SANSKAR INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

INTERNAL TEST (OCTOBER - 2014) BBA SEMESTER-THREE

CC307: ELEMENTARY STATISTICS
DATE : 17-OCT-2014
MARKS : 50
ID NO :
DURATION : 1 Hours
Q.1 Choose the Correct Answer.

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1. What is the probability of getting more than 2, when an unbiased die is tossed?
A) 1/3
B) 1/2
C) 2/3
D) 1
2. The standard deviation of Binomial distribution depends on ____________?
A) Probability of success
B) Probability of failure
C) Number of trials
D) All A, B & C
3. In which of the following situations, the Poisson distribution can be good approximation of Binomial
distribution?
A) n = 300 & p = 0.04
B) n = 60 & p = 0.90
C) n = 20 & p = 0.65
D) All A,B & C
4. Which of the following condition is not necessary for a distribution to be a Binomial distribution?
A) Each observation is classified in two categories, i.e. Success & Failure
B) Probability of success remains same in each trial
C) Number of observations are large
D) The experiment can be repeated independently
5. Which of the following is a Discrete Random Variable Distribution?
A) Poisson Distribution
B) Hypothesis Distribution
C) Probability distribution D) None of A, B & C
6. A box contains 10 balls of which 6 are green and 4 are red, one ball is drawn at random from it,
what is the probability of drawing red ball?
A) 0.1
B) 0.6
C) 0.5
D) 0.4
7. Which of the following is not true regarding Poisson distribution?
A) It is a distribution of rare occurrence
B) It is a distribution with negative skewness
C) It is a distribution of a discrete variable
D) None of A, B & C
8. Probability of defective item produced by machine is 1/100 & items are packed in packet of 200,
what is the value of m, if Poisson distribution is followed ?
A) 1
B) 20
C) 2
D) .01
9. If P( A/B) = P(A) then events A and B are ___________
A) Independent events
B) Equally likely events
C) Dependent events
D) None of A, B & C
10. Value of e- 2 __________
A) 0.9810
B) 0.3679

C) 0.1353

D) 0.95123

Q.2 What do you understand by discrete random variable? Explain in detail all distributions of a
discrete random variable
OR
Q.2 A) Write a short note on Poisson distribution
B) What is classical approach of probability? What are its limitations?
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Q.3

A Company has three plans to manufacture 8,000 Scooters in a month. Out of 8,000 scooters,
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Plant I manufactures 4,000, plant II manufactures 3,000 and plant III manufactures 1,000 scooters.
At plant I, 85 out of 100 scooters are rated as good quality scooters, at plant II, 65 out of 100 scooters are
rated as good quality scooters and at plant III, 60 out of 100 scooters are rated as good quality scooters.
A Scooter selected at random and found to be of good quality,
What is the probability that the scooter comes from
i) Plant I
ii) Plant II
iii) Plant III
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Q.3 A) A husband and wife appear in an interview for two vacancies for the same post. The probability
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of husbands selection is 1/7 and that of wifes selection is 1/5. What is the probability that
i) Both of them will be selected
ii) Only one of them will be selected
iii) None of them will be selected
Q.3 B) A player tosses three fair coins. He wins Rs. 12 if three tails appears, Rs.7 if two tails appears,
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and Rs.2 if only one tail appears. If the game is to be fair, how much should he lose in case
no tail appears?

Q.4

For a binomial distribution with n=6, 9P(X= 4) = P(X=2), find the value of p & P(X=3)
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Q.4 A) For a binomial distribution, mean = 20 and S.D. = 2 find its parameters.
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Q.4 B) The probability of occurrence of an occupational disease to a worker of a chemical factory is
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Find the probability that 3 out of 5 workers chosen at random will not be suffering from this disease

Q.5

For Poisson distribution, P(X=2) = 9P(X=4) + 90P(X=6), find its mean and variance
OR
Q.5 A) In a book on an average there are 3 misprints in 5 pages. Using Poisson distribution, find the
the number of pages having more than 2 misprints in that book of 100 pages (e-0.6 = 0.5488)
Q.5 B) There is 40 screws in a packet, of which 5 are defective. If 10 screws are taken at random from
the packet, using hypergeometric distribution, find the probability that none of them is defective.
Also find mean and variance of defective screws.

ALL THE BEST

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