1.

A driver organizes data related to rejected products which was produced in a manufacturing
company into continuous data and tabulate them as follows.

Class Frequency
21-25 5
26-30 15
31-35 28
36-40 42
41-45 15
46-50 12
51-55 3

a. Calculate the Mean, Median and Mode of the above data

b. Calculate the quartiles of the above data and prove that
c. Calculate the mean deviation of the above data.
d. Calculate the standard deviation of the above data using both direct and assumed mean
method.
e. Calculate the coefficient of variation of the above data.
f. Calculate the Skewness of the above data and what would you say about the shape of the
distribution of the data.

2. The number of sports turning up when a six-sided die is tossed is observed. Consider the
following events (Hint: Use Probability theory to answer the questions)

A: The number observed is 3, 4 or 5

B: The number observed is greater than 3
C: The number observed is less than 3
D: The number observed is 3
i. Define a sample space for this random experiment, and assign probabilities to outcomes
ii. Find , , and
iii. Find
iv. Find
v. Find
vi. Are events B and C mutually exclusive?
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3. The probability of students graduating from a Tuition Centre is 0.4. If 5 students are studying
in the Tuition Centre
a. What is the probability that no one graduating from this Centre?
b. What is the probability that one will graduate from this Centre?
c. What is the probability that at least one will graduate from this Centre
Hint: Use Binomial distribution to answer this question

4. A box contains 100 fruits. Of these, if 2% of the fruits are damaged, what is the probability
that at most 5 fruits were damaged? Hint: Use Poisson distribution to answer this question

5. The Art Competition has entries from three painters: Pam, Pia and Pablo

 Pam put in 15 paintings, 4% of her works have won First Prize.

 Pia put in 5 paintings, 6% of her works have won First Prize.
 Pablo put in 10 paintings, 3% of his works have won First Prize.

What is the chance that Pam will win First Prize?

6.
i. Compare and contrast discrete probability distribution and continuous probability
distribution.
ii. Using Z table (Standard normal distribution table) find the probability of the followings
a.
b.
c. | |
iii. Sample of 400 students are selected from a particular class which have the average height
of 67.39 inch and variance of 1.69.
a. What is the distribution of sample mean (i.e., ̅ ? (Hint: assume ̅ and
̅ )
b. How many students have the average height greater than 67.5 inch in this sample?

7.
a. Two fair coins are thrown. Construct probability distribution of this experiment and find
the expected value and variance of the experiment?
b. What do you understand by central tendency? Explain with the help of an example. What
purpose does a measure of central tendency serve?

Dead Line: December 15, 2019

Total Marks Allocated: 20 Marks

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