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1. This document appears to be an exam paper containing 10 multiple choice or numerical questions across 5 units related to applied business statistics. 2. The first question asks the candidate to calculate the lower quartile marks from a given distribution of exam marks, and to find the minimum marks for a pass candidate if 70% pass. 3. The second question provides data on weekly wages and asks the candidate to estimate numbers of workers within certain wage ranges, and to compute mean, median and mode for a given frequency distribution.

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M.S. Degree Examination, May 2020: Total No. of Pages

1. This document appears to be an exam paper containing 10 multiple choice or numerical questions across 5 units related to applied business statistics. 2. The first question asks the candidate to calculate the lower quartile marks from a given distribution of exam marks, and to find the minimum marks for a pass candidate if 70% pass. 3. The second question provides data on weekly wages and asks the candidate to estimate numbers of workers within certain wage ranges, and to compute mean, median and mode for a given frequency distribution.

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M.S. DEGREE EXAMINATION, May 2020


(INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT)
(FIRST YEAR)
120: APPLIED BUSINESS STATISTICS
Time: Three hours Maximum: 100 marks

Answer any ONE FULL question from each unit (5×20=100)


UNIT-I
1. a) Following is the distribution of marks obtained by 500 candidates in statistics (10)
paper of a civil services examination:

Marks more than 0 10 20 30 40 50


Number of candidates 500 460 400 200 100 30

Calculate the lower quartile marks. If 70% of the candidate pass in the paper,
find the minimum marks obtained by a pass candidate.

b) The screws produced by a certain machine were checked by examining (10)


samples of 12. The following table shows the distribution of 128 samples
according to the number of defective items they contained.
No. of defectives 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
No. of samples 7 6 19 35 30 23 7 1
Fit a binomial distribution and find the expected frequencies if the chance of
1
screw being defective is . Find the mean and variance of fitted distribution.
2
(OR)
2. a) The weekly wages of 1000 workmen are normally distributed around a mean (10)
of Rs.70 and with a standard deviation of Rs.5. Estimate the number of
workers whose weekly wages will be (i) between Rs.70 and Rs.72 (ii) More
than Rs.75 (iii) Less than Rs.63.
b) Compute Mean, Median and mode for the following distribution (10)
Class 170-180 180-190 190-200 200-210
Frequency 52 68 85 92

210-220 220-230 230-240 240-250


100 95 70 28
UNIT-II
3. a) State the procedure followed in testing a hypothesis? (10)
b) Below are given the gain in weights (in lbs) of pigs fed on two diets A and B. (10)
Diet A 25 32 30 34 24 14 32 24 30 31 35 25
Diet B 44 34 22 10 47 31 40 30 32 35 18 21 35 29 22
Test if the two diets differ significantly as regards their effect on increase in
weight.
(OR))
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4. a) The following figures related to the number of units of an item produced (10)
per shift by two workers A and B for a number of days.
1
A 19 22 24 27 24 18 20 19 25 0
B 26 37 40 35 30 30 40 26 30 35 45
Can it be inferred that worker A is more stable compared to worker B?
Answer using F-test at 5% level of significance.

b) The following figures show the distribution of digits in numbers chosen at (10)
random from a telephone directory
Digits 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Frequency 1026 1107 997 966 1075 933 1107 972 964 853
Test whether the digits may be taken to occur equally frequently in the
directory.

UNIT-III
5. a) Calculate coefficient of correlation from the following data. (10)
X 12 9 8 10 11 13 7
Y 14 8 6 9 11 12 3
b) Explain testing of significance and level of significance. (10)
(OR)
6. From the following data, find (i) The two regression equations (ii) The coefficient of (20)
correlation Between X and Y. (iii) Estimate the likely value of Y when X=100

X 72 98 76 81 56 76 92 88 49
Y 124 131 117 132 86 120 136 97 85
UNIT-IV
7. a) Explain dummy variable. (10)
b) Given the following set of data (i) Calculate the multiple regression plane (10)
(ii) Predict Y
When X1 =28 and X2=10
Y X1 X2
10 8 4
17 21 9
18 14 11
26 17 20
35 36 13
8 9 28
(OR)
8. a) Explain residual. (10)
b) Bank of Lincoln is interested in reducing the amount of time people (10)
spend waiting to see a personal banker. The bank is interested in
the relationship between waiting time Y in minutes and number of
bankers on duty X. Customers were randomly selected with the data
given below:
X 2 3 5 4 2 6 1 3 4 3 3 2 4
Y 12.8 11.3 3.2 6.4 11.6 3.2 8.7 10.5 8.2 11.3 9.4 12.8 8.2
(i)Calculate the regression equation that best fits the data
(ii) Calculate the sample coefficient of determination.
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9.
UNIT-V
Ten competitors in a beauty contest were ranked by three judges X,Y,Z in the
1 (20)
following order, 0
Rank by X 1 5 4 8 9 6 10 7 3 2
Rank by Y 4 8 7 6 5 9 10 3 2 1
Rank by Z 6 7 8 1 5 10 9 2 3 4
Using spearman rank correlation coefficient to discuss which pair of judges has
the nearest approach to common tastes in beauty.
(OR
10. a) The following are the number of mistakes counted on pages randomly (10)
selected from reports typed by a company's two secretaries.
Male Secretary 15 10 5 6 8 10 12
Female Secretary 12 8 7 9 10 5 4
Use the Mann-Whitney test at 2 % level of significance to test the null
hypothesis that the two secretaries average equal mistakes per page.
b) Use H test to test for differences in mean among the three samples. If (10)
α  0.01, what are your conclusion.

Sample I 95 97 99 98 99 99 99 94 95 98
Sample II 104 102 102 105 99 102 111 103 100 103
Sample III 119 130 132 136 141 172 145 150 144 135
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