Department of Mathematics

Even Semester 2015-16

10B11MA411 Probability Theory and Random Processes
Tutorial Sheet 5 B.Tech. Core

Continuous Distributions

1. The daily consumption of milk in a town in excess of 2000L is approximately distributed as

an Erlang variate with parameters = 1/1000 and k = 2. The town has a daily stock of 3000L.
What is the probability that the stock is insufficient on a particular day?
2. Suppose that the life of a certain type of electron tube has an exponential distribution with a
mean life of 500 hours. Find the probability that it will last for another 600 hours if the tube
has been in operation for 300 hours.
3. Prove the reproductive property of Gamma Distribution.
4. Suppose that X has an exponential distribution with parameter . Compute the probability
that X exceeds twice its expected value.
5. If the service life, in hours, of a semiconductor is a RV having a Weibull distribution with the
parameters = 0.0375 and = 0.55, (i) How long can such a semiconductor be expected to
last? (ii) What is the probability that such a semiconductor will still be in operating condition
after 4000h?
6. According to the records of an electric company serving the NCR area, the mean electric
consumption for all households during winter is 1650 kilowatts per month. Assume that the
monthly electric consumptions during winter by all households in this area have a normal
distribution with a mean of 1650 kilowatt-hours and a standard deviation of 320 kilowatts
hours (a) find the probability that the monthly electric consumption during winter by a
randomly selected household from this area is less than 1850 kilowatts-hour (b) what the
percentage of the households in this area have a monthly electric consumption of 900 to 1340
kilowatts-hour?
7. Five resistances Ri (i = 1; 2; 3; 4; 5) are put into a series arrangement in a circuit. Suppose
that each resistance is normally distributed with mean 10 and variance 0.16. Find the
probability that the resistance of the circuit exceeds 40 ohms.
8. A retailer sells a perishable commodity and each day he places an order for Q units. Each unit
that is sold gives a profit of 60 cents and units not sold at the end of the day are discarded at a
loss of 40 cents per unit. The demand, D, on any given day is uniformly distributed over
[80,140]. How many units should the retailer order to maximize expected profit?
9. The marks obtained by 1000 students of a B. Tech. class in a Mathematical course are found
to be normally distributed with mean 78 % and standard deviation 11 %.

(a) If A grade is awarded to the students securing at least 90 % marks, find how many

students obtained A grade.
(b) If B grade is awarded for the marks obtained between 65 % to 75%, find the percentage of
students getting B grade.
10. Prove that the mean, median and mode of a normal variate are equal.