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Questions >> TN XII Math >> Probability Distribution

A discrete random variable X has the following probability distributions (see table below). (iii) Find P(3 < x < 7)

asked Sep 16, 2013 by sreemathi.v

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A discrete random variable X has the following probability distributions (see table below). (ii) Find P(x < 3)

asked Sep 16, 2013 by sreemathi.v

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Marks in an aptitude test given to $800$ students of a school was found to be normally distributed. $10\%$ of the students scored below $40$ marks and $10\%$ of the students scored above $90$ marks. Find the number of students scored between $40$ and $90$.

asked Apr 23, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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If the hight of $300$ students are normally distributed with mean $64.5$ inches and standard deviation $3.3$ inches,find the hight below which $99\%$ of the student lie.

asked Apr 22, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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The mean weight of $500 $ male students in a certain college in $151$ pounds and the standard deviation is $15$ pounds. Assuming the weights are normally distributed, find how many students weigh more than $185$ pounds

asked Apr 22, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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The mean weight of $500 $ male students in a certain college in $151$ pounds and the standard deviation is $15$ pounds. Assuming the weights are normally distributed, find how many students weigh between $120$ and $155$ pounds

asked Apr 22, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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The life of army shoes is normally distributed with mean $8$ months and standard deviation $2$ months. If $5000$ pairs are issued, how many pairs would be expected to need replacement within $12$ months.

asked Apr 22, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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Suppose that the amount of cosmic radiation to which a person is exposed when flying by jet across the united states is a random variable having a normal distribution with a mean of $4.35 m$ rem and standard deviation of $0.59m$ rem. What is the probability that a person will be exposed to than $5.20m$ rem of cosmic radiation of such flight.

asked Apr 22, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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If $Z$ is a standard normal variate. Find the value of $c$ for the following $P(Z > c)=0.85$

asked Apr 22, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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If $Z$ is a standard normal variate. Find the value of $c$ for the following $P(-c < Z < c)=0.40$

asked Apr 22, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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If $Z$ is a standard normal variate. Find the value of $c$ for the following $ P(0< Z < c)=0.25$

asked Apr 22, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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If $X$ a normal variate with mean $80$ and standard deviation $10$ compute the following probabilities by standardizing.$P(85\leq$X$\leq$95$)$

asked Apr 22, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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If $X$ a normal variate with mean $80$ and standard deviation $10$ compute the following probabilites by standardizing. $P(70$$<$X$)$

asked Apr 22, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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If $X$ a normal variate with mean $80$ and standard deviation $10$ compute the following probabilities by standardizing. $P(65\leq$X$\leq$100$)$

asked Apr 22, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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If $X$ a normal variate with mean $80$ and standard deviation $10$ compute the following probabilities by standardizing.$P(X\leq$80$)$

asked Apr 22, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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If $X$ a normal variate with mean $80$ and standard deviation $10$ compute the following probabilities by standardizing. $P(X\leq$100$)$

asked Apr 22, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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The number of accidents in a year involving taxi drivers in a city follows a poisson distribution with mean equal to $3$ out of $1000$ taxi drivers find approximately the number of driver with more than $3$ accidents in a year $[e^{-3}=0.0498].$

asked Apr 21, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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The number of accidents in a year involving taxi drivers in a city follows a poisson distribution with mean equal to $3$. Out of $1000$ taxi drivers find approximately the number of driver with no accident in a year .$[e^{-3} = 0.0498].$

asked Apr 21, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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Alpha particles are emitted by a radio active source at an average rate of $5$ in a $20$ minutes interval.Using poisson distribution find the probability that there will be at least $2$ emission in a particular $20$ minutes interval .$[e^{-5}=0.0067].$

asked Apr 21, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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Alpha particles are emitted by a radio active source at an average rate of $5$ in a $20$ minutes interval.Using poisson distribution find the probability that there will be $2$ emission.$[e^{-5}=0.0067].$

asked Apr 21, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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$20\%$ of the bolts produced in a factory are found to be defective. Find the probability that in a sample of $10$ bolts chosen at random exactly $2$ will be defective using ,Poisson distribution.$ [e^{-2}=0.1353].$

asked Apr 21, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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$20\%$ of the bolts produced in a factory are found to be defective. Find the probability that in a sample of $10$ bolts chosen at random exactly $2$ will be defective using ,Binomial distribution.

asked Apr 21, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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If the probability of a defective fuse from a manufactuning unit is $2\%$ in a box of $200$ fuses find the probability that more than $3$ fuses are defective$ [e^{-4}=0.0183].$

asked Apr 21, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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If the probability of a defective fuse from a manufactuning unit is $2\%$ in a box of $200$ fuses find the probability that exactly $4$ fuses are defective

asked Apr 21, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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Let $x$ have a poisson distribution with mean $4$.Find$P(2\leq$X$<$5$)[e^{-4}=0.0183].$

asked Apr 21, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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Let $X$ have a poisson distribution with mean $4$.Find $(i) \;P(X\leq $3$)\qquad[e^{-4} = 0.0183].$

asked Apr 21, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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In a hurdle race a player has to cross $10$ hurdles. The probability that he will clear each hurdle is $\large\frac{5}{6}$. What is the probability that he will knock down less than $2$ hurdles.

asked Apr 21, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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The overall percentage of passes in a certain examination is $80$.If $6$ candidates appear in the examination what is the probability that atleast $5$ pass the examination.

asked Apr 21, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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Four coins are tossed simultaneously .what is the probability of getting at most two heads

asked Apr 21, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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Four coins are tossed simultaneously.what is the probability of getting at least two heads

asked Apr 21, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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Four coins are tossed simultaneously .what is the probability of getting exactly $2$ heads

asked Apr 21, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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If on an average $1$ ship out of $10$ do not arrive safely to ports. Find the mean and the standard deviation of ship returning safely out of a total of $500$ ships

asked Apr 20, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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A die is thrown $120$ times and getting $1$ or $5$ is considered a success.Find the mean and variance of the number of successes.

asked Apr 20, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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The mean of a binomial distribution is $6$ and its standard deviation is $3$. Is this statement true or false?comment?

asked Apr 20, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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Find the mean and variance for the following probability density functions $f(x) = \left\{ \begin{array}{l l} xe^{-x}, & \quad \text{if $x$$>$0}\\ 0, & \quad \text{otherwise} \end{array} \right.$

asked Apr 20, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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Find the mean and variance for the following probability density functions $f(x) = \left\{ \begin{array}{l l} \alpha e^{-\alpha x} ,& \quad \text{if $x$$>$$0$}\\ 0 ,& \quad \text{otherwise} \end{array} \right.$

asked Apr 20, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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Find the mean and variance for the following probability density functions $f(x) = \left\{ \begin{array}{l l} \frac {1}{24} ,& \quad \text{-12$\leq$$ x$$\leq $$12$}\\ 0, & \quad \text{otherwise} \end{array} \right.$

asked Apr 20, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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The probability distribution of a random variable $x$ is given below: \[\] $\begin{array} {llllllll} \textbf{X:}& 0& 1& 2& 3 \\ \textbf{P(X=x):}& 0.1& 0.3 &0.5& 0.1& \end{array}$\[\] If $Y=X^{2}+2X$ find the mean and variance of $Y$.

asked Apr 20, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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In a gambling game a man wins Rs.$10 $ if he gets all heads or all tails and loses Rs.$5$ if he gets $1$ or $2$ heads when $3$ coins are tossed once. Find his expectation of gain.

asked Apr 20, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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Two cards are drawn with replacement from a well shuffled deck of $52$ cards. Find the mean and variance for the number of aces.

asked Apr 20, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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In an entrance examination a student has to answer all the $120$ questions. Each question has four options and only one option is correct. A student gets $1$ mark for a correct answer and loses half mark for a wrong answer. What is the expectation of the mark scored by a student if he chooses the answer to each question at random?

asked Apr 20, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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Find the expected value of the number on a die when thrown.

asked Apr 20, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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A die is tossed twice. A success is getting as odd number on a toss. Find the mean and the variance of the probability distribution of the number of successes.

asked Apr 20, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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A random variable $x$ has a probability density function $f(x) = \left\{ \begin{array}{l l} k & \quad \text{0<x<2n}\\ 0 & \quad \text{elsewhere} \end{array} \right.$ Find $p(\large\frac{\pi}{2}<x<\frac{3\pi}{2})$

asked Apr 19, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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A random variable $x$ has a probability density function $f(x) = \left\{ \begin{array}{l l} k & \quad \text{0<x<2n}\\ 0 & \quad \text{elsewhere} \end{array} \right.$ Find $p(0<x<\large\frac{\pi}{2})$

asked Apr 19, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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A random variable $x$ has a probability density function $f(x) = \left\{ \begin{array}{1 1} k & \quad 0 < x < 2n \\ 0 & \quad \text{else where} \end{array} \right.$ Find $k$

asked Apr 19, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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A continuous random variable $x$ has the p.d.f defined by $f(x) = \left\{ \begin{array}{1 1} ce^{-ax} & \quad 0 < x < \infty \\ 0 & \quad \text{else where} \end{array} \right.$ Find the value of $c$ if $a>0$

asked Apr 19, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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For the distribution function given by $f(x) = \left\{ \begin{array}{l l} 0&\quad\text{x<0}\\ x^{2} & \quad \text{$0$$\leq$$x$$\leq$$1$}\\ 1 & \quad \text{x>1} \end{array} \right.$\[\] Find the density function. Also evaluate $p(x>0.75)$

asked Apr 19, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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For the distribution function given by $f(x) = \left\{ \begin{array}{l l} 0&\quad\text{x<0}\\ x^{2} & \quad \text{$0$$\leq$$x$$\leq$$1$}\\ 1 & \quad \text{x>1} \end{array} \right.$\[\] Find the density function. Also evaluate $p(x\leq0.5)$

asked Apr 19, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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For the distribution function given by $f(x) = \left\{ \begin{array}{l l} 0&\quad\text{x<0}\\ x^{2} & \quad \text{$0$$\leq$$x$$\leq$$1$}\\ 1 & \quad \text{x>1} \end{array} \right.$\[\] Find the density function. Also evaluate p(0.5< x <0.75)

asked Apr 19, 2013 by poojasapani_1

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