Assignment 1

Joint Probability Distribution

1. An apartment manager decides to see if timely payment of rent is related to unpaid
credit card balances. Using X as the number of unpaid credit card balances, and Y as
the number of timely rent payments in the last four months, he examines his records
and the credit reports of his records and the credit reports of his renters and obtains
the following results.
↓Y / X → 0 1 2 3
0 0.01 0.01 0.06 0.03
1 0.02 0.04 0.07 0.04
2 0.03 0.08 0.09 0.04
3 0.05 0.11 0.08 0.02
4 0.13 0.05 0.03 0.01

Verify whether X and Y are stochastically independent or not.

2. Suppose we toss a pair of fair, four-sided dice, in which one of the dice is RED and the
other is BLACK. Let: X = the outcome on the RED die = {1, 2, 3, 4}
Y = the outcome on the BLACK die = {1, 2, 3, 4}.
Determine i) the marginal distributions of X and Y , ii) the joint distributions of X
and Y (iii)  ( x, y ) .

3. A fair coin is tossed three times and record the sequence of heads and tails. Let X
denote the number of heads obtained and Y denote the winnings earned in a single
play of a game with the following rules, based on the outcomes of the probability
experiment
 player wins $1 if first h occurs on the first toss
 player wins $2 if first h occurs on the second toss
 player wins $3 if first h occurs on the third toss
 player loses $1 if no h occur. Determine
Find
(i) The joint probability distribution of X and Y .
(ii) The marginal distribution of X and Y .
(iii) Correlation between X and Y .

4. The table below shows the joint probability distribution of two random variable X
Y / X  1 2 3 4
1 6c 3c 2c 4c
2 4c 2c 4c 0
3 2 c c 0 2c
and Y .
(i) Find c .
(ii) Calculate marginal distribution of X and Y .
(iii) Whether or not X and Y are independent.

5. Today, Joe's class took a math quiz consisting of two problems. For a randomly
selected student, let  X be the points earned on the first question and  Y be the points
 earned on the second question. The joint probability distribution of  X  and  Y  is given
in the following table:
Y / X  0 5 10 15
0 0.07 0.07 0 0.07
5 0 0 0.18 0.07
10 0 0.11 0.32 0.11
The students who have earned a total of less than 15 points will be taking a makeup
test. What is the probability that a randomly chosen student will be taking a makeup
test?

6. Suppose the two batteries are randomly chosen without replacement from the
following group of 12 batteries: 3 new, 4 used(working), 5 defective. Let X denote the
number of new batteries chosen and Y denote the number of used batteries chosen.
i) Find the joint probability distribution.
ii) E(X) and E(Y).

7. Suppose X and Y are independent random variables with the following distribution.
Find the joint distribution of X and Y. Also, verify that cov(x,y)=0.
x 1 2 y 2 5 8
f ( x) 0.7 0.3 g ( y ) 0.3 0.5 0.2