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MA 231@24-25 Tute Set 1

This document is a tutorial set for the course Statistical Methods & Data Analysis (MA 231) at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology. It includes a series of probability problems related to various scenarios, such as quality control in manufacturing, environmental sampling, job selection, readership statistics, and basic probability concepts. Each problem requires the application of statistical methods to determine probabilities in different contexts.

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MA 231@24-25 Tute Set 1

This document is a tutorial set for the course Statistical Methods & Data Analysis (MA 231) at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology. It includes a series of probability problems related to various scenarios, such as quality control in manufacturing, environmental sampling, job selection, readership statistics, and basic probability concepts. Each problem requires the application of statistical methods to determine probabilities in different contexts.

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Department of Mathematical Sciences

Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Jais

Tutorial Set-I
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Subject: Statistical Methods & Data Analysis (MA 231) Instructor: C. Kundu
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1. A foundry ships a lot of 20 engine blocks of which five contain internal flaws. The purchaser
will select three blocks at random and test them for hardness. The lot will be accepted if no flaws
are found. What is the probability that this lot will be accepted?

2. A chemist analyzes seawater samples for two heavy metals: lead and mercury. Past experience
indicates that 38% of the samples taken from near the mouth of a river on which numerous
industrial plants are located contain toxic levels of lead or mercury: 32% contain toxic levels of
lead, and 16% contain toxic levels of mercury. What is the probability that a randomly selected
sample will contain toxic levels of lead only?

3. A B.Tech student of RGIPT applies for a job in two companies X and Y . The probability of her
being selected in company X is 0.7 and being rejected at Y is 0.5. The probability of at least one
of her applications being rejected is 0.6. What is the probability that she will be selected in at
least one of the companies?

4. Three newspapers A, B and C are published in a certain city. It is estimated from a survey that of
the adult population: 20% read A, 16% read B, 14% read C, 8% read both A & B, 5% read both
A & C, 4% read both B & C, 2% read all three. Find what percentage read at least one of the
papers.

5. 60% of the employees of the XYZ Corporation are college graduates. Of these, 10% are in sales.
Of the employees who didn’t graduate from college, 80% are in sales. What is the probability
that an employee selected at random i. is in sales? ii. is neither in sales nor a college graduate?

6. If A and B are two independent events then show that i. A and B ii. A and B are also so.

7. Two urns contain respectively 2 white & 1 black balls, and 1 white & 5 black ball. One ball is
transferred from the 1st to the 2nd urn, and then a ball is drawn from the 2nd urn. What is the
probability that the ball drawn is white?

8. Box I contains 3 red and 2 blue marbles while Box II contains 2 red and 8 blue marbles. A fair
coin is tossed. If the coin turns up heads, a marble is chosen from Box I; if it turns up tails, a
marble is chosen from Box II. Find the probability that a red marble is chosen.

9. A speaks truth 4 out of 5 times. A die is tossed. He reports that there is a six. What is the chance
that actually there were six?

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