IUBATINTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF BUSINESS AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY

Final examination

STA 240

Full marks: 100

Time: 3 hours

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NAME

MARKS

RETURN THE QUESTION PAPER ALONG WITH THE ANSWER SCRIPT AFTER THE
EXAM

1. Explain the following terms with at least one example in each case :
a) Median & Mode
b) Sample & Population
e) Interval & Ratio Variable
f) Geometric & Harmonic mean
i) Scatter diagram & Line graph
k) Null & Alternative Hypothesis
m) Discrete & Continuous

c)
d)
g)
h)
j)
l)
n)

Variable

Mean & Mean Deviation

Nominal & Ordinal Variable
One tailed & Two tailed Test
Simple & Multiple bar diagram
Variance & Standard Deviation
Qualitative & Quantitative Variable
Dependent & Independent
Variable

2. Find correlation coefficient

( r ) and regression coefficients ( a & b

) for X & Y :
X
Y

0
1

1
2

2
3

Also give interpretation

3
4
/

4
5

5
6

6
7

7
8

8
9

explanation of the results .

3. What do you understand by stratified sampling ?

Explain with an

example .
4. A box contains 3 red, 7 green and 20 white balls. If a ball is drawn
from the box at random, what is the probability that this ball is
neither white nor green ?
5. A company claims that its batteries have a life of at least 100 hours.

You try to verify this for a sample of

n = 100

Md. Mortuza Ahmmed

with

= 97 hours

and

s = 3 hours .

Test at

0.05

1.645 .

Md. Mortuza Ahmmed

where the critical value is