STAT 355, Spring 2013 SECTION : Monday Wednesday

EXAM I NAME
You must show your work in order to receive full credit.
Please label your work clearly.
Use three decimal places for calculations.
For all probability calculations, be sure to include the statement of what you are calculating. (i.e.
P(A B) = , P(A B) = , etc)
1. The joint probability mass function of the two random variables, X and Y is specied by the
following table:
Y
1 2 3
1 .10 .25 .10
X 2 .12 ? ?
3 0.05 .05 .02
(a) (7 pts) If E(Y ) = 2, what are P(X = 2, Y = 2) and P(X = 2, Y = 3)?
(b) (5 pts) What is P(Y 2|X = 1)?
(c) (5 pts) What is E(Y |X = 1)?
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2. John is interested in the distribution of the number of phone calls arriving at a switch board
between 9 and 10 am where the average is known to be 40 phone calls.
(a) (3 pts) What kind of distribution does the number of calls, X, have? (Give the name of
distribution and values of any parameters, p, , , n, r, etc you need to describe.)
(b) (5 pts)What are the mean and the standard deviation number of the phone calls?
3. In a local coee shop, the time between ordering a cup of coee and when it is delivered is
exponentially distributed with a mean of 3.4 minutes. If you order a cup of coee,
(a) (3 pts)What kind of distribution does waiting time X have? (Give the name of distribu-
tion and values of any parameters, p, , , n, r, etc you need to describe.)
(b) (5 pts) what is the probability that you have to wait between 3.5 and 4.5 minutes?
(c) (5 pts) what is the shortest amount of time that you can wait and still be in the slowest
15% of the population of customers?
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4. The joint pdf of the two random variables is given as follows;
f(x, y) =
{
ax
2
y 0 x 1, 0 y 1,
0 otherwise
(a) (5 pts) Find c.
(b) (7 pts) Calculate is the covariance of X and Y .
(c) (5 pts) Are X and Y independent? Explain.
5. (8 pts) Let X be an gamma distribution with = 2 and = .5. Find P(0 X 2).
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6. The resting time between ashes of a random sample of 50 reies had a mean of 3.77 seconds
and a standard deviation of 0.35 seconds.
(a) (8 pts) Construct a 95% condence interval for the mean resting time for this species of
rey and interpret the interval.
(b) (5 pts) Find the sample size need for 90% condence interval to specify the mean to be
within 0.1.
7. (7 pts) The lifetime of a certain type of battery is normally distributed with mean value 5
hours and standard deviation 1.5 hour. There are four batteries in a package. What lifetime
value is such that the total lifetime of all batteries in a package exceeds that value for only
15% of all packages?
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8. (10 pts) Let

X denote the mean of random sample of size 30 from the distribution whose
p.d.f. is f(x) = x
3
/4, 0 x 2. What is P(1.5

X 1.65) ?
9. (7 pts) A gas station sells three grades of gasoline: regular, extra and super. These are
priced at $3.00, $3.20 and $3.40 per gallon, respectively. Let X
1
, X
2
and X
3
denote the
amounts of these grades purchased on a particular day. Suppose the X
i
s are independent
with
1
= 1000,
2
= 500,
3
= 300 with same standard deviation = 100. What is the
expected value and variance of the revenue from sales?
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