Name: Ilagan, Rafael V.

Section :Ce-207
Date of Submission: 10-28-20

ACTIVITYF: Discrete Probability Distributions

1. The data records the smiling times, in seconds, of an eight-week-old baby.We will assume that the smiling times,
in seconds, follow a uniform distribution between zero and 23 seconds, inclusive. This means that any smiling
time from zero to and including 23 seconds is equally likely.What is the probability that a randomly chosen
eight-week-old baby smiles between two and 18 seconds?

2. Given a random variable X having a normal distribution with 𝜇=40 𝑎𝑛𝑑𝜎=5, find the probability that X assumes a
value between 45 and 62.exactly 5 have 3 or more cars?

a. less than 4 have 3 or more cars?

b. at least 4 have 3 or more cars?

3. A traffic control engineer reports that 75% of the vehicles passing through a checkpoint are from within the
state. What is the probability that fewer than 4 of the next 9 vehicles are from out of state?

4. A production of 20 fuses is received by the store. It is known that 4 of the fuses are defective. The quality control
engineer randomly selected three of the fuses from the production run. Find the probability that two of the
fuses selected are defective.
5. If 7 cards are dealt from an ordinary deck of 52 playing cards, what is the probability that

a. exactly 2 of them will be face cards?

b. at least 1 of them will be a queen?

6. It is estimated that 4000 of the 10,000 voting residents of a town are against a new sales tax. If 15 eligible voters
are selected at random and asked their opinion, what is the probability that at most 7 favor the new tax?

7. Find the probability that a person flipping a coin gets

a. the third head on the seventh flip

b. the first head on the fourth flip.

8. On average a certain intersection results in 3 traffic accidents per month. What is the probability that for any
given month at this intersection

a. exactly 5 accidents will occur?

b. less than 3 accidents will occur?

c. at least 2 accidents will occur?

9. If new cases of West Nile in New England are occurring at a rate of about 2 per month, then what’s the
probability that exactly 4 cases will occur in the next 3 months?