Final Assessment Test (FAT) – May 2017

Course: MAT2001 - Statistics for Engineers

Class NBR(s):4555/ 4559/ 4567/ 4570/ 4574/ 4577/ 4598/5911 Slot: G1+TG1
Time: Three Hours Max. Marks: 100
Answer any FIVE Questions
(5 X 20 = 100 Marks)
1. a) Calculate the mean and standard deviation of the following frequency distribution of marks. [10]
Marks 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70
No. of students 5 12 30 45 50 37 21

b) Calculate the three quartiles for the following frequency distribution of the number of marks [10]
obtained by 49 students in a class.
Marks group No. of students
5-10 5
10-15 6
15-20 15
20-25 10
25-30 5
30-35 4
35-40 2
40-45 2

2. a) Two random variables X and Y have joint probability density function [10]
 xy 
 , 0  x  4, 1  y  5
f ( x, y )   96 
0, elsewhere 
i) Find E(X), E(Y) and E(XY)
ii) Test whether the random variables X and Y are independent or not.
b) Find the moment generating function of the random variable with the probability law [10]
( = )= , = 1,2.........and also find the mean.
3. a) From the following data, find the covariance of X and Y. [10]
X 0 1 2
Y
0 3/28 9/28 3/28
1 3/14 3/14 0
2 1/28 0 0

b) From the following data find (i) two regression equations (ii) the probable blood pressure Y [10]
of an adult aged 55.
Age ( X ) 36 38 42 56 60

Blood pressure ( ) 115 118 140 147 155

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4. a) If the life X (in years) of a certain type of car has a Weibull distribution with the parameter [10]
  2 , find the value of the parameter  , given that probability that the life of car exceeds 5
years is e-0.25. For these values of  &  , find the mean and variance of X.

b) The mileage which car owners get with certain kind of radial tire is a random variable having [10]
an exponential distribution with mean 4000 km. Find the probabilities that one of these tires
will last (i) atleast 2,000 km (ii) atmost 3000 km.
5. a) A sample of 900 members has a mean of 3.4 and S.D 2.61 and the sample from a large [10]
population of mean 3.25 and S.D 2.61. If the population in normal and its mean is unknown.
Find 95% confidence limits of mean?
b) In a random sample of 400 students of the University of Teaching Department, it was found [10]
that 300 students failed in the examination. In another sample of 500 students of the affiliated
colleges, the number of failures in the same examination was found to be 300. Find out
whether the proportion of failures in the university teaching departments significantly greater
than the proportion of failures in the university teaching departments and affiliated colleges
taken together.
6. a) One thousand students in a college were graded according to their I.Q and the economic [10]
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conditions of their homes. Use  -test to find out whether there is any association between
economic conditions at home and I.Q of students.
I.Q
Economic High low Total
condition
Rich 100 300 400
Poor 350 250 600
Total 450 550 1000
b) The following table shows the life of the light bulbs (in thousands) of three different brands [10]
investigated by a company in order to find out if the mean life of the three brands of light
bulbs is the same.
Brands
A B C
5 8 7
6 10 3
8 11 5
9 12 4
7 4 1
Test the hypothesis at the 5% significance level that the mean life of the light bulbs for each of
these three brands is the same.
7. a) The density function of the time to failure in years of the gizmos (for use on widgets) [10]
200
manufactured by a certain company is given by f (t )  , t  0 . Derive the reliability
t  10 3
function and determine the reliability for the first year of operation.
b) The time to repair a power generator is best described by its probability density function [10]
( )= , 1 ≤ ≤ 10 hours. (i) Find the probability that a repair will be completed in 6
hours. (ii) What is the MTTR?
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