Directorate of Distance Education

Swami Vivekanand Subharti University

I Year
Course Code : MBA- 105

Course Title : Business Statistics

Assignment No. : MBA-105/ 2023

Maximum Marks : 30

Attempt any 5 questions from the given 10 questions.

All questions carry equal marks.

Q1. The diameter of shafts manufactured by a machine are normal random variables with mean 10
cm and standard deviation 1 cm. Show that 81.85 percent of the shafts are expected to these
diameters between 9 cm and 12 cm.

Q2. What is the probability that a leap year selected at random will contain either 53 Thursdays
or Friday?

Q3. 228 out of 400 voters picked at random from a large electorate said that they were going to
vote for a particular candidate. Find 95% C.I. for the proportion of voters of the electorate
who would on favor of the candidate.

Q4. Define conditional probability. State and prove Baye's theorem.

Q5. What is the probability that a leap year selected at random will contain either 53 Thursdays
or 53 Fridays?

Q6. Consider the two regression lines 3x+2y=26 and 6x+y=31, a) Find the mean value and
correlation coefficient between x and y. b) If the variance of y is 4, find the S.D. of x.

Q7. In a shooting competition, the probability of a man hitting a target is 2/5. If he fires 5 times,
What is the probability of hitting the target i) at least twice ii) at most twice. Find the value of
y when x-82

Q8. A population consists of five numbers 2, 3, 6, 8, 11. Consider all possible samples of size two
which can be drawn without replacement from this population. Find:
a) The mean of the population
b) Standard deviation of the population
c)The mean of the sampling distribution of means
d) The Standard deviation of the sampling distribution of means

Q9. When we sample from an infinite population, what happens to the standard error of the mean
if the sample size is (a) increased from 30 to 270 (b) decreased from 256 to16.

Q10. What is sampling. Also describe the types of sampling.

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