find the expectation of the total score on 13 cards.
4, The first moments of a distribution about the value 4 of a variable are -1.5,17,-30, and 108. Find (i)
Moments about mean, (i) Moments about origin, i) Moments about the point
Q.5The distribution of weekly wages for 500 workers in a factory is approximately normal with
the mean and standard deviation of Rs. 75 and Rs. 15 respectively. Find the number of workers
who receive weekly wages (i) more than Rs. 90 (ii) less than Rs. 45.
Q.6 The time (in hours) required to repair a machine is exponentially distributed with
parameter A= %.
(i) What is the probability that the repair time exceeds 2 hrs ?
(i) What is the conditional probability that a repair takes at least 10 hours given that its
duration exceeds 9 hours ?
Q7 .The following data gives the number of seeds germinating out of 10 on a dump filter paper
for 80 sets of seeds. Fit a Binomial distribution to this data
Noseeds: 0 1 2 3 4 S$ Gandabove
Noofsets: 6 20 28 12 8 6 O
8. The probability of hitting the target is %. How many times must be he fire so that the
probability of hitting the target at least once is more than 90%.
Q3.Fit a Binomial distribution to the following data:
x 0 2 2 38 4 5
fo 2 14 20 34 2 8
Q10.An experiment succeeds twice as often as it fails. Find the chance that in the next 6 trials
there will be at least four successes.
© semmed vith OK ScmnerQ11. The chances that one of the 10 telephones lines are busy at any instant is 0.2, (i) What is
the probability that at a certain instant § lines are busy? (ii) find the most probable number of
busy lines?
Q12. There are 600 hundred students in a college and the probability for any student toneed a
copy of a particular book from college library on any day is 0.05. Use Normal approximation to,
binomial distribution to find how many copies of the book should be kept in the library so that
the probability may be greater than 0.90 that none of the students needing a copy from the
library has to come back disappointed,
Q.13 Define joint density function ,marginal density function and conditional density function
of random variables,
Q.14Write down the various properties of joint distribution function,
Q. 15The joint pdf of a bivariate random variable (X,Y) is given by
kxty?; O