CS2800 - Probability and Statistics
[Link]. CSE 3rd Semester
Tutorial 2
1. A cupboard has three racks and each rack has two drawers. The first rack has a gold coin
in each drawer, the second rack has one gold and one silver in each drawer and the third
rack has silver in each drawer. A rack is chosen at random and a drawer is opened. If the
drawer contains gold, what is the probability that the other drawer also contain gold?
2. Anika flips a coin and rolls a 6-sided die. Find the probability of her obtaining a head on
the coin and a 2 on the die.
3. Let Ω be the square 0 ≤ x ≤ 1 and 0 ≤ y ≤ 1. If two events, A and B are such that
A = {(x, y) : 0 ≤ x ≤ 1/2, 0 ≤ y ≤ 1}
and
B = {(x, y) : 0 ≤ x ≤ 1, 0 ≤ y ≤ 1/4}
Show that the two events are independent.
4. A die is rolled 12 times. What is the probability of getting 2 sixes?
5. Find the range of the following random variables.
(a) Flip a coin once; X = 1 (H), 0 (T)
(b) Flip a coin 5 times; X = number of heads
(c) Toss two dice; X = sum, Y = absolute value of difference
(d) Select four numbers from 1:20 at random, without replacement; X = maximum of
the 4 numbers
(e) Toss a coin repeatedly until a head first appears. X = total number of trials needed,
Y = number of tails before the first head
6. Let X denote the number of boys in a randomly selected three-child family. Assuming
that boys and girls are equally likely, construct the probability distribution of X.
7. A die is rolled until a 6 is obtained. What is the probability that the 6 occurs in the 5th
roll?
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8. If X and Y are two random variables such that X takes values {1, 2} and Y takes values
{1, 2, 3, 4}, given the distribution :
1 2 3 4
1 1/4 1/8 1/16 1/16
2 1/16 1/16 1/4 1/8
Fine the probability that:
(a) Y is even.
(b) XY is odd.
(c) X > 0.
9. Given that in a factory that produces fuses, 2% of the times it is defective. What is the
probability that in a box containing 500 fuses, there are 4 defective fuses? Hint: Poisson
approximation of binomial distribution.