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The document presents various probability problems involving coins, wrist watches, house fires, light bulbs, defective items, machine failures, exam scores, card draws, and fruit selections. Each problem requires calculating specific probabilities or distributions based on given scenarios. The problems cover a range of statistical concepts including binomial distribution, Poisson distribution, and random variables.

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The document presents various probability problems involving coins, wrist watches, house fires, light bulbs, defective items, machine failures, exam scores, card draws, and fruit selections. Each problem requires calculating specific probabilities or distributions based on given scenarios. The problems cover a range of statistical concepts including binomial distribution, Poisson distribution, and random variables.

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TUTORIAL-2

1. Ten coins are tossed simultaneously. Find the probability of ge9ng (i) at least seven
heads, (ii) exactly seven heads, and (iii) at most seven heads.

2. 20 wrist watches in a box of 100 are defec4ve. If 10 watches are selected at random,
find the probability that (i) 10 are defec4ve, (ii) 10 are good, (iii) at least one watch is
defec4ve, and (iv) at most 3 are defec4ve.

3. Suppose, on average, 1 house in 1000 in a certain district has a fire during a year. If
there are 2000 houses in that district, what is the probability that exactly 5 houses
will have a fire during the year?

4. A manufacturer produces light bulbs that are packed into boxes of 100. If quality
control studies indicate that 0.5% of the light bulbs produced are defec4ve, what
percentage of the boxes will contain: (a) no defec4ve? (b) 2 or more defec4ves?

5. A manufacturer sells a certain ar4cle in batches of 5000. By agreement with a


customer, the following inspec4on method is adopted: A sample of 100 items is
drawn randomly from each batch and inspected. If the sample contains 4 or fewer
defec4ve items, the customer accepts the batch. If more than 4 defec4ves are
found, every item in the batch is inspected. If inspec4on costs are 75 p per hundred
ar4cles, and the manufacturer normally produces 2% of defec4ve ar4cles, find the
average inspec4on costs per batch.

6. The number of failures occurring in a machine of a certain type in a year has a


Poisson distribu4on with a mean of 0.4. In a factory, there are ten of these
machines. What is (a) the expected total number of failures in the factory in a year?
(b) What is the probability that there are fewer than two failures in the factory in a
year?

7. You take an exam that contains 20 mul4ple-choice ques4ons. Each ques4on has 4
possible op4ons. You know the answer to 10 ques4ons, but you have no idea about
the other 10 ques4ons so you choose answers randomly. Your score X on the exam
is the total number of correct answers. Find the PMF of X. What is P(X>15)?

8. Let X be a random variable giving the number of aces in a random draw of 4 cards
from an ordinary deck of 52 cards. Construct a table showing the probability
distribu4on of X.

9. An urn contains 5 mangoes and 4 apples. Three fruits are taken at


random. If the number of apples taken is a random variable, then find
the values of the random variable and the number of points in its
inverse images.
10.

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