Problem Set Number 1.

(Assignment Number 1, 20 points each)

1. The following are the scores of 20 students in a 50 items examination.

Find the mean, median, mode, range, variance and standard deviation.
Consider the data as a population.
45 29 36 47 44
50 40 50 39 48
44 48 33 44 44
40 43 39 28 40

2. A 5-sided die with sides numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 is constructed so that 1

and 5 occur twice as often as the 2 and 4, which occur 3 times as often as
the 3. What is the probability that a perfect square occurs when the die is
tossed once?

3. A pair of dice is tossed. Find the probability of getting:

(a) A total of 8.
(b) At most a total of 5.

4. Let W be a random variable giving the number of heads minus the

number of tails in three tosses of a coin. List all the elements of the
sample space S for the three tosses of the coin and to each sample point
assign a value w of W.