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The document outlines a tutorial for an Applied Statistics course, featuring problems related to exponential and gamma distributions. It includes questions on failure rates, time intervals between events, and repair times for a heat pump, requiring calculations of probabilities and mean times. Additionally, it asks for an evaluation involving the Gamma function.

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Tutorial 03

The document outlines a tutorial for an Applied Statistics course, featuring problems related to exponential and gamma distributions. It includes questions on failure rates, time intervals between events, and repair times for a heat pump, requiring calculations of probabilities and mean times. Additionally, it asks for an evaluation involving the Gamma function.

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MA3014-20 S3 Tutorial 03 Page 1 of 1

Applied Statistics

1. A certain type of device has an advertised failure rate of 0.01 per hour. The failure
rate is constant and the exponential distribution applies

(a) What is the mean time to failure?


(b) What is the probability that 200 hours will pass before a failure is observed?

2. The time intervals between successive barges passing a certain point on a busy
waterway have an exponential distribution with mean 8 minutes.

(a) Find the probability that the time interval between two successive barges is less
than 5 minutes.
(b) Find a time interval t such that we can be 95% sure that the time interval
between two successive barges will be greater than t.

3. Suppose that the time, in hours, required to repair a heat pump is a random variable
X having a gamma distribution with parameters α = 2 and β = 1/2. What is the
probability that on the next service call
(a) at most 1 hour will be required to repair the heat pump?
(b) at least 2 hours will be required to repair the heat pump?
4. By using techniques involving the Gamma function, find the exact value of
R ∞ √ −x2
0 2 xe dx

Give the answer in the form Γ(k), where k is a rational constant.

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