Name of the Course : Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science

(Programme) with Mathematics as

minor
non-najor/
Semester : VI
Duration : 3Hours
Maximum Marks: 90
(Write your Roll No, on the top immediately on receipt of this quostion paper)
All questions arecompulsory.
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
|4, 6) 15
|6, 8) 5
|8, 12)
9
|12, 20)
8
(20, 30)
2
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Construct an appropriate histogTam and comment on any interesting

features.

(b) The following data consists of observations on the time until failure (1000s
of bours) for a sample of turbochargers from
one type of engine. Compute
the Median, Upper Fourth (third quartile)
and Lower Fourth (first
quartile)

590, 815, 575, 608, 350, 1285, 408,

540, 555, 679.
(c) The following data contain the
information about fuel characteristics of
various vehicles. Find the value of the
sample range, mean and variance.
27.3, 27.9, 32.9, 35.2, 44.9, 39.9, 30.0, 29.7, 28.5,
32.0, 37.6.
2. (a) In a certain residential suburb, 60% of
all households get Internet service
from the local cable company. 80% get
television service fromm that
company, and 50% get both services from that
company. If a household
is randomly selected, what is the
probability that it gets at least one of
these two services from the company,
and what is the probability that it
gets exactly one of these
services from the company ?
(b) State Baye's Theorem A
large operator of timeshare complexes
requires
anyone interested in making a purchase to
first visit the site of interest.
Historical data indicates that 20% of all potential
purchasers select a day
visit. 50% choose a one-night visit. and 30% opt
for a two-night visit. In
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addition, 10% of day visitors ultimately make a purchase, 30% of

night visitors buy a unit, and 20% of those visiting for two nights
deci
to buy. Suppose a visitor is randomly selected and is
found to have mad
a purchase. How likely is it that this
person made a day visit ?
(c) An aircraft seam requires 25 rivets.
The seam will have to be reworked
if any of these rivets is
defective. Suppose rivets are defective
independently of one another, each with the same
probability.
) lf 15% of all seams need reworking, what is the probability
that a
rivet is defective ?

(ü) How small should the probability of

a defective rivet be to ensure
that only 10% of all seams need
reworking ?
3. (a) Consider whether the next
person buying a computer at a
certain
electronics store buys a laptop or a desktop model.
if the customer purchase a desktop
Let X = computer
|0, if the customer purchase a laptop computer

Find the probability mass function (pmf) for X, if 20% of all

purchasers
during that week select a desktop. Also draw the line graph for the pmnf
of X.
(b) A certain brand of upright freezer is
available in three different
rated capacities: 450L, 500L and 550L..
Let X = the rated capacity of a

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

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

(ü) If the price of a freezer having
capacity X is 2.5X - 650, what is the
expected price paid by the next customer to
buy a freezer ?
(c) For any random variable
X, let E(X) = 5 and
E[X(X 1)] = 27.5.
Compute :
(i) EX2)

(ü) vx

(i) V(2X + 3), 30

(a) "Time headway" in trafic 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
chosen consecutive cars. Suppose randomly
that in a different traffic
the distribution of time environmnent,
headway has the form
K
>1

0,
0) Determine the value of K for which fx) is a
pdt.
(ü) Determine PX > 2).
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(6) Consider the pmf of the
magnitude X of a dynamic load on a
newtons) as bridge (in

1 3
+
f(x) =8 0sxs 2
0. otherwise
(i) Find the cumulative
distribution function (cdf) for X.
(ü) Compute P(1 <Xs 1.5) and
P(X> 1).
(c) Define Binomial
distribution. Find the mean of a
random variable X. When a binomial
distributed
Bernoulli distribution becomes
case of Binomnial a particular
distribution ?
5. (a) If a publisher of
nontechnical books takes great
books are free of pains to ensure that
its
typographical errors, so that the
page containing at probability of any given
least one such error
is 0.005 and
independent from page to page, what errors are
are the probabilities
600-page novels will that one of its
contain exactly one page
three pages with errors ? with errors and at
most

(6) Suppose that 25% of all students

at a large ppublic
6nancial aid. Let X be the university receive
number of students in a random
oino B0 who receive financial aid. Find sample of
the probability that at most
10
students receive aid. Also, hnd the probability
that between 5 and 15
(inclusive) of the selected students receive aid.
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(c) According to the article Predictive Model for Pitting Corrosion in Buried
Oil and Gas Pipelines" (Corrosion, 2009 : 332-342),
the lognormal
distribution has been reported as the best option for
describing the
distribution of maximum pit depth data from cast iron
pipes in soil. The
authors suggest that a lognormal distribution
with u 0.353 and o =
0.754 is appropriate for maximum pit depth
(mm) of buried pipelines.
What value c is such that only 1% of all
specimens have a maximum pit
depth exceeding c ?
6. (a) The inside diameter of a
randomly selected piston ring is a
variable with mean value 12 cm and random
standard deviation 0.04 cm. If X
is the sample nean
diameter for a random sample of n = 16
likely is it that the sample rings. How
mean diameter exceeds 12.01 ?
(b) Consider the following
data of on x = rainfull
volume (m') for a particular volume (m°) and y = runoff
location.

5
4
12
10
14
13
17
15
23
15
30
25
40
27
47
46
55
38
67
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Find the equation of regression line. And estimate the runoff volume (y)
when rainfull volume (x) is 50.

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

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