Assignment 2

Course Code : MATH 221

Section L2/T2 (A)
Basic Instructions
1. Everyone has to submit a well prepared individual assignment.
2. Assignment must contain index and page number.
3. Cover page and Proper binding assignment is more preferable.
4. Every assignment has to submit within Deadline.
5. Deadline: 23 July

Questions
Q1 A class contains 10 men and 20 women of whom half of the men and half of the women have brown eyes. A
person is chosen at random. Find the probability that the person is either a man or has brown eyes. Find the
events “being a male” and “having brown eyes” are independent.
Q2 A leap year contains of 366 days with 29 days in February. If a leap year is selected at random, Compute
the probability that the selected leap year will consist of 53 Saturdays.
Q3 Suppose a sample space consists of 500 persons and are distributed according to their sex and employment
status as shown in the accompanying table.
Employment Status
Sex Employed (E) Unemployed (U) Total
Male (M) 255 20 275
Female (F) 80 145 225
Total 335 165 500
Find the following probabilities:
a. the selected person is a male
b. the selected person is male and female
c. the selected person is male and unemployed
d. female and not unemployed

Q4 A pair of dice is thrown. Find the probability that sum of the points on the two dice is 10 or greater is a 5
appears on the first die.

Q5 Suppose we have two urns U1 and U 2 . The first urn contains 5 balls and 7 red balls, while the second urn
contains 3 white and 8 red balls. One ball is transferred from the first urn to the second urn unseen and the
a ball is drawn from the second urn. Determine the probability that the ball is red.

Q6 A fire brigade has two fire engines operating independently. The probability that a specific fire engine is
available when needed is 0.99

Q7 The probability that A will die within the next 20 years is 0.025, and that B will die within the next 20
years is 0.030. (i) Find the probability that both A and B will die within the next 20 years. (ii) That A will
die but B will not. (iii) That neither will die. (iv) That at least one will die.
Q8 A random variable X has the following functional form:
f ( x)  kx , 0 x4
 0, elsewhere

(i) Determine k for which f (x ) is a density function.

(ii) Find P(1  X  2) and P ( X  2)

Q9 Consider the following density function:

x(1  3 y 2 )
f ( x, y )  , 0 x4
4
 0, elsewhere

Find P  0  X  1 , 1  Y  1 
 4 2

Q10 Find the marginal densities of X and Y from the following joint density function and verify that marginal
distributions are also probability distributions.
1
f ( x, y )  ( 6  x  y ) , for 0  x  2, 2  y  4
8
 0, elsewhere

Compute P  X  Y  3  and P X  1.5 , Y  2.5

Q11 Given the following joint distributions of the discrete random variables X and Y:
X
Y 0 1 2
0 3 / 28 9 / 28 3 / 28
1 6 / 28 6 / 28 0
2 1 / 28 0 0
Find f x / 1 , f  y / 1  and P  X  0 / Y  1 

Q12 Check whether the random variable X and Y are independent if their joint density function is :
f ( x, y )  4 xy , for 0  x  1, 0  y  1
 0, otherwise

Q13 Let X designate the number of heads obtained in the toss of three ideal coins. If two or more heads turn up,
you receive Tk. 10; otherwise you pay Tk. 5. Find the
(a) The expected number of heads to turn up
(b) The expected amount of money you would win.

Q14 Given the following joint density function of X and Y:

f ( x, y )  4 xy , for 0  x  1, 0  y  1
 0, otherwise

Obtain E  X , E Y  , E  XY  and E  X  Y 
Q15 The probability that a person recovers from a rare blood disease is 0.4. If 15 people are known to have
contacted this disease, what is the probability that (i) at least 10 people survive, (ii) from 3 to 8 survive and (iii)
exactly 5 survive.
Q16 Compare binomial probabilities and Poission approximation for (i ) n  20, p  0.05 (ii) n  50, p  0.5 and
(iii) n  36, p  1 / 36.