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This document contains instructions for Assignment III which is due on November 14, 2018. Students must hand in a physical copy of the assignment and electronic copies will not be accepted. The document provides details on six questions related to probability, distributions, and the central limit theorem. Selected questions from the assignment will be marked. Solutions to all questions will be posted but only some will be graded. Late assignments will not be accepted.

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Assignment 3-Mat2377-2018 PDF

This document contains instructions for Assignment III which is due on November 14, 2018. Students must hand in a physical copy of the assignment and electronic copies will not be accepted. The document provides details on six questions related to probability, distributions, and the central limit theorem. Selected questions from the assignment will be marked. Solutions to all questions will be posted but only some will be graded. Late assignments will not be accepted.

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Assignment III

Due date: 14 November 2018


Note: You have to drop off your assignment in the class. It is advised that you make a
copy of your assignment.
Note: I will post solutions to all questions. However, only selected questions will be
marked.
Note: Assignments after the due time will not be accepted.
Note: The electronic version of your assignment will not be accepted.

Q1. Two distinct solid fuel propellants, type A and Type B, are being considered for a space program activity. From
past data we know that the standard deviation of burning rate of two propellants are the same and equal to 5
cm/sec and the means of the burning rate for propellant A and propellant B equal 20.5 cm/sec and 22.5 cm/sec,
respectively. Random samples of 21 specimens of each propellant are taken.
(a) What is the probability that the mean of the burning rate of sample of propellant A is between 19 cm/sec
and 22 cm/sec?
(b) What is the probability that the difference between two sample means of burning rates is less than 0.5?
(c) What is the probability that the ratio S12 /S22 is less than 2.124, where S12 and S22 are sample variances
of the burning rate of specimens of propellant A and B, respectively?
(d) If we assume that the variance of the burning rate of propellant A, i.e. σ12 is unknown and the cor-
responding sample variance equals 36 cm2 /sec2 , what is the probability that the sample mean of the
burring rate of propellant A exceed 23.80993?

Q2. Assume that X 2 has chi-square distribution with ν degree of freedom. Find χ2α such that
(a) P (X 2 > χ2α ) = 0.8 , with ν = 15 .
(b) P (X 2 < χ2α ) = 0.975 , with ν = 10 .
(c) P (15.119 < X 2 < χ2α ) = 0.2 , with ν = 13 .

Q3. Assume that T has t-student distribution with ν degree of freedom.


(a) Obtain P (T > 3.833) , with ν = 8 .
(b) obtain P (0.559 < T < 6.869) , with ν = 5 .
(c) Obtain t0.025 , with ν = 6 .
(d) Obtain −t0.9 , with ν = 9 .
(e) Obtain tα , such that P (0.876 < T < tα ) = 0.1 with ν = 11 .

Q4. For an F -distribution, find


(a) f0.05 with ν1 = 5 and ν2 = 7 .
(b) f0.99 with ν1 = 5 and ν2 = 7 .

Q5. Discuss normality of the following data set:


170,295,200,165,140,190,195,142,138,148,110,140,103,176,125,126,204,196,98,123,124
152,177,168,175,186,140,147,174,155,195.
Hint: Use Histogram, Box-plot, and Q-Q plot to check whether the data is normally distributed.

Q6. (Bonus question - this question is not mandatory). Using R, illustrate the central limit theorem by generating
M = 300 samples of size n = 30 from:
• a normal random variable with mean 5 and variance 1.5;
• a binomial random variable with 4 trials and probability of success 0.2.
Repeat the same procedure for samples of size n = 200. What do you observe? Hint: In each case, assess the
normality using a histogram and a Q-Q plot.

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