Statistics I-HW I (2022.11.

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1. Suppose we toss one fair dice twice and get the points X 1 and X 2 . Please derive
the sampling distribution of
(a) max X 1 , X 2 . (10%)
(b) X X 1 X 2 / 2 . (10%)

2. Let X be an exponential distributed random variable with probability density

function
f x xe x , x 0.
(a) Prove that f x is an appropriate density function. (5%)
(b) Find the expected value of X . (5%)
(c) Find the variance of X. (5%)

3. The average grade for an exam is 74, and the standard deviation is 7. Suppose that
the grades follow a normal distribution.
(a) If 12% of the class are given A’s, what is the lowest grade for A? (5%)
(b) If the grade for John is 80, what is the proportion of the grades of all students
that fall below his grade? (5%)

4. Let X equal the birth weight (in grams) of babies in United States. Assuming that
the distribution of X is normal distribution with 3315 and 575 .
(a) Compute P 2584.75 X 4390.25 ? (5%)
(b) Let Y equal the number of babies that weight less than 2719 grams at birth
among 25 of these babies selected independently. Compute P Y 4 . (10%)

5. Fifty numbers are rounded off the nearest integer and then summed. Assume that
the individual roundoff errors are uniformly distributed between -0.5 and 0.5.
(a) Find the mean and the variance of the sample mean of the fifty roundoff errors.
(5%)
(b) Find the approximate probability that the sample mean differs from the
population mean by more than 0.06. (10%)
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(Hint: Y ~ U a, b , then E Y a b / 2 , Var Y b a / 12 )

6. Let f x c / x 3 ,1 x and f x 0 , elsewhere, be the probability density

function (p.d.f.) of X. Let A1 X ; 1 X 3 and A2 X; 2 X 5 .
(a) Find the value c. (5%)
(b) Calculate P A1 A2 . (5%)
(c) Find P A1 A2 . (5%)
7. The scores of English in a class are normally distributed. The distribution is
divided into three portions, 5% of the students’ scores are below 60 and 10% are
above 80. Try to find the mean and the standard deviation for this course. (10%)

Table. Cumulative probability for the standard normal distribution