COMSATS - Lancaster Dual Degree Programme

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Lahore

Assignment 1 1 Semester Spring 2014
Course Title: Course Instructor/s: Semester: Probability Methods in Engineering Syed Ahmed Faran 4th Batch: FA12-B BTE Course Code: Programme Name: Section: B EEE251 BS Electrical Telecom Engineering (DDP) Total Score: 50

Date:
Problem 1:

21st February February, 2014.

Hand-in date:

28th February, February 2014.

(10 marks)

Write down sample space of following experiments experiments: a. b. c. d. Counting number umber of failed students in a class of strength 10. Calculating number umber of bit errors in 6 6-bit data. Calculating height of trees in Lahore Zoo. Temperature of water? (hint: water is liquid. It is steam in gaseous state and ice in solid state)

Problem 2:
(10 marks)

Using Set Theory, write an expression for event Exactly one event occurs out of three events, where A, B and C are three events. Also draw Venn diagram for this event event. Problems from book: Problem 3 (2.24 in Garcia 2nd Ed.):
(10 marks)

A fair coin is tossed until the first head comes up. Let k be the number of toss in which the first heads occurs. Let A be the event k>5, and let B be the event k>10. Find the probabilities of A, B, Bc, AB and AB. Problem 4 (2.56 in Garcia 2nd Ed.):
(20 marks)

The arrival time of a professor to her office is uniformly distributed in the interval between 8 and 9 A.M. Find the probability that the professor will arrive during next minute, given that sh she e has not arrived by 8:30. Repeat for 8:50.