SRI BHAGWAN MAHAVEER JAIN COLLEGE, V.V.

PURAM, BANGALORE

II PUC MOCK PAPER - 2

STATISTICS

SECTION: A

I. Answer any 10 of the following questions 1 X 10 = 10

1. Define Longevity.
2. If the general price level goes up by 70 % between 2000 and
2010, what is the index number for 2010 with base 2000 ?
3. Define Consumer Price Index Number.
4. What is Random Variation ?
5. Write down the Bernoulli distribution with parameter 𝑝 = 0.42
6. Write the relationship between mean and variance of a Binomial
distribution.
7. What is two tailed test ?
8. Define Degrees of Freedom.
9. What is an estimator ?
10. What is defect ?
11. When is a T.P. Balanced ?
12. If in a game the pay off at saddle point is 6, What is the value of
minimax ?
SECTION: B

II. Answer any 10 of the following questions 2 X 10 = 20

13. The quinquennial ASFR’s for women of child bearing age of a
community are 26,63,65,46,24,13 and 7. Compute TFR.
14. Why Fisher’s index number is ideal ?
15. State two norms for the selection of base year.
16. Write down the normal equations for fitting quadratic trend.
17. Write down the conditions for application of Binomial expansion
method of interpolation and extrapolation.
18. In a poisson distribution, the first two frequencies are 250 and 125
respectively. Find the next frequency term.
19. If Q1 =20 and Q3 = 60, find the mode of the normal distribution.

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20. Given x = 203,  = 200gm,  = 10 gm and n = 64, calculate test
statistic Z
21. Write the uses of standard error.
22. What are single and double sampling plans ?
23. Which of the two feasible solutions (12,10) and (14,4) of an L.P.P,
maximizes the objective function, Z = 5x+4y.
24. If the depreciation cost and the cumulative maintenance cost for an
equipment for the third year is Rs.10,000/- and Rs.10,400/-
respectively. Find the annual average cost.
SECTION: C

III. Answer any EIGHT of the following questions 5 X 8 = 40

25. Compute CBR and GFR from the following table.
Age (in years) Male population Female population No. of live Births
0-14 20730 19840 0
15-19 7366 7310 212
20-24 7300 7120 657
25-29 6300 5860 592
30-39 9980 9120 326
40-49 7400 6910 81
50 & above 8400 7900 0
26. Explain briefly the steps involved in the construction of cost of living index number
27. From the following data, calculate unweighted geometric mean index number
Commodity Price
Base Year Current Year
A 20 30
B 25 20
C 15 30
D 45 50
28. Explain the components of time series.
29. Interpolate the number of persons below the age 70 years from the following data :
Age (in years) 0-20 20-40 40-60 60-80 80-100
No. of Persons 333 160 135 67 65
30. If 98 % of electric bulbs manufactured by a company are known to be non defectives,
what is the probability that a sample of 150 electric bulbs taken from the production
process of that company would contain (i) exactly one defective bulb ? (ii) more than
two defective bulbs ?

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31. There are 20 fruits in a basket, out of which 8 are mangoes and rest are oranges. A girl
picks 5 fruits at random from the basket. Find the Probability that she gets 3 mangoes.
32. A machine produced 5 defective articles among 80. After some repair, the machine
produced 3 defective articles among 60. Test whether the proportion of defective
articles have reduced after repair at 5% level of significance.
33. From the following data regarding eye-colour of fathers and their sons, test whether
father’s eye-colour and son’s eye-colour are independent. Apply chi-square test at 1%
level of significance.
Father’s Eye Colour Son’s Eye Colour
Light Dark
Light 100 75
Dark 70 125
34. Following table gives means and range of 6 samples of size 5 each. Compute control
limits for Range chart.
Sub group 1 2 3 4 5 6
No.,
Mean 10 11 10 12 15 18
Range 5 7 4 9 6 5
35. Obtain an initial basic feasible solution to following T.P by matrix minima method.
Also obtain the transportation cost.
To Available
7 3 4 2
From
2 1 3 3
3 4 6 5
Demand 4 1 5 10
36. Solve the following LPP graphically.
Max Z = x + y
S.t x + y  1
3x+y ≤ 3
and x, y ≥ 0

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 SECTION: D

IV. Answer any TWO of the following questions 2 X 10 = 20

37. From the following data, calculate TFR’s and compare the fertility of two cities.
Age group Female population Number of live births
(in years) City ‘A’ City ‘B’ City ‘A’ City ‘B’
15-19 14000 47000 1204 1222
20-24 15000 50000 2295 7400
25-29 14000 46000 2590 9660
30-34 12000 44000 1236 5544
35-39 13000 40000 936 1360
40-44 12000 39000 288 507
45-49 11000 30000 33 60
38. Construct Fisher’s price index number from the following data and test whether it
satisfies Time Reversal Test and Factor Reversal Test
Prices Expenditures
Items
2010 2012 2010 2012
A 12 10 96 90
B 18 20 72 100
C 15 20 90 160
D 20 22 100 88
E 10 08 90 64

39. For the following time series, fit a quadratic trend of the type y = a+bx+cx2 and also
estimate the consumption for the year 2011.
Year 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Consumption
(in thousand 55 75 86 105 140 175 186 182 179
Kg’s)
40. The daily wages from a random sample of 5 labourers from town ‘A’ was found to be
75,85,80,85,82. Another random sample from town ‘B’, the daily wages of 8
labourers was found to be 70,100,75,92,75,70,90,95. Test whether the mean daily
wages of labourers of town ‘B’ is more than town ‘A’. Use ∝ = 5%

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 SECTION: E
(PRACTICAL ORIENTED QUESTIONS)

V. Answer any TWO of the following questions 2 X 5 = 10

41. The distribution of monthly incomes of 5000 people may be assumed to be normal
with mean of Rs.20,000/- and a standard deviation of Rs.2,000/-. Estimate the number
of people with incomes
(i) Exceeding `23,000/- per month
(ii) Between `18,000/- and `23,000/- per month.
42. A pharmaceutical firm maintains that the mean time for a drug to have effect is less
than ½ hour. In a sample of 125 trials, the mean time is 30.6 minutes with variance 4
minutes2. Test the firm’s claim at ∝ = 0.01.
43. The variance of the height of 20 SSLC students is 4 cm2. Test at 1% level of
significance that the variance of height of SSLC students is more than 3cm2
44. The demand for motor cycle tyres is 500/year. The cost of placing an order is
Rs.250/-. Holding cost is Rs.25/- per annum. The penalty cost for not supplying on
demand is Rs.10/- per month. Find the optimal lot size and maximum shortage level.

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