School of Business and Economics

Course Title: Introduction to Statistics Department: Quantitative Methods

Course Instructor: MS. Irsa Afzal Semester: 2nd
Course Code: QM-120 Percent Weight: 30 %
Duration: 120 mins Time: 9 am to 11 am
Date: 30-06-2020 Section: C11, C13

Name: _________________________ Registration Number: _______________________

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Write your name and registration number in the spaces provided before attempting
Paper.
2. Write with blue/black permanent pen
3. Attempt all questions
4. After solving these questions take picture of each page and convert it into pdf file
then email back to teacher or upload on lms.

REVIEW: To be announced …

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Total

5 15 10 10 40

40

Marks Allowed Marks Obtained

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Q-1. If a cadet succeeds 4 times out of 5 in shooting in bull’s eye, what is the probability that
he will go wrong not more than 3 times in 10 attempts if the random variable X is binomially
distributed?
(5 marks)

Q-2. The discrete probability distribution of a random variable X is given in the table below.
(15)

X P(X)
1 0.08
3 0.6
4 Y
6 0.2
7 0.1

a) Find the value of “Y”?

(2)
b) The probability distribution of Z= (2X+3)? (4)
c) Compute the expected value and standard deviation of the random variables “X” and
“Z”? also comment on results?

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Q-3. Three balls are drawn from a bag containing 5 white and 3 black balls. If X
denotes the number of white balls drawn from the bag with-out replacement, then
a) Find the discrete probability distribution of X?
b) Find the P(X> 3)?
(10)

Q-4. If the heights of 1000 students are normally distributed with a mean of 68.5 inches
and a standard deviation of 2.7 inches, how many of these students would you expect to
have heights
a) Between 67.5 and 71.0 inches inclusive?
b) Greater than and equals to 74.0 inches?

(6+4)

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