IMPERIAL BUSINESS COLLEGE Group B:long question (6 x 10 marks = 60)

Practice Set 5 11. a. The table given below represents the daily wage distribution of 130
Program: BBA Semester: III Time: 3 Hours workers. Find out the range of income of the middle 60% workers.
Subject: Statistics Full Marks: 100 Wage (Rs) 70 85 100 115 130 145 160 175
Subject Code: STT 101 Pass Marks: 45
more than
Candidates are expected to answer the questions in their own words as far as
practicable. The figures in the margin indicate full marks.
No. of 130 122 109 79 44 26 14 5
workers
Group A:Brief questions (10 x 2 marks = 20) (i) Find the minimum income of top 35% workers?
1. The data below represent the amount of grams of carbohydrates in (ii) Find the maximum income of initial 25% workers?
serving of breakfast cereal. List out five numbers summary. b. What is hypothesis? Write the types of hypothesis with the suitable
11, 15, 23, 29, 19, 22, 21, 20, 15, 25, 17. example. Mention the steps in hypothesis testing.
2. From the following data find the missing item, if the mean of the Or
distribution is 41. Write short notes on descriptive and inferential statistics with suitable
X 20 30 40 50 60 70 examples.
F 8 12 20 ? 6 4 12. a. An incomplete distribution is given below. Find the missing
3. The average income of 100 persons in village A is Rs 3500 and that of frequencies, where median is 46.
Marks 10 – 20 – 30 30 – 40 – 50 – 60 – 70 – Total
150 persons in village B is Rs 4000. What is the total income of both 20 40 50 60 70 80
the villages put together? Frequency 12 30 ? 65 ? 25 18 229
4. For moderately asymmetrical distribution, the arithmetic mean = 20 b. The mean weight of 150 students in a class is 60 kg. The mean
and their median = 24. Find the mode of this distribution. weight of boys in the class is 70 kg and that of girls is 55 kg. Find the
5. What is systematic sampling? How do you draw 20 units from a number of girls in the class.
population of 200 using systematic sampling procedure? 13. a. A student obtained the mean and standard deviation of 100
6. The mean age of a combined group of men and women is 30 years. If observations as 40 and 5.1 respectively. It was later found that one
the mean age of the group of men is 32 years and that of the group of observation was wrongly copied as 40, the correct figure being 50.
women is 27 years is 27 years, find out the percentage of men and Find the correct mean and standard deviation.
women in the group. b. An analysis of daily salaries paid to the workers in two firms A and B
7. From the information given below find (i) probability of nurse or belonging to the same industry gives the following result:
male (ii) probability or nurses and females. Firms A B
Staff Females (F) Males (M) Total No. of workers 50 100
Nurses (N) 7 1 8 Average daily salary (Rs) 54.1 50.3
Physicians (P) 3 2 5 Variance of salary 64 49
Totals 10 3 13 (i) Which firm A or B has a larger wage bill?
8. A card is drawn from a deck and not replaced then a second card is (ii) In which firm A or B, is there greater variability in individual
draw. Find the probability of getting a king and a queen. wages?
9. During the study of bike accidents, the Highway Safety Council found
that 60% of all accidents occur at night, 52% are alcohol related and 14. a. A random variable X is defined to be the difference between the
37% occur at night and alcohol related. What is the probability that an higher value and the lower value when two dice are thrown. If they
accident occurred at night given that it was alcohol related? have the same value, X is defined to be zero (0), find: (i) E(2X +10)
10. A box contains 7 red marbles and 8 blue marbles. If 5 marbles are (ii) E(X2) (iii) S. D. of X
randomly taken together from a box then what is the probability of b. The latest nationwide political poll indicates that for Indian who are
getting 2 are red and 3 are blue marbles. randomly selected, the probability that they are conservative is 60% and
the probability that they are liberal is 40%. Assuming that these
probabilities are accurate, answer the following questions pertaining to
a randomly chosen group of 10 Indians.
(i) What is the probability that four are liberal? 18. Multiple myeloma, or blood plasma cancer, is characterized by
(ii) What is the probability that none are conservative? increased blood vessel formulation (angiogenesis) in the bone marrow
15. a. Airline passengers arrive randomly and independently at the that is a predictive factor in survival. One treatment approach used for
passenger screening facilities at a major international airport. The multiple myeloma is steam cell transplantation with patient’s own
arrival rate is 4 passengers per minute. What is the probability that more steam cell. The following data represent the bone marrow micro
than three passengers will arrive in a minute? vessel density for patient who has a complete response to the steam
b. Define normal distribution? For overseas flights, an airline has three cell transplant. The measurements were taken immediately prior to
different choices on its dessert menu- ice-cream, apple pipe, and chock steam cell transplant and at the time the complete response was
let cake. Based on past experiences, the airlines feel that each dessert is determined:
equally chosen. If a random sample of 90 passengers is selected, what is Patients 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
the probability that: (i) at least 20 will choose ice cream for dessert? (ii) Before 158 189 202 353 416 426 441
Exactly 20 will choose ice cream for dessert? (iii) Less than 20 will After 284 214 151 227 290 176 290
choose ice cream for dessert? (i) At the 0.05 level of significance, is there evidence that the mean
16. a. Mr. Nil is a professional statistician and cruelty teaches Business bone marrow micro vessel density is higher before the steam
Statistics at XYZ College. He surveyed 100 statisticians and found that cell transplant than after the steam cell transplant?
90 of them were in favor of ‘Computer-aided Statistical Analysis in (ii) At the 0.1 level of significance, is there evidence that the mean
BBA’. bone marrow micro vessel density is higher before the steam
(i) Estimate the standard error of proportion. cell transplant than after the steam cell transplant?
(ii) Set up a 95% confidence interval estimate of the population (iii) Is there any difference is found if level of significance is
proportion of the statisticians who are in favor of ‘Computer-aided changed? What is your conclusion?
Statistical Analysis in BBA’?
b. The quality control manager at light bulb factory needs to determine THE END
whether the mean life a large shipment of light bulbs is equal to 375
hours. The population standard deviation is 100 hours. A random
sample of 28 light bulbs indicates a sample mean of 350 hours. At the
0.05 level of significance, is there evidence that the mean life is
different from 375 hours?

Group C [20]
17. A sample of 500 respondents was selected in a large metropolitan area
to determine the various information concerning consumer behavior.
Among the questioned asked was “Do you enjoy shopping for
clothing?” Of 240 males 136 answered yes. Of 260 females, 174
answered yes.
(i) Find the p-value while testing the hypotheses that higher
proportions of female than male enjoy shopping for clothing
and interpret its meaning.
(ii) What is your statistical decision if you test the null hypothesis
at the 0.05 level of significance?
(iii) What is your statistical decision if you test the null hypothesis
at the 0.01 level of significance?
(iv) Is there any difference is found if level of significance is
changed? What is your conclusion?