PART–II Short Answers Questions

There were three candidates A, B & C for the position

of a manager whose chances of getting the appointment
are in the proportion 4 : 2 : 3 respectively. The
probability that A , if selected, would launch a new
2.1. product in the market is 0.3 . The probabilities of B
and C doing the same are 0.5 and 0.8 respectively.
What is the probability that the new product was
launched in the market by C ?

The probabilities of X , Y & Z becoming the Principal

of a college are respectively 0.3, 0.5 & 0.2 . The
probabilities that ‘Student-Aid-Fund’ will be introduced

2.2. in the college if X , Y & Z become principal are

0.4, 0.6 & 0.1 respectively. Given that ‘Student-Aid-
Fund’ has been introduced find the probability that Y
has been appointed as the Principal.

Three identical boxes , I, II and III contains respectively

4 white and 3 red balls, 3 white and 7 red balls, 2
white and 3 red balls. A box is chosen at random and a
2.3.
ball is drawn out of it. If the ball is found to be white ,
what is the probability that box II is selected?

Find the constant k such that the function

kx(1  x) 0  x  1
f ( x)  
 0 otherwise
2.4.
is a density function. Also find distribution function and
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compute P (3 X  2  8) , P( X  ) .
2
If A and B are independent events, then show that
the following pairs are independent:

2.5. i. A and B
ii. A and B

If the random variable X takes the values 1, 2,3 & 4

such that
2.6. 2 P( X  1)  3P( X  2)  P( X  3)  5 P( X  4)
, find the probability distribution of X .

The distribution function F ( x) of a random variable

X is defined as follows
 A   x  1
B 1  x  0

2.7. F ( x)  
C 0  x  2
 D 2  x  

where A, B , C , D are constants. Determine the values

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of A, B, C , D , it being given that P ( X  0) 
6
2
and P ( X  1)  .
3

Show that the function

 x ; 1  x  1
f ( x)  
2.8  0; elsewhere
is a possible probability density function and hence find
the corresponding distribution function.

A normal population has a mean 0.1 and standard

deviation 2.1 . Find the probability that the mean of
2.9. sample size 900 will be negative. Given that
P ( z  1.43)  0.847 .

Fit a second degree parabola to the following data:

2.10. x 0 1 2 3 4
y 1 1.8 1.3 2.5 6.3
Fit a straight line to the following data:

x 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15
2.11.
y 3 11 20 28 35 45 53 60

2.12. Show that 1  rxy  1

2.13. Show that E  X   X  

2.14. Calculate the A.M. from the following data:

Class 0-10 10- 20- 30- 40- 50- 60-
Interval 20 30 40 50 60 70
Frequency 5 8 3 10 8 14 2

2.15. Find the median from the following distribution:

Biologi 100 150 80 200 250 180
cal
Variabl
e
Freque 16 24 26 20 6 30
ncy
2.16. Calculate the median of the distribution:
Class 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80
Interval
Frequen 5 3 20 10 7
cy
2.17. Values of a biological variable are distributed as follows:
Class 0-100 100- 200- 300- 400- 500-
Interv 200 300 400 500 600
al
Frequ 12 18 27 20 17 6
ency
Find the mode of the distribution.

2.18. Let the population be {2,5,6} , that is N  3 . Find out

the samples of size n  2 in case of with replacement
and without replacement.
2.19. What is Karl Pearson’s coefficient of correlation, and
how is it calculated? Provide an example and interpret
the coefficient.
2.20. Provide a step-by-step procedure for solving a problem
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PART–III Long Answers Questions
i. A and B play a game in which their chances of
winning are in the ratio 3: 2 . Find A’s chances of
winning at least three games out of the five games
played.
3.1. ii. A random variable follows binomial distribution
with mean 4 and standard deviation 2 . Find the
probability of assuming non-zero value of the variable.

i. If X ~ P( ) , then show that

E ( X )  Var ( X )  
ii In a certain factory turning out razor blades , there is a
small chances of 0.002 [p]for any blade to be defective.
3.2.
The blades are supplied in packed of 10 [n]. Calculate
the number of packets containing no defective, one
defective and two defective blades in a consignment of
10, 000 [N] packets. ( Given e 0.02  0.9802 )
If the weekly wage of 10, 000 workers in a factory
follows normal distribution with mean and s.d. Rs. 70
and Rs. 5 respectively, find the expected number of
workers whose weekly wages are (i) between Rs. 66
and Rs. 72 (ii) less than Rs. 66 and (iii) more than
3.3. Rs. 72
2
z t
1 

2 0
 2 dt  0.1554 and 0.2881 according as
e

z  0.4 and z  0.8 .

The length of bolts produced by a machine is normally
distributed with mean 4 and s.d. 0.5 . A bolt is
defective if its length does not lie in the interval
(3.8, 4.3) . Find the percentage
3.4. of defective bolts produced by the machine.
0.6 t2 0.4 t2
1  1 
[
2
e

2
dt  0.7257,
2
e

2
dt  0.6554

]
Let's consider a hypothetical dataset with six classes and
their corresponding frequencies. The table below
represents
Class A B C D E F
Frequency 15 22 15 18 22 13
Now answer the following questions: What is the mode
of the dataset? Is the dataset unimodal, bimodal,
3.5. trimodal, or multimodal? How many modes does the
dataset have, and what are they? What is the relative
frequency of the mode(s) in the dataset? If a new
observation is added to the dataset, and its frequency is
25 for Class C, how does this affect the mode(s)? If the
frequencies of Class B and Class E are each decreased by
5, how does this affect the mode(s)?

Consider two variables, X and Y, with the following

data: X : 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 and Y : 5, 10, 15, 20,
3.6. 25. Now answer the following questions: Calculate the
mean and standard deviation for both X and Y.
Determine the covariance between X and Y. Calculate

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 Karl Pearson’s coefficient of correlation, r . Interpret
the value of r in the context of the given data.
Consider two variables, X and Y, with the following
data: X: 12, 15, 18, 22, 25 and Y: 30, 35, 40, 45,
3.7. 50. Now answer the following question: Calculate the
Karl Pearson's coefficient of correlation for the given
data and interpret the result.
A random sample with observations
65, 71, 64, 71, 70, 69, 64, 63, 67, 68 ( i.e., sample mean
67.2) is drawn from a population with standard
3.8. deviation 7.056 . Test the hypothesis that the
population mean is 69 at 1% level of significance
[Given P( z  2.58)  0.01 ]
From a random sample of size 100 , mean 105 , s.d. 20
3.9. test at 1% level whether the mean of the population can
be less than 120 . [ Given z.01  2.33 ]
Researchers are interested in the mean age of a certain
population . A population sample of 10 individuals
drawn from the population of interest has a mean of 27 .
Assuming that population is approximately normally
3.10. distributed with variance 20 , can we conclude that the
mean is different from 30 years. Test the hypothesis at
a level of significance of   0.05 [ Given z.05  1.96 ].

From a large population a sample of size 400 is drawn

with mean 171.38 . Can it be reasonably regarded as
3.11. the mean of the population 171.17 ? The standard
deviation of the population is 3.30 . Test 5% level of
significance. [ Given z.05  1.96 ]
Discuss about the sampling and define some basic
3.12.
statistics in respect of a sample of size n.
The proportion of defective items in a large lot of items
is p . To test the hypothesis p  0.2 , we take a
random sample of 8 items and accept the hypothesis if
3.13.
the number of defective in the sample is 6 or less. Find
the probability of Type I error of the test. What is the
Type II error if p  0.3 .
200 men out of 600 men and 300 men out of 1200 men
in two cities are highly educated. Do the data indicate
3.14.
that the two cities are significantly different regarding
the educational standard of men.
3.15.

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