BGC TRUST UNIVERSITY BANGLADESH

Faculty of Business Administration

3rd Semester, BBA Program
January- June, 2020
Mid-Term &Final Examination
Course Title: Business Statistics
Course Code: BS-203

Total marks:60

[Instruction: Answer the following questions. Figures in the right margin indicate full marks.
All parts of a question must be answered serially.]

Part-A (Mid-Term Examination)

1. Differentiate between questionnaire and schedule. 05

a. Suppose you want to conduct a research regarding impact of 05
b. COVID-19 on mental health for the people of
Bangladesh,so you should have to resort on data collection.
Select the appropriate methods of data collection for
conducting the research and justify your answer.

2.a. For the following frequency table calculate mean median 05

and mode.
Weekly rent (in TK.) No. of persons paying the
rent
200-400 06
400-600 09
600-800 11
800-1000 14
1000-1200 20
1200-1400 15
1400-1600 10
1600-1800 08
1800-2000 07
b. An organization has two units A and B. An analysis of 05
weekly wages paid to workers gave the following results.
Unit-A Unit-B
Number of wage 500 670
earners
Average weekly TK. 65 TK. 72
wage
 Standard TK. 09 TK. 10
deviation

i)Which unit pays larger amount as weekly wages?

ii)In which unit there is greater variability in wage
distribution ?
iii)Find the combined average wage and the combined
standard deviation wages for the whole organization.

Part - B (Final Examination)

1.a. From the adult male population of seven large cities random 07
samples giving 27 contingency table of married and unmarried men
as given below were taken. Can it be said that there is significant
variation among the cities in the tendency of men to marry?
City A B C D E F G Total
Married 133 164 155 106 153 123 146 980
Unmarried 36 57 40 37 55 33 36 294
Total 169 221 195 143 208 156 182 1274
b. How can components of time series analysis helps in business 03
decision making?
2. The following table shows the marks obtained by 10 students of a 10
college in Accountancy (X) and Statstcs (Y) out of a maximum of
50 marks:
Accountanc 24 32 24 26 34 28 30 30 35 37
y
Statstcs 20 27 24 24 27 24 32 25 31 36
a ) Obtain two lines of regression.
b) Calculate coefcient of correlaton between marks in
Accountancy and marks in Statstcs.
c) Estimate the marks obtained by a student in Statistics
who obtained 32 marks in Accountancy.

3. Construct index number of price from the following data by 10

applying:
 a ) Laspeyre’s method
b) Paasche’s method
c) Bowley’s method
d)Fisher’s Ideal method
e)Marshall-Edgeworth’s method
and comment on the results.
2016 2016 2017 2017
Commodity Price Quantty Price Quantty
A 2 8 4 6
B 5 10 6 5
C 4 14 5 10
D 2 19 2 13
4.a) Does a high positie correlaton between the increase in cigarete 02
smoking and the increase in lung cancer proie that one cause the
another?
b) Interpret the following ialues of correlaton : 03
+1, -1, 0.99,0.50, - 0.30, 0.10.
c) Suppose you want to conduct a research about the impact of 02
COVID-19 in the economy of Bangladesh.So you need to deielop
hypothesis for conductng the research.How can you deielop null
and alternatie hypothesis in this regard?
d) “Quality control coiers all the factors and processes of 03
producton”. Do you agree with this statement? Justfy your
answer.