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This document contains summaries of 4 homework problems: 1) A 4-engine plane is preferable to a 2-engine plane if the probability p that each engine fails independently is less than 0.5. 2) If each component in a lot of 20 transistors has a 0.1 probability of being defective independently, about 10% of lots will be rejected if 4 random components must all be nondefective. 3) For a coin chosen randomly that lands heads with probability 0.4 or 0.7 and flipped 10 times, the probability of exactly 7 heads is calculated, as is the conditional probability given the first flip was heads. 4) For testing 100 people for a disease with a

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HomeworkW4 BA

This document contains summaries of 4 homework problems: 1) A 4-engine plane is preferable to a 2-engine plane if the probability p that each engine fails independently is less than 0.5. 2) If each component in a lot of 20 transistors has a 0.1 probability of being defective independently, about 10% of lots will be rejected if 4 random components must all be nondefective. 3) For a coin chosen randomly that lands heads with probability 0.4 or 0.7 and flipped 10 times, the probability of exactly 7 heads is calculated, as is the conditional probability given the first flip was heads. 4) For testing 100 people for a disease with a

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Homework 1

Suppose that an airplane engine will fail, when in flight, with probability 1-p independently from engine
to engine; suppose that the airplane will make a successful flight if at least 50% of its engines remain
operative. For what values of p is a four-engine plane preferable to a two-engine plane?

Homework 2

A purchaser of transistors buys them in lots of 20.It is his policy to randomly inspect 4 components from
a lot and to accept the lot only if all 4 are nondefective. If each component in a lot is, independently,
defective with probability .1, what proportion of lots is rejected?

Homework 3

When coin 1 is flipped, it lands on heads with probabilityb0. 4; when coin 2 is flipped, it lands on heads

with probability 0. 7. One of these coins is randomly chosen and flipped 10 times.

(a) What is the probability that the coin lands on heads on exactly 7 of the 10 flips?

(b) Given that the first of these ten flips lands heads, what is the conditional probability that

exactly 7 of the 10 flips land on heads?

Homework 4

To determine whether they have a certain disease, 100 people are to have their blood tested. However,
rather than testing each individual separately, it has been decided first to place the people into groups
of 10. The blood samples of the 10 people in each group will be pooled and analyzed together. If the test
is negative, one test will suffice for the 10 people, whereas if the test is positive, each of the 10 people
will also be individually tested and, in all, 11 tests will be made on this group. Assume that the
probability that a person has the disease is .1 for all people, independently of each other, and compute
the expected number of tests necessary for these 100 people. (Note that we are assuming that the
pooled test will be positive if at least one person in the pool has the disease.)

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