ASSIGNMENT

STASTICS
Question 1:
From the following data of weight of 122 persons determine the modal weight, Mean and
Median.
Weight (in lbs.)
100-110
110-120
120-130
130-140
140-150
150-160
160-170
170-180

No. of persons
4
6
20
32
33
17
8
2

Question 2:
Find mean deviation and its coefficient from the following data:
Size
0-10
10-20
20-30
30-40
40-50
50-60
60-70

Frequency
7
12
18
25
16
14
8

Question 3
Calculate standard deviation of the following frequency distribution of marks:
Marks
0-10
10-20
20-30
30-40
40-50
50-60
60-70

No. of students
5
12
30
45
50
37
21

Question 4
A manufacturing firm produces steel pipes in three plants with daily production volumes of
500, 1000 and 2000 units respectively. According to past experience, it is known that the

fraction of defective outputs produced by the three plants respectively .005, .008and .010.If a
pipe is selected from a days total production and found to be defective .find out
1)
2)

From which plant the pipe comes.

What is the probability that it comes from the first plant?

Question 5
If the probability of defective bolts is 0.1, find:
1) Find the mean and standard deviation for the distribution of defective bolts in a total of
500
2) The moment coefficient of skewness and kurtosis of the distribution.
Question 6
The probability that an evening college student will graduate is 0.4.Determine the probability
that out of 5 students
1) None
2) One and
3) At least one will be graduated
Question 7
It is given that 3% of electricity bulbs manufactured by a company are defective .Using the
Poissonapproximation, find the probability that a sample of 100 bulbs will contain
1)
2)

No defective
Exactly one defective.

Question 8:
A sample of 100 dry battery cells tested to find the length of life produced the following
results:
X(x bar) = 12 hours, sigma = 3 hours
Assuming the data to be normally distributed, what percentage of battery cells are expected to
have life:
1)
2)
3)

More than 15 hours

Less than 6 hours
Between 10 and 14 hours?

Question 9:
A binomial distribution has n=20 and p=0.3.Find the mean and the variance of this
distribution.

Question 10:
Of a large group of men, 4 percent are under 60 inches in height and 40 percent are between
60 and 65 inches. Assuming a normal distribution, find the mean height and standard
distribution.
Question 11:
The customer accounts at a certain department store have an average balance of Rs. 480 and a
standard deviation of Rs. 160. Assuming that the account balances are normally distributed
1)
2)
3)

What proportion of account is over Rs. 600?

What proportion of account is between Rs. 400 and Rs. 600?
What proportion of account is between Rs. 240 and Rs. 360?

Question 12:
Calculate the coefficient of correlation between X and Y from the following data and
calculate the probable error. Assume 69 and 112 as the mean value for X and Y respectively.
X
78
89
99
60
59
79
68
61

Y
125
137
156
112
107
136
123
108

Question 13:
Calculate Spearmans coefficient of correlation between marks assigned to ten students by
Judges X and Y in a certain competitive test as shown below:
S.NO.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Marks by judge X
52
53
42
60
45
41
37
38
25
27

Marks by judge Y
65
68
43
38
77
48
35
30
25
50

Question 14:
The following table gives the aptitude test scores and productivity indices of 10 workers
selected at random:

Aptitude scores (x)

60
62
65
70
72
48
53
73
65
82

Productivity index(y)
68
60
62
80
85
40
52
62
60
61

Calculate the two regression equations and estimate

1)
The productivity index of worker whose test score is 92.
2)
The test score of workers whose productivity index is 75.
Question 15:
The following data relate to the number of passenger cars (in million) sold from 2000 to
2007:
Year

No.
of
passenger
car(in
millions)
2000
6.7
2001
5.3
2002
4.3
2003
6.1
2004
5.6
2005
7.9
2006
5.8
2007
6.1
a) Fit a straight line trend to the data through 2005 only
b) Use your result in (a) to estimate production in 2007 and
compare with the actual production.