Department of CSE, The NorthCap University Gurugram

Assignment 2 (Unit3)
Jan 2023-Jun 2023
Programme: B-Tech(CSE)
Semester: IV ; Section: DS – B, BSc-DS
Course Name: Applied Computational Statistics
Course Code : CSL227
Submission Date: 14-3-23
Faculty Name: Dr Shaveta Arora

Course Outcome 3 (CO2): Explain the probability mass function and differentiate between various discrete
distributions through application on real-world examples.

Note: Use probability distribution formula to calculate the answer and verify using distribution table wherever
applicable.

Questions:

1. A fair coin is flipped six times and the number of heads is counted. Calculate the probability that the
coin will land heads more than four times.
Ans: P(5)+P(6)=0.109
2. A particular college at which 60% of the student population is female. Calculate the probability that at
least five students in a class of 10 will be female.
Ans: 0.834
3. A 10-question multiple choice test in which each question has four choices.
a. Calculate the probability that a student who guesses randomly will answer exactly two questions
correctly.
b. Assume each student in the class guesses randomly on each question of the test and the number of
correct answers per student is tallied. Calculate the mean, variance, and standard deviation for this
distribution.

Ans: 0.2816, 2.5, 1.875, 1.369

4. A particular intersection equipped with video surveillance cameras. The average number of tickets issued per
month conforms to a Poisson distribution with an average of 3.7.
a. Calculate the probability that no more than two traffic tickets will be issued next month.
b. Calculate the mean, variance, and standard deviation for this distribution.

P(0,1,2)=0.285
 5. An automated phone system that can answer three calls in a five-minute period. Assume that calls occur at an
average rate of 1.2 every five minutes and follow the Poisson probability distribution. Calculate the probability
that exactly five calls will occur during the next 25 minutes.

Ans: 0.1606
6. A town has 20 traffic lights. Each light has a 1% probability of not working properly on any given day. Use the
binomial distribution to calculate the probability that exactly 1 of the 20 lights will not work properly today.
Also, verify your answer using the Poisson approximation to the binomial distribution.

Ans: 0.165
7. An experiment in which four balls are randomly selected from an urn containing five red balls and seven blue
balls without replacement. Four balls are randomly selected without replacement.
a. Determine the probability that exactly one of them is red.
b. Calculate the probability that fewer than two of the balls are red.
Ans: 0.354, 0.425
8. A political committee that consists of seven Democrats, five Republicans, and two Independents. A randomly
selected subcommittee of six people is formed from this group. Determine the probability that the subcommittee
will consist of three Democrats and three Republicans.

Ans: 0.117