Department of Mathematical Sciences.

IIT (BHU)
Assignment:-2
Course: MA 202
Concerned Teacher: Dr. A. Banerjee
Date: 30th January 2016
Marks: 20
Submit by 1st February 2016 by 10AM Submit in A4 paper. Answer all questions.

1. 5 men and 5 women are ranked according to their scores on an examination. Assume
that no two scores are alike and all 10! possible rankings are equally likely. Let X denote
the highest ranking achieved by a women (for instance, X = 2 if the top ranked person
was male and the next ranked person was female). Find P {=
X i}=
; i 1, 2,3,...,8,9,10 .
2. Let X represents the difference between the number of heads and the number of tails
obtained when a coin is tossed n times. What are the possible values of X? If the coin
is assumed fair, for n = 3, what are the probabilities associated with the values that X
can take on?
3. Suppose the random variable X has probability density function
cx3 , if 0 x 1
f ( x) =
0 , otherwise
a) Find the value of c.
b) Find P {0.4 < X < 0.8} .
4. The amount of time, in hours, that a computer functions before breaking down is a
continuous random variable with probability density function given by
e x /100 , x 0
f ( x) =
, x<0
0
What is the probability that a computer will function between 50 and 150 hours before
breaking down? What is the probability that it will function less than 100 hours?
5. The joint probability density function of X and Y is given by
3
f ( x,=
y)
2 x 2 + xy ) for 0 < x < 1;0 < y < 2
(
7
a) Verify that this is indeed a joint density function.
b) Compute the density function of X.
c) Find P { X > Y } .
6. The joint density of X and Y is given by
xe ( x + y ) , x > 0; y > 0
f ( x, y ) =
, otherwise
0
a) Compute the density function of X.
b) Compute the density function of Y.
c) Are X and Y independent?
7. If the density function of X is f ( x)= 1; 0 < x < 1 , determine E etX . Differentiate to
obtain E X n and then check your answer.
8. Suppose that X is a random variable with mean and variance both equal to 20. What
can be said about P {0 x 40} ?

9. A product is classified according to the number of defects it contains and the factory
that produces it. Let X 1 and X 2 be the random variables that represent the number of
defects per unit (taking possible values of 0, 1, 2, or 3) and the factory number (taking
on possible values of 1 or 2), respectively. The entries in the table represent the joint
probability mass function of a randomly chosen product.
1
2
X1 X 2

1/ 8

1/16

1/16 1/16

3 /16 1/ 8

1/ 8

1/ 4

a) Find the marginal probability distributions of X 1 and X 2 .

b) Find E [ X 1 ] , E [ X 2 ] , Var ( X 1 ) , Var ( X 2 ) , and Cov ( X 1 , X 2 ) .
10. From past experience, a professor knows that the test score of a student taking her final
examination is a random variable with mean 75.
a) Give an upper bound to the probability that a students test score will exceed
85. Suppose in addition the professor knows that the variance of a students test
score is equal to 25.
b) What can be said about the probability that a student will score between 65 and
85?
c) How many students would have to take the examination so as to ensure, with
probability at least 0.9, that the class average would be within 5 of 75?