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This document provides the details for Homework 5 that is due on December 9th for the course MTH 620, Fall 2019. It lists 8 additional practice problems related to probability distributions and random variables. Students are instructed to show their work, keep their solutions neat, and staple all pages. The problems cover topics like skewness, binomial and Poisson distributions, random walks, and the gamma distribution.

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Homework 5

This document provides the details for Homework 5 that is due on December 9th for the course MTH 620, Fall 2019. It lists 8 additional practice problems related to probability distributions and random variables. Students are instructed to show their work, keep their solutions neat, and staple all pages. The problems cover topics like skewness, binomial and Poisson distributions, random walks, and the gamma distribution.

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Homework 5 MTH 620, Fall 2019

Due Monday, Dec. 9th

Show work for full credit. Neatness counts. Staple all pages. Please put your
solutions to homework problems in the order given in the homework.
Assigned Problems

Sec. 3.1 - 7, 10, 24, 27. For 24 just find the skewness. You can use the formula
" 3 #
X −µ E(X 3 ) − 3µσ 2 − µ3
Skew(X) = E = .
σ σ3

For what values of p is skewness negative, 0 and positive? Interpret this result.

Sec. 3.2 - 2, 3, 15

Sec. 3.3 - 17, 23

Additional Questions

1. An auto parts store receives:

1/7 of its brake pad shipments from Company X and


2/7 of its brake pad shipments from Company Y.
4/7 of its brake pad shipments from Company Z.

Each shipment contains a very large number of brake pads.

For Company X’s shipments, 20% of the pads have a flaw.


For Company Y ’s shipments, 16% of the pads have a flaw.
For Company Z’s shipments, 22% of the pads have a flaw.

The auto parts store tests 10 randomly selected brake pads, in succession and with
replacement, from a shipment.

a. Find the probability that one or two of the brake pads will have a flaw.
b. Given that one or two of the pads have a flaw find the probability that the
shipment was from company Y .
c. If brake pads are taken from a shipment from company Y in succession and with
replacement, find the probability that the fourth unflawed brake pad is the sixth
brake pad taken.

2. Let X be a random variable X with pdf

12x(1 − x)2 , 0 < x < 1.

If you take a random sample of size 16, X1 , . . . , X16 , from X what is the probability
that at least four and at most six of the random sample are greater than 1/2?
3. A geological study indicates that drilling each exploratory oil well in a particular oil
field gives a 35% chance of striking oil independent of striking oil in any other well.
An oil company starts drilling these wells successively. What is the probability that
they will not strike oil at least three times before striking oil the fifth time? Give
answer to the fourth decimal.

4. Starting from the origin marked 0 you take a “random walk” along the edges of the
tetrahedron below. From any vertex you travel to another vertex along an edge and
the probably that you will visit any of the three vertices that you are not on is always
1/3.

i) Starting from the origin what is the expected number of trips that you will
make along the edges until you return to the origin?
ii) Starting from the origin what is the expected number of trips along the edges
that you will make until you visit every vertex?

5. A bag contains 144 ping-pong balls. More than half of the balls are painted orange
and the rest are painted blue. Two balls are drawn at random without replacement.
The probability of drawing two balls of the same color is the same as the probability
of drawing two balls of different colors. How many orange balls are in the bag?

6. Let X represent the number of customers arriving during the morning hours and let
Y represent the number of customers arriving during the afternoon hours at a diner.
You are given

a. X and Y are Poisson distributed.


b. The first moment of X is less than the first moment of Y by 8.
c. The second moment of X is 60% of the second moment of Y .

Calculate the variance of Y .

7. X is the number of phone calls received at a calling center in a 24 hour period. X


has a Poisson distribution and

2P (X = 1) = P (X = 2).

a. Find P(X=3).
b. If Y is the number of phone calls received in 1 hour, find P (Y = 1).
8. A machine checks meters of wire and finds errors according to the Poisson process
at a mean rate of 4 per meter. What is the probability that the machine will check
less than half a meter of wire to find three errors? Use the gamma distribution and
integration by parts twice to find the answer. Then find the same answer using a
Poisson distribution. Round your answer to the fourth decimal.

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