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Q.15 Subway trains on a certain line run every halfanhour between midnight CO5
and six in the morning. What is the probability that a man entering the
station at a random time during this period will have to wait at least twenty
minutes?
PART C (3 x 10=30 Marks)
Answer any THREE Questions
Q.16 Explain probability sampling methods. 10 COl
Q.17 Calculate the coefficient of quartile deviation and coefficient of variation 10 2 CO2
from the following data:
Marks No. of students
Below 20 8
Below 40 20
Below60 50
Below 80 0
Below100 80
Q.18 Um I has 2 white and 3 black balls, Urn II has 4 white and 1 black ball and 10 2 CO3
Un III has 3 white and 4 black balls. An urn is selected at random and a
ball drawn at random is found to be white. Find the probability that urn I
was selected.
Q.19 I f X and Y are independent Poisson variate such that P(X=1) = P(X=2) and 10 3 CO4
PCY=2- P(Y=3) find the variance of X-2Y.
Q.20 Let X be the random variable denoting the life time of a certain kind of 10 3 CO5
energy back up battery (in hours) following Weibull distribution with a
=

0.1 and B = 0.5. Find (i) The mean lifetime ofthese batteries.
(ii)The probability that the battery will last more than 300 hours.
(ii)The probabilitythat such abattery will notlast 100 hours.

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 SRI MANAKULA VINAYAGAR ENGINEERING COLLEGE
(An Autonomous Institution)
University)
(Approved by AlCTE. New Delhi & Affiliated to Pondicherry Institution&
(Accredited by NBA-AICTE, New Delhi, IsO 9001:2000
Accredited by NAAC with 'A" Grade)
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OCTOBER 2022
B. TECH END SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS,
I SEMESTER

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND BUSINESS SYSTEMS

INTRODUCTORY TOPICS IN STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY (U20BST103)

Max. Marks- 75
Duration: 3 hrs.
Note: B.L-Bloom's Level CO- Course OutcomeMarks B.L CO's
PART A (10 x 2=20 Marks)
Answer all the Questions
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Q.1 Give any two examples of collecting data from day-to-day life.
Q.2 State the merits of primary data. CO
The mean height of 30 male workers in a factory is 63 inches and the
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Q.3
mean height of 35 female workers in the same factory is
58 inches.
Find the combined mean height of 65 workers in the factory
Q.4 Drawthefrequency polygon from thefollowing data: 2 2 Co2
Marks No. of Students Marks No. of Students
4 50-60 | 14
0-10
60-70 8
10-20
20-30 14 70-90 16
30-40 6 90-100 5
Q.5 Define mutually exclusive events with an example. 1 CO3
4 the 2 CO3
Q.6 When two dice are tossed, what is the probability of getting as

sum of the face number?

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Q.7 State and prove the additive property of independent Poisson
variates.
2 2 CO4
Q.8 Let one copy of a magazine out of 10 copies bears a special prize
following geometric distribution. Determine its mean and variance.
2 COS
Q.9 Ifx is uniformly distributed over (0,10) find the probability that x < 2
2
Q.10 Define Weibull distribution. 2 CO5
PART B (5 x5 25 Marks)
Answer all the Questions
Q.11 Discuss the scope, uses and limitations of statistics. CO
Draw less than and more than ogives from the data given below: CO2
Q.12

Profits No. of Profits No..of

(Lakh) Companies (Lakh) Companies
10-20 6 60-70 16
20-30 70-80 8
30-40 2 80-90
40-50 18 90-100
50-60 25
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Q.13 A bolt is manufactured by 3 machines A, B, and C. A turns out 2
twice as many items as B, and machines B and C produce an equal
number of items. 2% of bolts produced by A and B are defective and
4% of bolts produced by C are defective. All bolts are put into |
stock pile and I is chosen from this pile. What is the probability that
it is defective?
Q.14 Out of 1000 balls, 50 are red and the rest are white. If 60 balls are 2 CO4
picked at random, what is the probability of picking up not more than

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 3 red balls in the sample? Assume Poisson distribution for the
number of red balls picked up in the sample where es =0.0498.
Q.15 The mileage which car owners get with certain kind of radial tyre is a 3 CO5
R.V having an exponential distribution with mean 4,000km. Find
the probabilities that one of these tyres will last (i) at least 2,000km
(ii) at most 3,000km.
PART C (3 x 10=30 Marks)
Answer any THREE Questions
Q.16 (iExplain the sources of secondary data 10 2 COl
(i) Explain editing primary and secondary data
Q.17 The tablebelow givesthe weightmeasurements of 200 castings: 10 2 CO2
Weights in No. of castings Weights in No. of
Kg. Kg. castings
81-90 |141-150 37
91-100 151-160 29
101-110 13 161-170
111-120 20 171-180
121-130 30 181-190
130-140 49
Calculate the arithmetic mean, median, mode, and standard
deviation.
Q.18 A bag contains 7 red and 3 black marbles, and another bag contains 4 10 CO3
red 5 black marbles. One marble is transferred from the first bag into
the second bag and then a marble is taken out of the second bag at
random. If this marble happens to be red, find the probability that a
black marble was transferred.
Q.19 A random variable X has the following probability function 10 CO4
X=x 0 2 3 45 6 7
P(x)0 2k 2k 3k k2 2k2 7k+k
i) Find k.
(ii) Evaluate P(X<6), P(0<X<5)
(ii) Determine the distribution function of X.

Q.20 In a test on 2000 electric bulbs, it was found that the life of a 10 CO5
particular make, was normally distributed with an average life of
2040 hours and S.D of 60 hours. Estimate the number of bulbs likely
to burn for
(i) More than 2150 hours
(ii) Less than 1950 hours
(iii) More than 1920 hours but less than 2160 hours.

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