ECSE-2500 Engineering Probability, RPI, Spring 2011 Home Page

Homework 7, due 2pm Fri Apr 22, 2011

Notes

1. Email your solutions, as a PDF file, to

wrfranklin+homeworkATgmail.com , replacing AT with @.

1. You may do this homework in teams of two people.
2. Put the homework number, your names and RCS-IDs on the homework. (E.g. I would say something like Homework 3, W. Randolph Franklin, frankwr.)
3. Please put HW07 in your subject line.
4. This homework will be graded by Sina.
5. Many of these questions will require Matlab (or some other similar package).

Questions

1. (10 pts) Do exercise 5.25 on page 291.
2. (10 pts) Do exercise 5.37 on page 293.
3. (10 pts) Do exercise 5.56 on page 294.
4. (10 pts) Do exercise 5.58 on page 294.
5. (10 pts) What is the probability that the max of 3 uniform (0,1) random variables is greater than .5?