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VISHWAKARMA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PUNE – 37

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Home Assignment-6 Questions

Calculus & Statistics

Instructions for solving the assignment:

i. Every student is supposed to solve 1 sub-question from each of the main questions A,
B(i.e. total 2 questions) based on the table given at the end of the assignment.
ii. Get the assignment checked by your tutorial teacher on or before

Q.A Solve the following

1) The discrete random variable x has probability distribution given by where a is a constant.
x –1 0 1 2 3
1 1 1
P(X = x) a a
5 10 5
(a) Find the value of a.
(b) Find E(X),Var(X).
(c) Find Var(Y=6-2X).
(d) Calculate P(X ≥ Y).

2. The discrete random variable X has probability function

a(3 − x) x = 0,1,2
P(X = x) = {
b x=3
Find P(X = 2) and complete the table below.

X 0 1 2 3
P(X = x) 3a 2a b
Given that E(X) = 1.6
(a) Find the value of a and the value of b.
(b) Find P(0.5 < X < 3),
(c) Find E(3X – 2).
(d) Find E(X),Var(X).

3. When Rohit plays a game, the number of points he receives is given by the discrete
random variable X with the following probability distribution.

x 0 1 2 3
P(X = x) 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1

(a) Find E(X).

(b) Find F(1.5), F(2.3)
(c) 𝑉𝑎𝑟[(2𝑥 − 1)2 ]
 (d) 𝑃(𝑋 ≥ 1)

4. The random variable X has probability distribution given in the table below.

X –1 0 1 2 3

P(X = x) p q 0.2 0.15 0.15

Given that E(X) = 0.55,

(a) Find the value of p and the value of q
(b) Find Var(X),
(c) Find (2 X-4)
(d) 𝑃(𝑋 ≤ 1)

5. The discrete random variable X can take only the values -1, 0 or 1. For these values
the probability distribution function is defined by
𝑓(𝑥) = (𝑥 + 𝑘)2 , 𝑥 = −1,0,1

where k is a positive integer.

(a) Find k.
(b) Find the probability distribution of X.
(c) Find Var(X)
(d) 𝑃(0 ≤ 𝑋 < 4)

6. The random variable X has probability distribution

x 1 3 5 7 9
P(X = x) 0.2 p 0.2 q 0.15
(a) Given that E(X) = 4.5, write down two equations involving p and q.
(b) Find the value of p and the value of q,
(c) P(4 < X ≤ 7).
(d) Find E(X) and Var(X)

7. The random variable X has the discrete uniform distribution

1
𝑃(𝑋 = 𝑥) = 𝑥 = 1,2,3,4,5
5

(a) Write down the value of E(X) and show that Var(X) = 2.
(b) Find E(3X – 2),
(c) 𝑃(2.5 ≤ 𝑋 < 5)
(d) 𝑉𝑎𝑟((2𝑋 − 5)2 )

8. The random variable X has probability distribution

x 1 2 3 4 5
P(X = x) 0.10 p 0.20 q 0.30
(a) Given that E(X) = 3.5, write down two equations involving p and q.
(b) Find the value of p and the value of q,
(c) Var(X),
(d) Var(3 – 2X)
9. A discrete random variable X has a probability function as shown in the table below, where a
and b are constants.

x 0 1 2 3
P(X = x) 0.2 0.3 b a

Given that E(X) = 1.7,

(a) find the value of a and the value of b.
(b) Find P(0 < X < 1.5),
(c) E(2X – 3).
(d) Show that Var(X) = 1.41

10. A discrete random variable X has the probability function shown in the table below.

x 0 1 2 3
P(X = x) 1 1 1 1
3 2 12 12

Find
(a) P(1 < X 3),
(b) F(2.6),
(c) E(2X – 3),
(d) Var(X)

11. The random variable X has the discrete uniform distribution

1
𝑃(𝑋 = 𝑥) = 𝑥 , 𝑥 = 1, 2, . . . , 𝑛.

Given that E(X) = 5,

(a) show that n = 9.

(b) Find P(X < 7),
(c) Var (X).
(d) E(3X-4)

12. The discrete random variable X has probability function

2
𝑃(𝑋 = 𝑥) = {𝑘(𝑥 − 9) 𝑥 = 4,5,6
0 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑤𝑖𝑠𝑒

where k is a positive constant.

 (a) Find k
(b) Find E(X) and Var(X).
(c) Find Var(2X – 3).
(d) 𝑃(−1 ≤ 𝑋 ≤ 5)

Q.B Solve the following

1. If the probability density function of a random variable is given by
𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑘𝑥 3 0≤𝑥 ≤3
=0 Otherwise
Find the value of 𝑘 and the probability that a random variable will take a value between 1/2
and 3/2
(i) Mean
(ii) Variance

2. If the probability density function of a random variable is given by

𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑘(1 − 𝑥 2 ) 0≤𝑥 ≤1
=0 Otherwise
Find the value of 𝑘 and the probability that a random variable will take a value between 0.1
and 0.2 (ii) greater than 0.5
(i) Mean
(ii) Variance

3. If the probability density function of a random variable is given by

𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑘(1 − 𝑥 2 ) 0≤𝑥 ≤1
=0 Otherwise
Find the value of 𝑘 and the probability that a random variable will take a value
(i) between 0.1 and 0.2
(ii) greater than 0.5
(iii) Mean
(iv) Variance

4. The daily consumption of electric power (in millions of KW-hours) is a r.v. having the pdf
𝑓(𝑥) = (1/9)𝑥𝑒 −𝑥/3 𝑥>0
=0 Otherwise
If the total production is 12 million KW-hours, determine the probability that there is a power
cut(shortage) on any given day.

5. A continuous random variable has pdf define by

𝑓(𝑥) = (1/16) (3 + 𝑥)2 − 3 ≤ 𝑥 < −1
2
= (1/16)(6 − 2𝑥 ) −1 ≤ 𝑥 < 1
= (1/16) (3 − 𝑥)2 1≤𝑥≤3
=0 otherwise
Verify that 𝑓(𝑥) is a probability density function and also find the mean of the random variable.

6. Suppose that 𝑋 is a random variable with mean µ and standard deviation 𝜎. Find the
expectation and variance of 𝑓(𝑥) = (𝑥 − µ)/𝜎.

7. A continuous random variable X has pdf defined by

𝑓(𝑥) = (1/2)(𝑥 + 1) −1<𝑥 <1
=0 otherwise
Find mean and standard deviation of X.
8. If the probability density function of a random variable X is given by
𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑘𝑥 2 |𝑥| ≤ 1
=0 Otherwise
Find the value of 𝑘 and the probability that a random variable will take a value greater than
½ . Also find Mean and Variance of X.

9. The probability density function of a continuous random variable 𝑋 is

𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑥 3 0<𝑥 ≤1
= (2 − 𝑥)3 1< 𝑥 < 2
=0 otherwise
Find the expected value of the random variable.

10. The probability density function of a continuous random variable 𝑋 is

𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑘𝑒 −|𝑥| , − ∞ < 𝑥 < ∞
Find the value of 𝑘 and also the mean and variance for the random variable. Also find
probability between 0 and 4.

11. A continuous random variable has pdf define by

𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑥 2 (2𝑥 + 1.5) 0≤𝑥<1
=0 otherwise
If 𝑌 = (2/𝑋) + 3 find variance of Y.

12. Suppose that 𝑋 is a random variable for which 𝐸(𝑋) = 10 and 𝑉(𝑋) = 25. Find the
positive values of 𝑎 and 𝑏 suxh that 𝑌 = 𝑎𝑋 − 𝑏 has expectation o and variance 1.

Following is the question allocation according to Roll numbers

Roll No. QA QB
1 11 9
2 6 11
3 11 1
4 11 6
5 8 2
6 8 8
7 5 4
8 1 11
9 5 7
10 3 10
11 1 8
12 4 6
13 5 9
14 9 9
15 12 10
16 2 12
17 10 7
18 6 12
19 10 10
20 3 4
21 2 11
22 12 10
23 10 12
24 2 10
25 9 2
26 6 2
27 2 9
28 7 7
29 10 10
30 1 10
31 1 11
32 3 2
33 11 6
34 5 1
35 11 1
36 6 10
37 11 2
38 4 3
39 5 9
40 11 1
41 3 8
42 5 8
43 6 8
44 7 2
45 7 6
46 7 7
47 9 10
48 2 9
49 5 8
50 10 1
51 6 11
52 4 3
53 5 4
54 5 3
55 12 11
56 8 2
57 9 6
58 3 6
59 1 12
60 5 5
61 6 9
62 7 4
63 2 3
64 4 5
65 12 9
66 11 8
67 12 8
68 5 10
69 9 5
70 11 1
71 12 3
72 12 4
73 12 8
74 3 3
75 7 3
76 5 6
77 2 8
78 3 12
79 7 2
80 8 10