PARUL UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

4th SEM BCA/IMCA PROGRAMME
QUESTIONS BANK

SUBJECT NAME: Statistics (05191206)

ACADEMIC YEAR 2023-24

1.

Hint : using the formula convert in to angle =(f/n)⋅360 (n=25)

2. Construct Histogram for unequal class widt.h:
• Class • Frequency Class
boundary Width

0-10 8 10

10-15 6 5

15-20 12 5

20-24 14 4

24-35 7 11

35-40 3 5

3. In a batch of 400 students, the height of students is given in the following table. Represent it through a
frequency polygon

Height ( in cm) No of students

140-150 74

150-160 163

160-170 135

170-180 28

Total 140
4. Draw the frequency polygon for the following data
10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80 80-90
Class
interval
Frequency 4 6 8 10 12 14 7 5

5. Find mean, median and mode for below observation.

15,17,12,13,14,16,1,8,18,14
6. Find median

7.

8.

9. The rank of some 10 students in two subject A and B are given below

A 5 2 9 8 1 10 3 4 6 7

B 10 5 1 3 8 6 2 7 9 4

Calculate the rank correlation co-efficient.

10. Find the Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient of the following data:

x 100 101 10 102 100 99 97 98 96 95

2
 y 98 99 99 97 95 92 95 94 90 91

11. A card is drawn at random from a pack of well shuffled 52 cards. Find the
probability that the card drawn is (i) a king (ii) not a diamond (iii) An ace of
red hearts or diamonds
12. A card is drawn from a well-shuffled pack of cards. What is the probability
that it is either a spade or an ace?
13. The probability that a contractor will get a plumbing contract is 2/3 and the
probability that he will not get an electric contract is 5/9. If the probability of
getting any one contract is 4/5, what is the probability that he will get both the
contract?
14. Three unbiased coins are tossed. Find the probability of getting (i) exactly 2 heads,
(ii) at least one tail, (iii) at most 2 heads, (iv) a head on the second coin and, (v)
exactly 2 heads in succession.

15. A company has 2 plants to manufacture hydraulic machines. Plant I

manufactures 70% of the hydraulic machines, and plant II manufactures 30%.
At plant I, 80% of hydraulic machines are rated standard quality; and at plant
II, 90% of hydraulic machines are rated as standeard quality. A machine is
picked at random and is found to be of standard quality. What is the chance
that it has come from plant I?
16. A bag A contains 2 white and 3 red balls, and a bag B contains 4 white and 5
red balls. One ball is drawn at random from one of the bags and it is found to
be red. Find the probability that the red ball is drawn from the bag B.
17. 1 1
If A and B are 2 events such that p(A)=2/3, P ( A ∩B )= andP ( A ∩ B ) = , find
6 3
P(B), P(A∪ B ¿ , P( A ∪ B), P(A/B), P(B/A) and P ( B ) . Also examine whether the
events A and B are (i) equally likely, (ii) exhaustive, (iii) mutually exclusive, and
(iv) independent
18. A tray of electronics components contains nine good components and three
defective components.If two components are selected at random, what is the
expected number of defective components?
19. Mean and standard deviation of a random variable X are 5 and 4 respectively .
find E( x 2) and standard deviation of (5-3x) .

20. The Probability distribution of random variable X is given below.

Find (i) E(x) (ii) V(x) (iii) E(3x-6) (iv) V(3x-6)

X -2 -1 0 1 2

P(x) 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.1

21. For the binomial distribution with n = 20, p = 0.35.Find mean and variance of
binomial distribution.
22. 2An unbiased coin is tossed 6 times. Find the probability of getting (i) exactly 4
heads (ii) at least 4 heads.
23. 100 electric bulbs are found to be defective in a lot of 5000 bulbs. Find the
probability that at the most 3 bulbs are defective in a box of 100 bulbs (
−2
e =0.1353 ¿
24. For Poisson variate X; it P(X = 3) = P(X = 4) then ,find P(X = 0).
25. A manufacture knows from his experience that the resistance of resistor he
produces is normal with μ=100 and SD=σ =2 ohms. What percentage of resistor
will have resistance between 98 ohms and 102 ohms ? (P(0<z<1)=0.3413)
26. A sample of 100 dry battery cells tested and found that average life of 12 hours
and a standard deviation 3 hours .Assuming the data to be normally
distributed, What percentage of battery cells are expected to have life (i)more
than 15 hours (ii) less than 6 hours (iii) between10 to 14 hours ? (Ztable ,
P(0<z<1)=0.3413, P(0<z<2)=0.4772, P(0<z<0.67)=0.2486
27. A stenographer claims that he can write at an average speed of 120 words per
minute. In 100 trials he obtained an average speed of 116 word per minute with
S.D of 116 word per minute with S.D of 15 words .is the claim justified ? use
5% level of significance? (Zt for 5% LOS= 1.96)
28. A random sample of 900 items gave mean 4.45 & variance is 9 . can the sample
be regarded as drawn from a normal population with mean 5? (Zt for 5%
LOS= 1.96)
29. The mean of random sample of 1000 units is 17.6 & mean of another sample of
800 units is 18. Can it be concluded that both the sample comes from the same
population with S.D is 2.6? (Zt for 5% LOS= 1.96)
30. The information of intelligent test of two group are given below

mean S.D size

Group-1 1260 35 40

Group - 1240 40 60
2

Test whether the difference in S.D is significant? (use 1% LOS =ztable 2.58)
31. Define the difference between large sample test & small sample test.
32. Ten individuals are chosen at random from a population & their heights are
found to be in inches as 63,63,66,67,68,69,70,70,71,71. Test the hypothesis that
 the mean height of the population is 66 inches? (t 9 ;0.05=2.262)

33. A sample of 4 observation from a normal population give the following results ;

∑ x i=7 , ∑ x 2i =15 test the hypothesis that the mean of population is 2?

(t3,0.05= 3.182.
34. Two horses A& B were tested for running a particular track ,the time (in sec)
taken by them are given below
Horse A: 28 30 32 33 33 29 34
Horse B: 29 30 30 24 27 29

Can it be concluded that horse A is faster than horse B? (t 11;0.05=2.201

35. A die is thrown for 300 time &the following distribution is obtained. Can die be
regarded un baised.

Number 1 2 3 4 5 6
on die

Frequency 41 44 49 53 57 56

36. In a industry 200 workers employed for a specific job were classified according
to their performance & training receved not received. Test independence of
training and performance. The data are summarized as follows;

good not total

good
Trained 100 50 150
untrained 20 30 50
total 120 80 200

37. ⃗
If a⃗ =i+ j+2 k and b=−2 i+ j−k find the sum of two vectors ,dot and cross
product of two vectors,
38. ⃗
If a⃗ =−2 i+ j+2 k and b=2 i+ j−k find angel between two vectors using cross
product .
39. Find the work done when a force of F = 30i + 5j produces a displacement r = 5i
+ 2j.
40. ⃗
If a⃗ =−2 i+ 2k and b=3 j−k and angle between two vectors is 60 find |a× b∨¿