V.S.B.

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING TECHNICAL CAMPUS, COIMBATORE

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
INTERNAL ASSESSMENT TEST I
MA8402-PROBABILITY AND QUEUEING THEORY

Year/Semester & Branch:II/IV B.E.CSE ODD

Faculty Name: Tharika Parveen J Date:
Max. Marks: 50 Time: 90 mins
PART-A Answer ALL Questions (5*2=10 Marks)
1 3 1
1. Let A and B be two events such that P ( A)  , P ( B)  and P ( A  B )  . Compute
3 4 4
P ( A / B ) and P ( A  B ) (A/M 2019)[CO1,
L1]
2. Find the probability of throwing 7 with two dice. [CO1, L2]

x
3. A random variable X has probability mass function P ( X  x )  , x  1,2,3,4. Find the cumulative
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distribution, F(X) of X. (A/M 2018)[CO1, L2]
4. Define conditional distributions. (A/M 2018)[CO2, L1]
5. Prove that P( A  B)  P( A)  P( B)  P( A  B) where A and B are any two events and are not
disjoint. [CO2, L4]

PART-B Answer ALL Questions (16+16+8=40 Marks)

6. (a)(i) A random variable X takes the values -2, -1, 0 and 1 with probabilities 1/8, 1/8,1/4 and 1/2
respectively. Find the mean and variance. (N/D 2014)[CO1, L2](8)
(ii) Find the MGF of the Poisson distribution and hence find its mean and variance.
(N/D 2015)[CO1, L2](8)
OR
6. (b) If A and B are independent events, prove that
(i) A and B are independent
(ii) A and B are independent [CO1, L2]
(16)
Cxy 2 , 0  x  y  1
7. (a)(i) The joint probability density function of (X,Y) is given by f ( x, y )  
0, otherwise

Determine (1) the value of C (2) the pdf conditional of X given Y=y (3) E(XY)?
(A/M 2019)[CO2, L2](8)
(ii) Calculate the correlation coefficient for the following data (N/D 2016)[CO2, L3](8)
x: 65 66 67 67 68 69 70 72
y: 67 68 65 68 72 72 69 71
OR
7. (b)(i) Two random variables X and Y have the following joint probability density function
 x ( y 1)
f ( x , y )  xe , x  0, y  0 .Determine the conditional probability density function of X

given Y and the conditional probability density function of Y given X . [CO2, L2](8)
(ii) If the pdf of X is f ( x )  2 x , 0  x  1, find the pdf of Y=3X+1. [CO2, L2]
(8)

8. (a) A consulting firm rents cars from three rental agencies in the following manner: 20% from
agency D, 20 % from agency E and 60% from agency F. If 10 % cars from D, 12% of the
cars from E and 4% of the cars from F have bad tyres, what is the probability that the firm
will get a car with bad tyres? Find the probability that a car with bad tyres is rented from
agency F? (A/M 2019)[CO1, L2](8)
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( x  y )
(b) If the joint PDF of (X,Y) is given by f ( x, y )  e , x  0, y  0 .Prove that X and Y are
uncorrelated. [CO2, L3](8)

CO1: The Students are able to understand the fundamental knowledge of the concepts of probability and
have knowledge of standard distributions which can describe real life phenomenon.
CO2: The Students are able to Understand the basic concepts of one and two dimensional random
variables and apply in engineering applications

L1: Remembering L2: Understanding L3: Applying L4: Analyzing

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 V.S.B. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING TECHNICAL CAMPUS, COIMBATORE
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
INTERNAL ASSESSMENT TEST I
MA8402-PROBABILITY AND QUEUEING THEORY

Year/Semester & Branch:II/IV B.E.CSE EVEN

Faculty Name: Tharika Parveen J Date:
Max. Marks: 50 Time:90 mins
PART-A Answer ALL Questions (5*2=10 Marks)
1. A bag contains 8 white and 4 black balls. If 5 balls are drawn at random what is the probability that
3 are white and 2 are black. (N/D 2019)[CO1, L1]
2. Write three properties of expectation. [CO1, L1]
x
3. A random variable X has probability mass function P ( X  x )  , x  1,2,3,4. Find the cumulative
10
distribution, F(X) of X. (A/M 2018)[CO2, L1]
4. Let X and Y are independent R.Vs with Var(X)=9 and Var(Y)=3. What is the Var(4X-2Y+6)
(N/D 2019)[CO2, L1]
5. Define conditional distributions. [CO2, L1]

PART-B Answer ALL Questions (16+16+8=40 Marks)

 xe  x , x  0
6. (a)(i)If a RV X has pdf f ( x)   , then find (1) Moment generating function,
0, x0
Mx(t) and hence obtain E(X) and Var(X) (2) Cumulative distribution function of X (3)
P(X≤2). (A/M 2019)[CO1, L2](8)
(ii)The probability of a man hitting the target is ¼. If he fires 7 times, what is the
probability of his hitting the target atleast twice? And how many times must he fire so
that the probability of his hitting the target atleast once is greater than 2/3.
(A/M 2017)[CO1, L1](8)
OR
(b)A random variable X has the following probability distribution

X=x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

P(X=x 0 a 2 2a 3 a2 2 7 a2
) a a a2 +a

Find
1
(i ) a (ii ) P( X  4) (iii) P( X  4) (iv) If P( X  K )  , find the least value of K
2
(v) Find the cdf of X (vi ) P(1.5  X  4.5 / X  2) [CO1, L2](16)
xy
7.(a)(i) The joint distribution of X and Y is given by f ( x, y )  x=1,2,3 y=1,2. Find the
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marginal and conditional distributions. (N/D 2015)[CO2, L2](8)
(ii) The joint pdf of a two dimensional random variable (X,Y) is given by
 1
 , 8.5  x  10.5, 120  y  240
f ( x, y )   240 . Obtain (1) The marginal pdf ofX and Y. (2)

 0, otherwise
E(X)

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 and E(Y) (3) Are X and Y are independent? Justify. (N/D 2019)[CO2, L3](8)
OR
7.(b)(i) Find the correlation coefficient from the following data [CO2, L2](8)
X 3 5 6 8 9 11
Y 2 3 4 6 5 8

(ii) If X and Y are independent random variables each uniformly distributed in (0,1), find the
probability density function of U=XY. [CO2, L2](8)
8.(a) Let 5 men out of 100 and 25 women out of 1000 are color blind. A color blind person is
chosen at random. What is the probability of this being male. Assume that males and females are
equally likely. [CO1, L2](8)
OR
e  ( x  y ) , x  0, y  0
(b) Two random variables X and Y have joint pdf f ( x, y )   . Find the p.d.f of
 0, otherwise

the

X
R.V U= . (A/M 2019)[CO2, L2](8)
Y

CO1: The Students are able to understand the fundamental knowledge of the concepts of probability and
have knowledge of standard distributions which can describe real life phenomenon.
CO2: The Students are able to Understand the basic concepts of one and two dimensional random
variables and apply in engineering applications

L1: Remembering L2: Understanding L3: Applying

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