Q.6.11 A television store owner figures... [FREE SOLUTION]

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A First Course in Probability

Sheldon M. Ross

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Chapter 6: Q.6.11 (page 275)

A television store owner figures that 45 percent of the customers entering his store will purchase an ordinary television set, 15 percent will purchase a plasma television set, and 40 percent will just be browsing. If 5 customers enter his store on a given day, what is the probability that he will sell exactly 2 ordinary sets and 1 plasma set on that day?

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The joint density of $f (x, y) = 2 e^{- x} e^{- 2 y}; 鈭赌 0 < x, 0 < y < 鈭�$

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A television store owner estimates that 45 percent of clients entering his business will buy a regular television set, 15% will buy a plasma television set, and 40% will simply browse. On any given day, he will have 5 clients at his store.

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We are given,

e^{- x} > 0, 鈭赌 x 鈭� (0, 鈭�) a n d e^{- 2 y} > 0, 鈭赌 y 鈭� (0, 鈭�) t h e r e f o r e t r i v i a l l y f (x, y) = e^{- x} e^{- 2 y} f (x, y) 鈮� 0

Hence (A) holds for the given bivariate function. Now check for B:

$鈭� f (x, y) d x d y = {鈭�}_{- 鈭�}^{鈭�} {鈭�}_{0}^{鈭�} 2 e^{- x} e^{- 2 y} d x d y 鈭� f (x, y) d x d y = 2 {鈭�}_{- 鈭�}^{鈭�} e^{- 2 y} d y {鈭�}_{0}^{鈭�} 2 e^{- x} d x {鈭�}_{- 鈭�} f (x, y) d x d y 鈭� {[\frac{e^{- 2 y}}{- 2}]}_{- 鈭�}^{鈭�} {[\frac{e^{- x}}{- 1}]}_{- 鈭�}^{鈭�} 鈭� e^{a x} d x = \frac{e^{x}}{a}] 鈭� f (x, y) d x d y = 2 [\frac{e^{- 鈭�}}{- 2} - \frac{e^{- 鈭�}}{- 2}] [\frac{e^{- 鈭�}}{- 1} - \frac{e^{- x}}{- 1}] 鈭� f (x, y) d x d y = 1$

Hence, B holds for the given bivariate function f (x , y) . Therefore, $f (x, y) = 2 e^{- x} e^{- 2 y}; 鈭赌 0 < x, 0 < y < 鈭�$ is a joint density of ( x , y).

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