GITAM Hyderabad Campus

Probability and Statistics (MATH2361)

Assignment-2
Note:
 Write solutions for all the questions with clear step-by-step solutions.
 Mode of submission: Soft copy in Moodle without fail after taking the signature
 After completion of the due date any submissions are not acceptable and No marks
will be awarded.

1. Calculate the correlation coefficient for the following data.

X Y
40 99
25 79
22 69
54 89
2. Suppose we have ranks of 8 students of B.Sc. in Statistics and Mathematics. Find the rank
correlation.

Rank in Statistics 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Rank in Mathematics 2 4 1 5 3 8 7 6
3. Find the regression lines for the following data.

x 0 1 2 3 4
y 2 3 5 4 6

4. The equation of two regression lines obtained in a correlation analysis are

3𝑥 + 12𝑦 = 19, 3𝑦 + 9𝑦 = 46 Find

(i) Coefficient of correlation

(ii) Mean values of X and Y
5. Find the curve of best fit of the type y  ae
bx
to the following data by the method
of least squares

x 1 2 3 4 5
y 5 2 4.5 8 12.5

6. Write about
(i) Null Hypothesis
(ii) Alternative Hypothesis
(iii) Type I and Type II error
(iv) Two-tailed test
(v) One-tailed test
7. In a random sample of 60 workers, the average time taken by them to get to work is
33.8 minutes with a standard deviation of 6.1 minutes. Can we reject the null hypothesis
𝜇 =32.6 minutes in favor of alternative hypothesis μ>32.6 at 𝛼 = 0.025 level of
significance?

8. A sample of 900 members has a mean 3.4 cms and S.D 2.61 cms. Is the sample drawn
from a large population of mean 3.25 cms and S.D 2.61 cms. 5% level of significance.

9. A researcher wants to know the intelligence of students in a school. He selected two

groups of students. In the first group there are 150 students having a mean IQ of 75
with a S.D. of 15 in the second group there are 250 students having a mean IQ of 70
with a S.D.of 20.

10. The means of two large samples of 1000 and 2000 items are 67.5 cms and 68.0cms
respectively. Can the samples be regarded as drawn from the population with standard
deviation 2.5 cms. Test at 5% level of significance.
11. In a sample of 1000 people in a karnataka 540 are rice eaters and the rest are wheat
eaters. Can we assume that both rice and wheat eaters are equally popular in this state
at 1% level of significance? (table value=2.58).
12. A person throws a dice 9000 times and of these 3220 yielded a 3 or 4. Can you conclude
the dice is unbiased one at 5%?
13. In two large populations there are 30% and 20% respectively of fair-haired people. In
this difference likely to be hidden in samples of 1200 and 900 respectively from the
two populations.

14. A random sample of 10 boys had the following IQs: 70, 120, 110,101, 88, 83, 95, 98,
107 and 100.
(a) Do these data support the assumption of a population mean I.Q of the students is
100
(b) Find a reasonable range in which most of the mean I.Q. values of samples of 10
boys lie.
15. The heights of 10 males of a given locality are found to be 70,67,62,68,61,68,70,64,64,66
inches. Is it reasonable to believe that the average height is greater than 64 inches? Test
at 5% significance level assuming that for 9 degrees of freedom (t >1.833) at 𝛼 = 0.05
16. Explain the properties of Chi square –test and F- test

17. A group of 5 patients treated with medicine. A is of weight 42, 39, 38, 60 & 41 kgs.
Second group of 7 patients from the same hospital treated with medicine B is of weight
38, 42, 56, 64, 68, 69 & 62 kgs. Find whether there is any difference between
medicines? (t table value at 5% level = 2.228)
 18. In certain food experiment to compare two types of baby foods A and B, the following
results of increase in weight (lbs) we observed in 8 children as follows.

A 49 53 51 52 47 50 52 53
B 52 55 52 53 50 54 54 53
Examine the significance of increase in weight of children due to food B. (t table value at
5% level = 2.365)

19. Nadir is testing an octahedral die to see if it is biased. The results are given in the table
below.

Score 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Frequency 7 10 11 9 12 10 14 7
Test the hypothesis that the die is fair. (ꭓ2 table value at 5% level = 14.067)

20. A company has the head office at Kolkata and a branch at Mumbai. The personnel director
wanted to know if the workers at the two places would like the introduction of a new plan
of work and a survey was conducted for this purpose. Out of a sample of 500 workers at
Kolkata 62% favoured the new plan. At Mumbai out of a sample of 400 workers 41% were
against the new plan. Is there any significant difference between the two groups in their
attitude towards the new plan at 5% level? (Z table value at 5% level = 1.96)

21. The average hourly wage of a sample of 150 workers in a plant A was Rs. 2.56 with a
standard deviation of Rs. 1.08. The average hourly wage of a sample of 200 workers in
plant B was Rs. 2.87 with a standard deviation of Rs. 1.28. Can an applicant safely assume
that the hourly wages paid by plant B are higher than those paid by plant A? (Z table value
at 5% level = 1.645)

22. An insurance agent has claimed that the average age of policy holders who insure through
him is less than the average for all agents which is 30.5 years. A random sample of 100
policy holders who had insured through him gave the following age distribution:

Age last birthday 16-20 20-25 25-30 30-35 35-40

No of persons 12 22 20 30 16
Calculate the arithmetic mean and standard deviation of this distribution and use these values
to test his claim at the 5% level of significance. (Z table value at 5% level = 1.645)