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B.E/B.Tech. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER/DECEMBE!
Fourth Semester
(Regulation 2004)
Computer Science and Engineering
MA 1252 — PROBABILITY AND QUEUEING THEORY
(Common to B.E. Part-Time Third Semester Regulation 2005)
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
Use of statistical table is permitted.
Answer ALL questions. —
PART A — (10 x 2 = 20 marks)
1. When A and B are 2 mutually exclusive events, are the values P(A)=0.6 and
P(ANB)=0.5 consistent? Why?
2. Acontinuous random variable X has a density function given by f(x) =k(L+x)
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If the density function of a continuous random variable X is
given by
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0 —; otherwise
(1) Find ‘a’ (2) Find the cdf of X.
Yf the moments of a random variable ‘K’ are defined by
E(X")=0.6; r=1,2,3,
Show that P(X =0)=0.4, P(X =1)=0.6, P(X 22)=0.
A machine manufacturing screws is known to produce 5% defective.
Ina random sample of 15 screws, what is the probability that there
are (1) exactly 3 defectives, (2) not more than 3 defectives.
A die is cast until 6 appears. What is the probability that it must be
cast more than 5 times?
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If X is uniformly distributed over (-a, a), @>0, find @ so that
@ PR >y=t (2) P(X|<1) = P(X|>1).
Assume that mean height of soldiers to be 68.22 inches with a
variance of 10.8 inches. How many soldiers in a regiment of
1000 would you expect to be over 6 feet tall?
If the joint distribution function of X and Y is given by
(-e*)a-e) for x>0,y>0
0 , otherwise
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(1) Find the marginal densities of X and Y
(2) Are X and Y independent
(3) P(l