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COURSE CO ll E: cosc 402 COUl!S•: nru:: INFOlt Mi\T ION Tf!EOltY
INST llUCTIONS· r)Q,nsr Qyr,,tloo I MP!I :)py.Iml ~ : 1hr DATE: FEB. 20!9

la In not more 1h;in !11 o( a pnge and wjth spcsia) refcrsnce 10 year and 1itk. pre.'!Cnt :m overview of C.E .
.- . / Shannon famous paper(4marks)

What iscybcmetics?State ltsapplication(2m:irks)

le Suppose DR Charles is the final clearance officer in the academ ic r<:gistry. what is the prolxlbility that
Ile may be abscm given that today is Monday? if the probability that it is Monday and lk is absent in
theofficci s0.04.assum ing thc_rcgistryhas 4 officia ldaysinaweek(4mark s)

2a what are the benefits of communication thC<Jry (3mark.sJ_

2b. Suppos.: you work in an Information Technology orga nization where messages are constantly being
passed amongst oflkcrs in the orpnization. if offic~r ·I send s information to oOiccr 2 a1 c~actly
10:00am , summ.iri1.c the amount ofinfommtion gained from thi s message.( 4marksY_

2~. For (r.,k'.,n, what is (~) to the lc:o,l tenn {)marks?) V

~ uppose(S.P)isafini1cprobability sp:icc. X1,X1 ,; Sandl'(F.1),!0Jhcnwhmist hc conditional

probabilityo fX1 ? {2marks)
lb whatiskryptos?Undcr wha1aspr:c1of ln forma1ionthcorycani t lxclass ified?(} marks)

Whentwodicearerol!cd.find 1hcprobabili tyofgcu ing ~ f irs1J!ic1b:mthco nc

on thesccornl,~~th;.!um is grealcr 8••• .. . .... ...(5m:uks)

Explain the meaning of the componcn1 s / ekments in C.E. Shannon's historic formula (3m:uh)
Mention 2 sc ienlist invol,·cd in the development of informalionlcrn11111 unica1ion th\:Of}' and th eir
uniquccon lributions (4Morks)
Y Using1hcgcne ra!produclrule,tind 1hcprobabilityofpickini::1rcdfollo" ·cdbyabJ11.cbaillwilhom
replacement from a bai: which contains 5 blox. 6 rc-d nml J white balls(3mnrks)

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