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KARACHI UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL

UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI
FINAL EXAMINATION DECEMBER 2013; AFFILIATED COLLEGES
BUSINESS STATISTICS; BA (H)–451
BS – III
Date: December 23, 2013 Max Marks: 60
Max Time: 3 Hrs
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Attempt any 5 questions. Do not write anything on the question paper.
2. Use of mobile phones or any other communicating device will not be allowed in the
examination room. Students will have to remove the batteries of these devices before
entering the examination hall.

Q.1. (a) Define Mean, Median & Mode of a frequency distribution. Give a sketch of a
Skewed frequency distribution showing the approximate position of each. (05)

(b) Sketch and write the name of any three important types of diagrams/graphs.
(03)

(c) The weights of 10 boxes of a certain brand of cereal have a mean content of
27gms. with S.D. of Rs.9.64 gms. If these boxes were purchased at 10 different stores
and the average price per box is Rs. 21.25 with S.D. of 2.15, can you conclude that the
weights are relatively more homogeneous than the prices? (04)

Q.2. The following data represent the length of life in minutes of a sample of 40 black flies
subjected to a new spray in a controlled laboratory experiments.

2.4 2.1 3.1 1.6 2.4 2.3 3.2 0.4 2.3 0.4 3.5 2.6
1.8 2.6 3.5 2.7 1.8 2.0 1.5 3.4 0.7 1.3 2.9 2.8
1.5 1.1 3.5 0.9 2.8 2.3 1.5 2.3 2.4 0.6 3.4 0.5
1.5 2.5 2.9 3.1
Construct frequency distribution table & compute (12)
(i) Median (ii) S.D.

Q.3. (a). Define the following terms (Any Three). (03)

(i) Statistics (ii) Frequency & Relative frequency
(iii) Qualitative & Quantitative variables (iv) Measure of Relative dispersion.

(b). Write the characteristics of Poisson Experiment. (04)

(c). A Shipment of 7 machines contain 2 defectives. A company makes a random

purchase of 3 of the machines. If X is the number of defective machines purchased by
the company, find the expected mean of X. (05)

Q.4. (a). Define approaches & Laws of Probability. (03)

(b). If the probability that an individual suffers a bad reaction form injection of a
given serum is 0.1, determine the probability that out of 20 individuals (i) exactly 3, (ii)
at least two, (iii) at most 3, individual will suffer a bad reaction. (4.5)

(c). from a group of 4 men & 5 women, how many committees of size three are
possible:
(i) With no restriction (ii) with 1 man & 2 women
(iii) With 2 men & 1 woman (4.5)
if a certain man must be in the committee.

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Q.5. (a) Define the terms Permutation and Combination. (03)

(b) A certain pharmaceutical company knows that, on the average 8% of a certain

type of pill has an ingredient that is below the minimum strength & thus unacceptable.
What is the probability that fewer that 4 in a sample of 50 pills will be unacceptable?
(03)

(c) In a graduating class of 100 students, 45 studied statistics, 70 studied

mathematics & 30 studied both statistics & mathematics. If one of these students is
selected at random, find the probability that (06)
i) the student takes statistics & mathematics;
ii) the student does not take either of these subjects;
iii) the student takes mathematics but not statistics.

Q.6. (a) Define the term Regression & Correlation. (04)

(b) The amount of a chemical compound, which dissolved in 100 grams of water a
various temperatures, were recorded as follows: (08)

°C Amount of compound
00 04 05 06
10 10 08 12
20 21 19 22
30 29 31 27
40 42 38 40
(i) Find the equation of the regression line.
(ii) Estimate the amount of chemical that will dissolve in 100 gm of water at 50 °C.
(iii) Calculate Correlation Co-efficient r & comment on the relationship of the
variables.

Q.7. (a) What is an index number? Describe the weighted aggregative price index
number and its types. (04)

(b) Compute Fisher’s price index number for 2011 with 1996 as base from the
following data (08)

Commodity Quantity (units) Value (Rs.)

1996 2011 1996 2011
A 100 150 600 1200
B 80 100 400 700
C 60 72 180 432
D 30 33 450 363

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KARACHI UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL

UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI
FINAL EXAMINATION JUNE 2013: AFFILIATED COLLEGES
BUSINESS STATISTICS BA (H)–451
BS – III
Date: June 20, 2013 Max Marks: 60
Max Time: 3 Hrs

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Attempt any 5 questions. Do not write anything on the question paper.
2. Use of mobile phones or any other communicating device will not be allowed
in the examination room. Students will have to remove the batteries of these
devices before entering the examination hall.

Q.1(a) Differentiate between: (i) Descriptive and Inferential Statistics. (4)

(ii) Primary and Secondary methods of data collection.

(b) Following are the lengths (in inches) of 30 nails produced by a rolling mill: (8)

4.0 3.9 3.8 4.0 4.0 3.9 3.9 3.8 4.2 4.1
3.7 4.1 4.6 4.2 4.1 4.2 3.9 3.9 3.9 3.8
3.7 4.3 3.8 4.2 4.0 3.8 4.0 4.1 4.0 4.2

(i) Prepare a frequency distribution taking five equal classes.

(ii) Compute Mean for the raw data and for the prepared frequency distribution
and compare the two results.

Q.2(a) For the following frequency distribution: (6)

Class 401–420 421–440 441–460 461–480 481–500
Frequency 5 12 17 10 6

Compute (i) mean (ii) median and (iii) mode.

(b) The daily sales in a hardware store are as follows: (6)

Rs. 136, 265, 484, 2837, 195, 176 and 572.
(i) Calculate mean and median for these sales data.
(ii) Which one gives a meaningful measure of average and why?

Q.3(a) For the frequency distribution given below: (6)

Class 5–7 8 – 10 11 – 13 14 – 16 481–500

Frequency 5 12 17 10 6

Calculate (i) Coefficient of variation (ii) Coefficient of mean deviation.

(b) Two sales representatives have the following annual sales for the last five years. (6)
Representative A: 74, 80, 72, 65, 78.
Representative B: 82, 76, 69, 70, 84.
On the basis of coefficient of variation which representative is more consistent?

Q.4(a) Define Classical and Empirical approaches of probability. (4)

(b) Two balanced dice are rolled. What is the probability that: (4)
(i) the sum of dots is at most 8.
(ii) the product of dots is at least 12.

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(c) The time in minutes which 15 bank account holders spent in a bank branch to
get their cheques cashed, are recorded below:
8.6, 5.8, 6.7, 5.2, 6.2, 5.5, 7.5, 5.1, 5.3, 9.9, 5.9, 13.6, 15.2,10.7, 5.2.
What is the probability that a randomly selected account holder will get his
cheque cashed within seven minutes? (4)

Q.5(a) A and B are two independent events and P(A) = 0.3, P(B) = 0.6,
Compute P(A ∩ B) and P(A U B). (4)

(b) Find k such that P(x) = k . x2forx = 1, 2, 3 is a probability distribution. (4)

Find (i) E(x) and (ii) V(x).

(c) A random committee of size 3 is selected from 4 men and 2 women.

What is the probability that both women will be selected? (4)

Q.6(a) It is known that 8% of the production of a manufacturer is defective. A random (4)

sample of 10 items is selected. Number of defective items in the sample is the
binomial random variable X.
Find (i) P(X) (ii) E(X) (iii) V(X)

(b) The mean and standard deviation of a binomial random variable are 1.8 and 1.2
respectively. Find P(x ≥ 3) (4)

(c) In a steel industry the average number of fatal accidents per month is 0.5.
What is the probability that there will be no fatal accident in the next two month? (4)

Q.7(a) The data in the following table give the market – share of a product for (6)
a given advertising expenditure.
(i) Find a least squares line of regression to estimate market – share for a given
advertising expenditure.
(ii) Estimate market – share when advertising expenditure is Rs.300,000.

Month Market Shares (%) Advertising Expenditure

(Rs.0000)
January 15 23
March 17 25
May 13 21
July 14 24
September 16 26

(b) For the following data, construct Fisher’s price index for 2011 (6)

Product Price Quantity

2010 2011 2010 2011
A 60 71 24 33
B 41 49 18 21
C 12 20 31 34
D 6 13 26 11

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KARACHI UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL

UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI
FINAL EXAMINATION JUNE 2014; AFFILIATED COLLEGES
BUSINESS STATISTICS; BA (H)–451
BS – III
Date: June 09, 2014 Max Time: 3 Hrs
Max Marks: 60
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Attempt any 5 questions. Do not write anything on the question paper.
TABLES ARE NOT REQUIRED.
2. Use of mobile phones or any other communicating device will not be
allowed in the examination room. Students will have to remove the
batteries of these devices before entering the examination hall.

Q.1 a) Differentiate between:

(i) Descriptive and Inferential Statistics. (ii) Primary and Secondary methods of data collection.
Q.1 b) Define a Frequency Distribution. What are the steps involved in its preparation?
Q.1 c) Prepare a frequency distribution taking Five equal classes.

403 395 389 401 408 391 398 386 429 415
379 417 465 426 410 428 396 393 396 383
371 438 381 423 405 386 401 414 407 422

Q.2 a) For the following frequency distribution:

Sales (x) 401–420 421–440 441–460 461–480 481–500

No. of days (f) 5 12 17 10 6

(i) Compute mean, median and mode

(ii) Compute first quartile
(iii) Compute the percentage of days when the sales is more than 475.

Q.2 b) If an instructor counts the final examination in a course four times as much as each one–hour
examination, what is the average score of a student who received 76 in the final examination and
70, 54, 73, and 67 in four one–hour examinations?

Q.3 a) For the frequency distribution given below, determine the intervals (µ + σ) and (µ + 2σ) where µ
is the mean and σ is the standard deviation of the distribution.

C.I f
8.0 – 8.9 14
9.0 – 9.9 27
10.0 – 10.9 22
11.0 – 11.9 5
12.0 – 12.9 4
13.0 – 13.9 12
14.0 – 14.9 16

Q.3 b) The number of machine breakdowns per day in a factory is recorded for seven days in each of two
months as:
June 4 10 9 0 0 8 3
August 11 4 3 2 3 0 3

(i) Which month exhibits more variability in terms of coefficient of variation?

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Q.4 a) Find the number of distinct permutations that can be formed from all the letters of the word
PROPOSITION.
Q.4 b) (i) If repetitions are not allowed, how many three digit numbers can be formed from the six digits
2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 9?
(ii) How many are odd? (iii) How many are multiple of 5?
Q.4 c) Two fair dice are rolled. Find the probability of getting a sum of 8 dots.

Q.5 a) Differentiate between Classical and Empirical Approaches of Probability.

Q.5 b) A coin is tossed four times. Find the probability of at least two heads.
Q.5 c) The time in minutes, which 15 bank account holders spent in a bank branch to get their cheques
cashed, are recorded below:
8.6, 5.8, 6.7, 5.2, 6.2, 5.5, 7.5, 5.1, 5.3, 9.9, 5.9, 13.6, 15.2, 10.7, 5.2.
What is the probability that an account holder will get his cheque cashed within seven minutes?

Q.6 a) Given that events A and B are independent, and P(A) = 0.3 and P(B) = 0.6,
(i) Compute P(A U B).
Q.6 b) Find K such that P(X) = K.X2 for X = 1, 2, 3 is a probability distribution.
Find (i) E(X) and (ii) V(X).

Q.7 a) 6 cards are drawn at random from a deck of 52 playing cards. What is the probability of getting 3
kings if the cards are drawn
(i) with replacement?
(ii) without replacement?
Q.7 b) It is known that 6% of the production of a manufacturer is defective. What is the probability that
“the number of defective product” in a random sample of 10 will be exactly 2?
Q.7 c) In a steel industry the average number of fatal accidents per month is 0.5.
What is the probability that there will be no fatal accident in the next two
months?

Q.8 a) A sample of paired observations is given as:

X 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Y 2 8 11 9 19 14 14
(i) Determine the Regression equation of y on x.
(ii) Determine Total, Error and Regression Sum of Squares.
(iii) Determine Coefficient of determination and interpret.
(iv) Determine Coefficient of Correlation.

Q.8 b) Compute Fisher’s price index number for 2013.

2012 2013
Commodity
Price Quantity Price Quantity
A 64 270 102 320
B 40 124 70 210
C 83 130 95 125

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KARACHI UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL

UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI
FINAL EXAMINATION DECEMBER 2011; AFFILIATED COLLEGES
BUSINESS STATISTICS BA (H) – 451
BS – III
___________________________________________________________________________
Date: December 23, 2011 Max Marks 60
Instructions: Attempt any five Questions Max Time: 3hrs
Question paper will be returned along with the answer scripts
Q1) Differentiate between the following by giving the examples related to business field. (12)
i. Tabulation and Classifications
ii. Discrete and Continuous variables
iii. Qualitative and Quantitative variables
iv. Independent and dependent events
v. Arithmetic mean and mathematical expectations
vi. Multiple bar and subdivided bar diagrams

Q2) a) A study was made to determine the consumer preferences about the size of oil pack
(small, median or large) of particular cooking oil. (6)

S S S S S S M M S L S S L L M L
M S M M M L M L M M S S L S S M
L L M M S S M L S M M S M L L M
L L S S S M M L L L M L S M L M
Construct frequency table and find appropriate average. (6)
b) Calculate appropriate weighted aggregative index number for the following data.
Items 2009 2010 2009
Price Price Quantity(000)
Sugar 68 75 2.1
Wheat 37 45 4.5
Rice 70 85 3.2
Oil 105 120 1.9

Q3) a) Discuss the properties of normal distribution. (6+6)

b) In a day on the average 300 customer visited a particular super store with standard
deviation of 15. Assuming normal distribution, what is the probability that on any
particular day
i. Exactly 330 customer visited
ii. More than 275 customer visited
iii. Between 290 and 325 customer visited
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Q4) a) A Box contains 4 white balls and 3 black balls. Find the probability of selecting 2
white and 1 black balls if balls are selected one by one (6)
i) with replacement ii) without replacement
b) A machine produces chocolates. 10% of the chocolate are mis-shapes. What is the
probability from the next 10 chocolates produced by this machine? (6)
i) Exactly 4 are mis-shape
ii) Atleast 2 are mis-shape
iii) Calculate mean and variance number of mis-shape.

Q5) a) Discuss the properties of arithmetic mean. (3)

b) The following data represents share sold in a particular stock market in a year. (9)

No of share sold(00) 5--10 10--15 15--20 20--25 25—30 30—35 35--40 40—45
No of Days 17 21 34 40 42 70 46 30

a) Calculate Arithmetic mean and Median.

b) Calculate Coefficient of variance.
c) Comment on the shape of the frequency distribution of share market.

Q6) For the following data.

Plot sizes (in yard) 100 200 400 500 600 800 1000 1500 2000
Price (in millions ) 4 7 10 125 15 19 24 28 32

a) Construct scatter diagram on your answer script. (2)

b) Find regression line and predict the plot price when the plot size will be 300 yards. (4)
c) From the regression equation estimate the fixed price of the plot (1)
d) Find Product moment Coefficient of Correlation. (3)
e) Interpret regression coefficient and correlation coefficient (2)

__________________________________________________________________________

Table values from Standard normal distribution

Z -2.0 -1.66 -1.1 -0.66 +0.66 +1.1 +1.66 +2.0 2.6

P(Z<z) 0.0228 0.0485 0.1357 0.2546 0.7454 0.8643 0.9515 0.9772 0.9953

END OF PAPER

Note: Revised date for BS – III Money & Banking is December 30, 2011. There is no change in
timings.
 Karachi University Business School
University of Karachi
FINAL EXAMINATION DECEMBER 2010: AFFILIATED COLLEGES
BUSINESS STATISTICS: BA (H) – 451
BS – III

Date: December 31, 2010 Max Time: 3 Hrs

Instruction: Attempt ALL questions. Max Marks: 60

Q.1(a) In an experiment to measure the stiffness of a spring, the length of the spring
under different loads was measured as follows:

Loads (lbs) 3 5 6 9 10 12 15 20 22 28

Lengths (inches) 10 12 15 18 20 22 27 30 32 34

Find the regression equations appropriate for predicting

(i) the length, given the weight on the spring;
(ii) the weight , given the length of the spring.

(b) Find Q1, Q2 and Q3 for the following data :

4, 4, 6, 5, 9, 8, 14, 12, 21, 18, 29

Q.2 (a) Compute (i) Laspeyres’ (ii) Paasche’s (iii) Fisher’s Ideal quantity Index numbers
from the following data :

Commodity Quantity Price

2007 2008 2009 2007 2008 2009

A 200 350 350 15 16 20
B 100 220 340 18 20 35
C 30 45 50 100 120 150

(b) Goals scored by two teams A and B in a hockey season were as follows:

No. of goals scored in a No. of matches

match A B
(xi)
0 27 17
1 9 9
2 8 6
3 5 5
4 4 3

By calculating the coefficient of variation in each case, find which team may be
considered more consistent.

Q.3 (a) The random variable X, representing the number of defective missiles when 3
missiles are fired, has the following probability distribution:

x 0 1 2 3
P(X=x) 0.51 0.38 0.10 0.01

Calculate σ2 .

(b) How many distinct permutations can be made from the letters of the word
“business”?

Cont……
 (c) Find quartile deviation and its coefficient from the following data :-

C.I 0-4 5-9 10 - 14

F 13 10 12

Q.4 (a) From a group of 4 boys and 5 girls, how many committees of size 3 are possible
(i) with no restrictions?
(ii) with 1 boy and 2 girls?
(iii) with 2 boys and 1 girl if a certain boy must be in the committee?

(b) In a fuse box there are total 20 fuses, of which 5 are defective. If 2 fuses are
chosen at random and removed from the box in succession without replacing the first,
what is the probability that both fuses are defective?

(c) Life of the 50 car batteries in weeks are given below :

Life in 16-20 21-25 26-30 31-35 36-40 41-45 46-50

weeks
No of 4 6 8 14 8 6 4
batteries

(i) Compute mean, median and mode .

(ii) Are the averages equal? Why?

Q.5 (a) Calculate the coefficient of correlation for the following data:

X 5 12 14 16 18 21 22 23 25
Y 11 16 15 20 17 19 25 24 21

(b) The number of children per family of 50 families is grouped in the following
frequency distribution table:

No.of children 0 1 2 3 4 5
No.of families 4 m n 8 4 2

If the mean of the distribution is 2, find the value of m and n.

Q.6 (a) An electrical company manufactures energy savers that have a length of life that
is normally distributed with mean equal to 800 hrs and a standard deviation of 40 hrs.
Find the probability that a energy saver burns between 778 and 834 hrs.

(b) For the following frequency distribution , calculate standard deviation by using

(i) Direct Method

(ii) Proper mean Method.
C.I. 65-84 85-104 105-124 125-144 145-164 165-184 185-204

f 9 10 17 10 5 4 5

(c) Compute harmonic mean for the observations given below :-

X : 10, 20, 40, 50, 80.

(d) Calculate geometric mean for the following data :

X :13, 10, 12, 14, 11, 15.
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KARACHI UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL

UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI
FINAL EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2016; AFFILIATED COLLEGES
BUSINESS STATISTICS; BA (H)–451
BBA – III
Date: December 26, 2016 Max Time: 1 Hr
Max Marks: 30
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Attempt any 3 questions. Do not write anything on the question paper
2. TABLES ARE NOT REQUIRED.
3. Mobile phone(s) or any other communicating device will not be allowed in the
examination room. Students will have to remove the batteries of these devices
before entering the examination hall.

Q1 Give reason why

a) Arithmetic mean is taken as ideal average
b) Fisher index is called as Fisher’s ideal index
c) Mutually exclusive events have P(A ∩ B) =0
d) Grouping error increases when class interval decreases
e) Binomial Probability Distribution is positively skewed when p<1/2

Q2 a) Following are the growth rates of the last 12 month of a company. Calculate AM, GM and
HM, and comment which average if most appropriate.
1.12, 1.05, 1.16, 1.20, 0.99, 0.97, 1.50, 1.13, 1.14, 1.08, 1.09, 1.33

Q2 b) By calculating the mean and variance of the following stock index find consistency of the
stock market.

Index 2100 2200 2300 2400 2500 2600

frequency 4 2 4 6 5 3

Q3 a) If P (A) = 0.2 P(A U B) = 0.8 P(B’) = 0.3 Calculate the following

i. P (B) ii) P( A/B) iii) P P(A’ ∩ B) iv) P(A ∩ B’) v) P(A’ ∩ B’)

Q3 b) Find the number of ways in which 7 people be lined up to get on a bus if two people insist
to follow each other.

Q4 a) Following data represents the weight of five people before and after using a weight
reducing diet plan.
Before X 80 90 100 95 88
After Y 75 91 94 93 86

Calculate regression line y on x

i. Estimate the weight of a person after using diet plan whose weight before 92kg.
ii. How can we justify that diet plan is effective?

Q4 b) The probability that remote control car is defective is 0.2, from set of 8 cars calculate the
probability that
i. Exactly 3 are defective
ii. More than average are defective
A box contain 8 cars, calculate out of 100 such boxes how many boxes would you expect
that contain exactly 3 defective cars.

END OF SUBJECTIVE PAPER

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KARACHI UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL

UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI
FINAL EXAMINATION DECEMBER 2017; AFFILIATED COLLEGES
BUSINESS STATISTICS; BA (H)–451
BBA – III
Date: December 26, 2017 Max Time: 90 Mins
Max Marks: 30
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Attempt all questions. Do not write anything on the question paper. EXCEPT the initials
mentioned above.
2. Mobile phones or any other communicating device will not be allowed in the
examination room. Students will have to remove the batteries of these devices before
entering the examination hall.

Q1 a) What are the four basic activities of statistics?

Q1 b) Differentiate between “STATISTIC” and “STATISTICS”.
Q1 c) Following frequency distribution shows the score of scouts on a test.

Score 0—14 15––29 30– 44 45––64 65––84 85––99

frequency 2 8 10 17 19 12

Answer the following:

i. If 45 is the pass marks what % of the people are failed
ii. If 85 and above is distinction, what % of people having distinction
iii. At what score 50% of the people fall below
iv. At what score 25% of score fall above it.

Q2 a) Find the probability of obtaining two heads when three coins are tossed simultaneously.
Q2 b) Calculate E(X) and V(X)

X –1 0 1 2
P(X) 0.2 0.4 0.3 0.1

Q2 c) In how many ways 4 people lined up to get on a bus (Write all steps?)
Q2 d) How many if two people insist to follow each other (write full explanation)

Q3 a) The moisture content M in a mud was measured at depth D meters. The regression equation was
obtained M=–2.2D+83.85
i. Identify regression coefficient and constant
ii. Interpret the regression coefficient and constant.
Q3 b) Calculate coefficient of correlation for the data
X 0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Y 85 82 56 42 30 21 21

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Student Name: _______________________ Seat No: _______________________________

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UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI
FINAL EXAMINATION JUNE 2017; AFFILIATED COLLEGES
BUSINESS STATISTICS; BA (H) – 451; (PART B)
BBA – III
Date: June 13, 2017 Max. Time: 1.5 Hrs
Max. Marks: 30
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Attempt all questions all carry equal marks. TABLES ARE NOT REQUIRED.
2. Do not write anything on the question paper, EXCEPT initials mentioned above.
3. Mobile phones or any other communicating device will not be allowed in the
examination room. Students will have to remove the batteries of these devices
before entering the examination hall.

Q1 a) Describe the method of conversion of Frequency Distribution into Probability Distribution.

Q1 b) After extensive training of scouts and guides, test scores of two groups is as follows:

Scouts 52 63 21 30 47 70 58 74 28 32
Guides 44 58 38 73 62 81 77 54 45 43

Calculate coefficient of variation and suggest which group is more consistent

Q2 a) The probability that 30% of the people invest their saving in Federal Reserve. Out of 8
randomly selected persons what is the probability that
i. At-least 6 invest their saving in Federal Reserve
ii. Less than mean number of people invest their saving in Federal Reserve

Q2 b) Smoking and Lung Disease According to the Arizona Chapter of the American Lung
Association, 7.0% of the population has lung disease. Of those having lung disease, 90.0%
are smokers; of those not having lung disease, 25.3% are smokers. By using Tree Diagram
determine the probability that a randomly selected person is a smoker.

Q3 a) Describe three properties of normal distribution

Q3 b) The following data shows the average share rate and mortgage rate for 10 years.

Years I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X

Share % 7.8 6 8 10.5 10.5 9.8 6.2 7.2 6.8 8.2
Mortgage % 12.2 9.5 11.8 11.8 15 15 10 11.2 11.5 14

The following totals were obtained

∑X ∑Y ∑XY ∑X2 ∑Y2

81 122 1010.6 681.14 1521.26

i. Calculate regression and correlation coefficient.

ii. Under what condition regression and correlation coefficient are same.

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KARACHI UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL

UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI
FINAL EXAMINATION JUNE 2016; AFFILIATED COLLEGES
BUSINESS STATITSTICS BA (H) – 451
BBA – III
Date: June 13, 2016 Max Time: 1.5 Hrs
Max Marks: 30
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Attempt any 3 questions. Do not write anything on the question paper.
2. TABLES ARE NOT REQUIRED.
3. Mobile phones or any other communicating device will not be allowed in the
examination room. Students will have to remove the batteries of these devices
before entering the examination hall.

Q1 Give reason why

a. Arithmetic mean is taken as ideal average
b. Fisher index is called as Fisher’s ideal index
c. Mutually exclusive events have P(A ∩ B) =0
d. Grouping error increases when class interval decreases
e. Binomial Probability Distribution is positively skewed when p<1/2

Q2 a) Following are the growth rates of the last 12 month of a company. Calculate AM, GM and
HM, and comment which average if most appropriate.
1.12, 1.05, 1.16, 1.20, 0.99, 0.97, 1.50, 1.13, 1.14, 1.08, 1.09, 1.33
Q2 b) By calculating the mean and variance of the following stock index find consistency of the
stock market.
Index 2100 2200 2300 2400 2500 2600
frequency 4 2 4 6 5 3

Q3 a) If P (A) = 0.2 P(A U B)= 0.8 P(B’)= 0.3 Calculate the following
i) P (B) ii) P( A/B) iii) P P(A’ ∩ B) iv) P(A ∩ B’) v) P(A’ ∩ B’)
Q3 b) Find the number of ways in which 7 people be lined up to get on a bus if two people insist
to follow each other.

Q4 a) Following data represents the weight of five people before and after using a weight
reducing diet plan.
Before X 80 90 100 95 88
After Y 75 91 94 93 86

Calculate regression line y on x

i) Estimate the weight of a person after using diet plan whose weight before 92kg.
ii) How can we justify that diet plan is effective?
Q4 b) The probability that remote control car is defective is 0.2, from set of 8 cars calculate the
probability that
i) Exactly 3 are defective
ii) More than average are defective
iii) A box contain 8 cars, calculate out of 100 such boxes how many boxes would you
expect that contain exactly 3 defective cars.

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UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI
FINAL EXAMINATION DECEMBER 2012: AFFILIATED COLLEGES
BUSINESS STATISTICS BA (H)–451
BS – III
Date: December 23, 2012 Max Marks: 60
Max Time: 3 Hrs

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Attempt any 5 questions. Do not write anything on the question paper.
2. Use of mobile phones or any other communicating device will not be
allowed in the examination room. Students will have to remove the
batteries of these devices before entering the examination hall.

Q.1(a) Define a Frequency Distribution. What are the steps involved in its preparation? (4)

(b) The following data are the book values of a random sample of 40 stocks.
Prepare a frequency distribution taking Five equal classes. (8)
Compute means of the raw data and of the prepared frequency distribution and
compare.
15 11 5 26 15 20 15 16 11 6 26 16 21 16 17 12 7 27 17 22
18 13 9 27 18 22 19 13 29 9 19 13 19 13 23 23 19 14 14 23

Q.2(a) For the following frequency distribution: (8)

Sales (x) 401–420 421–440 441–460 461–480 481–500
No. of days (f) 5 12 17 10 6
(i) Compute mode of the distribution
(ii) Compute first quartile.
(iii) Compute the percentage of days when the sales is more than 475.

(b) If an instructor counts the final examination in a course four times as much as
each one–hour examination, what is the average score of a student who received
76 in the final examination and 70, 54, 73, and 67 in four one–hour examinations? (4)

Q.3(a) For the frequency distribution given below, calculate coefficient of variation. (6)

C.I f
8.0 – 8.9 14
9.0 – 9.9 27
10.0 – 10.9 22
11.0 – 11.9 5
12.0 – 12.9 4
13.0 – 13.9 12
14.0 – 14.9 16

(b) The number of machine breakdowns per day in a factory is recorded for seven
days in each of two months as: (6)
June 4 10 9 0 0 8 3
August 11 4 3 2 3 0 3

Which month exhibits more variability in terms of coefficient of variation?

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Q.4(a) Define Classical and Empirical approaches of probability. (4)

(b) Two balanced dice are rolled. What is the probability that the sum of dots is at
most 7? (4)

(c) The time in minutes which 15 bank account holders spent in a bank branch to get
their cheques cashed, are recorded below:
8.6, 5.8, 6.7, 5.2, 6.2, 5.5, 7.5, 5.1, 5.3, 9.9, 5.9, 13.6, 15.2, 10.7 , 5.2.
What is the probability that a randomly selected account holder will get his
cheque cashed within seven minutes? (4)

Q.5(a) A and B are two dependent events and P(A) = 0.25, P(B) = 0.33, P(A U B) = 0.43
Compute P(A ∩ B) and P(B/A). (4)

(b) Find k such that P(x) = k . x2 for x = 1, 2, 3 is a probability distribution. (8)

Find (i) E(x) and (ii) V(x).

Q.6(a) A random committee of size 3 is selected from 4 men and 2 women.

What is the probability that both women will be selected? (4)

(b) A salesman has estimated that the probability of making a sale when calling on a
customer is 0.5. If this salesman calls on 6 customers on a given day, what is the
probability of making at least 2 sales? (4)

(c) In a steel industry the average number of fatal accidents per month is 0.5.
What is the probability that there will be no fatal accident in the next two month? (4)

Q.7(a) A sample of paired observations is given as: (6)

X 7 3 5 6 4 4 6
Y 18 12 16 18 10 13 14
(i) Determine the Regression equation of y on x.
(ii) Estimate y for x = 10.
(iii) Calculate coefficient of correlation.

(b) For the following data, construct Fisher’s price index for 2011 (6)

Product Price Quantity

2010 2011 2010 2011
A 60 71 24 33
B 41 49 18 21
C 12 20 31 34
D 6 13 26 11

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UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI
FINAL EXAMINATION, JUNE 2012; AFFILIATED COLLEGES
BUSINESS STATISTICS BA (H) – 451
BS – III

Date: June 19, 2012 Max Marks: 60

Max Time: 3 Hrs

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Attempt any 5 questions. Do not write anything on the question paper.
2. Use of mobile phones or any other communicating device will not be
allowed in the examination room. Students will have to remove the
batteries of these devices before entering the examination hall.

Q.1(a) Differentiate between (i) Descriptive and Inferential Statistics. (4)

(ii) Qualitative and quantitative variables

(b) Prepare a frequency distribution for the following data taking five equal classes. (8)
Compute means of the raw data and for the prepared frequency distribution and
compare.
3.1 10.3 3.9 0.5 1.5 11.2 15.6 1.8 12.8 8.2 7.7 2.9
3.4 11.6 6.4 3.9 8.0 8.4 0.7 7.2 6.8 10.2 0.9 5.5

Q.2(a) The following table contains “weekly wages” of 10 employees of an organization: (8)

Weekly Wages 401–420 421–440 441–460 461–480 481–500

No. of Employees 2 4 8 4 2

(i) Compute Mean, Median, and Mode.

(ii) Comment on the symmetry of the distribution.

(b) In a class there are 22 girls and 38 boys. The mean score of girls in an
examination is 78 and the mean score of boys is 71. What is the mean score of the
entire class? (4)

Q.3(a) For the frequency distribution given below, calculate coefficient of variation. (6)

C.I f
1.5 – 1.9 1
2.0 – 2.4 2
2.5 – 2.9 4
3.0 – 3.4 15
3.5 – 3.9 10
4.0 – 4.4 5
4.5 – 4.9 3

(b)The following are the number of defective bolts produced daily by two machines: (6)
Machine A 2 4 6 5 8 10 7
Machine B 3 7 0 2 11 0 12
Which machine exhibits more variability in terms of coefficient of variation?

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Q.4(a) Find the number of distinct permutations that can be formed from all the letters of
the word PERSEVERANCE. (4)

(b) Two balanced dice are rolled. What is the probability that the sum of dots is at
least 7? (4)

(c) A coin is tossed four times. Find the probability of three heads. (4)

Q.5(a) A and B are two dependent events and P(A) = 0.25, P(B) = 0.33, P(A U B) = 0.43
Compute P(A ∩ B) and P(B/A). (4)

(b) Given the probability function: (8)

5−X
P ( X) = , X = 1, 2 , 3 , 4 .
10
Calculate the mean and variance of X.

Q.6(a) Three items are chosen at random from a lot containing 15 items of which 6 are
defective. Find the probability that: (6)
(i) two items are defective?
(ii) at least one item is defective?

(b) It is known that 6% of the production of a manufacturer is defective. A random

sample of 10 items is drawn from the production. Let x be the number of
defective items in the sample. (6)
Find (i) P(x ≥ 2) (ii) E(x) (iii) V(x)

Q.7 (a) A sample of paired observations is given as: (6)

X 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Y 2 8 11 9 19 14 14
(i) Determine the Regression equation of y on x.
(ii) Estimate y for x = 10.
(iii) Calculate coefficient of correlation.

(b) For the following data, construct Fisher’s price index for 2011 (6)

Product Price Quantity

2010 2011 2010 2011
A 1125 650 215 165
B 575 825 120 100
C 6600 7100 560 580
D 8250 8500 105 155

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UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI
FINAL EXAMINATION JUNE 2011; AFFILIATED COLLEGES
BUSINESS STATISTICS BA (H) – 451
BS – III
Date: June 16, 2011 Max Time: 3 Hrs
Instruction: Attempt all questions. Max Marks: 60

Q1) a) Following data represents the weight of 50 people to the nearest kg.

51 67 66 30 82 69 68 62 48 60
61 70 55 78 75 35 66 57 65 58
88 72 87 74 72 85 76 79 82 73
93 42 65 54 57 78 98 45 39 47
69 95 53 65 45 64 58 51 61 59

a)Construct frequency distribution by taking length of class=10 (4)

b) Prove that Mean=Median=Mode. (5)
c) Which type of variable is the weight? (1)
Q2) a) Describe briefly, four basic activities of Statistics? (3)
b) The following data shows the number of siblings of the students in a class.
No of siblings (X) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
No of students (f) 4 5 8 12 7 4 2
Prove that HM<GM<AM (6)
c) Specify the exact condition and type of numbers for which AM=GM=HM (1)
Q3) Describe one basic difference between the multiple bar diagram and Component
bar(Sub divided bar) diagram. (1)
a) The following data gives that index of two stock markets for the last 10 days.
Market I 1400 1430 1300 1200 1000 1500 1432 1278 1360 1180
Market II 2000 2100 1800 1550 1490 2080 1970 1690 1689 1689
A broker wants to invest in one of the stock market, suggest with reason which
market is more consistent. (7)
b) The speed of cars in Km/hr are noted at two different location A and B. The following
three quartiles were obtained
Location A: Q1=30 Q2=51 Q3=71
Location B: Q1=64 Q2=76 Q3=89 (2)
By plotting Stem and leaf diagram suggest the type of road from which data was
collected for location A and location B. (Highway, Mid- city road, Main road)
Q4) a) If each digit is used only once. How many four digit numbers can be formed from the
digits 0,1,2,3,4,5,6 ? How many of them are odd numbers? (4)
b) Five married couples have bought ten seats for a concert. In how many ways they
can be seated (3)
i) with no restriction ii) if each couple is to sit together iii) if each couple sits together
such that man and women sit alternately?
c) For the following probability distribution Find E(X) and V(X) (3)
X 1 2 3 4 5
P(X) 0.15 0.1 0.3 0.05 0.4

Q5) a) A and B are two events. With P(A)>0 and P(B)>0. Write down the condition. (3)
i) If A and B are Equally likely events iv) If A and B are Independent events
ii) If A and B are Exhaustive events v) If A and B are Dependent events
iii) If A &B are Mutually exclusive events vi) If A &B are Non mutually exclusive events

b) A shipment of 10 television sets contains four defective sets. If a hotel purchases 5 of

these sets, what is the probability that the hotel receives (3)
i) No defective set b) At-least three defective sets c) At-most two defective sets.
c) In a college graduating class of 100 students, 54 studies mathematic, 69 studies history
and 35 studies both mathematics and history. If a student is selected at random what is the
probability that (4)
i) The student takes mathematics or history
ii) The student does not take either of these subjects
iii) The student takes only history
iv) If two students are selected at random what is the probability that both take history

Q6) For the following data.

Weight Kg (X) 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
Length of Spring Cm (Y) 40 48 51 50 55 57 60 61 70
a) Show that (3)
ΣX=450 ΣY=492 ΣXY=26440 ΣX2=28500 ΣY2=27500
By using the given information
b) Construct scatter diagram on your answer script. (1)
c) Find regression line and estimate the length of spring when weight is 75 kg. (2)
d) Estimate the original length of the spring. (1)
e) Find Product moment Coefficient of Correlation. (2)
f) Interpret regression coefficient and correlation coefficient (1)
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FINAL EXAMINATION DECEMBER 2017; AFFILIATED COLLEGES
STATISTICS; BA(BS)-532
BBA – VI
Revised Date: January 18, 2018 Max Time: 90 Mins
Max Marks: 30
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Attempt all questions. Do not write anything on the question paper. EXCEPT
the initials mentioned above.
2. TABLES ARE NOT ALLOWED.
3. Mobile phones or any other communicating device will not be allowed in the
examination room. Students will have to remove the batteries of these devices
before entering the examination hall.

Q1 a) A set of mathematics exam scores has a mean of 70 and a standard deviation of 8. A set
of English examination scores has a mean of 74 and a standard deviation of 16. Mr Bean
got score 78 in both English and maths. Explain in which exam he has the higher standing
and why?

Q1 b) In an examination 10 scouts and 10 guides gave following results. Calculate mean,

standard deviation and coefficient of variation for the following variables and comment on
results.
Scout: 57 66 82 97 94 73 80 74 50
Guides: 79 86 69 74 79 68 61 63 94

Q2 a) For the following table calculate E(X) and V(X)

X 0 1 2 3 4
P (X) 0.3 0.2 0.4 0.05 0.05

Q2 b) Calculate coefficient of correlation for the data below and test the significance at 5% by
using t-distribution.
[TABLE VALUE=2.7]

X 23 20 27 30 30 31
Y 6 8 9 7 10 11

Q3 Two machines are filling Sugar. Forty samples from the first machine find a sample mean
of 4.95 kgs, and fifty samples from the second machine have a sample mean of 5.01 kgs.
The population standard deviation of the first machine is 0.30 kg, and the population
standard deviation of the second machine is 0.10 kgs. Test the claim that the machines
are filling equally. Use 0.05 level of significance. Write all steps and conditions.
[TABLE VALUE=2]

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UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI
FINAL EXAMINATION, JUNE 2017; AFFILIATED COLLEGES
STATISTICS; BA(BS)–532
BBA – VI
Date: July 3, 2017 Max Time: 1.5 Hrs
Max Marks: 30
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Attempt all questions. Do not write anything on the question paper.
2. TABLES ARE NOT REQUIRED.
3. Mobile phone(s) or any other communicating device will not be allowed in the
examination room. Students will have to remove the batteries of these devices
before entering the examination hall.

Q1 a) The following data represents the running times of films produced by two company

Company I 150 160 145 150 140 155

Company II 170 150 145 160 140 165

Calculate which company is more consistent.

Q1 b) Write two properties of

a) Coefficient of Variation b) Coefficient of Correlation

Q1 c) Give reason why

i) Chi square test of independence is always a right tail test.
ii) If a hypothesis is rejected at 10% then it will also be rejected at 5%, but vise versa is
not always true.

Q2) Mr. Bean and Mr. Gray work at the same office and live next door to each other. Each
day they leave for work together but travel by different routes. Mr. Bean claims that his
route is quicker, on the average, by atleast 4 minutes. Both men time their journey in
minutes over a period of 10 weeks. The results obtained were:
Mr Bean n= 50 mean=21 min Standard deviation = 10.24 min
Mr Gray n= 50 mean=24 min Standard deviation = 7.84 min

Assume normal distribution and common population variance. Test at 5% level whether
Mr Brown claim’s can be accepted. Table value (1.645)

Q3) Calculate the equation of regression line y on x for the following distribution:
X 25 30 35 40 45 50
Y 78 70 65 58 48 42
Is it possible to calculate from the equation?
a) An estimate for the value of x when y=54 ?
b) An estimate for the value of y when x=37 ?
In each case it the answer is “YES” calculate the estimate, if the answer is “No”
give reason why not.

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