TH10A16A SECTION – B (5 × 5 = 25 Marks)

P.S.G.R.KRISHNAMMAL COLLEGE FOR WOMEN Answer all the questions:

College with Potential for Excellence 9. a. Write the differences between diagrams and Graphs.
(An autonomous, Re-Accredited, ISO Certified Institution affiliated to Bharathiar University)
Peelamedu* Coimbatore – 641004 (or)
b. From the following data compute the mean marks of all the
B.Com Degree Examination, May 2013
students of 50 schools in the city.
Commerce with e-Commerce – Semester II
ALLIED – STATISTICS FOR COMMERCE – LEVEL II Average number of
Time: 3 Hours Maximum: 75 Marks Marks obtained No.of Schools
students in a school
SECTION – A (5 × 2 = 10 Marks) More than 35 7 200
Answer any Five questions: 30 – 35 10 250
25 – 30 15 300
1. What are all the types of Bar diagrams. 20 – 25 9 200
15 – 20 5 150
2. Write the formula for standard deviation,. Less than 15 4 100

3. Write the formula for Spearman’s Rank Correlation Coefficient.

10.a. Calculate Karl Pearson’s coefficient of correlation from the
4. If Mean = 111.46, Mode = 116.15 and S.D. = 17.595 then find following data :
coefficient of skewness.
Roll No. of Students 1 2 3 4 5
5. Given the following equation yt = 148 + 24.4 x . Obtain the monthly Marks in Accountancy 48 35 17 23 47
Marks in Statistics 45 20 40 25 45
trend equation.
(or)
6. Write any two methods of constructing index numbers.
b. Two ladies were asked to rank 7 different types of lipsticks. The
7. Write the formula for Lagrange’s method. ranks given by them are given below :

8. Find the grand mean of all samples.

Lipsticks A B C D E F G
Samples I: 8 10 12 8 7 Neelu 2 1 4 3 5 7 6
II : 12 11 9 14 4 Neena 1 3 2 4 5 6 7
III : 18 12 16 6 8
Calculate Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient
IV : 13 9 12 16 15
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11.a. Calculate 3 yearly moving averages of the production figures 13.a. Two investigators study the income of a group of persons by the
given below and draw the trend. method of sampling. Following results were obtained by them.

Year 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 Investigators Poor Middle Class Well-to-do Total
Production A 160 30 10 200
(in met 15 21 30 36 42 46 50 56 B 140 120 40 300
tonnes) Total 300 150 50 500

Year 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 Show that the sampling technique of atleast one of the
Production investigators is suspected.
(in met 63 70 74 82 90 95 102 (or)
tonnes)
(or) b. In a laboratory experiment two random samples gave the
b. From the data given below calculate seasonal indices for I, II, III following results.
& IV quarters assuming the trend is absent.
Sum of squares of
Sample Size Sample Mean
Year deviations from the mean
Quarters
1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1 10 15 90
I 40 42 41 45 44 2 12 14 108
II 35 37 35 36 38
III 38 39 38 36 38 Test the equality of sample variances at 5% level of significance.
IV 40 38 40 41 42 Table values of F for v1 = 9 & v2 = 11 is 2.90 and
12.a. By using the average of the quantities of two years as weights, v1 = 11 & v2 = 9 is 3.10.
compute a price index.
SECTION – C (5 × 8 = 40 Marks)
Quantities Price in 1987 Price in 1988
Commodity Answer all the questions:
1986 1987 `)
(` `)
(`
A 10 16 20 25 14.a. Calculate arithmetic mean, median and mode from the following
B 9 7 25 28 frequency distribution.
C 20 24 40 40
(or) Variable 10-13 13-16 16-19 19-22 22-25
b. Extrapolate and estimate the business done in 1987 from the Frequency 8 15 27 51 75
following data :
Variable 25-28 28-31 31-34 34-37 37-40
Year 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 Frequency 54 36 18 9 7
Business Done
150 235 365 525 780
(` lakhs)
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 (or) 16.a. Fit a straight line trend for the following series. Estimate the value
b. Compute Quartile Deviation and its coefficient from the following
for 1997.
data :
Year 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996
X 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-60 60-70 70-80 Production of
F 12 19 5 10 9 6 60 72 75 65 80 85 95
steel (m.tonnes)

(or)
15.a. Calculate Karl Pearson’s coefficient of skewness from the b. Define time series. Give example. Explain its components.
following data :
17.a. Construct index numbers of price from the following data by
Profits (` lakhs) No.of Companies applying :
70-80 12
80-90 18 1. Laspeyres Method
90-100 35 2. Bowley’s method
100-110 42
110-120 50 3. Fisher’s Ideal Method and
120-130 45 4. Marshall – Edgeworth Method
130-140 30
140-150 8
1994 1995
(or) Commodity
Price Quantity Price Quantity
b. The following table show the ages (X) and blood pressure (Y) of 8 A 2 8 4 6
B 5 10 6 5
persons : C 4 14 5 10
D 2 19 2 13
X 52 63 45 36 72 65 47 25
Y 62 53 51 25 79 43 60 33 (or)
b. Find out the number of students securing second division in the
Obtain the regression equation of Y on X and find the expected
university examination from the following data :
blood pressure of a person who is 49 years old.
Marks obtained
0-20 20-40 40-60 60-80 80-100
(out of 100)
No.of students 5 26 85 54 30

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18.a. Consider the following data :
Age groups
Under 20 20-39 40-59 60 & over Total
Liked 146 78 48 28 300
Disliked 54 22 42 22 140
Indifferent 20 10 10 20 60
Total 220 110 100 70 500

Use Chi square test to check the independence of attributes.

What inference will you draw from this data :
(or)
b. To study the performance of three detergents and three different
water temperatures, the following ‘whiteness’ reading were
obtained with specially designed equipment.

Water temp Detergent A Detergent B Detergent C

Cold Water 57 55 67
Warm Water 49 52 68
Hot Water 54 46 58

Perform a two-way analysis of variance using 5% level of

significance

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