STAT 200 Assignment (Continuous Random Variables 2) 1.

23% of all patients with high blood pressure have bad side effects from a certain kind of medicine. Approximate the probability that among 120 patients with high blood pressure treated with this medicine, more than 32 will have bad side effects.

2. The life length T of an object has pdf f, where

3x 2 0 x 1 f ( x) = 0 otherwise
Calculate the probability that the object will survive more than 0.8 units if it is 0.6 units old?

3. The number of minutes that required by a student to complete a particular examination has an exponential distribution for which the mean is 80 minutes. Suppose that the examination begins at 9:00 a.m. (i) What is the probability that a student would complete the exam before 9: 40 a.m? (ii) Suppose that the examination is to be taken by 5 students independently of one another. Determine the probability that at least one of the students will complete the examination before 9:40 a.m. 4. A certain software package generates 100 random points which are independently and uniformly distributed over the square [0,2] x [0,2]. Find the approximate probability that more than 30 of these points lie in the unit square [0,1] x [0,1].

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Hint for #3 (ii) and # 4: Part of the problem can be likened to a binomial experiment