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STAT 251: PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS

TUTORIAL SHEET
WEEK 4

Multinomial Distribution
1. A certain city has three television (TV) stations, namely channels 12,
10, and 3. The percentages of the viewing audience at channels 12, 10,
and 3 during prime time on Saturday nights are 50%, 30%, and 20%,
respectively. If a random sample of 8 TV viewers in the city is chosen
on Saturday night, then the probability that 5, 2, and 1 will be viewing
channels 12, 10, and 3 respectively is
2. Items in a large lot under inspection are subject to two types of defects. It
is judged that 70% of the items are defect-free, whereas 20% have a type
A defect and 10% have a type B defect. If 6 of these items are randomly
selected from the lot, find the probability that 3 have no defects, 1 has a
type A defect, and 2 have a type B defect.

Hypergeometric Distribution
1. Suppose a radio contains six transistors, two of which are defective. Three
transistors are selected at random, removed from the radio, and inspected.
(a) Determine the probability distribution of x, the number of defective
observed.
(b) Find the mean and the variance of x.
(c) Compute the likelihood of having at least one defective transistor in
that random sample of three transistors.
2. A town council consists of six men and four women. A committee of three
is selected. Let x be the number of women selected on the committee.
(a) Compute the mean and standard deviation of x.
(b) What is the probability of getting fewer than two women on the
committee?

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Poisson Approximation to Binomial
1. The number of telephone calls received by an office averages 4 per minute.
Find the probability that:
(a) No call will arrive in a given one-minute period.
(b) At least two calls will arrive in a given one-minute period.
(c) At least three calls will arrive in a given two-minute period.
2. The number of serious accidents, y, in a manufacturing plant has approx-
imately a Poisson distribution with a mean of 1.5 accidents per month.
What is the probability that:

(a) More than three accidents will occur within a period of one month?
(b) Fewer than three accidents will occur within a period of six weeks?

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