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1. A factory makes building bricks, on average 20% of the produced bricks are defective. If 10 bricks are
selected from the daily production, find the following:
a. Exactly 2 will be defective.
b. At most 2 defective.
c. At least 4 defective.
d. Calculate the mean and the standard deviation.

2. During a laboratory experiment, the average number of radioactive particles passing through a counter
in 1 millisecond is 4. What is the probability that 6 particles enter the counter in a given millisecond?

3. In a port, 10 oil tankers in average arrive each day. The port can handle only 15 tankers per day. What is
the probability that tankers are not allowed to enter the port on a given day?

4. Customers arrive in a certain shop at a mean rate of 20 per hour. What is the probability that the
shopkeeper will have to wait more than 5 minutes for the arrival of the first customer?

5. A collection of 100 fuses is inspected by the following procedure: Five fuses are chosen at random and
tested; if all five blow at the correct amperage, the lot is accepted. Suppose that the collection contains
20 defective fuses. If X is a random variable equal to the number of defective fuses in the sample of 5,
what is the probability of accepting the collection.

6. There is a 0.75 chance of all students being present in stat class on any given day. When all students
show up, the teacher has promised not to assign homework.
a. What is the probability that homework will not be assigned for the next 5 days?
b. What is the probability of not assigning homework on the 3rd day?
c. What is the expected wait time for a day without homework?

Fall 2017