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BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

PROBLEM SET #2
1st Semester A.Y 2023-2024

Course Code IE 401

Course Title STATISTICAL ANALYSIS FOR IE 1
Section
Date

SR-Code
Name of Student

ILOs Questions Points

NO. SECTIONS POINTS
Discrete Probability
1 17
Distributions
2 1-25 25
2 Grouped Data Analysis 8

TOTAL POINTS 25

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Part I. Using your learnings in some discrete probability distributions, answer the following problems. Box your
final answer. Follow the correct formula format for each type of distribution. (1 point each)

 Discrete Uniform Distribution

1. Forty mechanical engineering alumni bought one ticket each for a certain fund raising event.
What is the probability of any person to win a prize?

2. Thickness measurements of a coating process are made to the nearest hundredth of a

millimeter. The thickness measurements are uniformly distributed with values 0.15, 0.16, 0.17,
0.18, and 0.19. Determine the mean of the coating thickness for this process.

 Binomial Distribution

3. The phone lines to an airline reservation system are occupied 40% of the time. Assume that
the events that the lines are occupied on successive calls are independent. Assume that 10 calls
are placed to the airline. What is the probability that for exactly three calls the lines are
occupied?

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4. A particularly long traffic light on your morning commute is green 20% of the time that you
approach it. Assume that each morning represents an independent trial. Over 20 mornings,
what is the probability that the light is green on more than four days?

 Multinomial Distribution

5. According to the manufacturer, M&M’s are produced and distributed in the following
proportions: 13% brown, 13% red, 14% yellow, 16% green, 20% orange, and 24% blue. In a
random sample of 12 M&M’s what is the probability of having 2 of each color?

6. When a customer enters a pharmacy, the probabilities that he or she will have 0, 1, 2, or 3
prescriptions filled are 0.60, 0.25, 0.10, and 0.05, respectively. For a sample of 6 people who
enter the pharmacy, find the probability that at most one will have 0 prescriptions, 2 will have
1 prescription, and 2 will have 2 prescriptions.

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 Hypergeometric Distribution

7. A lot of 75 washers contains 5 in which the variability in thickness around the circumference
of the washer is unacceptable. A sample of 10 washers is selected at random, without
replacement. What is the probability that none of the unacceptable washers is in the sample?

8. Magnetic tape is slit into half-inch widths that are wound into cartridges. A slitter assembly
contains 48 blades. Five blades are selected at random and evaluated each day for sharpness. If
10 of the blades in an assembly are dull, what is the probability that at most one of the blades
taken will be dull?

9. It is estimated that 4000 of the 10,000 voting residents of a town are against a new sales tax. If
15 eligible voters are selected at random and asked their opinion, what is the probability that
at most 2 favor the new tax?

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 Multivariate Hypergeometric Distribution

10. The Dip-It Donut has 40 stores scattered in 3 localities given as follows: Lipa City - 13,
Batangas City - 17 and Tanauan City - 10. The company has a computer program for drawing
random samples of 20 stores from these 40 stores. What is the probability of obtaining 7 stores
from Lipa City, 10 from Batangas City and 3 from Tanauan City?

11. A car rental agency at a local airport has available 5 Fords, 2 Chevrolets, 3 Hondas, and 4
Toyotas. If the agency randomly selects 7 of these cars to chauffeur delegates from the airport
to the downtown convention center, find the probability that 1 of the Fords, both of the
Chevrolets, at most 2 Honda are used?

 Negative Binomial Distribution

12. In a certain manufacturing process, it is known that on the average, 1 in every 100 items is
defective. What is the probability that the ninth item inspected is the second defective item
found?

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13. An oil drilling company ventures into various locations, and its success or failure is
independent from one location to another. Suppose the probability of a success at any specific
location is 0.25. The drilling company feels that it will “hit it big” if the second success occurs
on or before the fourth attempt. What is the probability that the driller will hit it big?

 Geometric Distribution

14. An oil drilling company ventures into various locations, and its success or failure is
independent from one location to another. Suppose the probability of a success at any specific
location is 0.25, what is the probability that the driller has to drill 5 locations before finding
the first successful mines?

15. The probability of a successful optical alignment in the assembly of an optical data storage
product is 0.8. Assume the trials are independent. What is the probability that the first
successful alignment requires at most four trials?

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 Geometric Distribution

16. The average number of phone inquiries per day at a certain control center is 4. Find the
probability it will receive 5 calls on a given day.

17. The number of cracks in a section of interstate highway that are significant enough to require
repair has a mean of two cracks per mile. What is the probability that there will be at most
three cracks that require repair in a mile of highway?

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Part II. Using your learnings in continuous probability distributions, answer the following problems. Box your
final answer. Illustrate properly the original and standard normal curves. (1 point each)

18. A research scientist reports that mice will live an average of 40 months when their diets
are sharply restricted and then enriched with vitamins and proteins. Assuming that the
lifetimes of such mice are normally distributed with a standard deviation of 6.3 months,
find the probability that a given mouse will live less than 28 months?

19. The loaves of rye bread distributed to local stores by a certain bakery have an average
length of 30 centimeters and a standard deviation of 2 centimeters. Assuming that the
lengths are normally distributed, what percentage of the loaves are longer than 31.7
centimeters?

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20. The weights of a large number of miniature poodles are approximately normally distributed
with a mean of 8 kilograms and a standard deviation of 0.9 kilogram. If measurements are
recorded to the nearest tenth of a kilogram, find the fraction of these poodles with weights
between 7.3 and 9.1 kilograms?

21. The finished inside diameter of a piston ring is normally distributed with a mean of 10
centimeters and a standard deviation of 0.03 centimeter. Below what value of inside
diameter will 15% of the piston rings fall?

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22. The probability that a patient recover from a delicate heart operation is 0.9. Of the next 100
patients having this operation, what is the probability that fewer than 86 survive. Use the
normal approximation to the binomial distribution.

23. A lawyer commutes daily from his suburban home to his midtown office. The average time
for a one-way trip is 24 minutes, with a standard deviation of 3.8 minutes. Assume the
distribution of trip times to be normally distributed. If the office opens at 9:00 A.M. and
the lawyer leaves his house at 8:45 A.M. daily, what percentage of the time is he late for
work?

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24. A process yields 10% defective items. If 100 items are randomly selected from the process,
what is the probability that the number of defectives exceeds 13?

25. A company pays its employees an average wage of $15.90 an hour with a standard
deviation of $1.50. If the wages are approximately normally distributed and paid to the
nearest cent, what percentage of the workers receive wages between $13.75 and $16.22 an
hour inclusive?

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