COLLEGE OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATICS

DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Assignment-two (15%)

Course title: Basic Statistics

Program: CEP (DD-Center)

Department of the Student: Accounting and Finance

Batch: 2nd year

Instructor: Lencho Idris

Phone number: 0975240630 (If there is any un-clarities, you can contact me)

Instruction:

 Do with 1-5 group

 Show all necessary steps
 It should be clear and readable
 Copy from one another will disqualify your result

Given Date: November 3, 2023

Submission Date: November 13, 2023

1. Let A and B be two events associated with an experiment and suppose that
𝑷(𝑨) = 0.4 while 𝑷(𝑨 ∪ 𝑩) = 0.7. Let 𝑷(𝑩) = 𝑝. For what choice of 𝑝.
a. A and B are mutually exclusive?
b. A and B are independent?

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 2. A box of 20 candles consists of 5 defective and 15 non-defective candles. If 4 of these
candles are selected at random, what is the probability that of 2 will be non-defective?
3. If the probability that a research project will be well planned is 0.8, and the probability that
it will be well planned and well executed is 0.67. Then, what is the probability that it will
not be well executed given that it is well planned?
4. Let X be the random variable that represents the number of tails obtained when a coin is
flipped three times.
a. Verify that whether it is probability mass function
b. Construct a probability distribution for getting tails
c. Find the mean and standard deviation of X.

1 0≤𝑥≤1
5. f(x) = { Show that the functions f(x) is pdf.
0 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑤𝑖𝑠𝑒
𝑏𝑥 2 , 0 ≤ 𝑥 ≤ 1
6. f(x) = { Find the values of b if f(x) is a pdf.
0, 𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑒𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒
7. Let X~ Binom (n=35, p=0.5), then find mean and standard deviation of X ?

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