Tutorial 4

1. The probability of successfully landing a plane using a flight simulator is given as 0.70.
Nine randomly and independently chosen student pilots are asked to try to fly the
plane using the simulator.

i. What is the probability that all the student pilots successfully land the plane using
the simulator?
ii. What is the probability that none of the student pilots successfully lands the plane
using the simulator?
iii. What is the probability that exactly eight of the student pilots successfully land the
plane using the simulator?

2. At the Mc Donald drive-thru window of food establishment, it was found that during slower
periods of the day, vehicles visited the drive-thru follow a Poisson distribution at the rate of
15 per hour. Determine the probability that

i. no vehicles visiting the drive-thru within a twenty-minute interval during one of these
slow periods;
ii. only 3 vehicles visiting the drive-thru within a twenty-minute interval during one of
these slow periods; and
iii. at least three vehicles visiting the drive-thru within a twenty-minute interval during
one of these slow periods.

3. The number of cracks in a section of PLUS highway that are significant enough to
require repair is assumed to follow a Poisson distribution with a mean of two cracks
per kilometer. Determine the probability that

i. there are no cracks at all in 2km of highway;

ii. at least one crack in 500meter of highway; and
iii. there are exactly 3 cracks in 0.5km of highway.

4. Suppose a random variable, X has a uniform distribution with a = 5 and b = 9. Determine,

i. the pdf of X;
ii. the cdf of X;
iii. P(6 < X < 8).
iv. P(X < 7).
v. the mean of X; and
vi. the standard deviation of X.

5. The time between telephone calls to ASTRO, a cable television payment processing
center follows an exponential distribution with a mean of 1.5 minutes. What is the
probability that the time between the next two calls

i. at least 45 seconds?
 ii. will be between 50 to 100 seconds?; and
iii. at most 150 seconds?

6. An average LCD Projector bulb manufactured by the ABC Corporation lasts 300 days
with variance of 2500days. By assuming that the bulb life is normally distributed, what
is the probability that the bulb will last

i. at most 365 days?

ii. between 250days and 350days?
iii. at least 400days?

7. Given that X is normally distributed with mean 20 and standard deviation 2, compute
the following for n=40.
i. Mean and variance of X
ii. P( X  19)
iii. P( X  22)
iv. P(19  X  21.5)

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