Sample Questions for Practice

Instructions:
1. Write your details on evaluation sheet provided along with this paper.
2. Save your excel file in a folder on Desktop by your name and examination roll number.
3. There are two parts; A and B, in this question paper.
4. Part A is compulsory.
5. Any three out of five questions from Part B.

PART- A (Compulsory)
Que 1. Generate a table of 20 rows and 20 columns of 400 random numbers between 1-400 using an
excel function. Also calculate the following descriptive statistics for the data:
(a) Mean
(b) Median
(c) Mode
(d) Standard Deviation
(e) Kurtosis
(f) Skewness
(g) Maximum and Minimum Values
PART- B
Que 2. Following data, related to marks scored by students in Business Statistics and Accountancy, is
collected from the students of B. Com(H):

Marks in 80 75 64 72 58 76 60 42 55
Statistics
Marks in 78 71 68 67 66 85 75 55 60
Accountancy
You are required to calculate following:
(a) Coefficient of correlation
(b) Regression equation; Y on X and X on Y
(c) Show Regression line in diagram
(d) Value of two regression coefficients

Que 3. Following are the price and quantity related data available for five commodities for 2010 and
2020:

Year Commodity A Commodity B Commodity C Commodity D Commodity E

Po 55 35 60 20 30
Qo 200 150 300 450 380
P1 70 55 110 35 45
Q1 220 250 380 550 600
You are required to price index using following methods:
(a) Laspeyres
(b) Paasche
(c) Fisher
Que 4 Generate a table of 20 rows and 20 columns having 400 fixed random numbers between 1-400
using an excel function. Also calculate the following:
(a) Frequency Table for the data
(b) Summation of the all 400 numbers
(c) Summation of values greater than 100
(d) Counting of values greater than 200

Que 5
Construct a Poisson distribution both simple and cumulative for a probability data set having mean as
5, and X ranging from 1 to 25.

Que 6
Following are the data related to marks awarded by two examiners to ten students:

Examiner A 45 51 42 41 43 37 46 47 42 49

Examiner B 43 41 36 44 34 40 32 35 41 36

You are required to calculate spearman’s rank correlation coefficient.