COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT)

Islamabad Campus
Assignment No 3

Program: BSE-IVA Instructor: Abdul Wakeel

Subject: Statistics and Probability Theory

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Q. No. 1. A shipment of 20 similar laptop computers to a retail outlet contains 3 that are
defective. If a school makes a random purchase of 2 of these computers, find the probability
distribution for the number of defectives.

Q. No. 2. Three balls are drawn from a bag containing 5 white and 3 black balls. If X denote the
number of white balls drawn from the bag, then find the p.d. of X.

Q. No. 3 A continuous random variable has probability density function

 A ( 4 x − 2 x 2 ) 0  x  2
f ( x) = 
 elsewhere 0

Calculate the value of an unknown A. Also find the probability for the interval ( −1  x  0.5 ) .

Q. No. 4. Suppose that the life length (in hours) of a certain radio tube is continuous random
variable X with probability density function

 100
 x  100
f ( x) =  x2
elsewhere 0

(i) What is the probability that a tube will last less than 200 hours, if it is known that the
tube is still functioning after 150 hours of service?
 (ii) What is the probability that if 3 such tubes are installed in a set exactly one will have
to be replaced after 150 hours of service?
(iii) Find the distribution function for the life length of radio tubes.

Q. No. 5. Let X be a random variable showing the sales of product of 5 days with their respective
probabilities

x 1 2 3 3 5
f(x) 0.125 0.50 0.20 0.05 0.125

(i) Find the expected sales and variation in sales.

(ii) Find the p.d. of the r.v. Y=2X+1.