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GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

BE - SEMESTER– III (New) EXAMINATION – WINTER 2019
Subject Code: 3130006 Date: 26/11/2019
Subject Name: Probability and Statistics
Time: 02:30 PM TO 05:00 PM Total Marks: 70
Instructions:
1. Attempt all questions.
2. Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary.
3. Figures to the right indicate full marks.

Q.1 (a) In how many different ways can 4 of 15 laboratory assistants be chosen to
assist with an experiment? 03

(b) If 5 of 20 tires in storage are defective and 5 of them are randomly chosen
for inspection (that is, each tire has the same chance of being selected), what
is the probability that the two of the defective tires will be included? 04
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(c) The following are the data on the drying time of a certain varnish and the
amount of an additive that is intended to reduce the drying time? 07

Amount of 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
varnish
additive(grams)”
x”
Drying time(hr) 12. 10. 10. 8.0 7.0 8.0 7.5 8.5 9.0
“y” 0 5 0
(i) Fit a second degree polynomial by the method of least square.

(ii) Use the result of (i) to predict the drying time of the varnish when

6.5 gms of the additive is being used.

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Q.2 (a) If 3 balls are “randomly drawn” from a bowl containing 6 white and 5 black
balls. What is the probability that one of the balls is white and the other two
black? 03
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(b) The article “A Thin-Film Oxygen Uptake Test for the Evaluation
of Automotive Crankcase Lubricants” reported the following data on
oxidation-induction time (min) for various commercial oils:
87, 103, 130, 160, 180, 195, 132, 145, 211, 105, 145, 153, 152, 138, 87, 99,
93, 119,129
(i) Calculate the sample variance and standard deviation.

(ii) If the observations were re-expressed in hours, what would be the

resulting values of the sample variance and sample standard

deviation?
04
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(c) In an examination, minimum 40 marks for passing and 75 marks for

distinction are required. In this examination 45% students passed and 9%
obtained distinction. Find average marks and standard deviation of this
distribution of marks.
[P(z=0.125)=0.05 and P(z=1.34)=0.41] 07
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(c) Distribution of height of 1000 students is normal with mean 165 cms
and standard deviation 15 cms. How many soldiers are of height
(i) less than 138 cms (ii) more than 198 cms (iii) between 138 and 198 cms.

[P(z=1.8)=0.4641, P(z=2.2)=0.4861] 07
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Q.3 (a) Compute the coefficient of correlation between X and Y using the following
data: 03
X 2 4 5 6 8 11
Y 18 12 10 8 7 5
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(b) An analysis of monthly wages paid to workers in two firms A and B belong
to the same industry gave the following results. 04
Firm A Firm B
No. of wages earners 986 548
Average monthly wages Rs. 52.5 Rs. 47.5
Variance of distribution of 100 121
wages
(a)Which firm pays out large amounts as wage bill?
(b)In which firm there is greater variability in individual wages?
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(c) Obtain the two lines of regression for the following data: 07

Sales 19 24 250 300 31 33 30

(No. of tablets)
0 0 0 5 0
Advertising
5 10 15 20 20 30 30
expenditure
(Rs.)
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OR
Q.3 (a) A sample of 20 items has mean 42 units and standard deviation 5 units. Test
the hypothesis that it is a random sample from a normal population with
mean 45 units.[t at 5% level for 19 d.f. is 2.09.] 03
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(b) A university warehouse has received a shipment of 25 printers, of which 10

are laser printers and 15 are inkjet models. If 6 of these 25 are selected at
random to be checked by a particular technician, what is the probability
that exactly 3 of those selected are laser printers (so that the other 3 are
inkjets)? 04
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(c) Find the regression equation showing the capacity utilization on production
from the
following data:
Average Standard deviation
Production (in lakh 35.6 10.5
units)
Capacity utilization (in 84.8 8.5
%)
Correlation coefficient r = 0.62
Estimate the production when capacity utilization is 70%. 07
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Q.4 (a) Each sample of water has a 10% chance of containing a particular
organic pollutant.Assume that the samples are independent with regard to the
presence of the pollutant. Find the probability that in the next 18 samples, at
least 4 samples contain the pollutant. 03
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(b) Goal scored by two teams A and B in a football season were as follows: 04

No. of goals scored in a 0 1 2 3 4

match

No. of matches played by 27 9 8 5 4

team A

No. of matches played by 17 9 6 5 3

team B
Find out which team is more consistent.
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(c) Out of 800 families with 4 children each, how many families would be
expected to have
(i) 2 girls and 2 boys (ii) at least one boy (iii) no girl (iv) at most two

girls? Assume equal probabilities for boys and girls. 07

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Q.4 (a) Assume that the probability that a wafer contains a large particle of
contamination is 0.01 and that the wafers are independent; that is, the
probability that a wafer contains a large particle is not dependent on the
characteristics of any of the other wafers. If 15 wafers are analyzed, what is
the probability that no large particles are found? 03
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(b) A microchip company has two machines that produce the chips. Machine I
produces 65% of the chips, but 5% of its chips are defective. Machine II
produces 35% of the chips and 15% of its chips are defective. A chip is
selected at random and found to be defective.What is the probability that it
came from Machine I?
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(c) If a publisher of nontechnical books takes great pains to ensure that its
books are free of typographical errors, so that the probability of any given
page containing at least one such error is .005 and errors are independent
from page to page, what is the probability that
one of its 400-page novels will contain (i) exactly one page with errors?
(ii)At most three pages with errors?
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Q.5 (a) Samples of sizes 10 and 14 were taken from two normal
populations with standard deviation 3.5 and 5.2. The sample means were
found to be 20.3 and 18.6. Test whether the means of the two populations
are the same at 5% level. [ t0.05 =2.0739].
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(b) Two independent samples of 8 and 7 items respectively had the following
values of the variable (weight in kg):
Sample I 9 11 13 11 15 9 12 14
:
Sample 10 12 10 14 9 8 10
II:
Do the two estimates of population variance differ significantly? Given
that for (7,6) d.f. the value of F at 5% level of significance is 4.20
nearly. 04
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(c) Records taken of the number of male and female births in 830 families
having four children are as follows:

Number of male births 0 1 2 3 4

Number of female 4 3 2 1 0
births
Number of families 32 17 29 23 94
8 0 6
Test whether the data are consistent with the hypothesis that the
Binomial law holds and the chance of male birth is equal to that of

female birth, namely p = q = 1/2. [ χ 2 at 5% level of significance for 4

df is 9.49] 07
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Q.5 (a) Two samples of size 9 and 8 give the sum of squares of deviations from
their respective means equal 160 inches and 91 inches square respectively.
Can they be regarded as drawn from two normal populations with the
same variance?
(F for 8 and 7 d.f. = 3.73). 03
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(b) A die is thrown 276 times and the results of these throws are given below:
Number appeared on the die 1 2 3 4 5 6
Frequency 40 32 29 59 57 59
2
Test whether the die is biased or not. [ χ at 5% level of significance for 5
df is 11.09] 04
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(c) The following figures refer to observations in live independent samples:

Sample I: 25 30 28 34 24 20 13 32 22 38
Sample II: 40 34 22 20 31 40 30 23 36 17

Analyse whether the samples have been drawn from the population of equal
means.
[t at 5% level of significance for 18 d.f is 2.1] Test whether the means of
two population are same at 5% level (t at 0.05=2.0739) 07
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