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Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering

National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal
CE721 Mathematical Foundations for Communication Engineering
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1. While following an animal with two dogs, a hunter comes to a place where the road
diverges into two paths. He let the dogs to choose the path independently. Each dog
follows the correct path with probability p. The hunter follows the dogs if both of them
agree, otherwise he chooses a random path. What is the probability of choosing the
correct path.

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2. The king has only one sibling. What is the probabilty that the sibling is male. Assume
every birth results in a girl child with probability 0.5.

2.

3. The campus has n identical water pumps. The campus require atleast k of them to be
functional to meet the requirements. Each of the pump is functional with a probability
p. What is the probability that the campus has water shortage.

3.

4. A rare disease occurs with probability 0.001. The test indicates positive with probability
0.95 if the person has the disease. If the person do not have illness, the test result is
negative with probability 0.95. Given that a person just tested positive, what is the
probability of having the disease?

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5. You enter a chess tournament. Against 50 players you have a probability of 0.3 to win.
With another 25 you have a probability of 0.4 to win. With the last 25 players you have
0.5 probability to win.
 (a) If u select a random player and play, what is the probability that you win.

(a)
(b) Assume that you have played against a random player and won. What is the
probability that he was from the first group which was difficult to beat?

(b)

6. Three cards are picked at random from a deck without replacement. What is the prob-
ability that none of them is a card.

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7. A fair 4 sided die is rolled twice and we assume that all sixteen outcomes are equally likely.
Let X and Y be the results of first and second roll. Let the events A = {max(X, Y ) =
3}, B = {min(X, Y ) = 2}. Determine P (A|B).

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8. A conservative design team, C and an innovative design team N are asked separately to
design a new product within a month. From past experience we know that:

Probability that team C is successfull is 23 .

Probability that team N is successfull is 21 .
Probability that atleast one team is successfull is 43 .

Assume that exactly one successful design was proposed, what is the probability that it
was designed by team N .

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