LOPEZ, CARL ADRIENNE

BSME-2

EDA2122 P2-C2

EXERCISE # 1: PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION ES031: ENGINEERING DATA ANALYSIS PROBLEM SOLVING.

Answer the following problems neatly with solutions and interpretation. Box your final answers with 4
decimal places and units.

1. An outsourced data analyst of Spotify Philippines claims that 40% of smartphone users subscribe to at
least one premium account. In an attempt to justify this claim, the analyst will poll a randomly selected
sample of subscribers. Suppose that the analyst’s claim is true and suppose that a sample of four
subscribers is randomly selected. Assuming independence, use an appropriate formula to compute:

a. The probability that none of the smartphone users in the sample subscribes to at least one premium
account.

b. The probability that more than two smartphone users in the sample subscribe to at least one
premium account.
2. A “plantita” purchases (randomly select) 3 sets of décor pots from a retail wholesaler with 10 sets in
the warehouse. Of the 10 sets, 9 are destined to last at least five years without needing a replacement.
What is the probability that all three of the décor sets will last at least five years without needing a
replacement?

3. Suppose that the number of minor accidents occurring in a manufacturing plant is described by a
Poisson distribution with an average of one minor accident per month. Let x denote the time (in
months) between successive accidents. Find the probability that the time between successive accidents
is less than one week.
4. In a refilling process, the amount of liquid injected into 16 oz bottles is normally distributed with a
mean of 16 oz and a variance of 0.0004 oz. Bottles containing less than 15.95 oz do not meet the
bottler’s quality standard. What percentage of filled bottles do not meet the standard?

5. During the community quarantine, a local government unit in Cebu City claims that the number of
times that their barangay patrol car passes through their neighborhood follows a Poisson process with a
mean of three times per nightly shift. Let x denote the number of times that a patrol car passes through
the neighborhood during a nightly shift. Calculate the probability that at least one patrol cars pass
through the neighborhood during a nightly shift