IMPERIAL BUSINESS COLLEGE i. List the five numbers summary for both items.

Practice Set 2 ii. Construct whisker and box plot and describe the shape of distribution
Program: BBA Semester: III Time: 3 Hours for both items.
Subject: Statistics Full Marks: 100 12. (a) Each year ratings are compiled concerning the performance of new
Subject Code: STT 101 Pass Marks: 45 cars during the first 90 days of use. Suppose that the cars have been
Candidates are expected to answer the questions in their own words as far as categorized according to whether or not the car needs warranty related
practicable. The figures in the margin indicate full marks. repair (Yes or No) and the country in which the company manufacturing
Group A:Brief questions (10 x 2 marks = 20) the car is based (US or Not US). Based on the data collected, the
1. Differentiate the exclusive and inclusive class with examples. probability that new car needs a warrantee repair is 0.04, the probability
2. Construct histogram and draw frequency polygon from following data. that the new car is manufactured by US company is 0.60 and the
Class 10-25 25-40 40-55 55-70 70-85 probability that new car needs a warrantee repair and was manufactured
Frequency 5 10 18 12 4 by US based company is 0.025.
3. In a single throw of two dice, find the probability that the sum of two i. Supposed that US based company manufactured the car, what then is
faces is 7 or 11. the probability that the car need a warrantee repair?
4. In a certain distribution 25th percentile is 8 and the coefficient of quartile ii. What is the probability that the car manufactured by US based
deviation is 0.50, find the value of upper quartile. Also calculate the company or needs warrantee repair?
semi- inter quartile range. (b) It is known from experience that in a certain industry 60% of all
5. If three coins are tossed, what is the expected value of number of heads? labor management disputes are over wages, 15% are over working
6. Write any four differences between sample and population. conditions, and 25% are over fringe issues. Also 45% of the disputes
7. Explain the critical region with suitable diagram. over wages are resolved without strikes, 70% of the disputes over
8. In a class, the average weight of 150 students is 80 kgs. The average working conditions are resolved without strikes, and 40% of the
weight of boys and girls are 85 kgs and 70 kgs respectively, find the disputes over fringe issues are resolved without strikes. What is the
number of boys and girls in that class. probability that if a labor-management disputes in this industry is
9. In a lot of 500 apples 65 apples were found to be bad. Find the resolved without a strike, it was over wages?
percentage of bad apples interval in the lot at 99% confidence level.
10. Actual profits (in Lakhs of Rs.) of 15 firms are given below: 13. (a) In a normal distribution of height of soldiers, 11.51% of the soldiers are
20 62 52 55 40 43 22 21 21 36 47 36 33 62 36 taller than70.4 inches and 68% of the soldiers are shorter than 65.4 inches.
Construct stem and leaf display and answer: Find the mean and standard deviation of the distribution.
a) Around what value the profit are concentrated. (b) A banker claims that the life of a regular saving accounts opened in his
b) What percentage of the firm is below Rs. 40 lakhs? bank average 18 months with standard deviation 6.45 months what is the
Group B:long question (6 x 10 marks = 60) probability that:
i. There will still be money in a saving account between 20 to 22 months by a
11. (a)Find the median marks and minimum marks obtained highest 90% of
depositor.
students in undergraduate level of PU from following distribution. ii. The bank will be closed (no money in the deposit) after two years.
Marks Less Less 5-15 15 & 20-25 25 & 30 &
than 5 than 10 above above above 14. (a) Certain mass produced articles, of which 0.5 % are defective, and packed in
Students 7 20 38 55 20 5 1 cartons each on training 100. What is the probability that a carton selected at
(b)The following data represent local fat for burger and chicken items random contains 2 or more defectives.
from a sample of fast food chains, BURGER HOUSE AND (b) An auditor is to audit 24 firms, sixteen of these are highly valued. If auditor
CRUNCHY FRIED CHICKENS. selects 4 firms at random, what is the probability of choosing at least one
Burgers: 19 31 34 35 39 39 43 highly valued firm by those auditors?
Chickens: 7 9 15 16 16 18 22 25 27 33 39
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15. (a) From the following income distribution.
Income (Rs. 000) 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 18. The following are the weekly production of product X in units of 60 workers in
No. of Persons 5 10 18 23 7 6 a Manufacturing Company.
Construct an ogive and find the number of persons having income between 23 48 51 64 82 19 33 50 39 72 57 49 64
Rs. 24,000 and 56,000 from ogive curve. 48 52 39 25 77 88 35 41 72 62 49 32 54
67 46 55 52 57 53 69 59 63 51 56 75 44
(b) From the following 40 male students, construct a frequency distribution with
82 75 85 68 55 52 45 40 57 20 42 75 55
suitable no of classes.
40 54 56 62 16 50 51 46
138 145 172 125 145 146 147 153 Calculate the average weekly output. The management has decided to give
168 150 142 119 157 158 147 152 bonus of Rs.5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 to each of the worker in the respective output
102 138 144 156 165 173 136 140 group of 30 or more in the interval of 10. Construct the frequency distribution
164 135 163 149 128 140 135 144 of bonus and describe the characteristics of the frequency distribution as
126 132 150 154 146 142 148 135 regards to measure of central tendency in terms of mean, measure of dispersion
in terms of coefficient of variation. Also find the minimum bonus amount of 42
16. (a) An automobile manufacturer needs to buy aluminum sheets of 0.05 inches highest earning workers.
in thickness. Thinner sheets would not be appropriate and thicker sheets would
be too heavy. The automobile manufacturer takes random sample of 100 sheets
with mean width equal to 0.048 and S.D. equal to 0.01 inches. Should the
automobile manufacturer buy the aluminum sheets from his supplier if he
wants to make decision at 1% level of significance?
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(b) The marketing manager of a publication house claims that 40% of students
have purchased books of that publication this year. You are asked to test the
validity of this claim within 6% error and 96% level of confidence. How large
a sample would you require?

17. (a) An instructor thinks that math majors can write and debug computer
programs differ than business majors. A sample of 12 math majors took an
average of 36 minutes to write a specific program and debug it; a sample of 18
business majors took an average of 39 minutes. The standard deviations were 4
minutes and 9 minutes respectively. At the 0.10 level of significance, is there
evidence to support the claim?

(b) The following data represent the percentage distribution of language spoken
in two cities. Calculate IQV for both cities and interpret the result.

Spoken percentage
Languages
City A City B
Nepali 25 67.6
Newari 1.7 13.2
Maithali 63.3 -
Bhjpuri 10 19.2