QUESTION BANK

UNIT -III
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1 a Define population and sample. Explain about different types of sampling 5
techniques.
b What is the effect on standard error, if a sample is taken from an infinite population of sample size is 5
decreased from 800 to 200

2 A population consists of four numbers 1,5,6,8. List all possible samples of size 2 that can be drawn 10
without replacement from this population. Find a)The men of the population.
b)The standard deviation of the population.
c)The mean of the sampling distribution of means
d)The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of means.
3 A population consists of five numbers 3,6,9,15,27. List all possible samples of size 3 that can be 10
drawn without replacement from this population. Find a)The men of the population.
b)The standard deviation of the population.
c)The mean of the sampling distribution of means
d)The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of means.
4 a Define point and interval estimation. Write a short notes on confidence intervals. 5
b A random sample of size 81 was taken whose variance is 20.25 and mean is 32, construct 99% 5
confidence interval for true mean.
5 A population consists of 1,2,3,5,7,9. List all possible samples of size 2 that can be drawn without 10
replacement from this population. Find a)The mean of the population.
b)The standard deviation of the population.
c)The mean of the sampling distribution of means
d)The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of means.
6 A population consists of five numbers 2,3,6,8,11. List all possible samples of size 2 that can be 10
drawn with replacement from this population. Find a)The mean of the population.
b)The standard deviation of the population.
c)The mean of the sampling distribution of means
d)The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of means.
7 A random sample of size 64 is taken from a normal population with mean 51.4 and standard 10
deviation 6.8. What is the probability that the mean of the sample will a) Exceed 52.9 b) fall between
50.5 and 52.3 c) be less than 50.6
8 A population consists of five numbers 2,3,6,8,11. List all possible samples of size 2 that can be 10
drawn with replacement from this population. Find a)The mean of the population.
b)The standard deviation of the population.
c)The mean of the sampling distribution of means
d)The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of means.
9 a What is central limit theorem and a short notes on sampling distribution of means(population sd is 5
known)
b The mean height of students in a college is 155cms and standard deviation is 15. What is the 5
probability that the mean height of 36 students is less than 157cms
10 a A random sample of size 25 from a normal population has the mean 5
x =47.5 and the standard deviation s=8.4. Find 99% confidence interval for true mean.
b Define the following terms: parameter, statistic, standard error, 5
Estimate, Estimator, Estimation.

UNIT – IV

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1 The heights of 6 randomly chosen sailors are 63, 65, 68, 69, 71, and 72 inches. Those of 9 randomly 10
chosen soldiers are 61, 62, 65, 66, 69, 70, 71, 72, and 73 inches. Discuss whether this data gives a
suggestion that the sailors are taller than soldiers.
The following random samples are measurements of heat producing capacity in millions of calories 10
2 per ton of specimens of coal from two mines.
 Use 0.01
Mine 1 8260 8130 8350 8070 8340
level of
Mine 2 7950 7890 7900 8140 7920 7840
significa
nce to test whether the difference between the means of these two samples is significant?
3 The following are the average weekly loses of working hours due to accidents in 10 industrial plants 10
before and after a certain safety program was put into operation. Use the 5% level of significance to
test whether the safety program is effective
Before 45 73 46 124 33 57 83 34 26 17
After 36 60 44 119 35 51 77 29 24 11
4 a Write down the test procedure for testing mean (large) 5
b Define t distribution and state the properties of t. 5
5 Two horses A and B were tested according to the time (in seconds) to run a particular track with the 10
following results

Horse - A 28 32 30 33 33 29 34
Horse - B 29 30 30 24 27 29
Test whether the two horses have the same running capacity.
6 In a study to estimate the proportion of residents in a certain city and its suburbs who favour the 10
construction of a nuclear power plant, it is found that 63 of 100 urban residents favour the
construction while only 59 of 125 suburban residents are in favour. Is there a significant difference
between the proportion of urban and suburban residents who favour construction of the nuclear plant?
7 a A random sample of 100 recorded deaths in a country showed an average life span of 71.8 years. 5
Assuming a population standard deviation of 8.9 years, does this seem to indicate that the mean life
span today is greater than 70 years? Use 0.05 level of significance
b Write a short notes on Types of tests (one tailed and two tailed), critical region. 5

8 a Write down the test procedure for testing difference of proportions 5

b Define: Hypothesis, types of hypothesis, power of the test. 5

9 a Ten individuals are chosen from a normal population and their heights (in inches) are given below. 5
Test whether the sample comes from a normal population whose mean height is 66 inches or not at
5% level of significance? 63,63,66,67,68,69,70,70,71,71.
b In a city, 250 men out of 750 were found to be smokers. Does this information support the conclusion 5
that the majority of men in this city are smokers?
10 a Five measurements of tar content of certain kind of cigarette yielded 14.5, 14.2, 14.4, 14.3, and 14.6 5
milligrams per cigarette. Show that the difference between the mean of this sample and the average
tar claimed by the manufacturer μ=14.0 mg/cigarette is significant at α=0.05.
b Write down the test procedure for Paired t-test. 5
11 a An insurance agent has claimed that the average age of policy holders who insure through him is less 5
than the average for all their agents which is 30.5 years. A random sample of 100 policy holders who
had insured through him reveal that the mean and S.D. are 28.8 years and 6.35 years respectively.
Test his claim at 5% level of significance.
b Experiences had shown that 20% of a manufactured product is of the top quality. In one day’s 5
production of 400 articles, only 50 are of top quality. Test the hypothesis at 0.05 level?
12 a Write down the test procedure for testing difference of two means (large) 5
b A sample of size 400 was drawn and the sample mean was found to be 99. Test whether this sample 5
could have come from a population with mean 100 and variance 64 at 5% level of significance.
13 a Write a short notes on Errors of sampling, level of significance. 5
b Write down the test procedure for testing proportion 5
14 a In a sample of 1000 citizens of India, 540 are wheat eaters and the rest are rice eaters. Can we assume 5
that both rice and wheat eaters are equally popular in India at 1% level of significance?
b A sample of 105 iron bars whose mean length is 10 ft. is drawn. Is it drawn from a population whose 5
mean is 12 ft. and standard deviation 4 ft.?
15 a A manufacturer claims that the mean breaking strength of a cable is 8 kgs, with a standard deviation 5
of 0.5kg. Test the hypothesis that the mean μ=8 kgs against μ≠ 8 kgs if a random sample of 50 cables
is tested and found to have a mean breaking strength of 7.8 kgs. Use 0.01 level of significance
b A manufacturer of a medicine claimed that it was 90% effective in relieving an allergy in 8 hours. In 5
a sample of 200 people who had the allergy, the medicine provided relief for 160 people. Determine
 whether the manufacturer’s claim is legitimate at a 0.01 level of significance.

UNIT – V

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1 Calculate the correlation coefficient for the heights of fathers and sons. 10
X 65 66 67 67 68 69 70 72
Y 67 68 65 68 72 72 69 71
Ten securities were subjected to a selection test to ascertain their suitability for a 10
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certain course of training. At the end of training they were given a proficiency test.
The marks secured by recruits in the selection test (X) and in the proficiency test (Y)
are given below. Find the correlation
x 1 15 12 17 13 16 24 14 22 20

Y 30 42 45 46 33 34 40 35 39 38

3 Obtain the equation of line of regression of X on Y 10

4 a Write a short notes on correlation. 5
b Show that two independent variables are uncorrelated, but two uncorrelated 5
variables need not be independent i.e., converse may not true, Justify.
5 The following results were obtained in the analysis of data on yield of dry bark in 10
ounces (Y) and age in years (X) of 200 cinchona plants.
X Y
Average Price 9.2 16.5
Standard Deviation 2.1 4.2
Correlation coefficient = 0.84.Construct the two lines of regression and estimate the
yield of dry bark of a plant of age 8 years.
6 Obtain the equation of line of regression of Y on X 10
7 a Write a short notes on regression. 5
b A random sample of 5 college students is selected and their marks in mathematics 5
and physics are given
Mathematics 85 60 73 40 90
Physics 93 75 65 50 80
Calculate Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient.
8 Calculate the coefficient of correlation and lines of regression from the following 10
data
X 22 26 29 30 31 31 34 35
Y 20 20 21 29 27 24 27 31
9 10
Show that correlation coefficient lies between -1 and +1.
10 10
Define correlation and the properties of correlation and prove any one of them.

11 Fit a straight line to the following data 10

X 0 1 2 3 4

Y 1 1.8 3.3 4.5 6.3

12 Fit a parabola of the form Y =A+BX+CX2 to the following data 10
X 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Y 2.3 5.2 9.7 16.5 29.4 35.5 54.4

13 Fit a curve of the form Y = aXb to the following data 10

X 1 2 3 4 6 8

Y 2.4 3 3.6 4 5 6

14 10
Write down the procedure for fitting a straight line by the method of least squares

15 10
Write down the procedure for fitting a second degree parabola to the given data by
the method of least squares