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GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

BE - SEMESTER–III(NEW) EXAMINATION – SUMMER 2023
Subject Code:3130006 Date:24-07-2023
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.
4. Simple and non-programmable scientific calculators are allowed.
Marks
Q.1 (a) A study showed that 65% of managers had some business 03
education and 50% had some engineering education. Furthermore
20% of managers had some business education but no engineering
education. What is probability that a manager has some business
education, given that he has some engineering education?
(b) Two computer A and B are to be marketed. A salesman who is 04
assigned the job of finding customers for them has 60% and 40%
chances respectively of succeeding in case of Computer A and B.
The Computers can be sold independently. Given he was able to
sell at least one computer, what is the probability that computer A
has been sold?
(c) In a post office, three clerks are assigned to process incoming 07
mails. The first clerk 𝐵1processes 40%, the second clerk 𝐵2
processes 35% and the third clerk 𝐵3 processes 25% of the total
mails. The first clerk has an error rate of 0.04, the second has an
error rate of 0.06 and the third has an error rate of 0.03. A mail
selected at random from a day’s output is found to have an error.
The Post Master wishes to know the probability that the mail was
processed by the first, second or third clerk respectively.

Q.2 (a) The incidence of occupational disease in an industry is such that 03

the workers 20% chance of suffering from it. What is the
probability that out of six workers 4 or more will contract disease?
(b) On an average one in 400 times items is defective. If the items are 04
packed in boxes of 100, what is the probability, that any given box
of items will contain
a) No defective
b) Less than two defectives
c) One or more defectives
d) More than three defectives.
(c) The average daily sales of 500 branch offices was Rs. 150
thousand and the standard deviation Rs. 15 thousand. Assuming
the distribution to be normal, indicate how many branches have
sales between:
1. Rs. 120 thousand and Rs. 145 thousand.
2. Rs. 140 thousand and Rs. 165 thousand.
𝑃(0 < 𝑧 < 3.3) = 0.4772, 𝑃(0 < 𝑧 < 2) = 0.1293,
[ ]
𝑃(0 < 𝑧 < 0.67) = 0.2486, 𝑃(0 < 𝑧 < 1) = 0.3413
OR
(c) In a Normal distribution 31% of the items are under 45 and 8% 07
are above the 64. Find mean and standard deviation of the
distribution.
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Q.3 (a) The mean monthly salary paid to all employees in a company is 03
Rs. 1600. The mean monthly salaries paid to technical and non-
technical employees are Rs. 1800 and Rs. 1200 respectively.
Determine the percentage of technical and non-technical
employees of the company.
(b) Calculate average deviation from mean from the following data: 04
Sales 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60
No. of days 3 6 11 3 2
(c) The median and mode of the following wage distribution are Rs. 07
33.5 and Rs. 34 respectively. However, three frequencies are
missing. Determine their values.
Wages 0- 10- 20- 30- 40- 50- 60- Total
10 20 30 40 50 60 70
f 4 16 𝑓0 𝑓1 𝑓2 6 4 230
OR
Q.3 (a) The following data relate to the sales of 100 companies: 03
Sales Below 60- 62- 64- 66- 68- 70-
60 62 64 66 68 70 72
No. of 12 18 25 30 10 3 2
Companies
Calculate the value of modal sales.
(b) The following data relate to the profits of 1000 companies. 04
Profits 100- 120- 140- 160- 180- 200- 220-
120 140 160 180 200 220 240
No. of 17 53 199 194 327 208 2
Companies
Calculate the coefficient of skewness and comment on its value.
(c) The profits earned by 100 companies during 1998-99 are given 07
below. Calculate 𝑄1 , 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛, 𝐷4 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑃80 .
Profits 20- 30- 40- 50- 60- 70- 80- 90-
30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
No. of 4 8 18 30 15 10 8 7
Companies
Q.4 (a) Find correlation of coefficient between the sales and expenses 03
from the data given below:
Firm 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Sales 50 50 55 60 65 65 65 60 60 50
Expense 11 13 14 16 16 15 15 14 13 13
(b) Two housewives, Geeta and Rita, asked to express their 04
preferences for different kinds of detergents, gave the following
replies.
Detergent A B C D E F G H I J
Geeta 4 2 1 3 7 8 6 5 9 10
Rita 4 1 2 3 8 7 5 6 9 10
To what extent the preferences of these two ladies go together?
(c) Obtain both the regression equations form the data given below. 07
X 1 2 3 45 6 7 8 9
Y 9 8 10 12 11 13 14 16 15
Also calculate the coefficient of correlation.
OR
Q.4 (a) Find the coefficient of correlation by Karl Pearson’s method 03
between X and Y and interpret the values.
X 57 42 40 33 42 45 42 44 40 56 44 43
Y 10 60 30 41 29 27 27 19 18 19 31 29

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 (b) An examination of eight applicants for a clerical post was taken 04
by a firm. From the marks obtained by the applicants in the
accountancy and statistics papers, compute the rank coefficient of
correlation.
Applicant A B C D E F G H
Marks in 15 20 28 12 40 60 20 80
accountancy
Marks in 40 30 50 30 20 10 30 60
Statistics
(c) In a partially destroyed laboratory record of an analysis of 07
correlation data the following results are eligible.
𝑉𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑋 = 9, 8𝑥 − 10𝑦 + 66 = 0, 40𝑥 − 18𝑦 = 214.
Find on the basis of the above information:
1. The mean values of X and Y.
2. Coefficient of correlation between X and Y
3. Standard deviation of Y.

Q.5 (a) The mean lifetime of a sample of 100 light tubes produced by a 03
company is found to be 1580 hours with standard deviation of 90
hours. Test the hypothesis that mean lifetime of the tube produced
by the company is 1600 hours. (The critical value of z at 5% level
of significance is ±1.96).
(b) Two salesman A and B are working in a certain district. From a 04
sample survey conducted by the Head office, the following results
were obtained. State whether there is any significant difference in
the average sales between the two salesmen?
A B
No. of sales 20 18
Average sales 170 205
Standard deviation 20 25
The table value of t at 5% level of significance and 36 df is 1.9
(c) Fit a curve 𝑦 = 𝑎𝑏 𝑥 to the following data. 07
x 2 3 4 5 6 8
y 8.3 15.4 33.1 65.2 126.4 146
OR
Q.5 (a) The Prices of shares of a company on the different days in a month 03
were found to be :
66, 65, 69, 70, 69, 71, 70, 63, 64, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 68.
Test whether the mean price of the shares in the month is 65. (The
table value of t for 9 degrees of freedom at 5% level of
significance is 1.833.)
(b) In random sample of 100 persons taken from village A, 60 are 04
found to be consuming tea. In another sample of 200 persons
taken from village B, 100 persons are found to be consuming tea.
Do the data reveal significant difference between the two villages
as far as the habit of consuming tea is concerned? (The critical
value of z at 5% level of significance is ±1.96).
(c) Fit a second degree parabola to the following data: 07
x 1 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0
y 1.1 1.3 1.6 2.0 2.7 3.4 4.1