Final Assessment Test (FAT) – May 2017

Course: MAT2001 - Statistics for Engineers

Class NBR(s):4466 / 4469 Slot: B2+TB2
Time: Three Hours Max. Marks: 100
Statistical tables are permitted

Answer any FIVE Questions

(5X 20 = 100 Marks)
1. a) The arithmetic mean and standard deviation of a series of 20 items were computed as 20 cm and [10]
5cm respectively. While calculating these, an item 13 cm was misread as 30. Find the correct mean
and standard deviation.
b) Calculate the Pearson’s measure of skewness on the basis of mean, mode and standard deviation. [10]
Mid – value 14.5 15.5 16.5 17.5 18.5 19.5 20.5 21.5
Frequency 35 40 48 100 125 87 43 22

2. a) A tobacco company produces blends of tobacco with each blend containing various proportions of [10]
Turkish, domestic and other tobaccos. The proportions of Turkish and domestic in a blend are
random variables with joint density function ( X = Turkish and
Y = domestic )
 24xy 0  x, y  1: x  y  1,
f ( x, y )  
0 elsewhere.
i. Find the probability that in a given box the Turkish tobacco accounts for over half the
blend.
ii. Find the marginal density function for the proportion of the domestic tobacco.
iii. Find the probability that the proportion of Turkish tobacco is less than 1/ 8 if it is
known that the blend contains 3 / 4 domestic tobacco.
b) A random variable X has the following probability distributions [10]
x –2 –1 0 1 2 3
p(x) 0.1 K 0.2 2K 0.3 3K

i. Find k.
ii. Evaluate P ( X < 2 ) and P ( – 2 < X < 2 ).
iii. Find the cumulative density function of X.
iv. Evaluate the mean of X.

3. a) The fraction X of male runners and the fraction Y of female runners who compete in marathon races [10]
are described by the joint density function
8xy, 0  y  x  1,
f ( x, y )  
0, elsewhere.
Find the correlation coefficient of X and Y.

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 b) A company wants to assess the impact of R&D expenditure on annual profits. The following table [10]
gives the information for 8 years. Estimate the regression equation and predict the annual profit for
the year 2018 for an allocated sum of Rs 15,000 as R&D expenditure.
Year R&D Expenditure Annual Profit
2010 9 45
2011 7 42
2012 5 41
2013 10 60
2014 4 30
2015 5 34
2016 3 25
2017 2 20
4. a) A nationwide survey of seniors by the University of Michigan reveals that almost 70% disapprove of [5]
daily outing, according to a report in Parade. If 12 seniors are selected at random and asked their
opinion, find the probability that the number who disapprove of outing daily is
i. anywhere from 7 to 9,
ii. at most 5,
iii. not less than 8.
b) In a certain city, the daily consumption of electric power, in millions of kilowatt – hours, is a random [5]
variable X having a gamma distribution with mean 6 and variance 12.
i. Find the values of  and .
ii. Find the probability that on any given day the daily power consumption will exceed 12
million kilowatt – hours.
c) Given a normal distribution with mean  = 30 and standard deviation  = 6, find [10]
i. the normal curve area to the right of x = 17,
ii. the normal curve area to the left of x = 22,
iii. the normal curve area between x = 32 and x = 41,
iv. the value of : that has 80% of the normal curve area to the left,
v. the two values of x that contain the middle 75% of the normal curve area.
5. a) It is known from the past data that 10 percent of the families in a certain locality subscribe to a [7]
periodical called outlook. Of late there has been some apprehensions that this subscription rate has
declined. In order to test whether or not there has been a decline, a random sample of 100 families
is chosen. It is found that the sample proportion is 7 percent. Can it be concluded that the
subscription rate has really declined, assuming a 5 percent level of significance?
b) A simple sample of heights of 6400 English men has a mean of 170 cm and a standard deviation of [7]
6.4 cm, while a simple sample of heights of 1600 Americans has a mean of 172 cm and a standard
deviation of 6.3 cm. Do the data indicate that Americans are on the average taller than English men.
c) The SD of a random sample of 1000 is found to be 2.6 and the SD of another random sample of 500 [6]
is 2.7. Assuming the samples to be independent, find whether the two samples could have come
from population with the same SD.

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6. a) A company has reorganised its sales department. The following data shows its weekly sales both [10]
before and after reorganisation. The period for comparison is taken from January to March in two
successive years. Can it be concluded that the reorganisation of the sales department of the
company has resulted in a significant increase in its sales?
Week Number
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Before 12 15 13 11 17 15 10 11 18 19
After 16 17 14 13 15 14 12 11 17 22

b) A completely randomised design experiment with 10 plots and 3 treatments gave the following [10]
results. Analyse the result for treatment effects.
Plot No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Treatment A B C A C C A B A B
Yield 5 4 3 7 5 1 3 4 1 7

7. a) Six identical components with constant failure rates are connected in [10]
i. High level redundancy with 3 components in each subsystem.
ii. Low level redundancy with 2 components in each subsystem.
Determine the component MTTF in each case, necessary to provide a system reliability of 0.90 after
100 hours of operation.
b) If a device has a failure rate of  ( t ) = ( 0.015 + 0.02t ) per year, where t is in years, [10]
i. Calculate the reliability for a 5 year design life, assuming that no maintenance is performed.
ii. Calculate the reliability for a 5 year design life, assuming that annual preventive
maintenance restores the device to an as – good as new condition.
iii. Repeat part ii, assuming that there is a 5% chance that the preventive maintenance will
cause immediate failure.

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