Mathematics for Technology II Assignment Page 1 of 3

ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS

Question 1 [25 marks]
(a) Suppose height to the bottom of clouds is normally distributed with mean
4000m and standard deviation 1000m A person bets that cloud height tomorrow
will fall in the set A = {1000m < X < 3300m} while second person bets that
height will be satisfied by B = {2000m < X < 4200m}. A third person bets they
are both correct. Find the probabilities that each person will win the bet.
[10 marks]
(b) There are 600 computing students in the under-graduate department of a
university and the probability for any student to need a copy of particular
textbook from the university library on any day is 0.05. How many copies of the
book should be kept in the university library so that the probability may be greater
than 0.90 that none of the students needing a copy from the library has to come
back disappointed.
[5 marks]
(c) Two production lines are used to pack sugar into 5 kg bags. Line 1 produces twice
as many bags as does line 2. One percent of the bags from line 1 are defective in
that they fail to meet a purity specification, while 3% of the bags from line 2 are
defective. A bag is randomly chosen for inspection.
(i) If the bag is defective, what is the probability that it came from line 1?
(ii) If the bag is not defective, what is the probability that it came from line 1?
[10 marks]
Question 2 [15 marks]
(a) The following table shows the distribution of the number of faulty units in a
single shift in a factory. The data are for 200 shifts. Fit a Poisson distribution to
the following data and find the expected frequencies.
x 0 1 2 3 4
f 109 65 22 3 1
[8 marks]
(b) A manufacturer of cotton pins knows that 5% of his product is defective. If he
sells pins in boxes of 100 and guarantees that not more than 4 pins will be
defective, what is the probability that a box will fail to meet the guaranteed
quality?
[5 marks]
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(c) Two characteristics/assumptions of the Poisson distribution include one of the
following. Which one of the following statements is the two characteristics of the
Poisson distribution?
(A) Probability of success remains constant from trial to trial and the random
variable of interest is continuous
(B) The event occurring in one interval is independent of the event occurring
in any other non-overlapping interval, and the random variable of interest
is continuous.
(C) The event occurring in one interval is independent of the event occurring
in any other non-overlapping interval, and the random variable of interest
is discrete.
[2 marks]
Question 3 [10 marks]
For a certain binary channel, the probability that a transmitted 0 is correctly received as a
0 is 0.94 and the probability that a transmitted 1 is received as 1 is 0.91. Further the
probability of transmitting a 0 is 0.45. If a signal is sent, Determine
(a) the probability that a 0 is received.
[4 marks]
(b) the probability that a 0 was transmitted given that a 0 was received.
[3 marks]
(c) the probability of an error.
[3 marks]
Question 4 [20 marks]
(a) Diagonalise the matrix A =

,
_

8 . 0 3 . 0
2 . 0 7 . 0
and hence Compute A
100

[12 marks]
(b) Currents i
1
, i
2
, i
3
in a network are related by the following equations
Z
1
i
1
+ Z
3
i
3
= V
Z
2
i
2
Z
3
i
3
= 0
i
1
- i
2
- i
3
= 0
Apply Cramers rule to determine the expressions for i
1
, i
2
and i
3
in terms of Z
1
,
Z
2
, Z
3
and V
[8 marks]
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Question 5 [30 marks]
(a) Find the complex eigenvalues and the associated eigenvectors if A =
1
]
1

0 1
1 0
.
[6 marks]
(b) Write the value of the determinant
x x x 12 9 6
8 6 5
4 3 2
[3 marks]
(c) Consider the following symmetric matrix
A =
1
1
1
]
1

1 0 0
0 0 1
0 1 0
(i) Show that this matrix even though it has repeated eigenvalues has a full
complement of eigenvectors.
[14 marks]
(ii) Show that A = A
-1
= A
T
where A is given matrix.
[7 marks]
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