By: Prajeet K.

Timalsina (Imperial Business College)

List of Group A questions

BBA 3rd Sem (Statistics)
Introduction
1. What do you mean by statistics? What are its types?
2. List out any 4 functions of statistics.
3. What are the limitations of statistics?
4. What is called applied statistics?
5. Define descriptive statistics.
6. Define inferential statistics.
7. What do you mean by data? What are the sources of data?
8. Differentiate categorical and numerical variable?
9. What are the limitations of primary data?
10. What are the limitations of secondary data?
11. What are the methods of primary data collection?
12. What do you mean by data editing?
13. What do mean by data processing?
14. What is called secondary sources of data? List out the types of secondary sources.
15. List out any 3 advantages of primary data.
16. List out any 3 advantages of secondary data.
17. Differentiate primary and secondary data.
18. Write short notes on:
a. Questionnaire method
b. Interview method
c. Role of statistics in research

Data Presentation
1. What do you mean by qualitative data? Give suitable examples.
2. What is quantitative data? Give suitable examples.
3. Define variable. What are the types of variable?
4. What is called nominal scale of data? Give suitable examples.
5. What is called ordinal scale of data? Give suitable examples.
6. What is called interval scale of data? Give suitable examples.
7. What is called ratio scale of data? Give suitable examples.
8. What is called data? What statistical methods are appropriate for describing the nominal data?
9. What is raw data? Why classification of data is needed foe statistical analysis?
10. What do you mean by frequency distribution? What are its types?
11. What do you mean by Series? What are its types?
12. Define individual series with examples.
13. Define discrete series with examples.

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14. Define continuous series with examples.
15. What is known by open-end class?
16. What is relative frequency?
17. What is bar diagram? What are the e types of bar diagram?
18. Define Histogram.
19. Define cumulative frequency carve.
20. What is frequency polygon?
21. What is bivariate frequency destitution?
22. What do you mean by stem and leaf display? Why it is important?
23. What are two information that we get from stem and leaf display?
24. What is false base line? Illustrate in picture.
25. Draw histogram and frequency polygon for the following data:
x 10-25 25-40 40-55 55-70 70-85
f 5 10 18 12 4
26. Following information is of Human Poverty Indices (HPI) of the south Asian Countries.
Country Nepal Bangladesh India Maldives Pakistan Srilanka
HPI value 49.7 48.3 46.3 36.7 46.8 20.7
Construct a simple bar-diagram
27. The following data represents the bounded check fee in dollars for a sample of 23 banks for direct-
deposit customers. 26, 28, 20, 20, 21, 22, 25, 25, 18, 25, 15, 20, 18, 20, 25, 25, 22, 30, 30, 30, 15, 20,
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i. Place the data into an ordered array.
ii. Set up the stem- and - leaf display for these data.
28. A data set consists of 145 observations that range from 56 to 490. What size class interval would you
recommend using struge rule?
29. Draw a pie chart to the following data.

Country USA UK Australia France Others total

Year 1984 530 83 55 48 24 740

30. Construct a stem and leaf display for the following data:
70 72 75 64 58 83 80
76 75 68 65 57 78 85
31. Construct a stem-and-leaf diagram of the monthly income (Rs '00) of 10 people, 325, 210, 350, 400,
478, 560, 600, 515, 370, 250
32. Construct the stem-leaf display for following data 70, 72, 75, 64, 58, 83, 80, 76, 75, 68, 65, 57, 78, 85

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33. The Stem and Leaf display represent the bounced check fee for a sample of 25 banks for direct
deposit customers.
Stem Leaves
1 5588
2 00001225555889
3 45677
4 12
What are the two information obtained from this stem and leaf display?

Measures of Central Tendency

1. How do you define measures of Central tendency? What are the tools of measures of central tendency?
2. List out any 4 requisites of good average.
3. What do you mean by arithmetic mean? How do you calculate it?
4. Why weighted AM is superior over the way simple AM?
5. List out any two properties of AM?
6. In which condition Median stands as a suitable average?
7. In which condition Mode stands as a suitable average?
8. What is called partition value? What are its types?
9. Show the relationship between mean median and mode for symmetrical distribution.
10. Show the relationship between mean median and mode for asymmetrical distribution.
11. You are given following information of two factories:
Factory 'A' Factory 'B'
No. of workers: 200 250
Average daily wages: Rs 25 Rs 20
Which factory has larger wages bill for a month, if the workers of factory 'A' enjoy one day as holiday.
[Ans: factory 'B']
12. You are given following information of two factories:
Factory 'A' Factory 'B'
No. of workers: 200 250
Average daily wages: Rs 25 Rs 20
What will be the daily average wages for the workers of both factories?
[Ans: Rs 22.22]
13. The mean marks of 100 students in a class was 72. The mean marks of boys was 75, while their number
was 70. Find out the mean marks of girls in that class
[Ans: 65]
14. The mean weight of 150 students in a class is 60 kgs. The mean weight of boys is 70 Kgs and that of
girls is 55 Kgs. Find the number of boys and girls in that class.
[Ans: 50 and 100 ]

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15. There were 500 workers workings in a factory. Their mean was calculated as Rs 200. Later on it was
discovered that the wages of two workers were misread as 180 and 20 in place of 80 and 220. Find the
correct average.
[Ans: 200.20]
16. The mean of 200 items was 50. After the calculation of mean, it was found that two items were taken as
92 and 8 instead of 192 and 88. What must be correct mean.
[Ans: 50.9]
17. What will be the median of a distribution if the mean is 30 and mode is 24?
[Ans: 28]
18. In a moderately asymmetrical distribution, the value of mode and median are 20 and 24 respectively.
Locate the value of mean.
[Ans: 26]
19. The mean weight of a student in a certain group is 119 lbs. The individual weights of five of them are
115, 109, 129, 117 and 114 lbs. what is the weight of the sixth student?
[Ans: 130 lbs]
20. The mean marks got by 300 students in the subject of statistics are 48. The mean of the top 100
students are 70 and mean of the last 50 students are 20. What is mean marks of the rest students?
[Ans: 42.67]
21. In a batch of 15 students 3 students got failure. The marks of 12 successful students are given below:
7, 6, 9, 8, 4, 5, 8, 4, 9, 7, 5, 7
What is the median marks of the distribution.
[Ans: 6]
22. Finds the value of K from the following equations.
a. Mean = K(3 Median – Mode)
b. Mean – Mode = K(Mean - Median)
c. Median = Mode + K(Mean – Mode)
d. Mode = Mean - K( Mean – Median)
[Ans: (a) ½, (b) 3, (c) 2/3 and (d) 3]
23. For moderately asymmetrical distribution, the arithmetic mean and median are 48 and 45 respectively,
find mode of distribution.
24. If M be the median and m be the mode of the numbers 10, 70, 20, 40, 70, 90, find the arithmetic mean
of M and m.
25. If the mean and mode of the data are 12 and 14 respectively. Find median
26. The average income of 100 persons in village A is Rs. 3500 and that of 150 persons in village B is Rs.
4000. What is the average income of both the villages put together?
27. In a moderately asymmetrical distribution, the mean and median are 20 and 23. Find mode.

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Measures of Dispersion

1. What is called measures of dispersion? What are its methods?

2. Differentiate Absolute and Relative measures of dispersion.
3. What are the basic tools for measuring dispersion in the given set of data?
4. For what kind of data Range Stands as a suitable Measures of dispersion?
5. For what kind of data QD Stands as a suitable Measures of dispersion?
6. Distinguish variance and Coefficient of variation?
7. What do you mean by IQV?
8. The coefficient of variation of two variables are 75% and 80%, their respective standard deviations are
7.5 and 16. Find the mean values of both variables.
[Ans: 10 and 20]
9. Calculate coefficient of variation if median 23, mode 29, variance 100.
[Ans: 50%]
10. Calculate Variance if median 23, Mode 29, coefficient of variation 50%.
[Ans: 100]
11. Calculate mode if median 23, variance 100, coefficient of variation 50%
[Ans: 29]
12. Calculate median if mode 29, variance 100, coefficient of variation 50%
[Ans: 23]
13. Two quartiles in a distribution are 34 and 72 respectively, find quartile deviation and Mid-Hinge.
14. From the following information on marks who should be considered more consistent.
Mr-A Mr-B
Mean 28 37.8
Standard deviation 5.3 4.8
15. The weights (in pounds) of a sample of five boxes being sent by UPS are: 12, 6, 7, 3 and 10. Compute
range and coefficient of range.
16. Calculate range and coefficient of range of the following data set. 2, 3, 5, 7, 12, 8, 10, 13, 20, 16, 15
17. The time records of 11 students to get ready for college is recorded (in minutes) as: 9, 8, 5, 10, 12, 15,
11, 10, 13, 12, 11. Find 3rd quartile and interpret it.
18. Calculate the range and the coefficient of range of the following data set.
2, 3, 5, 7, 12, 8, 10, 13, 20, 16, 15

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Shape of Distribution

1. What is skewness? What are its types ?

2. What is box and whisker plot?
3. What is Gini coefficient?
4. The mean and median a distribution are 70 & 61 respectively. Is the distribution skewed? If yes, what type
of skewness is it?
5. The following is the five-number summary of the return data of certain number of mutual funds in
Kathmandu:
37 41 53.8 60.85 65.5
Explain the shape of the distribution
6. The five number summary of a distribution is given below:
11.2, 14.6, 18.2, 21.5, 32.2
Construct a Box and Whisker Plot and describe the shape.

Theoretical Probability

1. How do you define probability?

2. white short notes on:
a. Random experiment
b. Sample space
c. Trial and Event
d. Exhaustive number of events
e. Mutually exclusive and inclusive cases.
f. Dependent and independent events.
g. Marginal and joint probability
h. conditional probability
i. Baye's Theorem of probability.
3. A bag contains 9 red, 7 white and 4 black balls. A ball is drawn at random. What is the probability of
drawing a red ball
[Ans: 0.45]
4. From 20 tickets marked with first 20 numerals, one is drawn at random. Find the chance of that it is
multiple of 2 and 5?
[Ans: 0.10]
5. A die is thrown once. Determine the probability of getting a number ≥ 3?
[Ans: 0.667]
6. If two coins are tossed once, what is the probability of getting both heads?
[Ans: 0.25]
7. Three coins are tossed once. Draw the sample space and find the probability of getting at least 2 heads.
8. The probabilities of increasing and decreasing price of commodity are 0.35 and 0.55, find the probability of
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9. A bag contains 4 black and 3 white balls. If two balls are drawn at random, find the probability that both
balls are each color?
10. A bag contains 4 black and 3 white balls. If two balls are drawn in succession, find the probability that both
balls are each color?
11. What is the probability that a leap year should have 53 Sunday?
12. What is the probability that a non-leap year should have 53 Sunday?
13. The probability that an integrated circuit chip will have defecting etching is 0.12, the probability that it will
have a crack defect is 0.29 and the probability that it has both defects is 0.07. Are etching defect and crack
defect of integrated circuit statistically independent?
14. A speaks the truth in 70 percent cases and B in 85 percent of cases. In what percentage of cases are they
likely to contradict each other in starting the same fact?

Random Variable
1. What do you mean by Random Variable?
2. A manufacturing company estimates the annual net profit on favorable condition is Rs. 30,00,000 from the
production of a new product. If the condition is moderate, the annual profit will be Rs. 10,00,000 only but
when the condition is unfavorable then it will generate a loss of Rs. 10,00,000 in a year. The firm assigns
0.15 probabilities for favorable condition and 0.25 probabilities for moderate condition. What is the
expected value of annual profit for the company?
[Ans: Rs. 1,00,000]
3. If E (X) = 10 and Var (X) = 6, compute E (8X - 4) and Var (4X + 8).
4. If E (X) = - 0.10 and E (X2) = 1.5, compute E (4X + 5) and V (4X + 8).
5. If three coins are tossed. What is the expected value of the number of head?
6. A Random variable of X has the following probability functions. Find the value of K.
Value of X –2 –1 0 1 2 3
Probability 0.10 K 0.20 2K 0.30 K

Probability Distribution
1. What is called probability distribution?
2. Briefly explain about binomial distribution.
3. Briefly explain about Poisson distribution.
4. Briefly explain about normal distribution.
5. What are the cases on which we apply binomial distribution?
6. What are the cases on which we apply Poisson distribution?
7. For binomial distribution, n = 4, p = 0.45. Find p (X=3).
8. The mean and variance of the binomial distribution is 6 and 4 respectively. Find the value of n. p and q.
9. The mean and standard deviations are 3 in a binomial distribution. Verify the consistency of the given
statement.
10. Find mean and SD of a binomial distribution when n = 40 and p = 0.30.

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11. A box of one dozen egg contains one bad egg. If three eggs are chosen at random, find the probability that
one of them will be bad.
12. State the necessary conditions that Poisson distribution is obtained from binomial distribution.
13. The average number of customer arrived in a bank is 3 per minute, find the probability that that 2 or more
customer arrived in a bank within given time.
14. The mean and variance in a distribution is 3, find p (x = 3).
15. The SD of Poisson distribution is 2, find p (x < 2).
16. If X is a Poisson variable, calculate mean and variance from p (x = 4) = p (x = 5).
17. Write down the area properties of normal distribution?
18. If Z be the standard normal variable, find p (-1.65 ≤ Z ≤ 1.96)
19. If Z be the standard normal variable, find p (-1.92 ≤ Z ≤ -0.86)
20. The mean and SD of normal distribution is 60 and 5 respectively, find P (X > 52).
21. The mean and Variance of normal distribution is 25 and 9 respectively, find P (X < 20).

Sapling and Estimation

1. What is Sapling? Why it is important?
2. Differentiate probability and non-probability sampling.
3. What is Sapling error?
4. What is non- sampling error?
5. Differentiate parameters and Statistics?
6. Write any four differences between population and sample.
7. What is estimation? What are its types?
8. Differentiate point and interval estimation.
9. What are the criteria for good estimator?
10. What is confidence interval? What do you mean by 95% confidence level?
11. What happens to width of confidence interval as we increase the confidence level? Justify your answer.
12. What happens to width of confidence interval as we increase the sample size? Justify your answer.
13. In an aptitude test of children conducted by Maria Montessori, the average IQ in a sample of 62 children
was found to be 24 along with the variance of 4.41. Estimate the standard error of the mean.
[Ans: 0.266]
14. From a population of 540, a sample of 60 individuals has been taken. The sample mean is found to be 6.2
and the standard deviation is 1.368. Find the estimated standard error of mean.
[Ans: 0.17]
15. In a random sample of 200 households in a town 10 households have washing machine. Estimate the
standard error of sample proportion.
[Ans: 0.0154]
16. The average outstanding balance of loan issued by a bank varies from month to month. From past
experience, it is known that the amounts are normally distributed with a standard deviation of Rs. 5000.
The bank wishes to estimate the average by drawing a random sample such that the probability is 0.95 that
the mean of the sample will not deviate by more than Rs. 600 from the universe mean. What should be the
sample size?
[Ans : 267]

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17. An observer wants to estimate population mean by using sampling technique. What should be the minimum
sample size when the permissible error between parameter value & sample statistic in 95 percent of chance
will not be more than 10 percent of population standard deviation and the population standard deviation is
known to be 15.
[Ans: 384]
18. A researcher wishes to estimate the mean of a population by using sufficiently large sample. The
probability is 90% that the sample mean will not differ from the true mean by more than 10% of the
standard deviation. How large the sample should be taken?
[Ans : 271]
19. It has been estimated by cable companies that 60% of all Nepalese households are wired to receive cable
T.V. The probability is 99% that the sample proportion will not be differ from population by ± 5%. What
minimum sample size should be taken for the estimation made by cable companies?
[Ans: 639]
20. From the consignment of 100 apples 20 apples is drawn by simple random sampling method without
replacement. If out of the 20 apples 15 apples found defective, what should be the standard error of the
sample proportion?
[Ans: 0.088]
Testing of Hypothesis
1. What is called hypothesis? What are its types?
2. Define null and alternative hypothesis with example.
3. Define Type I error and Type II error with Suitable examples.
4. How do you define level of significance?
5. Define critical region. Show the critical region in picture for two tailed test.
6. Briefly explain about P-value approach in hypothesis testing.
7. How we make decision under P-value approach in hypothesis testing?
8. If calculated value of z is 2.35 and the level of significance is 5% what would be your decision for two
tailed test?
9. Calculate p-value for two tailed test if calculated value of z is -1.88.
10. In which condition we use z test and t- test?
11. Briefly explain about degree of freedom .how do we get degree of freedom for single mean of and double
mean of t-test?
12. Given that the population mean is 56, formulate the null and alternative hypothesis.
13. In a class there are 12 girls and 20 boys. what showed be the degree of freedom for the given data
14. What are the assumptions of paired t-test?
15. Which test do you prefer for the following distribution and find out the critical value.
Brand A Brand B
Sample size 15 12
Mean 1250 hours 1100 hours
Standard deviation 30 hours 40 hours
16. In a sample size of 64 the mean is 56 with the SD of 12. What should be the test statistics value if we set
null hypothesis that µ = 50.

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