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S. No. ofQuuestion Paper : 7400
Unique Paper Code 2352203601

Name of the Paper : DSC - Probability and Statistics

Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science
Name of the Course
(Programme) with Mathemnatics as non-major/
minor

Semester :VI

Duration : 3 Hours
Maximum Marks : 90
(Write your Roll No. on the top
immediately on receipt of this question paper.)
All questions are compulsory.
Attempt any two parts from each question.
All questions carry equal marks.
Use of non-programmable scientific calculator and statistical tables is permitted.
1 (a) Consider the following data :
Class
Frequency
[2, 4) 9

14, 6) 15

[6, 8) 5

[8, 12) 9

[12, 20) 8

[20, 30) 2
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comment on any interestins
Construct an appropriate histogram and

features.
consists of observations on the time until failure (10005
(6) The following data
turbochargers from one type of
engine. Compute
of hours) for a sample of
Upper Fourth (third quartile) and Lower Fourth (irst
the Median,
quartile)

590, 815, 575, 608, 350, 1285, 408, 540, 555, 679.
The following data contain the information about fuel characteristics of
various vehicles. Find the value of the sample range, mean and varnance.
27.8. 27.9, 32:9, 35.2, 44.9, 39.9, 30-0, 29.7, 286, 32.0, 37.6.
2. (a) In a certain residential suburb, 60%o of all households get Internet service
that
from the local cable company, 80% get television service from
company. If a household
company, and 50% get both services fromn that
it gets at least one of
is randomly selected, what is the probability that
what is the probability that it
these two services from the company, and
services from the company
?
one of these
gets exactly
complexeg ro
Theorem A large operator of timeshare
(b) State Baye's
making a purchase to first visit the site of in
anyone interested in

indicates that 20% of all potential purchasers select a day

Historical data
for a
one-night visit,
and 30% opt two-night visit In
visit, 50% choose a
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of day visitors ultimately make a purchase, 30% of one

uattion, 10% decide
20% of those visiting
for two nights
buy a unit. and
ght visitors made
randomly selected and is found to have
visitor is
to buy. Suppose a visit ?
it that this person made a day
likely is
a purchase. How

requires 25 rivets. The seam will have to be reworked

(c) An aircraft seam
defective
if any of these rivets is defective. Suppose rivets are

independently of one another, each with the same probability.

probability that a
(i) If 15% of all seams need reworking, what is the
rivet is defective ?

ensure
should the probability of a defective rivet be to
(ü) How small
need reworking ?
that only 10% of all seams
a certain
whether the next person buying a computer at
(a) Consider
model.
electronics store buys a laptop or a desktop
desktop computer
1, if the customer purchase a
Let X = laptop computer
0, if the customer purchase a
(pmf) for X, if 20% of all purchasers
mass function
Find the probability line graph for the pmf
Also draw the
that week select a desktop.
during

of X. different
available in three
of upright freezer is
(6) A certain
brand
rated capacity of a
Let X = the
: 450L, 500L and 550L.
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SuppOse that X has (Pm

freezer of this brand sold at a certain store.
p(450) 0.2, p(500) = 0.5, p(550) = 0.3.

) Compute E(X), E(X) and V(X).

of a freezer having capacity X is 2.5X - 650, what is the

() If the price
expected price paid by the next customer to buy a freezer ?

For any random variable X, let E(X) = 5 and EIXOX - 1)] = 27.5.
Compute :

(2) E(X)

(ü) VX)

(üi) V(2X + 3).

4. (a) "Time headway" in traffic flow is the elapsed time between the time that
one car finishes passing a fixed point and the instant that the next car
begins to pass that point. Let X = the time headway for two randomly
chosen consecutive cars. Suppose that in a different traffic environment,
the distribution of time headway has the form

K
x>1
f(*)=
0,

Determine the value of K for

which f) is a pdf.

(iü) Determine PX > 2).

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Consider the pmf of the magnitude X of a dvnamic load on a bridge (in

newtons) as

f(x) =8 8 0<xs 2
0, otherwise

Find the cumulative distribution function (cdf) for X.

(ü) Compute P(1 s X< 1.5) and P(X > 1).

(c) Define Binomial distribution. Find the

mean of a binomial distributed
randomn variable X. When a Bernoulli
distribution becomes a particular
case of Binomial distribution ?

5. (a) 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 0.005 and
errors are
independent from page to page, what are the
probabilities that one of its
600-page novels will contain exactly
one page with errors and
at most
three pages with errors ?
(6) Suppose that 25% of
all students at a large
public university receive
financial aid. Let X be the
number of students in a
size 50 who receive random sample of
financial aid. Find the probability
students receive aid. Also, find that at most 10
the probability that
(inclusive) of the selected between 5 and l5
students receive aid.

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for Pitting Corrosion in Buried

(c) According to the article "Predictive Model
(Corrosion, 2009 332-342), the lognormal
Oil and Gas Pipelines"
been reported as the best option
for describing the
distribution has
cast iron pipes in soil. The
distributionof maximum pit depth data from
lognormal distribution with u
= 0.353 and o
authors suggest that a
buried pipelines.
appropriate for maximum pit depth (mm) of
0.754 is have a maximum pit
specimens
What value c is such that only 1% of all
depth exceeding c ?
random
randomly selected piston ring is a
6 (a) The inside diameter of a
standard deviation 0.04 cm. If X
variable with mean value 12 cm and How
the sample mean diameter for a randomn sample of n = 16 rings.
is
diameter exceeds 12.01 ?
likely is it that the sample mean
following data of on x = rainfull volume (m²) and y = runoff
(6) Consider the
volume (m) for a particular location.

10
12
13
14
15
17

23 15

30 25

40 27

47 46

55 38

67 46
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Eind the equation of regression line. And estimate the runoff volume (y)
() is 50.
when rainfull volume

o) Consider the following data on two variables x and y :

2.4 13

3.4 21

4.6 18

3.7 16

2.2 20

3.3 17

4.0 21

2.1 16

correlation between the variables x and

y. Does
Compute the coefficient of
change
coefficient of correlation between the variables
the value of the
value of and y in the data is doubled.
when each