Assignment No.

2 (Course STA301)
Spring 2009 (Total Marks 30)

Deadline
Your Assignment must be uploaded/ submitted before or
on

th
23:59 ( Mid Night), 13 April, 2009

( STUDENTS ARE STRITCLY DIRECTED TO SUBMIT THEIR

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Rules for Marking

It should be clear that your Assignment will not get any
credit IF:

• The Assignment submitted, via email, after due date.

• The submitted Assignment is not found as MS Word
document file.
• There will be unnecessary, extra or irrelevant
material.
• The Statistical notations/ symbols are not well- written
i. e., without using MathType software.
• The Assignment will be copied from handouts,
internet or from any other student’s file. Copied
material ( from handouts, any book or by any
 website) will be awarded ZERO MARKS. It is
PLAGIARISM and an Academic Crime.
• The medium of the course is English. Assignment in
Urdu or Roman languages will not be accepted.
• Assignment means Comprehensive yet precise
accurate details about the given topic quoting
different sources ( books/ articles/ websites etc.). Do
not rely only on handouts. You can take
data/ information from different authentic sources ( like
books, magazines, website etc) BUT express/ organize
all the collected material in YOUR OWN WORDS. Only
then you will get good marks.

Objective(s) of this Assignment:

• The assignment is being uploaded to strengthen the

knowledge about measure of location, measure of
dispersion and Probability.
• How to recognize and understand measure of
location, measure of dispersion and probability by
Real life examples.

Assignment.2

Question 1:
Marks: 4+2+2=8

a) The probability that a trainee will remain with a company is 0.6. The
probability that an employee earns more than Rs.10, 000 per year is
0.5. The probability that an employee is a trainee who remained with
 the company or who earns more than Rs.10, 000 per year is 0.7. What
is the probability that an employee earns more than Rs.10, 000 per
year given that he is a trainee who stayed with the company.

b) The odds against student X solving a Business statistics problem are 8

to 6, and odds in favour of student Y solving the problem are 14 to 16.

1. What is the chance that the problem will be solved if they both try
independent of each other?
2. What is the probability that none of them is able to solve the problem?

Question 2:
Marks: 1+3+2+3+1= 10

For the frequency distribution given below:

Length of Service No of employees

7.5-7.9 6

8.0-8.4 22

8.5-8.9 36

9.0-9.4 18

9.5-9.9 14

10.0-10.4 4

Calculate

(i) Mean
(ii) Standard deviation
(iii) Co-efficient of Variation
(iv) Mean Deviation (from median)
(v) Range

Question 3:
Marks: 2+2=4

a) How many distinct four-digit numbers can be performed from the

following integers 1, 2, 3,4,5,6 if each integer is used only once?

b) What would be the shape and name of the frequency distribution if

 1. mean=median=mode
2. mean>median>mode

Question 4:
Marks: 2+6=8

a) Describe the situation in which two variables are perfect

positively correlated?

b) The cost of output at a factory is thought to depend on the

number of units produced. Data have been collected for the
number of units produced each month in the last six months,
and the associated costs, as follows;

Output Cost
(‘000s of units) ($’000) Y
X
2 9
3 11
1 7
4 13
3 11
5 15

Calculate the correlation coefficient and comment on your result.

Attempting Methodology / Requirements of the Assignment

• This assignment covers Lesson No 9 to Lesson No 20

• In Short answer question you can express your answer in 4-10 lines.
• Illustrating your point you can give short examples
• In numerical question, proper notation and symbols must be well
written. For this use MathType Software.
• Solve numerical step-by-step, giving all necessary explanation,
whenever necessary.