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GATE Engineering Mathematics: Probability and Statistics: Random variables, Poisson, Normal and Binomial distributions – Previous Year Questions

2 GATE previous year questions on Probability and Statistics: Random variables, Poisson, Normal and Binomial distributions (Engineering Mathematics, Chemical Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2024 CH Q12 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – Consider the normal probability distribution function f(x) = 42e-8(x+3)2 If and are the mean and standard deviation of f(x) respectively, then the…
  2. GATE 2025 CH Q37 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – A probability distribution function is given as p(x) = cases 1a, & x (0, a) \\ 0, & otherwise cases where a is a positive constant. For a function…