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B.Sc Examination, 2021

(1st Year, 1st Semester)
Paper-GE-1
Subject: Statistics- I
Full Marks : 40
Time: Two hours

Instructions for the examination in non-contact mode.

1. Please do not mention your name anywhere in the answer sheet otherwise your paper
will be cancelled.

2. All the answers should be written in own hand writing. Any other mode of writing
will lead to disqualification.

3. You will make separate answer script for each Part. On the front page of the
answer script for each Part please write your Exam Roll no., Class Roll No., GE 1,
Statistics1, Part I/II.

4. If there are two parts in the question paper then please prepare two PDF files and
name them as Exam Roll no, Class Roll No, GE1 Statistics 1, Part I/II.

5. The subject of the e-mail should be Class Roll No, Exam Roll no, GE1 Statistics1

6. Please send both files in a single mail. The total The size of the two file
should be less than 25 MB.

7. The email ids for sending the answer sheet are

pcmali1959@gmail.com
sagnik.sinha@jadavpuruniversity.in
and ug1mathexam@jadavpuruniversity.in

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 (Notations and Symbols have their usual meanings)
Part I (20 Marks)
Answer any four questions:
Each question carries FIVE marks.
4 × 5 = 20

1. A number of particular articles has been classified has been classified according to
their weights. After drying for two weeks the same articles have again been weighted and
similarly classified. It is known that the median weight in the first weighing was 20.83 oz
while in the second weighing it was 17.35 oz. Some frequencies a and b in the first
weighing and x and y in the second are missing. It is known that a = x
3 and b = y2 . Find
out the values of the missing frequencies.

Class Frequencies

1st weighing 2nd weighing

0−5 a x 5

5 − 10 b y
10 − 15 11 40
15 − 20 52 50
20 − 25 75 30
25 − 30 22 28

2. Given below is the distribution of 140 candidates obtaining marks X or higher in a

certain exmination
(all marks are given in whole numbers):

X 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

c.f 140 133 118 100 75 45 25 9 2 0

Calculate the mean, median and mode of the distribution.

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3. If A, G and H are respectively the arithmetic mean, geometric mean and harmonic
mean of a frequency distribution, show that A ≥ G ≥ H, mentioning the case when
equality holds.
5

4. Find the mean, variance and coefficient of skewness and kurtosis of the Poisson’s
distribution with parameters λ.
5

5.(a) Find the mode of the binomial distribution with parameters n and p.
(b) Define correlation coefficient between two random variables. Show that it always lies
between −1 and 1.
2+3

6. Determine the constants of the curve y = axb which best fits the data given below :

x 4 5 6 7 8

y 8 12.5 18 24.5 32

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 Part II (20 marks) Answer any FOUR of the followings:
Each question carries FIVE marks.
4 × 5 = 20

1. (i) Find K such that the function f becomes a probability density function (p.d.f)


 Ke− x4 if x > 0
f (x) =
 0 if x ≤ 0

(ii) Let X be a random variable having p.d.f f above. Find E(X).

(iii) Without integration, find an upper bound of P rob[X > 4], using a classical
inequality in probability.

2. Let X1 , X2 , · · · Xn be independent and identically distributed with the common

distribution function exponential(λ), where λ > 0. Let Y = min(X1 , X2 , · · · Xn )
and Z = max(X1 , X2 , · · · Xn ). Find the joint distribution of Y and Z.
Pn
3. Let X1 , X2 , · · · , Xn be as in Question 2 above. Find the p.d.f of i=1 Xi .

4. Let a fair dice be rolled repeatedly and independently until ten 6s show up. As soon
as ten 6s came up, the rolling is stopeed. Let X be the number of rolls needed to
get ten 6s. Find E(X) and V ar(X). What is the name of the random variable X?

5. Let the joint p.d.f of X and Y be

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f (x, y) = K.e 2(1−ρ2 ) (x2 − 2ρxy + y 2 ) ∀ (x, y) ∈ (−∞, ∞), where ρ is a given real
number ∈ [−1, 1].
(i) Find K.
(ii) Find E(X) and E(Y ).
(iii) Find V ar(X), V ar(Y ) and Cov(X, Y ). What is this distribution called?