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    This document provides 10 practice problems for homework 1 related to probability and statistics concepts covered in sections 1.1-1.7 and 1.10 of the textbook. The problems cover topics like sample spaces, probability calculations, reliability of systems, and probability of outcomes for random selection processes. Students are asked to calculate probabilities and describe sample spaces for scenarios involving computer components, communication networks, testing processes and more.

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    This document provides 10 practice problems for homework 1 related to probability and statistics concepts covered in sections 1.1-1.7 and 1.10 of the textbook. The problems cover topics like sample spaces, probability calculations, reliability of systems, and probability of outcomes for random selection processes. Students are asked to calculate probabilities and describe sample spaces for scenarios involving computer components, communication networks, testing processes and more.

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    This document provides 10 practice problems for homework 1 related to probability and statistics concepts covered in sections 1.1-1.7 and 1.10 of the textbook. The problems cover topics like sample spaces, probability calculations, reliability of systems, and probability of outcomes for random selection processes. Students are asked to calculate probabilities and describe sample spaces for scenarios involving computer components, communication networks, testing processes and more.

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    Practice Problems for HW 1

    Read sections 1.1-1.7 & 1.10 of the text.

    1. Sec 1.3 (page 6): # 1 - (a) and (b)


    Describe a possible sample space for each of the following experiments:

    a) A large lot of RAM chips is known to contain a small number of ROM chips. Three chips
    are chosen at random from this lot and each is checked to see whether it is a ROM or a
    RAM.
    b) A box of 10 chips is known to contain one defective and nine good chips. Three chips are
    chosen at random from this box and tested.

    2. When a computer goes down, there is 75% chance that it is due to an overload and 15% chance
    that it is due to a software problem. There is 85% chance that it is due to an overload or a software
    problem.

    a) What is the probability that both of these problems are at fault?


    b) What is the probability that there is a software problem but no overload?

    3. Among employees of a certain firm, 70% know C/C++, 60% know Fortran, and 50% know both
    languages. What proportion of programmers:

    a) do not know Fortran?


    b) do not know Fortran and C/C++?
    c) know C/C++ but not Fortran?
    d) know Fortran but not C/C++?

    4. The primary computer system is backed up by two secondary systems. They operate indepen-
    dently of one another, and each is 90% reliable. What is the probability that

    a) all three systems


    b) at least one system

    will be operable at the time of the launch?

    1
    5. A student takes a quiz consisting of 5 multiple choice questions. Each question has 3 possible
    answers. If a student is guessing the answers at random, and the answers to different questions
    are independent, find the probability of giving at least one correct answer.
    6. A sprinkler system has three activation devices, D1, D2, and D3, which operate independently.
    In case of fire, if at least one device operates correctly, the sprinkler system is turned on. In case
    of fire, D1, D2, and D3 operate correctly with probabilities 0.80, 0.92, and 0.85, respectively.
    Find the probability that, in case of fire, the sprinkler system will come on.

    7. Sec 1.10 (page 35) #1


    Two towns are connected by a network of communication channels. The probability of a chan-
    nel’s failure-free operation is R, and channel failures are independent. Minimal level of commu-
    nication between towns can guaranteed provided at least one path containing properly function-
    ing channels exists. Given the network of the following figure determine the probability that two
    towns will be able to communicate. Here

    denotes a communication channel.

    Town Town
    A B

    8. Sec 1.10 (page 35) #2


    Given three components with respective reliabilities R1 = 0.8, R2 = 0.75, and R3 = 0.98,
    compute reliabilities of the three systems below. Recall that reliability of a component is the
    probability that it works properly, and reliability of a system is the probability that it is operable.

    a)
    R1 R3

    b)
    R1 R2 R3

    c)
    R1

    R2

    R3

    2
    9. Out of six computer chips, two are defective. If two chips are randomly chosen for testing (with-
    out replacement), compute the probability that both of them are defective. List all the outcomes
    in the sample space.

    10. A computer program is tested by 5 independent tests. If there is an error, these tests will discover
    it with probabilities 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, and 0.5, respectively. Suppose that the program contains
    an error. What is the probability that it will be found

    a) by at least one test?


    b) by at least two tests?
    c) by all five tests?

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