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36. Solution: B<br />

To determine k, note that<br />

1<br />

4 k 5 1<br />

1 = ∫ k( 1− y) dy =− ( 1−<br />

y)<br />

5 0<br />

k<br />

=<br />

5<br />

0<br />

k = 5<br />

We next need to find P[V > 10,000] = P[100,000 Y > 10,000] = P[Y > 0.1]<br />

1<br />

∫<br />

0.1<br />

( − y) dy =−( − y)<br />

4 5 1<br />

= 51 1 = (0.9) 5 = 0.59 and P[V > 40,000]<br />

= P[100,000 Y > 40,000] = P[Y > 0.4] =<br />

0.1<br />

1<br />

∫<br />

0.4<br />

( − y) dy =−( − y)<br />

4 5 1<br />

51 1<br />

It now follows that P[V > 40,000⏐V > 10,000]<br />

PV [ > 40,000 ∩ V > 10,000] PV [ > 40,000] 0.078<br />

=<br />

= = = 0.132 .<br />

PV [ > 10,000] PV [ > 10,000] 0.590<br />

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37. Solution: D<br />

Let T denote printer lifetime. Then f(t) = ½ e –t/2 , 0 ≤ t ≤ ∞<br />

Note that<br />

1<br />

1 −t/2 −t/21–1/2<br />

P[T ≤ 1] = ∫ e dt = e = 1 – e = 0.393<br />

2<br />

0<br />

0<br />

2<br />

0.4<br />

= (0.6) 5 = 0.078 .<br />

1 −t/2 −t/22<br />

P[1 ≤ T ≤ 2] = ∫ e dt = e 1<br />

2 1<br />

–1/2 –1<br />

= e − e = 0.239<br />

Next, denote refunds for the 100 printers sold by independent and identically distributed<br />

random variables Y 1, . . . , Y100<br />

where<br />

⎧200<br />

⎪<br />

Yi<br />

= ⎨100 ⎪⎩ 0<br />

with probability 0.393<br />

with probability 0.239<br />

with probability 0.368<br />

i = 1, . . . , 100<br />

Now E[Y ] = 200(0.393) + 100(0.239) = 102.56<br />

i<br />

Therefore, Expected Refunds =<br />

100<br />

∑ E [ Yi<br />

] = 100(102.56) = 10,256 .<br />

i=<br />

1<br />

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