Dania University College

BBA 2nd Year 1st Semester Mid-1 Exam-2015

Business Statistics-II
Time-1.25 hours

Full Marks- 34
Part-A

Marks

(Answer any three questions)

1. (a) A candidate is selected for interview of management trainee for 3 companies. For the

first company there are 12 candidates, for the second there are 15 candidates and for the
third there are 10 candidates. What are the chances of his getting job at least at one of the
company
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(b) Define Independent Events

2. (a) Write down the characteristics of Poisson Distribution

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(b) How do you define the size of the sample

(a) Write down the relationship between Normal, Poisson and Binomial distribution

(b) Define Type I & Type II errors

4. (a) Ten per cent of machines produced by company A are defective and five per cent of those
produced by company B are defective. A random sample of 250 machines is taken from company
A and a random sample of 300 machines from company B. What is the probability that the
difference in sample proportion is less than or equal to 0.02.
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Part-B

Marks

(Answer any two questions)

5. ( a) On the average one in 400 items is defective, if the items are packed in boxes of 100,
what is the probability that any given box of times will contain
(i) no defective
(ii) less than two defectives
(iii) one or more defectives
(iv) more than three defectives

6. (a) A company is considering two different television advertisement for promotion of a new
product. Management believes that advertisement A is more effective than advertisement B. Two
test market areas with virtually identical consumer characteristics are selected: advertisement A
is used in one area and advertisement B in the area. In a random sample of 60 customers who
saw advertisements A, 18 tried the product. In a random sample of 100 customers who saw

advertisement B, 22 tried the product. Does this indicate that advertisement A is more effective
than advertisement B, if a 5% level of significance is used?
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7. (a) The income of a group of 10000 persons was found to be normally distributed with mean
Rs 1750 p.m. and standard deviation Rs 50. Show that of this group 95% had income exceeding
Rs 1668 and only 5% had income exceeding Rs 1832.
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