Industrial safety engineering

Assignment 0
1. The ratio of the number of ways a favourable outcome can occur to the total number of
possible outcomes is defined as
a. Probability
b. Sample space
c. Total outcomes
d. None of the above
Ans: a
2. Which of the following statement correctly defines the risk?
a. 𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒 𝑡𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚ℎ𝑡𝑡 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 + 𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 𝑡𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑒 𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒 𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖 𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜
b. 𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒 𝑡𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚ℎ𝑡𝑡 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 − 𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 𝑡𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑒 𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒 𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖 𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜
c. 𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒 𝑡𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚ℎ𝑡𝑡 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜/𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 𝑡𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑒 𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒 𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖 𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜
d. 𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒 𝑡𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚ℎ𝑡𝑡 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 ∗ 𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 𝑡𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑒 𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒 𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖 𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜

Ans: d
3. Industrial safety management aims to
a. Reduce hazards
b. Control hazards
c. Eliminate hazards
d. All of the above
Ans: d
4. In a steel manufacturing industry, the management is interested in the number of defects
occurring in each 200 feet of the steel sheet. The most suited probability distribution to be
applied in this situation is
a. Uniform distribution
b. Poisson distribution
c. Binomial distribution
d. None of the above
Ans: a
5. Which of the following is NOT a random event?
a. Incident
b. Accident
c. Mishap
d. Hazard
Ans: d
 Incidents, mishaps and accidents can occur randomly but hazard of a system is known
beforehand based on the system design and system components. Hence hazard is not a
random event.
6. Let a random variable (x) have the following probability density function:
2𝑥𝑥 ; 0 ≤ 𝑥𝑥 ≤ 1
𝑓𝑓(𝑥𝑥) = �
0 ; 𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐸ℎ𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒
Find P (½ ≤ x ≤ ¾ ).
a. 1/4
b. 3/16
c. 5/16
d. 9/16

Ans: c
�4 3 �4 3
1 3 9 1 5
𝑃𝑃 � < 𝑥𝑥 < � = � 𝑓𝑓(𝑥𝑥)𝑑𝑑𝑑𝑑 = � 2𝑥𝑥 𝑑𝑑𝑑𝑑 = − =
2 4 1� 1� 16 4 16
2 2

7. Suppose a step function is defined as follows:

1 ; 𝑡𝑡 ≥ 0
ℎ(𝑡𝑡) = �
0 ; 𝑡𝑡 < 0
The Laplace Transform of h(t) is
a. 0
b. 1/s, s > 0
c. e/s, s > 0
d. 1/(s-1), s ≠ 1
Ans: b
∞
∞ ∞ 𝑒𝑒 −𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠 1
ℒ[ℎ(𝑡𝑡)] = ∫0 ℎ(𝑡𝑡)𝑒𝑒 −𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠 𝑑𝑑𝑑𝑑 = ∫0 𝑒𝑒 −𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠 𝑑𝑑𝑑𝑑 = �− � = , 𝑠𝑠 > 0
𝑠𝑠 0 𝑠𝑠

8. An urn contains 5 white balls, 7 black balls, 3 red balls, 1 blue ball and 4 green balls. You
put your hand into the urn blindfolded and pick up a ball at random. What is the probability
that the color of the ball is not white or black?
a. 0.25
b. 0.2
c. 0.35
d. 0.4

Ans: d
Total number of balls = 5+7+3+1+4 =20
Total number of Red+Blue+Green balls= 8
So probability of picking up a ball that is not white or black is probability of picking up
either a red, green or blue ball = 8/20=0.4
 𝑑𝑑 2 (ln(𝑥𝑥 3 )
9. The value of at x = 3 is
𝑑𝑑𝑥𝑥 2
a) -1/9
b) 1/3
c) 1/9
d) -1/3
Ans: d
𝑑𝑑 2 (ln(𝑥𝑥 3 ) 𝑑𝑑 1 𝑑𝑑 3 −3
= [ * (3x2)] = ( )=
𝑑𝑑𝑥𝑥 2 𝑑𝑑𝑑𝑑 𝑥𝑥 3 𝑑𝑑𝑑𝑑 𝑥𝑥 𝑥𝑥 2

𝑑𝑑 2 (ln(𝑥𝑥 3 ) −3
Hence at x=3 value of = = -1/3
𝑑𝑑𝑥𝑥 2 32

10. The number of two input AND gates and two input OR gates required to realize Y = BD
+ CE + AB are (where Y is output variable and A, B, C, D and E are the input variables)
a) 3, 2
b) 4, 2
c) 1, 1
d) 2, 3
Ans: a