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PROBABILITY, STATISTICS AND RANDOM PROCESSES

PROBLEM SET7 – Durga Sivakumar

1. Suppose that n people throw their hats in a box and then each picks up one hat at random.
What is the expected value of X, the number of people that get back their own hat?

2. The life of a lightbulb in months is denoted by a random variable X with the pdf
0.5𝑒 !".$% , 𝑥≥0
𝑓(𝑥) = & . Find the expected life of bulb given that 𝑋 ≤ 1.5.
0, otherwise

& !"
3. The joint pdf of X and Y is given by 𝑓(𝑥, 𝑦) = '
, 0 < 𝑥 < 𝑦, 0 < 𝑦 < ∞. Compute
𝐸(𝑥 ( |𝑌 = 𝑦).

4. Consider a transmitter that is sending messages over a computer network. Let us define the
following two random variables, X : the travel time of a given message, Y : the length of the
given message. The pmf of the message length is

The travel time is 10−4Y secs with probability 1/2, 10−3Y secs with probability 1/3, and 10−2Y
secs with probability 1/6. Find the (unconditional) pmf of the travel time of a message.

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