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This document contains 13 questions about probability and statistics concepts. The questions cover topics like counting arrangements of people seated together, probabilities of random selections from groups, probability distributions of random variables, and computing probabilities using probability density and cumulative distribution functions.

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Worksheet 2 For Eng

This document contains 13 questions about probability and statistics concepts. The questions cover topics like counting arrangements of people seated together, probabilities of random selections from groups, probability distributions of random variables, and computing probabilities using probability density and cumulative distribution functions.

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Mizan-Tepi University

College of Natural and Computational Science


Department of Statistics
Work sheet-II (introduction to Probability and Statistics)
1. Four married couples have bought 8 seats in a row for a show. In hoe many different ways can they
be seated
a. If each couple is to sit together.
b. If all the women sit together.
c. If all the women sit together to the right of all the men?
2. Four men and three women are to be seated at a lunch counter that has only five stools.
a) In how many ways can the costumers be arranged at the counter?
b) In how many ways can they be arranged at the counter if all the women are to be seated?
c) In how many ways can they be arranged at the counter if all the women are to be seated and if
men occupy the first and the last stool?
d) If customers take seats at random, what is the probability that all of the men are seated and
that a woman occupies the middle stool?
3. In how many ways can a committee of three be chosen from 4 married couples if
a. All are equally eligible?
b. One particular man must be on the committee?
c. Husband and wife cannot serve in the same committee?
4. Let be two events associated with an experiment and suppose that ( ) = 0.4 while
( ) = 0.7. ( ) = .
a) For what choice of P are A and B mutually exclusive?
b) For what choice of P are A and B independent?
5. One bag contains 4 white balls and 3 black balls, and the second bag contains 3 white balls and 5
black balls. One ball is drawn at random from the second bag and placed unseen in the first bag. what
is the probability that a ball now drawn from the first bag is white?
6. Suppose that a product is produced in 3 , . It is known that factory produces
3 as many items as factory , and that factories produce the same number of items.
Assume that it is known that 3% of the items produced by each of the factories are defective
while 5% of those manufactured by factory are defective. All the items produced in the 3 factories
are stocked , and an item of product is selected at random.
a. What is the probability that this item is defective?

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b. If an item selected at random is found to be defective, what is the probability that it was
produced by factory , , respectively?
7. From a group of 3 freshmen, 4 sophomores, 4 juniors, and 3 sneniors a committee of size 4 is
randomly selected. Find the probability that , the committee will consist of
i. One from each class.
i. 2 sophomores and 2 juniors.
ii. Only sophomore or junior.

8. Let { , = 1, . . . , 5} be a partition of the sample space S and suppose that: = and

( / )= , = 1,2, . . . ,5, then compute the probabilities ( / ), = 1,2, … ,5.

9. The chances that will diagnose a disease 60%. The chances that a patient
will die by his treatment after correct diagnosis is 40% and the chance of death by wrong diagnosis
is 70%. A patient of , who had disease , . What is the chance that his disease was
diagnosed ?
10. Two dice are rolled. Let be a random variable denoting the sum of the numbers on the two dice.
a. Find the probability distribution of x.
11. Suppose that the . has possible values 1,2, …. and = = , = 1,2, …

a. Compute ( ).
b. Compute ( ≥ 4).
c. Compute ( 2).
d. Determine ( ), the cumulative distribution function ( ) .
12. Let be a continuous random variable with :
, 0 ≤ < 1
, 1 ≤ < 2
( ) = − + 3 , 2 ≤ < 3
0 , ℎ
a). Determine the constant . b). Compute ( ≤ 1.5).
c). Determine ( ), the cumulative distribution function ( ) .
13. A continuous random variable X has the following distribution function
, ≤
( )= ( − ) , < ≤3
, > 3
i. Determine k.
ii. Find probability density function of x.
iii. Find the ( 1.5 < < 2).

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