COMSATS University Islamabad, Vehari Campus

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
Sessional I FA2020

Instructor: Haider Ali Time allowed: 60 minutes

Program/Class: BCS-B17 Max. Marks: 20
Course: Statistics and Probability Theory (MTH262) Date: 21-10-20

Student Name: Registration No:

Question No. 1: Give short answers to the following questions. (𝟑 × 𝟓 = 𝟏𝟓)

(i) What are the major steps to be followed while collecting any type of data?
(ii) Give a short note on the importance of statistics in different fields.
(iii) Draw a simple bar diagram to represent the turnover of a company for six years
Years 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985
Turnover 38000 45000 48000 52500 55000 58000
(iv) Write the mathematical formulae to calculate the following quantities for grouped
and ungrouped data.
 Mean
 Mode
 Median
(v) What are different measures of dispersion? Write the formulas to compute any two
of them

Q. No. 2: Find the quartile deviation and co-efficient of quartile deviation for the (5)
following data:
Marks 30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69 70-79 80-89 90-100
No. of students 8 87 190 304 211 85 20

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