TUTORIAL
SEMESTER -3
BRANCH: CE/CSE/ICT/IT
Probability and Statistics
BE03000251
Sr.
No Questions
Tutorial : 1
1. A card is drawn from a well-shuffled pack of cards. What is the probability that it is either a
spade or an ace?
2. Two cards are drawn from a pack of cards. Find the probability that they will be both red or
both pictures.
3. From a city, 3 newspapers A, B, C are being published. A is read by 20%, B is read by 16%,
C is read by 14%, both A and B are read by 8%, both A and C are read by 5%, both B and C
are read by 4% and all three A, B, C are read by 2%. Find the percentage of the populations
who read atleast one newspaper.
4. Verify whether the following functions can be regarded as the probability mass function for
the given values of X:
1 𝑥−2
𝑃 𝑋 = 𝑥 = 5 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑥 = 0,1,2,3,4 𝑃 𝑋 = 𝑥 = 5 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑥 = 1,2,3,4,5
= 0 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑤𝑖𝑠𝑒 and = 0 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑤𝑖𝑠𝑒
5. Show that the fuction f(x) defined by
1
f x =7 1<𝑥<8
= 0 otherwise
is a probability density function for a random variable.
6. 1 1 1
A random variable X takes three values 0,1, and 2 with probability 3 , 6 and 2 respectively.
Obtain the distribution function of X.
7. Let X be a continous random variable with pdf
f x = kx 1 − x , 0 ≤ x ≤ 1
Find k and determine a number b such that P X ≤ b = P X ≥ b .
8. In a binomial distribution, the mean and variance are 4 and 3 respectively. Find P X ≥ 1 .
Tutorial : 2
1. The mean and variance of a poisson distribution is 2. Write down the distribution.
2. The weights of 4000 students are found to be normally distributed with a mean of 50kg and
an SD of 5kg. Find the probability that a student selected at random will have weight (i)less
than 45kg and ii beyween 45 and 60kg.
3. In a normal distribution,31% items are under 45 and 8% are over 64. Find the mean and
standard deviation. Find also, the percentage of items lying between 30 and 75.
4. If X is exponentially distributed, prove that probability that X exceeds its expected value is
less than 0.5.
5. Find the probabilities that the value of a random variable will exceed 4, if it has gamma
distribution with,
1 1
a λ = 3 ,r = 2 b λ = 4 ,r = 3
6. If 2 per cent bulbs are known to be defective bulbs, find the probability that in a lot of 300
bulbs, there will be 2 or 3 defective bulbs using Poisson distribution.
7. The probability distribution of a random variable X is given below. Find
i E X , ii Var x , iii E 2X − 3 , (iv)Var(2X − 3)
X -2 -1 0 1 2
P(X = x) 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.1
Tutorial : 3
1. Find the coefficient of correlation between x and y for the following data:
x 10 12 18 24 23 27
y 13 18 12 25 30 10
2. Calculate Karl Pearson’s coefficient of correlation from the following data, using 20 as the
working mean for price and 70 as working mean for demand.
Price 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
Demand 84 78 70 75 66 67 62 58 60
3. Calculate Spearman’s coefficient of rank correlation for the following data:
x 53 98 95 81 75 71 59 55
y 47 25 32 37 30 40 39 45
4. The following data regarding the heights (y) and weights (x) of 100 college students are
given:
x = 15000, x 2 = 2272500, y = 6800, y 2 = 463025, xy = 1022250
Find the coefficient of correlation between heights and weight and also the equation of
regression of heights and weights.
5. Given var x = 25. The equations of the two lines of regression are 5x − y = 22 and
64x − 45y = 24. Find i x and y , ii r and iii σy
6. The following table gives the age of car of a certain make and annual maintenance cost.
Obtain the equation of the line of regression of cost on age.
Age of a car 2 4 6 8
Maintenance 1 2 2.5 3
7. Calculate the two regression coefficients from the data and find correlation coefficient.
x 7 4 8 6 5
y 6 5 9 8 2
8. A dice is tossed 960 times and it falls with 5 upwards 184 times. Is the dice unbiased at a
level of significance of 0.01?
Tutorial : 4
1. A manufacturer claims at least 95% of the items he produces are failure free. Examinations
of random sample of 600 items showed 39 to be defective. Test the claim at a significance
level of 0.05.
2. In a sample of 1000 people in Karnataka, 540 are rice eaters and the rest are wheat eaters.
Can we assume that both rice and wheat are equally popular in this state at 1% level of
significance?
3. The means of simple samples of sizes 1000 and 2000 are 667.5 and 68 cm respectively. Can
the samples be regarded as drawn from the same population of S.D. 2.5 cm.
4. The mean IQ of a sample of 1600 children was 99. Is it likely that this was a random sample
from a population with mean IQ 100 and SD 15?
5. A sample of 26 bulbs gives a mean life of 990 hours with SD of 20 hours. The manufacturer
claims that the mean life of bulbs is 1000 hours. Is the sample up to standard?
6. The standard deviations calculated from two random sample of size 9 and 13 are 2 and 1.9
respectively. Can the samples be regarded as drawn from the normal populations with the
same standard deviation?
7. A dice is thrown 264 times with the following results: Show that the dice is biased
Given χ20.05 = 11.07 for 5 df
No. appeared on the dice 1 2 3 4 5 6
Frequency 4 32 28 58 54 52
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Tutorial : 5
1. A random sample of 10 nations gives a correlation coefficient of 0.5 between literacy rate
and political stability. Is the relationship significant?
2. Ten objects are chosen at random from a large population and their weights are found to be
in grams : 63, 64, 65, 66, 69, 69, 70, 70, 71. Discuss the suggestion that the mean weight is
65 g.
3. Fit a straight line to the following data. Also, estimate the value of y at x = 2.5.
x 0 1 2 3 4
y 1 1. 3. 4. 6.
8 3 5 3
4. Find the relation of the type R = aV + b, when some values of R and V obtained from an
experiment are
V 60 65 70 75 80 85 90
R 10 11 11 12 12 13 13
9 4 8 3 7 0 3
5. Fit a parabola to the following data:
x -2 -1 0 1 2
y 1. 1. 1. 2. 6.
0 8 3 5 3
x
6. Fit the curve y = ab to the following data:
x 7 4 8 6 5
y 6 5 9 8 2
7. Estimate γ by fitting the ideal gas law PV γ = c to the following data:
P 16. 39. 78. 115. 195. 546.
6 7 5 5 3 1
V 50 30 20 15 10 5
