ENGINEERING STATISTICS LENGGONG

TUTORIAL 8 (UNIT 4)

INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Answer ALL questions.

Cycling (A) Swimming (A’) Total

Male (B) 54 66 120

Female (B’) 46 34 80
Total 100 100 200

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1. The two-way table shows the hobby of a students in a collage. Let A denote the
event that respondent’s hobby is cycling and let B denote the event that
respondents are male. Determine the following probabilities:

i. P ( A' B )

ii. P ( A | B' )

2. A discrete random variable has the following probability distribution

 0.20, x = 1, 3
P( X = x ) = 
 0.30, x = 2, 4
Determine :

i. E( X ) (3 marks)

ii. Standard deviation (X) (4 marks)

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3.
Number of items 0 1 2 3
Probability 0.4 0.3 k 0.1
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Figure 3 shows the probability distribution of the number of items based

on past data.

i. Determine the value of k.

ii. Calculate the probability that the number of items during a given
week is exactly 3.

ii. Calculate the probability that the number of items during a given
week is 1 to 3

iii. Determine the expected number of items.

iv. Compute the standard deviation of items.

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