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Probability Distributions

This document provides 10 probability problems involving various probability distributions including the uniform, binomial, Poisson, hypergeometric, normal, exponential, and Weibull distributions. The problems involve calculating probabilities, means, variances, and finding values that satisfy given probability conditions for each distribution.

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Probability Distributions

This document provides 10 probability problems involving various probability distributions including the uniform, binomial, Poisson, hypergeometric, normal, exponential, and Weibull distributions. The problems involve calculating probabilities, means, variances, and finding values that satisfy given probability conditions for each distribution.

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Assignment on Probability distributions (10%)

1. A person arrives at a certain bus stop each morning. The waiting time, in
minutes, for a bus to arrive is uniformly distributed on the interval (0, 15).
a) Find the mean waiting time.
b) Find the standard deviation of the waiting times.
c) Find the probability that the waiting time is between 5 and 11 minutes.
d) Suppose that waiting times on different mornings are independent. What is the
probability that the waiting time is less than 5 minutes on exactly 4 of 10 mornings
2. Suppose it is known that in a certain population 10 percent of the
population is color blind. If a random sample of 25 people is drawn from
this population, find the probability that:

a) Five or fewer will be color blind

b) Six or more will be color blind

c) Between six and nine inclusive will be color blind.

d) Compute population mean and Variance?

3. Suppose there are 2 cancer cases reported per month in a certain region.
a) What will be the probability of reporting exactly 16 cases per year?
b) What will be the probability of reporting at most 3 cases per month?
c) What will be the probability of reporting at least 4 cases per two months?
4. Suppose that a shipment contains 5 defective items and 10 non defective
items .If 7 items are selected at random without replacement , what is the
probability that at least 3 defective items will be obtained?
5. If a random variable X has a hyper geometric distribution with parameters
A=8 , B=20 and n, for what value of n will Var(x) be maximum ?
6. What is the cross-ponding z-score value for the area under the standard
normal curve is 0.95?
7. Suppose Random Blood Sugar (RBS in mg/dl) is normally distributed with
mean and variance of 105 and 100, respectively. If a person is selected at
random: :
a) What is the probability of RBS is exactly equal to 105 mg/dl?
b) What is the probability RBS is higher than the mean?
c) What is the probability RBS is in between 90 and 120?
d) What is the RBS of a person such that only 10% of it exceeds this RBS?
8. The lifetime, in years, of a type of small electric motor operating under
adverse conditions is exponentially distributed with λ = 3.6. Whenever a
motor fails, it is replaced with another of the same type. Find the probability
that fewer than six motors fail within one year.
9. The lifetime of a certain battery is modeled with the Weibull distribution
with α = 2 and β = 0.1.
a) What proportion of batteries will last longer than 10 hours?
b) What proportion of batteries will last less than 5 hours?
c) What proportion of batteries will last longer than 20 hours?
d) The hazard function is defined in Exercise 8. What is the hazard at t = 10
hours?
10. Suppose we know that in hospital A births occur randomly at an average rate
of 2.3 births per hour and in hospital B births occur randomly at an average rate
of 3.1 births per hour. What is the probability that we observe 16 births in total from the two
hospitals in two hours period?

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