Homework 5: Due date:

MTH 325-01 Friday, March 14

Read Sections 4.1 - 4.5 in the text and write up neatly complete solutions to the following problems: 16, 17, 20, 30, 44, 48, 64(a), 74(a d, f ) In addition, please write up complete solutions to the following problems. 1. The proportion of time per day that all checkout counters in a supermarket are busy is a random variable Y with density function
cy (1 y )2 0

f (y ) =

if 0 y 1 else.

(a) Find the value of c that makes f (y ) a probability density function. (b) Find E (Y ). 2. The time it takes for trucks to haul iron ore from a particular mine to the nearest factory is uniformly distributed over the interval 45 to 65 minutes. If the hauling time for a particular trip exceeds 50 minutes, what is the probability that it exceeds 60 minutes? 3. The number of defective laptops coming o an assembly line follows a Poisson distribution during a typical 10-hour day. Suppose that at the end of one day it is discovered that just one defective laptop was manufactured that day. (a) Find the probability that the defective laptop was manufactured during the rst two hours of the day. (b) Given that no defective laptops were manufactured during the rst two hours of that day, nd the probability that the defective laptop was manufactured during the third hour. 4. Last year the scores for the SAT mathematics exam had mean 514 and standard deviation 113. Meanwhile, the scores for the ACT mathematics exam had mean 21.0 with standard deviation 5.1. (a) If a university sets 580 as the minimum SAT math score for admission, what percentage of test-takers meet this benchmark? (b) What score should the university set as a comparable standard on the ACT math exam?