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Q1. (A) Attempt any one of the following:

i. In a school, out of 200 students 150 are boys. In an examination conducted in this school, 120 students
passed. If 10 girls failed, find the
a. Number of boys failed in the examination.
b. Number of girls passed in the examination.
ii. In a group of 100 employees of a firm there were 80 males. The number of married employees was 60, of
whom 30 were males. Examine whether the information is correct.

(B) Attempt any one of the following.

i. If (A) = (B) =4, N = 8 and A, B are independent attributes, find the value of (AB) and (αB).
ii. Find Yule’s coefficient of association from the following data:

(A) = 60, (B) = 80, (AB) = 50, N = 100.

(C) Attempt any one of the following.

i. Find both the regression coefficients and the measure of the acute angle between the regression lines
from the following data.
n=10, ∑ x =250 , ∑ y =300 , ∑x2=6500 , y 2 =10,000∧ xy =7,900.
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ii. If 5 x+ y =21∧4 x+ 5 y =42 are the two regression equations
find x́ , ý ∧r ( the coeficient of correlation ) .
Q2. (A) Attempt any ONE of the following:
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i. Using Simpson’s
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thrule , evaluate ∫ ydx ¿ the following table given below .
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x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
y 1 0.7 0.58 0.5 0.45 0.41 0.38
ii. If f ( 0 )=5 , f ( 1 )=6 , f ( 2 ) =10 , f ( 3 )=15 ,
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evaluate ∫ f ( x ) dx usingTrapezoidal Rule .
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(B) Attempt any ONE of the following.
i. Construct both the difference tables (i.e. backward and forward) for the sequence 8, 3, 0,-1, 0, 3.
ii. Prove that ∆ [ Ef ( x ) ] =E[∆ f ( x ) ]
(C) Attempt any one of the following.
i. Six jobs go first over the machine M and then over the machine N, one at a time. The time schedule for
the task is given below. Determine the sequence of the jobs, which will minimize the processing time.
Also find the total elapsed time and the idle times for both the machines.

Machines Jobs
A B C D E F
M 5 9 4 7 8 6
N 7 4 8 3 9 5

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ii. Find the optimal sequence that minimizes total time required to complete five jobs, which have to be
processed on each of the three machines M1, M2, M3 if the processing time for each job on each machine is
given below. Also find the total elapsed time and idle time for M 2.

Machines Jobs
P Q R S T
M1 6 7 5 11 5
M2 4 3 2 5 1
M3 3 8 7 4 9

Q3. (A) Attempt any ONE of the following:

i. 2 x− y−15=0∧3 x−4 y +25=0 ; are the two regression equations

find x́ , ý ∧r ( the coeficient of correlation ) .
ii. Calculate the cost of living index number.

Group Food Clothing Light Rent Miscellaneous

Index 320 300 250 450 260
Weight 50 10 8 20 12

(B) Attempt any One of the following.

i. If for a binomial distribution probability of success is ¼ and the mean is 12.5, find the remaining
parameters of the distribution.
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ii. The probability that A wins a game of chess against B is . Find the probability that A wins at least ‘one’
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game out of the 4 games he plays against B.

(C). Attempt any One of the following.

i. For the given data write the entries in the column of

d x , q x , p x ,∧l x of thelife table , where notations
have their usual meanings .

x 0 1 2 3 4 5
l x 4000 3000 100 200 40 0
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ii. For the following table find the terms marked by “?”.

x lx d x qx px Lx T x e 0x
5 90 ? ? ? 290
6 80 ? ?

Q4. (A) Attempt any One of the following.

i. If X is a Poisson random variable such that P(X= 3) = P(X = 4), find the mean and standard deviation of
the distribution.

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ii. If X is a Poisson variate with mean 3, find p=(x ≥ 2).[Given :e−3=0.0498 ]

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(B) Attempt any One of the following.

i. Construct cost of living index number for the following data.

Group Base Year Current year

Price Quantity Price
Food and Clothing 40 3 70
Fuel and lighting 30 5 60
House Rent 50 2 50
Miscellaneous 60 3 90
ii. The cost of living index numbers for the year 2001 and 2007 are 150 and 200 respectively. A person
earned Rs. 18,000 per month in the year 2001. What should be his earnings per month in the year 2007,
so as to maintain his former (i.e. the year 2001) standard of living?

(C) Attempt any One of the following.

i. Find f (3.5)using Newton’s forward Interpolation formula from the following table.

x 0 1 2 3 4
f (x) 3 6 11 18 27
ii. Find f (6), using Lagrange’s Interpolations formula, given that
f ( 1 ) =4 , f (2 )=5 , f ( 7 )=5 , f ( 8 )=4.
Q5. (A) Attempt any ONE of the following.

i. Find the missing price, if Laspeyre’s price index number is equal to Paasche’s Price index number for
the following data.

Commodity Base year Current year

Price Quantity Price Quantity
A 1 10 2 5
B 1 5 - 2
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ii. If∑ p 0 q 0=150 , ∑p0 q1=250 , p1 q1=371∧Laspeyr e
∑ s price index number is 140 ,
Find Marshall – Edgeworth’s Index number.

(B) Attempt any ONE of the following.

i. If the total population under study is 45,000 and the age S.D.R. for age group (60 and above) is 25,
find the C.D.R. and the values of x, y from the following data.

Age group Population Number of Deaths

0 – 30 4,000 100
30 – 60 x 150
600 and y 650
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ii. Taking the population of town B as standard population, compare the S.T.D.R. for the populations of
towns A and B from the data given below.

Age group Town A Town B

Age S.D.R. Population Number of Deaths
0 – 10 7 3000 32
10 – 40 4.5 10000 100
40 and above 18 7000 84
(C) Attempt any ONE of the following:

i. A chartered Accountants’ firm has accepted ‘five’ new cases. The estimated number of days required
by each of their ‘five’ employees for each case are given below, where ‘_’ means that the particular
employee can not be assigned the particular case. Determine the optimal assignment of cases to the
employees so that the total number of days required completing these ‘five’ cases will be minimum.
Also find the minimum number of days.

Employees Cases
I II III IV V
E1 5 2 4 2 6
E2 3 4 - 5 7
6 3 4 1 2
E3 4 2 2 3 5
E4 3 6 4 7 3
E5

ii. The cost (in hundreds of Rs.) of sending material to ‘five’ terminals by ‘four’ trucks, incurred by a
company is as given below. Find the assignment of trucks to terminals which will minimise the cost.
[‘One’ truck is assigned to only ‘one’ terminal.] Which terminal will ‘not’ receive material from the
truck company? What is the minimum cost?

Terminals Trucks
A B C D
T1 3 6 2 6
T2 7 1 4 4
3 8 5 8
T3 5 2 4 3
T4 5 7 6 2
T5

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