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Problems on Binomial Distribution:

1. Determine the following

a. If n = 4 and p =0.12, then what is P(X=0)
b. If n = 10 and p =0.40, then what is P(X=0)
c. If n = 6 and p =0.83, then what is P(X=6)
d. If n = 10 and p =0.90, then what is P(X=9)
2. For a binomial distribution with n = 7 and p = 0.2, find
a) P(r = 5) b) P(r > 2) c) P(r ≥3) d) P (r≥4)
Answer 0.0043 0.1480 0.1480 0.0333
3. Find the mean and standard deviation of the following binomial distribution.
Answer
a. n = 16 p = 0.40 µ= 6.4 s.d.= 1.96
b. n = 10 p = 0.75 7.5 1.369
c. n = 22 p = 0.15 3.3 1.675
d. n = 350 p = 0.90 315 5.612
e. n = 78 p = 0.05 3.9 1.925

4. At a particular university is has been found that 20% of the students withdraw without
completing the Business Statistics Course. Assume that 18 students have registered for
the course this semester.
a. What is the probability that none will withdraw?
b. What is the probability that at least one will withdraw?
c. What is the probability that at most 2 will withdraw?
5. Harley Davidson, director of quality control for the Kyoto Motor company, is conducting
his monthly spot check of automatic transmission. In this procedure, 10 transmissions are
removed from the pool of components and are checked for manufacturing defects.
Historically, only 2% of the transmissions have such flaws. (Assume that flaws occur
independently in different transmission)
a) What is the probability that Harley’s sample contains more than two transmissions
with manufacturing flaws? Answer 0.0009
n=10, p = 0.02, q = 0.98
p(x>2) = 1- p(x=0)-p(x=1) – p(x=2)= 0.001
b) What is the probability that none of the selected transmission has any manufacturing
flaws? Answer 0.8171
P(x=0) =
6. Harry Ohme is in charge of the electronics section of a large department store. He has
noticed that the probability that a customer who is just browsing will buy something is
0.3. Suppose that 15 customer browse in the electronics section each hour.
a) What is the probability that at least one browsing customer will buy something
during a specified hour? Answer 0.9953
b) What is the probability that at least four browsing customers will buy something
during a specified hour? Answer 0.7032
c) What is the probability that no browsing customer will buy anything during a
specified hour? Answer 0.0047
d) What is the probability that no more than four browsing customers will buy
something during a specified hour? Answer 0.5155

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7. The bank of Katmandu has recently starts a new credit program. Customers meeting
certain credit requirements can obtain a credit card accepted by participating area
merchants that carries a discount. Past numbers show that 25% of all applicants for this
card are rejected. If 10 applicants are selected, what is the probability that
a. Exactly 4 will be rejected?
b. None of them are rejected?
c. At least two are rejected?
d. Less than three are rejected?

8. Determine the mean and standard deviation of the random variable X in each of the
following binomial distributions:
a) If n = 4 and p = 0.10
b) If n = 4 and p = 0.40
c) If n = 5 and p = 0.80
d) If n =3 and p = 0.50
9. Warranty records show that the probability that a new car needs a warranty repair in the
first 90 days is 0.05. If a sample of three new car is selected, what is the probability that
in the first 90 days
a) None needs a warranty repair
b) At least one needs a warranty repair
c) More than one needs a warranty repair
10. An important part of the customer service responsibilities of a telephone company relates
to the speed with which troubles in residential service can be repaired. Suppose past data
indicate that the likelihood is 0.70 that troubles in residential service can be repaired on
the same day. For the first five troubles reported on a given day, what is the probability
that
a) All five will be repaired on the same day?
b) At least three will be repaired on the same day?
c) Fewer than two will be repaired on the same day?
11. A fair coin is tossed ten times. Find the probability of obtaining
a) Exactly 4 heads (Ans 0.2051)
b) No heads (Ans. 0.0010)
c) At least one head (Ans.0.9990)
d) At most three heads (Ans. 0.1719)
e) More than 8 heads(Ans. 0.0107)
f) 3 heads and 7 tails (Ans.0.1172)
12. In a box containing 90 screws, 27 were defective what is the probability that out of a
sample of 6 screws
a. All defective (Ans.0.00073)
b) No defective (Ans.0.1176)
c) At least one defective (Ans. 0.8824)
d) At most two defective (Ans. 07442)
e) Exactly 3 defective (Ans. 0.1852)
13. The latest nationwide political pool indicate that for Americans who are randomly
selected, the probability that they are conservative is 0.55, the prob. that they are liberal is
0.30 and the probability that they are middle of the road is 0.15. Assuming that these
probabilities are accurate, answer the following questions. Pertaining to a randomly
chosen group of 10 Americans.

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a) What is the probability that four are liberal? Answer 0.2001

b) What is probability that none are conservative? Answer 0.0003
c) What is the probability that two are middle of the road? Answer 0.2759
d) What is the probability that at least eight are liberal? Answer 0.0016

14. The incidence of occupational disease in an industry is such that the workers have a 20%
chance of suffering from it, what is the probability that out of six workmen, 4 or more
will contact the disease. (Ans. 0.017)
15. The probability of a bomb hitting a target is 1/5. Two bombs are enough to destroy a
bridge. If six bombs are aimed at the bridge, find the probability that the bridge is
destroyed. Answer 0.345
16. If the mean of a binomial distribution is 6 and standard deviation is 2, find the probability
of at most 2 successes. Answer 0.99
17. If the likelihood of a tagged order form is 0.1,
a) What is the probability that three tagged order forms are found in the sample of four
orders? Answer 0.0036
b) What is the probability that three or more (i.e. at least three) tagged order forms are
selected out of the sample of four order forms? Answer 0.0037
c) What is the probability that there are fewer than three tagged order forms in the
sample of four orders that are selected? Answer 0.9963
18. If the mean of a binomial distribution is 0.4 and its standard deviation is 0.6, find the
probability of at least one success.
19. From the question bank containing 100 questions, a question setter picks seven questions
at random for the final examination. It is known that 80 of these questions are numerical
(i.e. practical) and the rest theoretical. Find the probability that at least six questions so
drawn are numerical.
20. A commercial jet aircraft has four engines. For an aircraft in flight to land safely, at least
two engines should be in working condition. Each engine has an independent reliability
of 90%. What is the probability that an aircraft in flight can land safely?
21. A multiple choice test has 5 questions. There are 4 choices for each question. A student,
who has not studied for the test, decides all the answer of all questions randomly. What is
the probability that he will get
a. Five questions correct?
b. At least four questions correct?
c. . In a game called Taxation and Evasion, a player rolls a pair of dice. If one any turn the sum
is 7, 11, or 12, the player gets audited. Otherwise, she avoids taxes. Suppose a player takes 5
turns at rolling the dice. What is the probability that she gets audited at least once?

22. In a game called Taxation and Evasion, a player rolls a pair of dice. If one any turn the
sum is 7, 11, or 12, the player gets audited. Otherwise, she avoids taxes. Suppose a player
takes 5 turns at rolling the dice. What is the probability that she gets audited at least
once? Answer 0.7627
The probability that she gets audited no more than 2 times is 0.896482...

As, a pair of dice are rolling here, so the number of total possible outcome = (6×6) = 36

For Sum = 7 , the favorable outcomes are: (1,6) (2,5) (3,4) (4,3) (5,2) and (6,1)

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For Sum = 11 , the favorable outcomes are: (5,6) and (6,5)

For Sum = 12 , the favorable outcome is: (6,6)

Probability = (Number of favorable outcomes)÷(Number of total outcomes)

So, 

P( 7 or 11 or 12) = 

Here the total number of trials = 5 and the probability of getting audited = 

According the binomial distribution formula:

P(X) = (ⁿCₓ )(P)ˣ (1-P)ⁿ⁻ˣ

where P(X) is the probability of x successes out of n trials

Here, n= 5 and P = 1/4 and we need to find the probability of getting audited no more than 2 times. This
means she can gets audited 0, 1 or 2 times.

So,

So, the probability that she gets audited no more than 2 times is 0.896482...

23. A certain type of new business succeeds 60% of the time. Suppose that 3 such businesses
open (where they do not compete with each other so it is reasonable to believe that their
relative successes would be independent). What is probability that all 3 businesses fail?
Answer 0.064
24. Suppose that past history shows that 60% of college students prefer brand C cola. A
sample of 5 students is to be selected.
a) What is the probability that less than 2 prefer brand C? Answer 0.0870
b) What is the probability that more than 3 prefer brand C? Answer 0.3370