Final Assessment Test (FAT) – May 2017

Course : MAT2001 - Statistics for Engineers

Class NBR(s):4539 / 4547 / 4550 Slot: E2+TE2
Time: Three Hours Max. Marks: 100
Statistical table are permitted
Answer any FIVE Questions
(5 X 20 = 100 Marks)
1. a) Obtain the values of mean, median and mode for the data : [10]
Weight 10-13 13-16 16-19 19-22 22-25 25-28 28-31
Frequency 3 4 5 6 5 4 3

b) Calculate the karl-pearson's coefficient of skewness for the following cumulative frequency [10]
distribution:
Age (years) Below 20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70
No. of 12 17 19 27 19 12
persons

2. a) A professor classifies his students according to their grade point average (GPA) and their gender. [10]
The accompanying table gives the proportion of students falling into the various categories. One
student is selected at random.
Gender Under 5.0 5.0 to 8.0 Over 8.0
Male 0.05 0.25 0.1
Female 0.1 0.3 0.2
Obtain the marginal and conditional distribution functions.

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b) In producing gallium-arsenide microchips, it is known that the ratio between gallium and
arsenide is independent of producing a high percentage of workable wafers, which are the main
components of microchips. Let X denote the ratio of gallium to arsenide and Y denote the
percentage of workable micro-wafers retrieved during a one-hour period. X and Y are two random
variables with the joint probability density being known as
k ( x  y 2 ) : 0  x  1, 0  y  1
f ( x, y )  
 0 : elsewhere
Find (i) the value of ′ ′
(ii) an expression for f  x y  for 0 < < 1 and
(iii) an expression for f  x 0 .35  .

4 x y e  x  y : x  0 , y  0
2 2

3. a) The joint probability density function for X,Y is given by f ( x, y )   [10]

 0 : elsewhere
Are X and Y independent?

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 b) The following data shows the Test score in, classes missed and the Grade obtained by 12 students [10]
undergone the Statistics course of a class of our university .

Student Test Score x1 Classes missed x2 Grade y

01 65 1 85
02 50 7 74
03 55 5 76
04 65 2 90
05 55 6 85
06 70 3 87
07 65 2 94
08 70 5 98
09 55 4 81
10 70 3 91
11 55 1 76
12 50 4 74
(i) Fit a multiple line of regression of the form y   0  1 x1   2 x2 .
(ii) Find the grade obtained by a student who has a score of 60 and missed four classes.

4. a) In a given city, 6 out of 100 of all drivers get at least one parking ticket per month. Use the Poisson [10]
distribution to determine the probabilities that among 80 randomly chosen drivers that
(i) at least 3 will get at least one parking ticket in any given month;
(ii) 4 will get at least one parking ticket in any given month.

b) In a beautiful village the daily consumption of electricity power (in millions of units) be treated as [10]
1
a random variable having a weibull distribution with   and   2 . Find the mean and
100
standard deviation of this distribution.
5. a) A concern claims that its products are superior to those of its main competitor. If a study showed [10]
that a sample of n1= 40 of its tubes has a mean lifetime of 1647 days of continuous use with a
standard deviation of 27 hours, while a sample of n2 = 40 tubes made by its main competitor has a
mean lifetime of 1638 days of continuous use with a standard deviation of 31 hours. Test the
concern’s claim at 5% level of significance and compare it with the result at 1% level of
significance.

b) A case study reveals that 16 out of 200 laptops produced on one assembly model required many [10]
adjustments before it could be delivered, whereas the same was true for 14 of 400 laptops
produced on another assembly model. Test whether this claim support that the second assembly
model was superior than the first assembly model?

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6. a) Tests of the fidelity and the selectivity of 190 digital radio receivers produced the results shown in [8]
the following table :
Fidelity
Above Average High
average
Selectivity Low 6 12 32
Average 33 61 18
High 13 15 0
Use the chi-square test to find whether there is a significant difference between fidelity and
selectivity.

b) The following table shows the experiment conducted between detergents A,B,C and D , and the [12]
three Engines 1, 2 and 3.
Engine 1 Engine 2 Engine3
Detergent A 45 43 51
Detergent B 47 46 52
Detergent C 48 50 55
Detergent D 42 37 49
Looking at the detergents as treatments and the engines as blocks, perform the two way analysis
of variance test and comment on your results.
7. a) A system is composed of five identical independent elements in parallel. What should be the [10]
reliability of each element to achieve a system reliability of 0.96?

b) An engine is to be designed to have a minimum reliability of 0.8 and a minimum availability of [10]
0.98 over a period of 2000 hours. Determine the mean repair time.

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