Sample Questions

Mathematics-III
Code: M 401
Module II: Sampling theory

MCQ

1. The standard deviation of a sample mean for SRSWR is

(a) ⁄ (b) ⁄ (c) ⁄ (d)
√ √

2. The sampling distribution of the sample mean for a large population is approximately normal if the sample
size is (a) 6 (b) 18 (c) 21 (d) 95
3. The statistics t is said to be an unbiased estimator of a population parameter when
(a) ( ) (b) ( ) (c) ( ) [ ( )] (d) [ ( )] [ ( )]
4. The mean of the sample variance with sample size 9 drawn from an infinite population with SD 3 is
(a) 6 (b) 7 (c) 9 (d) 8

Long Answer Type Questions

1. Let five specimens of a certain kind of cold drinks have an average fat content of 12.1% and a SD of 0.4%.
Find out 95% confidence interval for the population standard deviation.
[Given ]

2. If T is an unbiased estimation of θ, show that √ is biased estimate of √ .

3. Let ̅ be the sample mean of samples of size n drawn at random from a population which is normally
distributed with mean and variance Find the standard error of the statistics ̅
4. Prove that the sample mean is an unbiased estimator of population mean.
5. If be an independent simple random sample from a normal population with unknown
variance , find K so that {( ) ( ) ( ) } is an unbiased estimator of .
6. A normal population has a mean 0.1 and standard deviation 2.1. Find the probability that the mean of a
sample of size 900 will be negative. (Given (| | ) ).
7. The marks obtained by 17 students in an examination have a mean 57 and variance 64. Find 99%
confidence interval for the mean of the population of marks assuming it to be normal.
(Given ( ) for 16 degrees of freedom)
8. The random sample of size 49 is drawn from a normal population with standard deviation 2. Find the 99%
confidence interval of the population mean if the mean of such a sample is 3. Given ∫ ( ) .
9. The P.d.f. of a random variable X is assumed to be of the form ( ) for some constant ‘c’. If
is a random sample of size ‘n’ find the maximum likelihood estimate of ‘ ’.
10. The random sample of size 49 is drawn from a normal population with standard deviation 2. Find the 99%
confidence interval of the population mean if the mean of such a sample is 3. Given ∫ ( ) .

Module III: Testing of Hypothesis

MCQ

1. When a true null hypothesis is rejected, the researcher has committed a:

 (a) Type II error (b) Type I error (c) rejection error (d) error in judgment
2. Whenever hypotheses are established such that the alternative hypothesis is ">", then the test is a:
(a) Type I test (b) two-tailed test (c) one-tailed test (d) Type II test
3. A business researcher has a theory that the average age of managers in a particular industry is over 35-
years-old, and he wants to prove this. In conducting a statistical test on this theory, the null hypothesis
would be:
(a) the population mean is (b) the population mean is 35
(c) the population mean is (d) the population mean is > 35
4. A business researcher is testing to determine if a population proportion is more than .38. She takes a
random sample of 480 and obtains a sample proportion of .40. Using an alpha of .10, if she decides to fail to
reject the null hypothesis but the population proportion is actually .42, what is the probability of
committing a type II error?
(a) (b) (c) (d)
5. ( ) be an alternative hypothesis then the null hypothesis is
( ) ( ) (b) ( ) (c) ( ) (d) none of these
6. If the SD of a population is 12 and the sample size is 100 then calculate the standard error.
(a) 0.12 (b) 0.87 (c) 1.28 (d) None of these
7. In Goodness of Fit which of the following is used a test statistic
(a) Normal variate (b) t variate (c) Poisson variate (d) variate
Long Answer Type Questions

1. In order to test whether a coin is perfect the coin is tossed 5 times. The null hypothesis of perfectness is
rejected if more than 4 heads are obtained. What is the probability of type-I error? Find the probability of
Type-II Error when the corresponding probability of head is 0.2.
2. The daily needs at a chemical plant recorded for 50 days possesses a sample mean of 884 tons with population
standard deviation 42 tons. Test the hypothesis that the average daily needs of the chemical plant is 900 tons per
day. Given ( ) .
3. The means of two large samples of sizes 1000 and 2000 are 67.5 and 68.0 respectively. Test the equality of
means of the two normal populations each SD 2.5 at 5% level of significance. (Given ( ) ).
4. From two random samples of 600 and 1000 persons of Jehanabad and Aurangabad are drawn respectively.
It is found that 400 and 600 men are literate among the persons in the two samples respectively. Test at
5% level of significance whether the populations of the two cities have same percentage of literacy.
(Given ( ) ).
5. A drug is given to 10 patients and the increments I blood pressure were recorded to be
. Is it reasonable to believe that the drug has no effect on change of blood pressure? [It may
be assumed that for 9 degrees of freedom ( ) .
6. A die was thrown 120 times and the frequency of different faces were observed to be the following:

Face 1 2 3 4 5 6
Observed frequency 25 17 15 23 24 16
Test the hypothesis that the die is fair using a significance level of 0.05.
 [Given ( ) for 5 degrees of freedom].
7. A survey of 320 families with 5 children each revealed the following data:
No. of boys 5 4 3 2 1 0
No. of girls 0 1 2 3 4 5
No. of families 14 56 110 88 40 12
Test if the population corresponding to the above data is binomial. [Given that the male and female births
are equally probable in the population] [Given for 5 degrees of freedom]
8. Samples of sales in similar shops in Kolkata and Patna regarding a new product gives the following information.

Kolkata ∑ ∑
Patna ∑ ∑
Is the any evidence of difference in the average sales in the two town? Test at 5% level of significance. (| |
) for 18 degrees of freedom.
9. Samples of two types of electric light bulbs were tested for length of life and following data were obtained:
Type-I Type-II
Sample no.
Samples Means ̅ ̅
Sample SD
Is the difference in the means sufficient to warrant that Type-I is superior to Type-II regarding length of
life? [Given (two-tailed table)].