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Note. Attempt FIVE questions in all, including QUESTION NUMBER 8 which is COMPULSORY.
All questions carry equal marks. Statistical tables will be provided.
2. (a) If the universal set U is all numbers from 1 to 25, specify the elements 10 in the following sets:
(b) The probability that an air line passenger is served by attendant A or 10 B is 0.75 or 0.25 respectively.
From past experience it is known that attendant A get the correct beverage order 98 in l00 times while
attendant B is correct 80 in 100 times. A passenger who has just received an incorrect beverage order and
does not remember which attendant took the order, has blamed attendant A for the mistake because this
person took most of the orders. Which attendant has the larger probability of making the mistake?
3. (a) Define a discrete random variable and its probability distribution. What are the two basic properties
of all probability distributions.(8)
(b) A large store places its last 15 clock radios in a clearance sale. Unknown to anyone, 5 of the radios are
defective. If a customer tests 3 different clock radios selected at random, what is the probability
distribution of X = number of defective radios in the sample.(12)
4. (a) Describe the binomial distribution and derive its mean and variance. 08
(b) Suppose that the number of insurance claims closely approximates a 12
Poisson distribution with mean equal to 0.05. Find the probability of
(i) no claim (ii) one or fewer claims.
5. (a) The mean scores of 1000 students appearing for an examination is 34.4 and the standard deviation is
16.6. How many candidates may be expected to obtain marks between 30 and 60 assuming the normality
of the distribution?(10)
(b) A certain drug is claimed to be effective in curing cold. In an experiment on 164 people with colds,
half of them were given the drug and half of them were given sugar pills. The patients’ reaction to the
treatment are recorded in the following table:
Drug 52 10 20
Sugar 44 12 26
Test the hypothesis at 5% level of significance that the drug is no better than sugar pills for curing colds.
6. (a) Let X1, X2, .... , Xn be a random sample from a normal population with parameters µ and 2. Find
the MLE for (i) µ when 2is known (ii) 2 when µ is known.
(b) To verify whether a course in statistics improve performance, a similar test was given to 12
participants both before and after the course. The original grades of the participants recorded before and
after the test were as following:
Participant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Before 44 40 61 52 32 44 70 41 67 72 53 72
After 53 38 69 57 46 39 73 48 73 74 60 78
Was the course useful as measured by performance on the test, assuming the 12 participants as a sample
from a population. (10)
7. (a) Find least square estimates of parameters in the model Y¡ = a + ßX¡ + e¡, where e¡s, are distributed
independently with zero mean and constant variance.(10)
(b) The owner of a retailing organization is interested in the relation between price at which a commodity
is offered for sale and the quantity sold. The following sample data have been collected: (10)
Price 25 45 30 50 35 40 65 75 70 60
(i) Determine the least square equation for the estimated regression line.
(ii) Verify that e¡=0
COMPULSORY QUESTION
8. Select the correct answer by writing (a) or (b) or (c) or (d) in the answer book. 20
(2) Based on past marketing data, there is 0.10 chance of selling more than 1000 new cars. The statement
is an example of:
(6) For a Poisson distribution with S. D. equal to 2, mean of the distribution is:
(7) For a continuous r,v,x ( -oC_< x< oC ), the value of p(x=0) is:
(19) If the correlation coefficient between X and Y is r and r> 0, then the slope ß between X and Y is: