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EE503

ReviewProblems-Midterm1Fall2015

October1,2015Sawchuk

1.JoeZilchisaprojectmanagerforaspacemissiontoPluto.Themissionsuccess(S)orfailure

(F)dependsonlyonthebehaviorofthreesystems:A,BandC.Joemakesthefollowing

assumptionsthatapplytotheperformanceoftheentiremission:

1.Themissionisafailureonlyiftwoormoreofthesystemsfail.

2.SystemAfailswithprobability0.1regardlessofwhattheothersystemsdo.

3.SystemBfailswithprobability0.5ifAfails,orifCfails,orifbothfail.Ifnoother

systemfailsonthemission,theprobabilitythatsystemBfailsis0.1.

4.SystemCfailswithprobability0.5ifsystemAfails.Otherwise,systemCcannotfail.

Answerthefollowingquestions

a).WhatisthejointprobabilitythatthemissionsucceedsandsystemCfails?

b).Whatisthejointprobabilitythatallthreesystemsfail?

c).GiventhatsystemCdidnotfail,whatistheconditionalprobabilitythatSystemAfailed?

d).Giventhatmorethanonesystemfailed,determinetheconditionalprobabilitythat

1.SystemAdidnotfail

2.SystemCfailed

3.BothsystemsAandBfailed

HINT:Workinafullylabeledsamplespace,carefullydefiningallevents.Choosethesample

spacecarefully.

2.AmixedrandomvariableXisequalto2withprobability0.4andisuniformlydistributedfrom

–5to+7withprobability0.6.

a).WriteamathematicalexpressionfortheprobabilitydensityfunctionfX(x).