IV SEM AUTOMOBILE: ASSIGNMENT I

1.

Items coming off a production line are marked defective (D) or non-defective (N).
Items are observed and their condition listed. This is continued until two
consecutive defective are produced or four items have been checked, whichever
occurs first. Describe a sample space for this experiment.

2.

Given P(A) = , P(B) = 3/8 , show that

3

i) 4 P ( A B ) , ii)
3.

1
3
P ( A B)
8
8

iii)

3
5
P ( A B )
8
8

If two fair dies are thrown, what is the probability that

i) Sum>8 ii) sum is either 7 or 11.

4.

One number is chosen at random from 1, 2, 3 50. Find the probability that
Number is divisible by 6 or divisible by 8.

5.

Ten persons in a room are wearing badges marked 1 through 10. Three
Persons are chosen at random, and asked to leave the room simultaneously.
Their badge number is noted.

6.

I) what is the probability that the smallest badge number is 5?

II) What is the N men throws their hat in to the center of a hall and then each one
picks a hat at random. What is the probability that no one gets his own hat?

7.

A lot consists of 4 bad and 6 good tubes. Tubes are selected one after the other at
random (without replacement) and are tested till all the bad tubes are detected.
What is the probability that the last bad tube is detected at the 5th test? 10th test?

8.

Two players X and Y throw alternately a pair of dice in that order. X wins if he
scores 6 points (as sum) before Y gets 7 points, in which case Y wins. If X starts the
game, what is the chance of winning of Y.

9.

Two absent-minded roommates, Engineers, forget their umbrellas in some way or

another. A always takes his umbrella when he goes out, while B forgets to take his
umbrella with probability . Each of them forgets their umbrella at a shop with
probability . After visiting three shops, they return home. Find the probability
that: a ) They have both umbrellas.
b) They have only one umbrella;
c) B has lost his umbrella given that there is only one umbrella after their
return.

IV SEM AUTOMOBILE: ASSIGNMENT II

1. The

random

variable

(X,Y)

x y, 0 x 1, 0 y 1
elsewhere
0,

has

joint

pdf

given

by

f (x, y)

. Compute the correlation coefficient between X

& Y.
2. Two independent r.v. X1 and X2 have means 5, 10 and variance 4, 9. Find covariance
between U = 3X1 + 4X2 and V = 3X1 X2.
3. Suppose that life lengths of two electric devices, say D1 and D2 are normally distributed
with mean 40 and 45, variance 36 and 9 respectively. If the electric device to be used for a
period of 45 hrs? Which device is to be used?
4. The amount of kerosene, in thousands of liters in a tank at the beginning of any day is a
random amount Y from which a random amount X is sold during the day. Suppose that the
xy
tank is not resupplied during the day so that
, and assume that the joint density
function of these variables is

2, 0 x y, 0<y<1
elsewhere
0,

f (x, y)

a) Determine if X and Y are independent

1
1
X
2
4

P
5.
6.

7.

8.

3
Y
4

b) Find
.
In a normal distribution, 31% of the items are under 45 and 8% are over 64. Find the mean
and variance of the distribution.
Buses arrive at a specified stop at 15 min. interval starting at 7 A. M., that is, they arrive at
7, 7:15, 7:45 and so on. If a passenger arrives at the stop at a random time that is uniformly
distributed between 7 and 7.30 A. M., find the probability that he waits
A) less than 5min for a bus and
B) at least 12min. for a bus.
1/ 500
In a certain factory, turning out of optical lenses, there is a chance of
for any lens to
10
be defective. The lenses are supplied in a packet of
. Calculate the approximate number
of packets containing no defective, one defective, two defective and three defective lenses
in a consignment of 20,000 packets.
The income of a group of 10,000 persons was found to be normally distributed with mean
Rs.750 and standard deviation of Rs. 50.Find the number of persons out of 10,000 who

have income exceeding Rs.668 and those who have income exceeding Rs. 832?.Also, find
the lowest income among the richest 100?
X

9. Let

have a Poisson distribution with mean 100. Use Chebyshevs inequality

P 75 X 125

to determine a lower bound for

.
10. Find the mean and variance of Binomial distribution.

IV SEM AUTOMOBILE: ASSIGNMENT III

,
2

1. If the random variable X has N

distribution, then show that the random variable

X
X
Z
has N(0, 1) and that V
2

has

2 (1)

2. Find the mgf of a random variable which is uniformly distributed over (-1, 2).

,
3. Suppose that the random variable X is uniformly distributed over
. Find the
2 2

p.d.f of Y = tan X
4. Find the m.g.f of Poisson distribution. Hence, find its mean and variance.
5. Show that for the random variable X having normal distribution with mean
E X

2n

1.3.5.....(2n 1)

and

2n

variance ,
.
6. A computer in adding numbers, rounds each number to the nearest integer. Suppose that
1 1
,
all rounding errors are independent and are uniformly distributed in
2 2 . Then
2

i)

If 1500 numbers are added, what is the probability that the magnitude of the total
error exceeds 15?
ii)
How many numbers may be added together in order that the magnitude of the
total error is less than 10, with probability 0.90?
7. If X is a random variable having binomial distribution B(72, 1/3) then evaluate P( 22< X
< 28) using Central limit theorem.
Y=

M X t = e 2t(1+t)

X-2

8. If
what is the pdf of
.Obtain the mgf of Y.
9. Compute an approximate probability that mean of a random sample of size 15 from a

0 x 1

0,

elsewhere

f (x)

3x 2 ,

distribution having pdf

is between

3 4
&
5 5

10. Find the mgf of the random variable x which is uniformly distributed over (-a,a).

E X

Evaluate

2n

IV SEM AUTOMOBILE: ASSIGNMENT IV

1. Find the correlation coefficient for
x
92
50
89
87
y
86
57
88
91

86
77

83
68

77
85

71
52

63
82

53
37

2. Certain experimental values of x and y are given below:

x
0
2
5
7
y
1
5
12
20
If y = a0 + a1x, find approximate values of a0 and a1 by the least squares method.
3. Fit a second degree parabola to the following
x
y

0
1

1
1.8

2
1.3

3
2.5

4
6.3

4. Obtain the lines of regression and hence find the coefficient of correlation for the
following data:
X: 1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Y: 9
8
10
12
11
13
14
5. Compute the quartile coefficient of skew ness for the following distributions.

6.

3-7

8-12

13-17

18-22

108

508

175

23-27

28-32

33-37

38-42

80

32

18

Calculate the mean and standard deviation for the following.

Size of item

10

11

12

Frequency

13

7.
Marks

60 62

6365

6668

69 71

7274

No. of students

18

42

27

In above table, the distribution of marks of 100 students in an examination. Find the first
four central moments, the coefficients of Skewness and Kurtosis.
8. Calculate the mean, median and mode for the following
Size of the item

10

11

12

Frequency

13

Calculate mean, median and mode of the following data:

9.

Weight(in
gms)
No. of articles

0 10

10 20

20 30

30 40

40 50

50 60

17

22

26

23

18

10.The following are runs scored by two batsmen X and Y in 10 successive

innings

12

11
5

73

19

11
9

36

84

29

47

12

16

42

51

37

48

13

Find who is the better score getter and who is more consistent ?

IV SEM AUTOMOBILE: ASSIGNMENT V

1. The Manager of an oil refinery must decide on the optimal mix of two possible blending
processes of which the units and outputs per production run are as follows.
Process
Input (units)
Output (Units)
(Units)
Grade A
Grade B
Gasoline X
Gasoline Y
1
5
3
5
8
2
4
5
4
4
The maximum amounts available of crudes A and B are 200 units and 150 units,
respectively. Market requirements show that atleast 100 units of Gasoline X and 80 units
of Gasoline Y must be produced. The profits per production run for process 1 and process
2 are Rs. 300 and Rs. 400 respectively. Solve the problem by graphical method to
maximize the profit.
2. Solve using Graphical method,

Maximize z 10 x 15 y
Subject to 2 x y 26
2 x 4 y 56
x y 5
x, y 0
3. Use simplex method to solve

Minimize P x 3 y 2 z
Subject to 3x y 2 z 7
2 x 4 y 12
4 x 3 y 8 z 10
x, y , z 0
4. Use Big M method to solve

Maximize P 4 x 5 y 3 z
Subject to x y z 10
x y 1
2 x 3 y z 40
x, y , z 0
5. Using Simplex method, solve the following LPP, Maximize
3 x1 +8 x 2 12,
x1 , x2 0 .
to x 1+ x 2 2 , 5 x 1 +2 x2 10,

6. Using M- method, solve the following LPP , maximize

2 x 1 + x 2 2,3 x 1 +4 x 2 12,

z=5 x 1+3 x 2

z=3 x 1+2 x 2

subject

subject to

x1 , x2 0

7. Use two phase method to

Maximize :
Subject to :

z = 5x1 4x2 + 3x3

2x1 + x2 6x3 = 20
6x1 + 5x2 + 10x3 76
8x1 3x2 + 6x3 50
x1, x2, x3 0

8. A company has factories at A, B and C which supply some material to warehouses

at D,E,F and G. The factory capacities are 230, 280 and 180 respectively for
regular production. If overtime production is utilized, the capacities can be
increased to 300, 360 and 190 respectively. Increment unit overtime costs are Rs.5,
Rs.4 and Rs.6 respectively. The current warehouse requirements are 165, 175, 205
and 165 respectively. The unit shipping costs ( in rupees) between the factories
and the warehouses are given below

warehouses
D E F G
6 7 8 10
4 10 7 6

3 22 2 11

A
Factories B
C

Determine the optimum distribution for the companies to minimize costs.

9. Find all basic solutions of the following system of equations
2x + y z = 2
3x + 2y + z = 3
Are they feasible ? Degenerate?
10. Solve the following LPP by two phase method
z

Minimize
Subject to

15
x 3y
2

3x y z 3
x y +z 2
x, y, z 0