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DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
QUESTION BANK
I SEMESTER
1918108 – STATISTICS FOR MANAGEMENT
Regulation – 2019
Prepared by
Ms. B. Vasuki, Assistant Professor/Mathematics
Ms.B.Elakkiavani, Assistant Professor/Mathematics
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DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
QUESTION BANK
PART- A
PART – A
1. Define Statistics. BTL -6 Creating
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The price of the selected stock over a five day period shown as 170, 110,
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130, 170 and 160. Compute mean , median and mode.
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mph. Find the harmonic of three velocities?
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A ball is drawn at random from a box containg 6 red balls, 4 white balls
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and 5 blue balls. Find the probability that the ball drawn is not red.
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Find the median and mode for the weights (kgs) of 15 persons given as
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68, 85, 70, 65, 71, 67, 65, 55, 80, 62, 65, 64, 70, 60, 56.
8. Name few measures of dispersion. BTL -1 Remembering
9. write the common measures of central tendency? BTL -1 Remembering
10. Define continuous and discrete variables examples. BTL -1 Remembering
Let X be the lifetime in years of a mechanical part. Assume that X has
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the cdf F(x) = 1- e-x, x ≥ 0. Find P[1< X ≤ 3].
12. Define independent events. BTL -1 Remembering
13. State the theorem of total probability BTL -1 Remembering
14. What is the use of Baye’s theorem? BTL -6 Creating
15. Mention the properties of a discrete probability distribution. BTL -1 Remembering
16. Define a Poisson distribution and mention its mean and variance. BTL -1 Remembering
17. If the mean and variance of a binomial distribution are respectively 6 BTL -3 Applying
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4 cards are drawn from a well shuffled pack of cards. Find the
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probability that
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getting the sum of the two numbers (i) equal to 5, (ii) multiple of
3, (iii) divisible by 4.
Given λ = 4.2, for a poisson distribution. Find (a) P(X ≤ 2) (b) BTL -6 Creating
5(b).
P(X ≥ 5) (c) P(X = 8).
An urn contains 5 balls. Two balls are drawn and found to be
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white. What is the probability that all the balls are white?
The contents of urns I, II, III are as follows:
1 white, 2 black and 3 red balls;
2 white, 1 black and 1 red balls;
6(b). 4 white, 5 black and 3 red balls; BTL -3 Applying
One urn is chosen at random and two balls drawn. They happen to
be white and red. What is the probability that they come from
urns I, II, III?
In 1989, there were three candidates for the position of principal
Mr. Chatterji, Mr. Ayangar and Dr. Singh. Whose chances of
getting the appointment are in the proportion 4:2:3 respectively.
The probability that Mr. Chatterji is selected, would introduce co-
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and Dr. Singh doing the same are respectively 0.5 and .08. What
is the probability that there was co-education in the in
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7(b). a box of 200 bolts, if it is known that 2% of such bolts are BTL -6 Creating
expected to be defective. (e-4= 0.0183)
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exceeding a score 50. (ii) the number of students lying between
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PART-C
A disciplinary committee is formed from the staff of XYZ
Company which has three departments Marketing, Finance and
Production of the 10,5,20 members respectively. All departments
1(a). have two female staff each. A department is selected at random BTL-6 Creating
and from which two matters are selected for the committee,
What is the probability that both the team members are female?
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6. Define stratified sampling technique BTL -1 Remembering
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In a sample of 1000 citizens of India, 540 are wheat eaters and the BTL-5 Evaluating
6(a). rest are rice eaters. Can we assume that both rice and wheat
equally popular in India at 1 % level of significance?
A simple random sample of 144 items resulted in a sample mean BTL -6
6(b). of 1257.85 and standard deviation of 480. Develop a 95% Creating
confidence interval for the population mean
A car dealer wants to estimate the proportion of customers who
still own the cars they purchased 5 years earlier. A random sample
of 500 customers selected from the dealer’s records indicate that BTL-2
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earlier. Set up 95% confidence interval estimation of the
population proportion of all the customers who still own the cars 5
years after they were purchased.
A movie maker sampled 55 fans who viewed his master piece
movie and asked them whether they had planned to see it again.
Only 10 of them believed that the movie was worthy of a second
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look. Find the standard error of the population of fans who will
view the film a second time. Construct a 90% confidence interval
for this population.
From a population of size 600, a sample of 60 individuals revealed
mean and standard deviation as 6.2 and 1.45 respectively. (i) Find
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the estimated standard error (ii) Construct 96% confidence
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A firm wishes to estimate with an error of not more than 0.03 and
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9(a). prefer its brand of household detergent. Sales report indicate the BTL -5 Evaluating
about 0.20 of all consumers prefer the firm’s brand. What is the
requisite sample size?
A random sample of 700 units from a large consignment should
that 200 were damaged.
9(b). Find (i) 95% BTL -3 Applying
(ii) 99% confidence limits for the proportion of damaged
units in the consignment
From a population of 500 items with a mean of 100 gms and
10(a). standard deviation of 12.5 gms, 65 items were chosen. (i) What is BTL -6 Creating
the standard error? (ii) Find P(99.5 < X < 101.5).
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SYLLABUS: Hypothesis testing: one sample and two sample tests for means and proportions of large samples (z-test),
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one sample and two sample tests for means of small samples (t-test), F-test for two sample standard deviations. ANOVA
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variance.
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(ii)Calculate the F ratio. At the 0.01 level of significance, do the
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In a low cost Toy production system, the molding machine has been
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Test if the following samples could have come from two populations
with the same means, assuming the population variances are equal.
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In Town A, there were 850 birds of which 52% was males, while in
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1200 birds was 0.49. Is there any significance difference in the
proportions of male birds in the two Towns?
IQ test result of randomly selected five employees in an organization
is given below. Test whether minimum requirement of average IQ
level 87 is maintained in that company or not.
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Employee code 234 232 121 343 111
IQ test 85 95 90 93 87
The weights of 8 persons are found to be 60, 65, 70, 68, 62, 63, 60,
and 66 kgs. The weights of another group of 12 persons are found to
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be 70, 60, 58, 56, 50, 48, 52, 56, 52, 50, 54, and 50. Can we conclude
that both samples have come from populations with same variances?
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A 12 16 20 18
B 15 10 12 16
C 10 08 16 15
A farmer wishes to determine whether there is a difference in yields
between two different varieties of wheat I and II. The following data
shows the production of wheat per unit area using the two varieties.
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Can the farmer conclude at significance levels of
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(ii) 0.01 that a difference exists?
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Test if the samples could have come from equal population means.
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12, 8, 20, 2, 14, 10, 15, 6, 9 and 4. Are these frequencies in agreement BTL -4
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with the belief that accident conditions were the same during this 10
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Two samples are drawn from two normal population. From the
following data, Test whether the two samples have the same variance
11(b). 5% level of significance.
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Sample 1 60 65 69 74 76 82 85 87
Sample 2 61 66 67 85 78 63 85 86 88 91
Given a sample mean of 83, a sample standard deviation of 12.5 and a
sample size of 22, test the hypothesis that the value of the population
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mean is 70 against alternative that it is more than 70. Use the 0.025
significance level.
The following table shows the lifetimes in hours of samples from
three different types of television tables manufactured by a company.
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significance level of 0.01.
Table:
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PART C
What are non-parametric tests? Point out their advantages and
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significance.
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13. Write the contingency 2*2 table for test. BTL-5 Evaluating
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Audio cassette B 78 80 65 57 89 85 78 70
Class Room C 68 83 50 91 84 77 94 81 92
Use Krushkal-Wallis test at α = 5% level of significance, whether the
three methods of training yield the same results.
1(b). Explain Rank sum tests and its applications
The production volume of units assembled by three different
operators during 9 shifts is summarized below. Check whether there
is significant difference between the production volumes of units
assembled by the three operators using Krushkal-Wallis test at a
2(a). significant level of 0.05. Applying
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Operator I 29 34 34 20 32 45 42 24 35
Operator II 30 21 23 25 44 37 34 19 38
Operator III 26 36 41 48 27 39 28 46 15
Two faculty members ranked 12 candidates for scholarships.
Calculate the spearman rank-correlation coefficient and test it for
significance. Use 0.02level of significance.
Candidate Rank by Professor A Rank by Professor B
1 6 5
2 10 11
3 2 6
4 1 3
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6 11 12
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Sand I 63 17 35 49 18 43 12 20 47
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critical value for this test
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Evening :32 24 23 30 40 41 42 39 45 35
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Apply the K-S test to check that the observed frequencies match with
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Sample A 55 60 63 56 59 55
Sample B 57 53 64 49 62
Sample C 66 52 61 57
Suppose it is desired to check whether pinholes in electrolytic tin
8(a) plate are distributed uniformly across a plated coil on the basis of the BTL -1 Remembering
following distances (in inches) of 10 pinholes from one edge of a
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4.8 14.8 28.2 23.1 4.4 28.7 19.5 2.4 25.0 6.2
Use Kolmogorov Smirnov test to test the null hypothesis.
8(b) Explain Mann- WhitneyU test with an example BTL-4 Analyzing
Ten competitors in a beauty contest are ranked by 3 judges in the
following order.
A: 1 6 5 3 10 2 4 9 7 8
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C: 6 4 9 8 1 2 3 10 5 7
Find out which pair of Judges has awarded the ranks to the nearest
common taste of beauty.
Test the association of Age and preference of colour of Toy from the
following data
Age/Colour Below 5 6-10 Above 10 years
10(a). BTL -4 Analyzing
Pink 60 40 5
Purple 30 30 30
Red 80 10 10
Melisa’s Boutique has three mall locations. Melisa keeps a dairy
record for each location of number of customers who actually make a
purchase. A sample of those data follows. Using the kruskal-wallis
test, can you say at the 0.05 level of significance that her stores have
10(b). the same number of customers who busy? BTL -3 Applying
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NE NW SE SW TOTAL
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Do not purchase 60 45 55 50
Total 100 100 100 100 400
(i) Develop a table of observed and expected frequencies for
this problem.
(ii) Calculate the sample value.
From the question 11(a)
(i)State the null and alternative hypothesis.
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(ii)At test whether brand share is the same across the four
regions
In 30 tosses of a coin, the following sequence of head and tails is
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(i) Determine the number of runs
From the question 12(a ) Test at 0.10 level of significance, whether
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the sequence is random
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The sales records of two branches of a department store over the last
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5 284 275
6 295 300
7 297 320
8 265 290
9 330 310
10 350 325
11 340 329
12 372 335
(i) Compute the sum of the ranks for branch A
(ii) Compute the mean μT
From the question 3(a)
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(i)Compute σT
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If the equations of the regression lines are x+2y=5 and 2x+3y=8, find
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the correlation coefficient between x and y.
14. Find the mean values of regression lines are 2y-x =50 and 3y-2x =10. BTL -1 Remembering
15. Write the correlation coefficient in terms of regression coefficients. BTL -6 Creating
16. Write the Equations of Regression lines. BTL -1 Remembering
Explain the difference between the coefficient of determination and
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the coefficient of correlation.
18. What are the various methods in correlation? BTL -1 Remembering
If the equations of the regression lines are x+2y=5 and 2x+3y=8, find
the correlation coefficient between x and y? Use the equations to find
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the mean of X and Y. If the variance of X is 12, calculate the variance
of Y?
20. What is positive and negative correlation? BTL -1 Remembering
PART-B
The following data pertains of X = Revenue (in ‘000 of rupees) generated at
a Corporate Hospital and Y = Number of Patients (in ’00) arrived for the last
ten years. BTL -4
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X 86 95 75 85 90 98 112 74 100 110
Y 21 24 18 24 22 30 27 18 25 28
Find the Karl Pearson’s coefficient of correlation and give your comment.
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The revenue generated at a unit and is given below. Fit the trend
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line using least squares method and estimate the revenue for the year 2013.
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8 12 9 24 13 37 10 16
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Percent allocation for investment
36 25 33 15 28 19 20 22
Find the Karl Pearson’s correlation and spearman’s rank correlation methods
for the above data.
Given below are the figures of production (in thousand quintals) of a sugar
factory.
Year 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998
3(a). BTL -3 Applying
Production 75 80 95 85 95 100 105
Fit a straight line trend by the least squares method and tabulate the trend
values.
Promotional expenses and sales data for an equipment manufacturer are as
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follows. Calculate the correlation coefficient and comment.
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coefficient between the prices and the number of flash drives sold.
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What are the assumptions made by the regression model in estimating the
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Promotional expenses and sales data for an equipment manufacturer are as
follows. Calculate the correlation coefficient and comment
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Promotional expenses in Lakhs 7 10 9 4 11 5 3
Sales in Units 12 14 13 5 15 7 4
A gas company has supplied 18,20,21,25 and 26 billion cubic feet f gas,
respectively, for the years 2004 to 2008.
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(i) Find the estimating equation that best describes these data.
(ii) Calculate the percentage of trend.
From the question 8(a)
8(b). (i)Calculate the relative cyclical residuals BTL-5 Evaluating
(ii)Find the year in which the fluctuation is maximum
9. Given that X 130, X 2 2288, Y 220, Y 2 5506, and XY 3467. BTL -6 Creating
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depend upon the weather. He has taken a sample of 6 days. The results of the
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