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The document is a practice sheet for a Probability and Statistics course at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, containing various problems related to exponential and normal distributions, as well as calculations of probabilities, means, variances, and moment generating functions. It includes specific questions with answers provided for each problem. The topics covered include daily milk consumption probabilities, shower duration probabilities, student marks distribution, and properties of random variables.

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The document is a practice sheet for a Probability and Statistics course at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, containing various problems related to exponential and normal distributions, as well as calculations of probabilities, means, variances, and moment generating functions. It includes specific questions with answers provided for each problem. The topics covered include daily milk consumption probabilities, shower duration probabilities, student marks distribution, and properties of random variables.

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Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala

School of Mathematics
Probability and Statistics (UCS410)
Practice Sheet: 6

1. The daily consumption of milk in excess of 20000 gallons is approximately exponentially


distributed with 𝜆 = 1/3000. The city has a daily stock of 35000 gallons. What is the
probability that of 2 days selected at random, the stock is insufficient for both days.
(Ans. 𝑒 −5 )
2. The length of the shower on a tropical island during rainy season has an exponential
distribution with parameter 2, time being measured in minutes. What is the probability
that a shower will last more than 3 minutes? If a shower has already lasted for 2
minutes, what is the probability that it will last for at least one more minute?
(Ans. (i) 0.0025, (ii)0.1353)
3. Suppose that X has an exponential distribution with parameter 𝜆. Compute the
probability that X exceeds twice its expected value.
4. The marks obtained by a class of B.Tech. third year students in a mathematics course
are found to be normally distributed with mean 64.5 and standard deviation 5. If class
strength is 300, then find the number of students having marks (a) less than 57, (b)
between 57 to 72. Given that 𝑃(0 < 𝑍 < 1.50) = 0.4332 (Z-table value).
(Ans- (a)  20 (b) 260).
5. It is given that 𝑋 and 𝑌 are independent normal variate with 𝑋~N(1,4) and 𝑌~N(3,16).
Now if
4𝑋 − 𝑌~N(μ, σ2 ), then find its mean (𝜇) and variance (𝜎 2 ).
(𝐴𝑛𝑠: 1, 80).
6. In a normal population with mean 12 and standard deviation 4, it is known that 750
observations exceed 15. Find the total number of observations in the population.
(Ans.  3310 )
7. Find mean, variance and moment generating function for gamma distribution.
8. At a certain examination 10% of the students who appeared for the paper in Advanced
Mathematics got less than 30 marks and 97% of the students got less than 62 marks.
Assuming the distribution is normal, find the mean and the SD of the distribution.
(Ans.  = 42.97, = 10.13)
9. It is given that X and Y are independent normal variates and X ~ N(1, 4), Y ~ N(3,16). Find
the value of K such that P(2X + Y  K ) = P(4X −Y  2K ) .
(Ans. K= (5 5 + 2) / ( 5 + 2 2) )
10. Variable X is a normal random variable with standard deviation 3. If the probability that
X is less than 16 is 0.84, then the expected value of X is approximately? (Ans: 13)
11. If P {-3 < Z < -2} = P {2 < Z <x}, then find x (Ans: 3.02)
12. If P {-a < Z < a} = 2P {Z < a} - 1, then find a. (Ans: 𝑎 ∈ (−∞, ∞))
13. Find x (using three type of standard normal table) if
(i) P {Z > x} = 0.05 (ii) P {Z > x} = 0.95 (iii) P {Z < x} = 0.66 (iv) P {Z < x} = 0.40
(v) P {|Z| < x} = 0.99 (vi) P {|Z| < x}=0.1 (vii) P {|Z| > x}=0.9 (viii) P {|Z| > x}=0.8

(Ans: (i) 1.65, (ii) -1.65 (iii) 0.42 (iv) -0.25 (v) 2.17 (vi) 0.13 (vii) -1.64 (viii) 0.26).
1 2 𝑥
14. Let 𝑋 have the p.m.f. 𝑃(𝑋 = 𝑥) = (3) (3) , 𝑥 ∈ {0,1,2,3,4, … }, zero elsewhere.
Find (a) 𝑃(𝑋 ≥ 3) (b) 𝐸(𝑋) (c) 𝑀𝑋 (𝑡) (d) 𝐸(𝑋 2 ).
1 3
Ans Hints: (a) 1-[P(X=0) +P(X=1) +P(X=2)] (b) 2 (c) 𝑀𝑋 (𝑡) = 3−2𝑒 𝑡 , 𝑓𝑜𝑟 |𝑡| < log 2
(d) 10.
15. If 𝑋 is a random variable with 𝑀𝑋 (𝑡) = (0.1 + 0.9𝑒 𝑡 )4. Find
(a) 𝑝. 𝑚. 𝑓. of X

(b) 𝑃(1 < 𝑋 < 2)

(c) 𝑃(1 < 𝑋 ≤ 2)

(d) 𝑃(𝑋 < 5)

(e) 𝐸(𝑋)

(𝑓) 𝐸(𝑋 2 )

(g) 𝜎 2 .

Ans Hints: 𝑋 ~ Binomial (4, 0.9).


𝑎 𝑒 −𝑎𝑥 , 𝑥 > 0
16. Let 𝑋 be a random variable with p.d.f. 𝑓𝑋 (𝑥) = { 𝑎 > 0. If 𝑀𝑋 (𝑡) denotes
0, 𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑒𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒
the M.G.F of X, then find 𝑀𝑋 (−3𝑎).
Ans: ¼
(a) Find Probability Generating Function GX(s) of X.

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