HA NOI UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF INFORMATON TECHNOLOGY

SAMPLE TEST

Subject: Probability & Statistics – PST

Type: Closed books
Duration: 90 minutes

Problem 1: (1.5 points)

a) Two cards are randomly drawn from a deck of 52 playing cards. Find the probability
that both cards will be greater than 3 and less than 8.

b) A bin contains 100 balls, of which 25 are red, 40 are white, and 35 are black. If two
balls are selected from the bin without replacement, what is the probability that one
will be red and one will be white?
c) How many three-digit numbers can be formed from the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 if
each digit can be used only once?

Problem 2: ( 2 points)

Let X and Y be continuous random variables having joint density function

{
f ( x , y )= c ( e )x , y≥0
−(x +2 y)

0 otℎerwise

a) Determine the constant c

b) Find P( x ≤2 ; Y ≤3)
c) Find the conditional density function of Y given X
d) Whether X , Y are independent.

Problem 3: (1.5 points)

Find the correlation of random variables X and Y having the joint probability density
function

{
f ( x , y )= 8 xy , 0 ≤ x ≤ y ≤ 1
0 otℎerwise

p(xy) = Cov(x,y)/ độ lệch chuẩn x * độ lệch chuẩn y

Problem 4: (1 points)

The lengths of time, in minutes, that 10 patients waited in a doctors office before receiving
treatment were recorded as follows: 5, 11, 9, 5, 10, 15, 6, 10, 5, and 10. Treating the data as a
random sample, find

a) the mean 86
b) the median 5
c) the mode 5 and 10
d) the variance

Problem 5: (2 points)

a) An electrical firm manufactures light bulbs that have a length of life that is approxi-
mately normally distributed with a standard deviation of 40 hours. If a sample of 30
bulbs has an average life of 780 hours, find a 96% confidence interval for the
population mean of all bulbs produced by this firm.

Problem 6: (2 points)

The mean lifetime of a sample of 100 fluorescent light bulbs produced by a company is
computed to be 1570 hours with a standard deviation of 120 hours. If is the mean lifetime of
all the bulbs produced by the company, test the hypothesis μ = 1600 hours against the
alternative hypothesis μ ≠ 1600 hours, using a level of significance of:

a) 0.05
b) Find the P value of the test