Digital Assignment - I

Statistics for Engineers (MAT2001)- Fall sem 17

1. Given below is the Wage distribution in a certain factory, determine (a) mean wage, (b) median
wage, and (c) modal wage

Wages (Rs) 20-40 40-60 60-80 80-100 100-120 120-140 140-160 160-180 180-200
No. of employees 8 12 20 30 40 35 18 7 5

2. The following table shows the distribution of 100 families according to their expenditure per week.
The median and mode are given to be Rs.25 and Rs.24. Calculate the missing frequencies and
then arithmetic mean of the data:

Expenditure 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50

No. of families 14 ? 27 ? 15

3. Calculate all the quartiles, quartile deviation, and coefficient of deviation for the following table
giving the age distribution of 542 members. Also, find Bowleys measure of skewness, Pearson
measure of skewness, Skewness using moments, measure of Kurtosis, and comment upon the
nature of the distribution.

Age in years 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80 80-90

No. of members 3 61 132 153 140 51 2

kx4 , 1 < x < 0


4. A continuous random variable has the probability density function f (x) =
0, Otherwise
1 1
Find the value of k and also find P [(X > 2 )/(X < 4 )].
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5. Let X and Y are two random variables having the joint density function f (x, y) = 27 (2x+y) where
x and y can assume only the integer values 0, 1, and 2. Find (a) the marginal density function of
x, (b) the marginal density function of y and (c) the conditional distribution of X = x.

6. If X and Y1 are two random variables having joint density function

f (x) = 8 (6 x y), 0 < x < 2, 2 < y < 4
0, Otherwise
Find (i) marginal density functions, (ii) P (X < 1, Y < 3), (iii) P (X + Y < 3), and (iv) P (X <
1|Y < 3)

x, 0<x<1
7. Let X be a random variable with pdf f (x) = 2x 1<x<2
0 Otherwise.

Find the MGF of X, mean and variance of X.

8. The following zero order correlation coefficients are given r12 = 0.98, r13 = 0.44, r23 = 0.54.
Calculate the multiple correlation coefficient treating first variable as dependent and second and
third variables as independent. Also, calculate the first order partial correlation coefficients.

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 9. Calculate the coefficient of correlation between X and Y by Karl Pearsons method and the lines
of regression for the following data:

X 25 30 28 29 32 24 36 28 27 21
Y 18 20 21 16 14 13 22 15 19 12

10. Lives of two models of refrigerators turned in for new models in a recent survey are What is the

Life in years 0-2 2-4 4-6 6-8 8-10 10-12

Model A 5 16 13 7 5 4
Model B 2 7 12 19 9 1

average life of each model of these refrigerators? Which model shows more uniformity?

11. A discrete random variable X has the following probability distribution. Find (a) the value of a,
(b) P (X < 6), P (X 6), P (0 < X < 4), P (|X| < 3) and P (X > 4|X 2) (c) CDF of X.

X 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
P (X) 0 a 2a 2a 3a a2 2a2 7a2+a

12. Let X and Y denote the lifetimes of two different types of components in an electronic system.
The pdf(of X and Y is given by
(x+y)
1
8 xe , x > 0; y > 0
2
f (x) =
0, Otherwise
Show that X and Y are independent.

13. The waiting time, in hours, between successive speeders spotted by a radar unit is a continuous
random variable with cummulative distribution function
0, x < 0
F (x) =
1 e8x , x 0
Find the probability of waiting less than 12 minutes between successive speeders (a) using the
cummulative distribution function of X; (b) using the probability density function of X

14. The proportion of time X that an industrial robot is in operation during a 40-hour work week is
a random variable with probability density function
2x, 0 < x < 1
f (x) =
0, otherwise
(a) Find E(X) and V (X)
(b) For the robot under study, the profit Y for a week is given by Y = 200X 60. Find E(Y )
and V (Y ).

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15. Find the multiple linear regression equation of X1 on X2 and X3 for the following data:

X1 4 6 7 9 13 15
X2 15 12 8 6 4 3
X3 30 24 20 14 10 4