Analysis of Data 2015-16

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1. a) [2 Marks 3 = 6 Marks] Indicate whether each of the following statements is TRUE or FALSE
with very brief reasoning. For this question you need to give reason for your answers to get credit.
i) If A, B and C are three events such that P(A|B) = P(A) and P(A|C) = P(A) where P(A) > 0, then A,
B and C are independent of each other.
ii) A store has two branches, say branch I and branch II. Customers arrive at branch I at the rate of 10
per minute and at branch II at the rate 5 per minute, both following Poisson processes. Then the
difference: number of people arriving at branch I-number of people arriving at branch II will follow a
Poisson process at the rate 5 per minute.
iii) If the marks distribution of 1000 students is approximately normal with mean M and variance
100, then the number of students scoring between M and M+15 is expected to be more than four
times the number of students scoring between M-15 and M-10.
b) [2 Marks] From a school, every year 150 students take the CBSE board examination after
finishing class X. 80% of them study in the same school for their plus two, half of them going for the
science stream and the rest for the commerce stream. In addition, the school admits 40 more
students, all to the commerce stream. Let us call the newly admitted students as outsiders, and the
students from the same school who join plus two as insiders.
The principal, a mathematics teacher, expects that on the average 60% of the top 10 students in
commerce would be the insiders.
i) What is the basis of the principals calculations?
ii) Are her calculations valid? Why or why not?

2. Every year 200 students from a school take the IIT entrance examination. It is known that the
probability of cracking the IIT entrance examination for any student from that school is 0.01,
independently of the performance of any other student. Then,
a) [2 Marks] What is the probability that in 2016, at least 2 students from the school would crack the
IIT entrance examination?
b) [2 Marks] What is the distribution of the number of years, during the five year period 2016-2020,
when at least 2 students from the school crack the IIT entrance examination? Specify the distribution
completely.
c) [2 Marks] What is the probability that during the five year period 2016-2020, every year at least 2
students from the school would crack the IIT entrance examination?
d) [2 Marks] What is the probability that during the five year period 2016-2020, overall at least 10
students from the school would crack the IIT entrance examination?

3. The FurnishHome Company is planning to buy a plot of land. The price of the land is Rs.200
crores now, in April. The price of the plot is likely to change from now till June. The following table
shows the three possible changes in the price of the plot from April to May.
Price change in May

Probability

Increases by Rs.25 crores

0.2

Remains the same

0.6

Decreases by Rs.25 crores

0.2

Changes in the price of the plot from May to June depend on the price changes that take place in
May. The price in June can either remain the same as that in May or decrease by a further Rs.25
crores. As a result of these two price movements in May and June, in June the price of the plot will
remain the same as in April with a probability of 0.6, reduce by Rs.25 crores with a probability of
0.16, and reduce by Rs.50 crores with a probability of 0.16. (Note that there is one more possibility.)
a) [2 Marks] If the price of the plot of land remains unchanged between April and May, with what
probability would the price of the land in June be less than the price in April?
b) [2 Marks] If the price of the plot of land increases by Rs.25 crores from April to May, with what
probability would the price of the land in June be more than the price in April?
c) [2 Marks] If the price of the plot of land decreases by Rs.25 crores from April to May, with what
probability would the price of the land in June be less than the price in May?
d) [2 Marks] Given that the price of the plot in June is less than the price in April, with what
probability would the price of the land in May be less than the price in April?
e) [2 Marks] Given that the price of the plot in June is less than the price in April, what would be the
expected price of the plot in May?
f) [2 Marks] What are the respective (unconditional) expected prices of the plot in May and in June?
Note: To simplify the problem, we ignore the possibility of any competitor buying the plot in
April/May.

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