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QUESTION
MODULE 4
Q1. Calculate the mean of the following frequency distribution of marks in attest in maths:
Marks 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
No. of students 3 6 10 12 9 6 2 2

Q2: The consumption of printing papers reams (in units) for the first 11 months of a
computer operator is given as 20,25,30,15,17,35,26,18,40,45,50. Find the median.

Q3: An insurance company obtained the following data for accident claims from a particular
region. Obtain the median from this data

Amount of claim(in ‘000 rs) frequency

1-3 6
3-5 53
5-7 85
7-9 56
9-11 21
11-13 16
13-15 4

15-17 4

Q 4:
Marks Number of Students Marks Number of students
Above 0 80 Above 60 28
Above 10 77 Above 70 16
Above 20 72 Above80 10
Above 30 65 Above 90 8
Above 40 55 Above 100 0
Above 50 43

a) Calculate mean, mode, median, Q3, D9, P10

Q 5: Calculate the first 2 moments about mean of the following data

x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
F 1 8 28 56 70 56 28 8 1

Q 6. From the following data , calculate all moments about

(a) Moments about arbitrary point 25
(b) Central Moments/ Moments about mean
(c) Find skewness.
Variable 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40
frequency 1 3 4 2

Q7 : If the first four moments of a distribution about the value 5 are -4,22,-
117 and 560. Obtain the moments about mean.

Q8 : for the following distribution , find the first four moments about mean, Also find value
of.Is it a symmetrical distribution??
X 2 3 4 5 6
f 1 3 7 3 1

Q9 : Find out the kurtosis of the data given below:

Class interval 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40
frequency 1 4 3 2

Q10 : The first four moments of a distribution about x=4 are 1,4,10,45. Find out
the various characteristics of the distribution on the information given.
Comment upon the nature of distribution.

Q11. Calculate the coefficient of correlation between the age of husband and wife from the
data:
Husband’s age (x) 35 34 40 43 56 20 38
Wife’s age(y) 32 30 31 32 53 20 33

Q12. From the data given below, calculate the coefficeint of rank correlation between the
marks of maths and physics
MATH 78 89 97 69 59
PHYSICS 88 76 67 72 65

Q13: The following table gives age(x) in years of cars and annual maintenance cost (y) in
hundred rupees.:
Age of cars(X) 1 3 5 7 9
Maintenance cost(Y) ’00 rs 15 18 21 23 22
Estimate the maintenance cost for a 4 year old car . y=? when x is 4.

Q14: Give the following data:

X 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Y 9 8 10 12 11 13 14 16 15
Find
(a) Regression coefficients(b xy ,b yx )
(b) Regression lines(X on Y, Y on X)
(c) Coefficient of correlation(r)
MODULE 5
Q 1.By the method of least square , find the equation of straight line that best
fits the following data:
x 1 2 3 4 5
y 14 27 40 55 68

Q 2: By the method of least square , find the equation of straight line that best
fits the following data:
x 1 2 3 4 5
y 5 7 9 10 11

Q3: Fit a second degree curve of regression in the following data:

X 1 2 3 4
y 6 11 18 27

Q 4: The following table shows the number of salesman working for a certain concern:
Year 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
Salesman 28 38 46 40 56 60
Use the method of least square s to fit a straight line trend and also find no. of
salesman in the year of 2004.

Q 5: Fit a curve of the best fit of the type y=a.ebx to the following data by the method
of least square.
X 1 5 7 9 12
y 10 15 12 15 21

Q 6: Fit a relation of the form for the following data by the method of least
square
x 2 3 4 5 6
y 8.3 15.4 33.1 65.2 126.4

Q7: A coin was tossed 400 times and the head turned up 216 times. Test the hypothesis that
the coin is unbiased at 1% level of significance.

Q8: In two large population there are 30% and 25% respectively of fair haired people.
Is this difference likely to be hidden in samples of 1200 and 900respectively from the two
populations.

Q9: In a hospital 475 females and 525 males were born in a week. Do these figure confirm
the hypothesis that males and females are born in an equal number.
Q10 : A sample of 1000 students from a university was taken and their average weight was
found to be 112 pounds with a s.d of 20 pounds . Could the mean weight of students in the
population be 120 pounds?
Q11: The average income of parson was rs 210 with s.d. of rs 10 in a sample of 100 people of
a city. For another sample of 150 persons , the average income was rs.220 with s.d at rs 12.
The s.d of income of the people of the city was rs 11. Test whether there is any significant
difference between the average incomes of localities.

Q12: Intelligence test of two groups of boys and girls gives the following results
Girls : Mean= 84, s.d= 10, N1=121 Boys : Mean= 81, s.d=12, N2=81
(a) Is the difference between the standard deviations significant?
(b) Is the difference between the mean scores significant?

MODULE 6

Q13.: A sample of 20 items has mean 42 units and standard deviation 5 units .
Test the hypothesis that it is a random sample from a normal population with
mean 45 units.

Q14: 10 individuals are chosen at random from a normal population of students and their
marks found to be 63,63,66,67,68,69,70,70,71,71. In light of these data discuss the
suggestion that mean marks of the population of students is 66.

Q15: Samples of sizes 10 and 14 were taken from two normal populations with S.D 3.5 and
5.2. The sample means were found to be 20.3 and 18.6. Test whether the means of the two
populations are the same at 5% level .

Q16: A set of five similar coins tossed 320 times and the result is
No. of heads 0 1 2 3 4
frequency 6 27 72 112 71

MODULE 1

Q1: 1 coin tossed. What is the probability of getting head?

Q 2: 2 coin tossed simulatneously . What is the probability of getting atleast one head?

Q3: 3 coin tossed simulatneously . What is the probability of getting atmost one head?

Q4 : 10 coin tossed simulatneously . What is the probability of getting atmost one head?
Q5: Three coins are tossed , find the probability of getting at least 2 heads.

Q6: A bag contains 4 white, 5 red and 7 black balls.

(i) What is the probability that 3 balls drawn at random are all red?
(ii) What is the probability that one is white, one is red and one is black?

Q7: If 3 of 20 tyres in storage are defective and 4 of them are randomly chosen for
inspection(i.e. each tyre has the same chance of being selected), what is the probability that
only one of the defective tyres will be included ?
Q8: What is the probability that a non-leap year contains 53 Sundays?
Q9: Find the probability of drawing a card from a well shuffled pack such that the drawn card
is either a king or queen.
Q10: A man wants to marry a girl having qualities: white complexion the probability of
getting such a girl is one in twenty; handsome dowry- the probability of getting this is one is
fifty; westernised manners and etiquettes- the probability here is one in hundred. Find out
the probability of his getting married to such a girl when the possession of these three
attributes is independent.
Q11: A box contains 7 red and 3 white marbles. Three marbles are drawn from the box one
after the other without replacement. Find the probability of drawing three marbles in the
alternate colours with the first marble being red.
Q12: A box contains 7 red and 3 white marbles. Three marbles are drawn from the box one
after the other without replacement. Find the probability of drawing three marbles in the
alternate colours .
Q13: A pair of two coin is tossed, find (i) probability distribution function. (ii) find expected
value or E(X).
Q14: A pair of dice is thrown together , find
(a) probability distribution function.
(b) Find expected value, E(X)

Q15: A random variable X has the following distribution:

X -2 -1 0 1 2 3
P(X) 0.1 k 0.2 2k 0.3 k
Find(i) k (ii) mean (iii) variance

Q16: A random variable X has the following distribution:

X123489
P(x) k 3k 5k 7k 9k 11k
Find (i) k
(iii) expectation
(iv) variance
(v) P(x) >=3

Q17: 3 card players play a series of matches. The probability that player a will win any game
is 20% the probability that player B will win is 30% and the probability player C will win is
50%. If they win 6 games, what is the probability that player A will win 1 game, player B will
win 2 games, and player C will win 3 games?

Q18: suppose that two chess players had played numerous games and it was determined
that the probability that Player A would win is 0.40, the probability that Player B would win
is 0.35, and the probability that the game would end in a draw is 0.25. “If these two chess
players played 12 games, what is the probability that Player A would win 7 games,
Player B would win 2 games, and the remaining 3 games would be drawn?”

Q19: The probability of a man hitting a target is ¼. If he fires 7 times , what is the
probability of his hitting the target atleast twice?

Q20: If 20 % of the bolts produced by a machine are defective, find the probability
that , out of 4 bolts chosen at random,(a) 1 (b) 0 and (c) atmost 2 bolts will be
defective.

Q21: A student obtained the following answer to a certain problem given to him,
Mean=2.4; variance=3.2 for a binomial distribution . comment upon the result.

Q22: Prove that Poisson distribution is a limiting case of Binomial Distribution.

Q23: 6 coin s are tossed 3200 times . What is the approximate probability of getting 6
heads 10 times.

MODULE 2

Q 1: A continuous random variable X has a following function which defined by

Check f(x) is a density function? If f(x) is pdf then find mean /Expectaion of the random
variable.

Q2: Let X be a continuous random variable whose function is-

(a) F(x)=3x2 0<x<1
(b) P(1/2<x<1)
(c) f(x)cumulative frequency function

Q3: A Sample of 100 dry battery cells are tested to find the length of life produced
the following results Assuming the data to be normally distributed, what percentage of
battery cells are expected to have life:
(a) More than 15 hours
(b) Less than 6 hours
(c) Between 10 and 14 hours
Q4: In an intelligence test adminitrered 1000 students the average scores was 42 and
stansdard deviation 24. Find Assume the distribution of marks is normal
(a) The number of students excceding a score of 50
(b) The number of students lyunig between 30 and 54
(c) The value of score exceeded by the top 100 students.

Q5:The mean height of 500 students is 151 cm and the standard deviation is 15 cm.
Assuming that the heights are normally distributed, find how many students height lie
between 120 and 155 cm.

MODULE 3
Q1 : for the following bivariate probability distribution of X and Y. check it is joint probability
mass function or not. find:
(a) P(X<=2, Y =3)
(b) P(X<=1)
(c) P(Y<=5)
(d) P(Y=4)
(e) P(X<2, Y<=3)

Q2:
Q3:

Q4: Consider a sample of size 2 drawn without replacement from an urn containing 3 balls,
numbered 1,2, and 3.
Let X be the smaller of the two numbers drawn and Y denotes the larger .
(a) Find the joint discrete distribution function of X and Y
(b) Find conditional distribution of Y given X=1.
(c) Cov(X,Y)

Q5: IF X and Y are two random variables having joint density function. Find (i) P[ X<1]
(ii) P[ X+Y <3]
(iii) P[X<1 |Y<3] also (iv) find marginal and conditional densities.
(v) E[X]

ASSIGNMENT-1
1. Prove that the mean of Binomial Distribution is pq.
2. The incidence of occupational disease in an industry is such that the workers have a
20% chance of suffering from it. What is the probability that out of 6 workers
chosen at random, four or more will suffer from the disease?
3. In a sampling a large number of parts manufactured by a machine, the mean number
of defectives in a sample of 20 is 2. Out of 1000 such samples, how many would be
expected to contain at least 3 defective parts.
4. Prove that Poisson distribution as a limiting case of Binomial Distribution.
5. Fit a Poisson distribution to the following and calculate the theoretical frequencies:

x 0 1 2 3 4
f 46 38 22 9 1
6. Prove that the total area under the Normal curve is unity.
7. In a normal distribution 31% of the items are under 45 and 8% are over 64. Find the
mean and standard deviation of the distribution.
8. Given the following data from an experimental observation

y 9. 11. 14. 18. 23.

: 4 8 7 0 0
 x 1.
1.6 2.5 4.0 6.0
: 0

fit a parabola in the form following the principle

of least square.
9. The first four moments of a distribution about the value 3 of a variable are 1, 5, 14
and 46. Find the mean, variance and comment on the nature of the distribution.

ASSIGNMENT-2

1. Prove that the complementary event of a is given by P( =1-P(A).

2. If the event A and B are such that P(A)≠0, P(B)≠0 and A is independent of B, then prove
that B is independent of A.
3. From a city population, the probability of selecting (a) a male or a smoker is 7/10 (b) a
male smoker is 2/5 (c) a male if a smoker is already selected is 2/3. Find the probability of
selecting (a) non-smoker (b) a male (c) a smoker, if a male is first selected.
4. A speaks truth 4 out of 5 times. A dice is tossed ,he reports that there is a six. What is the
chance that actually there was six?
5. Two dice are rolled. Let X denotes the random variable which counts the total no. of points
on the unturned faces, construct a table giving non-zero values of the pmf and also find
distribution function of X.

6. Show that for the symmetrical distribution

7. The kms X in thousands of kms which car owners get with a certain kind of tyre is a
random having pdf

find the probability that one of these tyres

will last (a) atmost 10,000 kms, (b) anywhere from 16,000 to 24,000kms (c) atleast 30,000
miles.

8. (a) Prove that

(b ) Give the statement of multinomial distribution

9. (a) Define Bernoulli’s distribution and find moment generating function for Bernoulli’s
distribution.
(b) Poisson distribution is an approximation to Binomial Distribution .Prove it.
© If X show that

10. a) The mean and variance of Binomial Distribution are 4 and 4/3 respectively. Find

b) Prove that the mean and variance of Poisson Distribution are same i.e. each equal to m.
11. If

ASSIGNMENT-3
1. Prove that the mean of Binomial Distribution is pq.
2. Prove that Poisson distribution as a limiting case of Binomial Distribution.
3. Fit a Poisson distribution to the following and calculate the theoretical frequencies:

x 0 1 2 3 4
f 46 38 22 9 1

4. Given the following data from an experimental observation

y 9. 11. 14. 18. 23.

: 4 8 7 0 0
x 1.
1.6 2.5 4.0 6.0
: 0

fit a parabola in the form following the principle

of least square.
5. The first four moments of a distribution about the value 3 of a variable are 1, 5, 14
and 46. Find the mean, variance and comment on the nature of the distribution.
6. Determine the constant a,b and c by the method of least square such that y= a x2 +b
x + c fits the given data:

x 2 4 6 8 10
y 4.01 11.08 30.12 81.89 222.62
7. For a distribution, the mean is 10, variance is 16,
is +1 and
is 4 . Obtain the first four moments about the origin. Comment upon the nature of the
distribution.
8. The first four moments about the working mean is 28.5 of a distribution are 0.294, 7.144,
42.409 and 454.98. Calculate the moments about mean . also evaluate coefficient of
skewness and Kurtosis.

9. Find the correlation coefficient between x and y for the given values . Find also the two
regression lines

X 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1
0
y 10 12 16 28 25 36 41 49 40 5
0
10. Explain briefly Karl Pearson Coefficient of Correlation.

ASSIGNMENT-4

1. Prove that the mean of Binomial Distribution is np.

2. The incidence of occupational disease in an industry is such that the workers have a
20% chance of suffering from it. What is the probability that out of 6 workers
chosen at random, four or more will suffer from the disease?
3. Prove that the complementary event A_ of a is given by P(A_=1-P(A).
4. If the event A and B are such that P(A)≠0, P(B)≠0 and A is independent of B, then
prove that B is independent of A.
5. From a city population, the probability of selecting (a) a male or a smoker is 7/10
(b) a male smoker is 2/5 (c) a male if a smoker is already selected is 2/3. Find the
probability of selecting (a) non-smoker (b) a male (c) a smoker, if a male is first
selected.
6. A speaks truth 4 out of 5 times. A dice is tossed ,he reports that there is a six. What
is the chance that actually there was six?
7. Two dice are rolled. Let X denotes the random variable which counts the total no.
of points on the unturned faces, construct a table giving non-zero values of the pmf
and also find distribution function of X.
8. The kms X in thousands of kms which car owners get with a certain kind of tyre is a

random having pdf . find the probability that one

of these tyres will last (a) at most 10,000 kms, (b) anywhere from 16,000 to
24,000kms (c) at least 30,000 miles.
9. The mean and variance of Binomial Distribution are 4 and 4/3 respectively. Find
P(X>=1)
10. A continuous random variable has a probability density function expressed as a for

.Determine the probability that it will take a value

between 1 and 3.
11. Suppose the Probability function of a random variable X is given by

find the mean of the distribution.