MAT2001 – STATISTICS FOR ENGINEERS

Assignment – DURATION [MARCH – MAY]

SET -I

1. The following results were obtained in the analysis of data on yield of dry
bark in ounces (Y) and ages in years (X) of 200 cinchona plants:
X Y
Average 9.2 16.5
Standard deviation 2.1 4.2
Correlation co efficient 0.84
Construct two lines of regression and estimate the yield of dry bark of a
plant of age 8 years.
2. In a year there are 956 births in a town A of which 52.5% were male, while
in towns A & B combined, this proportion in a total of 1406 births was 0.496.
Is there any significant difference in the proportion of male births in the two
towns?
3. In comparing the average protein content µ 1 and µ2 of two brands of dog
food, a consumer testing service finds that fifty 5-pund packages of brand A dog
food had an average protein content x1  11 ounces per package and a s.d of s1 = 1
ounce, while sixty-5 pound packages of brand B dog food has an average protein
content x2  9 ounces per package and a s.d of s2 = 0.5 ounce. A difference of 0.5
ounces is considered to be not sufficiently important to report as a consumer issue.
Therefore, a decision was made to test the hypothesis.

4. For short domestic flights, an airline has three different choices on its snack
menu pretzels, potato chips, and cookies. Based on past experience, the airline
feels that each snack is equally likely to be chosen. If there are 150
passengers on a particular flight, what is the approximate probability that
a. at least 60 will choose pretzels for dessert?
b. exactly 60 will choose pretzels for dessert?
c. fewer than 60 will choose pretzels for dessert?
5. A hire company has two lawnmowers which it hires out by the day. The
number of demands per day may be modelled by a Poisson distribution with mean
1.5. In a period of 100 working days, how many times do you expect (i) neither
lawnmower to be used, (ii) some requests for a lawnmower to have to be refused?
 SET -II
1. In a sample of 400 parts manufactured by a factory, the number of defective
parts was found to be 30. The company, however, claimed that only 5% of their
product is defective. Is the claim tenable?
2. A random sample of 500 apples was taken from a large consignment and 60
were found to be bad. Obtain the 98% confidence limits for the percentage number
of bad apples in the consignment.
3. Random samples of 400 men and 600 women were asked whether they would
like to have a flyover near their residence. 200 men and 325 women were in favor
of the proposal. Test the hypothesis that proportions of men and women in favor of
the proposal are same, at 5% level.
4. A soft drink manufacturing firm claims that its brand A line drink outsells its
brand B by 8%. If it is found that 42 out of a sample of 200 people prefer brand A
and 18 out of another sample of 100 people prefer brand B, test whether the 8%
difference is a valid claim.
5. In two large populations, there are 30% and 25% respectively of fair haired
people . Is this difference likely to be hidden in samples of 1200 and 900
respectively from the two populations?
6. A sample of 900 members has a mean of 3.4 cms and S.D 2.61 cms. Is the
sample from a large population of mean 3.25 cm and S.D 2.61 cms . If the
population is normal and its mean is unknown find the 95% fiducial limits of true
mean.
7. An insurance agent has claimed that the average age of policy holders who issue
through him is less than the average for all agents which is 30.5 years. A random
sample of 100 policy holders who had issued through him gave the following age
distribution.
Age 16-20 21-25 26-30 31-35 36-40

No. Of 12 22 20 30 16
Persons

Calculate the arithmetic mean and standard deviation of this distribution and use
these values to test his claim at 5% level of significance.
8. The means of 2 large samples 1000 and 2000 members are 67.5 inches and 68
inches respectively. Can the samples regarded as drawn from the same population
of S.D 2.5 inches.
9. The mean yield of wheat from a district A was 210 pounds with S.D 10 pounds
per acre from a sample of 100 plots. In another district the mean yield was 200
pounds with S.D 12 pounds from a sample of 150 plots. Assuming that the S.D of
yield in the entire state was 11 pounds, test whether there is any significant
difference between the mean yield of crops in the two districts.
10.In a survey of buying habits, 400 women shoppers are chosen at random in
super market ‘A’ located in a certain section of the city . Their average weekly
food expenditure is Rs. 250 with a S.D of Rs. 40. For 400 women shoppers chosen
at random in super market ‘B’ in another section of the city, the average weekly
food expenditure is Rs.220 with a S.D of Rs. 55. Test at 1% level of significance
whether the average weekly food expenditure of the two populations of shopper
are equal.

SET -III

1. Experience has shown that 20% of a manufacturing product is of top quality. In

one day’s production of 400 articles only 50 are of top quality. Show that the
hypothesis of 20% was wrong.
2. The death rate of typhoid patients is believed to be 17.26%. In a year 640
patients suffering from typhoid were treated in a hospital and only 63 patients died.
Can you consider the hospital is efficient? Fix 1% LOS
3. A sales man in a departmental store claims that at most 60% of the customers
entering into the store and leave without making purchase. A random sample of 50
customers show that 35 of them left without making purchase. Are the sample
results consistent with the time of salesman?
4. In a large city 20% of the random sample of 900 school boys had a slight
physical defect .In another large city 18.5% of random sample of 1600 had the
same defect. Is there any significant difference between the proportion?
5. Before an increase in excise duty on tea 800 people out of a sample of 1000
people were consumers of tea. After an increase in excise duty 800 people were
consumers of tea in a sample of 1200 persons. Find whether there is a significant
decrease in the consumption of tea after the increase in excise duty?
6.15.5% of random sample out of 1600 undergraduates were good whereas 20% of
random sample of 900 post graduates were good in a state. Can you conclude that
less number of undergraduates are good than post graduates?
7. A sample of 100 students is taken from a large population and the mean height
of the students in this sample is 160cms. The mean height of the students in the
population is 165cms with S.D 10cm. Test the significant difference between
sample mean and population mean.
8.The mean breaking strength of cables supplied by a manufacture is 1800 with
S.D 100. By a new technique in a manufacturing process it is claimed that the basic
strength has increased. To test this claim a sample of 50 cables is found that the
mean varying strength is 1850. Can you support the claim?
9. The mean value of a random sample of 60 items was found to be 145 with S.D.
40. Find 95% confidence limits for the population mean.
10. A random sample of size 500 is having mean 20. Another sample size 400 is
having mean 15. Could the samples have been drawn from the same population
with S.D 4.
11. A sample heights of 6400 Indians ahs a mean 170cm and S.D 6.4 cm. A sample
of 1600 Americans has a mean of 172 cm and SD 6.3cm. Do the data indicate that
Americans are on the average taller than Indians?
12. The average marks scored by 32 boys is 72 with SD 8 while that for 36 girls is
70 with SD 6. Test at 1% LOS whether boys perform better than girls?

SET -IV

1. A baseball player has a 0.210 batting average.

a) How many hits would you expect this player to get in 50 times at bat ?
b) Calculate the standard deviation.
2. The probability that a bowler will be left with a 7-10 split after bowling his first
ball in each frame is 0.1.
a) What is the probability that he will get exactly two 7-10 splits in 5 frames?
(Round to the nearest thousandth)
b) What is the probability that he will get at least one 7-10 split in 10.frames?
(Round to the nearest thousandth)
3. If the Stanford-Binet IQ test is a normal curve with mean of 100 and
standard deviation of 20, what percent of the population has an 10 below 85
4. The expected life span of a battery is normally distributed with a mean of 50
hours and a standard deviation of 6 hours. The manufacturer advertises that
they will replace all batteries that last less than 38 hours. If 50,000 batteries
were produced, how many would they expect to replace
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