Ramdeobaba University, Nagpur
Program: [Link] CSE (AI & ML) First Year
Course Name: Probability and statistics Course Code: 24CS50TH1175
Semester-I Session: 2025-2026
Question Bank
Topic: Module 1 (Random Variable)
1. A random variable has the following distribution
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
() 0 2 2 7 2 +
a. Find the value of ?
b. Evaluate ( > 6), ( ≤ 6) (0 < ≤ 5)
c. Find the Mean and Variance of .
2. A random variable has the following mass function = 3 for = 0,,,.
a. Find the value of k?
b. Find the Mean and Variance of .
c. Distribution Function
3. A random variable has the following mass function( = ) = for =
,,,,5 and 0 otherwise.
a. Find k
b. ( )?
c. Distribution Function.
4. A random variable has the following density function
( − ), 0 < <
( ) =
0, ℎ
a. Find the value of ?
b. ( > 0.), ( ≤ 0.7) (0. < ≤ 0.5)
c. Find the mean and variance
d. Distribution Function
5. A random variable has the following density function
, 0 ≤ <
( ) = , ≤ < .
( − ), < ≤
a. Find the value of ?
b. Construct the Distribution Function, and find (0.5 < ≤ .5), ( ≤ .5).
c. Find the mean and variance of the distribution.
6. ( = ) = ( − )1 , = ,, …. And 0 elsewhere. (0 < < ). Find the
mean and variance.
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7. ( ) = , ≤ ≤ and zero elsewhere. Find the mean and variance of the
probability density function.
8. The amount of bread (in one hundred pounds) , that a certain bakery is able to sell in
a day is found to be a numerical valued random phenomenon with probability density
function
, 0 ≤ ≤ 5,
( ) = (0 − ), 5 < ≤ 0, Find the value of A. Also find what is the
0, ℎ
probability that the bakery will sell more than 500 pounds, Less than 500 pounds and
within 250 to 750 pounds.
⁄ , ≥ 00
9. Life time of a Radio in tube is given by the pdf ( ) = { 2 . Find the
0, ℎ
value of k. A radio set consists of three such radio tubes and can operate when all
three tubes are working. What is the probability that a tube should not be replaced
within first 150 hours? What is the probability that the Radio set has to be replaced
within 150 hours?
10. A and B play a game where there chance of winning are in the ratio : . Find A’s
chance of winning at least 3 games out of 5 played.
11. A binary source generates digits 1 and 0 randomly with probability 0.4 and 0.6
respectively. What is the probability of getting two zero in a five digit sequence?
What is the probability of obtaining at least three One?
12. A person rolls a dice. He moves forward by 3.5m, if it shows a multiple of 3,
otherwise he moves backward by 2m. Find the probability that he will be exactly 10m
forward from his original position after certain throws? What is the probability that he
will be always 4.5 m ahead from his original position after 4 throws?
13. A noisy transmission channelsends incorrect data with probability 0.001. What is the
probability of having At least 1 error, At most 1 error, out of 100 received signals?
14. In a traffic signal 10,000 cars passes per day. A car breaks the signal with
probability04 . Find the probability that not more than 5 cars breaks the signal. Also
find the probability that no one will break the signal?
15. If 10% of the bolts produced by a machine are defective, then determine the
probability that out of 10 bolts chosen, exactly 1 is defective, none are defective, At
most 2 are defective. What are the odds if one selects 100 bolts?
16. Diameters of 1000 brass plugs taken consecutively from a machine follows Normal
distribution with mean 0.7515 cm and standard deviation 0.0020 cm. How many
plugs are likely to be rejected if the approved diameter is 0.752±0.004 cm?
17. A manufacturer of envelopes knows that the weight of envelopes are normally
distributed with mean 1.9 grams and variance 0.01 grams. How many envelopes can
be expected to weight 2 grams or more in a packet of 1000 envelopes?
18. Average height of men is 165 cm with standard deviation 10cm. What percentage of
men have height 180 cm or more, if it is normally distributed?
19. The average Normalized CGPA of 300 students is 2.8 with a standard deviation 0.5?
How many scored between 3 and 3.5?
20. Six dices are thrown 729 times. How many times do you expect at least three dice to
show a 5 or 6?
21. In a Normal distribution of goods 31% of items are 45 kg and 8% items are over 64
kg. Find the mean and variance of the distribution?
22. If 10% of the probability for a normal distribution is below 35 and 5% above 90. Find
mean and standard deviation of the distribution.
23. In a Normal distribution with mean 2 and standard distribution 3, find the value of x
such that the probability from mean to that value is 0.4115?
24. Find the probability that 200 tosses of a coin will result in (a) between 80 and 120
heads inclusive (b) less than 90 heads (c) less than 85 or more than 115 heads (d)
exactly 100 heads.
25. Assume that 50% of all engineering students are good in mathematics. Determine the
probabilities that (a) exactly 10 (b) a tleast 10 (c) at most 8 (d) at least 2 and at most 9,
are good in maths.
26. The probability of a man hitting a target is 1/3. (a) If he fires 5 times, what is the
probability of his hitting the target at least twice? (b) How many times must he fire so
that the probability of his hitting the target at least once is more than 90%?
27. Determine the area under the curve
a) Between z = -1.2 and z = 2.4
b) Between z = -2.35 and z = -0.5
c) To the left of z = -1.90
d) To the right of z = -2.40
e) To the left of z= -3.0 and to the right of z = 2.0
28. When the mean of marks was 50% and standard deviation 5% then 60% of the
students failed in the examination. Determine grace marks to be awarded in order to
show that 70% of the student passed. Assume that the marks are normally distributed.