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1. The reading assignment is Chapter 8 on continuous random variables. There are 6 practice problems involving concepts like expected values, Poisson distributions, probability density functions, and cumulative distribution functions. The problems calculate things like the expected number of cards matching a person's age, expected number of ducks hit by hunters, mean and variance of a random variable X, CDF of waiting time for a customer, values for a probability density function, and appropriate tank capacity given probability of exhaustion.

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7assignment Summer2015

1. The reading assignment is Chapter 8 on continuous random variables. There are 6 practice problems involving concepts like expected values, Poisson distributions, probability density functions, and cumulative distribution functions. The problems calculate things like the expected number of cards matching a person's age, expected number of ducks hit by hunters, mean and variance of a random variable X, CDF of waiting time for a customer, values for a probability density function, and appropriate tank capacity given probability of exhaustion.

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Assignment 7

Reading Assignment:
1. Chapter 8: Continuous Random Variables.
Problems:
1. A set of 1000 cards, numbered 1 through 1000, are distributed among 1000 people. Compute
the expected number of cards that are given to people whose age matches the number on the
card.
2. Ten hunters are waiting for ducks to fly by. When a flock of ducks flies overhead, the hunters
fire at the same time, but each chooses his target at random, independently of the others. If
each hunter independently hits his target with probability 0.6, compute the expected number
of ducks that are hit. Assume that the number of ducks in a flock is a Poisson random variable
with mean 6.
3. Let X have the PDF

|x|
e
,
2
satisfies the normalization condition, and evaluate

fX (x) =
where is a positive scalar. Verify that fX
the mean and variance of X.

4. Calamity Jane goes to the bank to make a withdrawal, and is equally likely to find 0 or 1
customers ahead of her. The service time of the customer ahead, if present, is exponentially
distributed with parameter . What is the CDF of Janes waiting time?
5. Let X be a random variable with probability density function
(

C 1 x2
1 < x < 1
f (x) =
0
otherwise.
(a) What is the value of C?
(b) What is the cumulative distribution of X?
6. A filling station is supplied with gasoline once a week. If the weekly volume of sales (in
thousands of gallons) is a random variable with probability density function
f (x) =

(
5(1 x)4
0

0<x<1

otherwise

then how should the capacity of the tank be chosen so that the probability of the supplys
being exhausted in a given week is 0.01?

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