ELEC4404 Signal Processing

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Tutorial 1 (Selected Answers)


1. Find () if () = (1

)( ) where () is the unit step function.

Answer: () = (1

)( ) +

( )


2. A fair coin is tossed 3 times and the random variable equals the total number of heads. Find and
sketch

() and

().
Solution:


3. For > 0 the Weibull random variable has cdf:

() =
0 < 0
1

0

(a) Plot the cdf of for = 0.5, 1, 2.
(b) Find and plot the pdf of for = 0.5, 1, 2.
(c) Find the probability [ < < ( +1)] and [ > ]
(d) What is the Weibull distribution used for?
Answer:
(b)

() =

, 0 ;
(c) [ > ] =

, 0; for [ < < ( +1)] =

( +1)

() and there are three

different expressions for < 1, 1 < 0, 0.


4. Let be the exponential random variable.
(a) Find and plot

(| > ). How does

(| > ) differ from

()?
(b) Find and plot

(| > )
Answer:
(a)

(| > ) =

, ; 0 otherwise
(b)

(| > ) =
()
, ; 0 otherwise


5. A random variable has cdf:

() =
0 < 0
1 0.25
2
0

(a) Plot the cdf of
(b) Find and plot the pdf of
(c) Find the mean and variance of .

ELEC4404 Signal Processing
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Solution:



6. Let = || be the output of a full-wave rectifier with input voltage .
(a) Find the cdf of in terms of

().
(b) Find the pdf of in terms of

().
Answer:
(a)

() =

()

(), 0; 0 otherwise
(b)

() =

() +

(), > 0; 0 otherwise

7. A repair person keeps four widgets in stock. What is the probability that at least one widget in stock
will last 15 days if the repair person needs to replace widgets at an average rate of one widget every
three days, where the failure rate follows a Poisson distribution process?
Answer:
[ 15] =
5

!

5 3
=0
= 0.2650