Department of Computer Science Probability & Statistics

Bahria University, Islamabad Campus BS(IT)-3 (Spring 2023)

ASSIGNMENT 04
Marks: 5

Read Carefully:
 This assignment has 04 questions that you have to answer and submit in softcopyof HANDWRITTEN document on
LMS.
 The deadline for this assignment is before or on Saturday 03 June, 2023.
 WARNINGS:
 This is an individual assignment; you must solve it by yourself. Any form of plagiarism will result in receiving
zero in the assignment.
Ssubmission date will not be extended. Any assignment submitted after the cutoff time will receive zero.
 Do not alter the sequence of questions.
Problem 01
Harry Ohme is in charge of the electronics section of a large department store. He has noticed that the probability that a
customer who is just browsing will buy something is 0.3. Suppose that 15 customers browse in the electronics section
each hour. Use Appendix Table 3 in the back of the book to answer the following questions:
(a) What is the probability that at least one browsing customer will buy something during a specifi ed hour?
(b) What is the probability that at least four browsing customers will buy something during a specifi ed hour?
(c) What is the probability that no browsing customers will buy anything during a specified hour?
(d) What is the probability that no more than four browsing customers will buy something during a specified hour?
Problem 02
Diane Bruns is the mayor of a large city. Lately, she has become concerned about the possibility that
large numbers of people who are drawing unemployment checks are secretly employed. Her
assistants estimate that 40 percent of unemployment benefi ciaries fall into this category, but Ms.
Bruns is not convinced. She asks one of her aides to conduct a quiet investigation of 10 randomly
selected unemployment benefi ciaries.
(a) If the mayor’s assistants are correct, what is the probability that more than eight of the individuals
investigated have jobs? (Do not use the tables.)
(b) If the mayor’s assistants are correct, what is the probability that one or three of the investigated
individuals have jobs? (Do not use the tables.)
Problem 03
Concert pianist Donna Prima has become quite upset at the number of coughs occurring in the
audience just before she begins to play. On her latest tour, Donna estimates that on average eight
coughs occur just before the start of her performance. Ms. Prima has sworn to her conductor that if
she hears more than five coughs at tonight’s performance, she will refuse to play. What is the
probability that she will play tonight?
Problem 04
Harry is the supervisor for the Conowingo Hydroelectric Dam. Mr. Hogan knows that the dam’s
turbines generate electricity at the peak rate only when at least 1,000,000 gallons of water pass
through the dam each day. He also knows, from experience, that the daily flow is normally
distributed, with the mean equal to the previous day’s flow and a standard deviation of 200,000
gallons. Yesterday, 850,000 gallons flowed through the dam. What is the probability that the turbines
will generate at peak rate today?

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