Assignment - 15

(Binomial Distribution)

Q1. Assuming half the population of a town consumes chocolates and that 100
investigators each take 10 individuals to see whether they are consumers, how many
investigators would you expect to report that three people or less were consumers ?

Q2. An underground mine has 5 pumps installed for pumping out storm water, the
probability of any of the pumps failing during storm is 1/8. What is the probability
that (i) at least 2 pumps will be working; (ii) all the pumps will be working during a
particular storm ?

Q3. Out of 800 families with four children each, how many families would be
expected to have:
(i) 2 boys and 2 girls; (ii) at least one boy; (iii) no girls; (iv) at most 2 girls

Q4. Find the binomial distribution whose mean is 5 and variance is 10/3.

Q5. If the probability of hitting a target is 10% and 10 shots are fired
independently, what is the probability that the target will be hit at least once ?

Q6. A firm plans to bid Rs. 300 per tonne for a contract to supply 1000 tonnes of a
metal. It has two competitors A and B and it assumes that the probability that A will
bed less than 300/- per tonne is 0.3 and that B will bid less that 300/- per tonne is 0.7.
If the lowest bidder gets all the business and the firms bid independently, what is the
expected value of business in rupees to the firm?

Answers

1. 176/1024
2. (i) 8183/8192 (ii) 16807/32768
3. (i) 300 (ii) 750 (iii) 50 (iv) 550
5. 0.65