DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

SCHOOL OF ADVANCED SCIENCES

Continuous Assessment Test I, February 2016
Course Code : MAT207 Slot : D1+TD1
Course Name : Applied Probability, Statistics & Reliability Date of Exam: 24.02.2016
Max. Marks : 50 Answer ALL the Questions Duration: 90 Minutes.
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PART-A (6 X 3=18)

1. A random variable X has the following probability distributions

x: 0 1 2 3 4

P(x): K 3K 5K 7K 9K

(i) Find the value of K (ii) Find E[ X].

2. The two dimensional random variables ( X , Y ) has the joint probability distribution

Y
2 4
X
1 0.10 0.15
3 0.20 0.30
5 0.10 0.15

Find the marginal distribution of X and P X 3 Y 2
x 0 x 1

3. For the triangular distribution f x 2 x 1 x 2
0
otherwise

find moment generating function.

4. During war, one ship out of eight was sunk on an average in making a certain voyage. What was
the probability that exactly 2 out of five ships arrive safely.

5. The length of time a person speaks over phone follows exponential distribution with mean
1
. What is the probability that the person will talk for more than 8 minutes.
6

6. The mean life of electric bulbs is 2000 hours. The standard deviation is 60 hours. What is the
probability of the bulbs burning for more than 2100 hours taking P(Z>1.667) = 0.4515
 PART-B (2 X 16=32)

7. a) Let X and Y be discrete random variable with probability function

x y
p x, y , x 1, 2,3 ; y 1, 2 . Find (i) Mean of X (ii) Variance of Y
21
(iii) Cov(X,Y). (8 marks)

b) The joint density function of two random variables X and Y is

x y
e x 0, y 0
f ( x, y) Find (i) P X 1 (ii) P X Y 1
0 otherwise

(8 marks)

8. a) A car hire firm has two cars which it hires out day by day. The number of demands for
a car on each day is distributed as Poisson variate with mean 1.5. Calculate the
proportion of days on which (i) neither car is used (ii) P(X > 2) (8 marks)

b) The life time in hours of a component is a random variable having Weibull distribution
with parameters 0.2 and 0.5 . Find the mean life time of the component and
also find the probability that such a component will be working for more than 200 hrs.

(8 marks)