MARY GRACE S.

BERGANIA OCTOBER 26, 2021

COE - 2103

1. A school has 200 seniors of whom 140 will be going to college next year. Forty will be
going directly to work. The remainder are taking a gap year. Fifty of the seniors going to
college play sports. Thirty of the seniors going directly to work play sports. Five of the
seniors taking a gap year play sports. What is the probability that a senior is going to
college and plays sports?
2. Turbo Generators plc manufactures seven large turbines for a customer. Three of
these turbines do not meet the customer’s specification. Quality control
inspectors choose two turbines at random. Let the discrete random variable X be
defined to be the number of turbines inspected which meet the customer’s
specification.

(a) Find the probabilities that X takes the values 0, 1 or 2.

(b) Find and graph the cumulative distribution function.
3. A biased die is such that the probability of rolling a 6 is equal to 0.4. The die is rolled 8 times.
Find the probability of:
a) Getting 3 sixes or less.
b) Getting at least 5 sixes.
4. A hospital switch board receives an average of 5 emergency calls in 10 minutes interval. What is
probability that; there are at most 3 emergency calls?