Question Bank of Engineering Mathematics-III

Statistics

Q1) Obtain correlation coefficient between population density (per square miles) and death rate
(per thousand persons) from date related to 5 cities.

Population density 200 500 400 700 300

Death rate 12 18 16 21 10

Q2) The first four moments of distribution about the working mean 30.2 are 0.255, 6.222, 30.211
and 400.25. Calculate the first four moments about the mean. Also evaluate and comment
upon the skewness and kurtosis of the distribution.

Q3) The two regression equations of the variable x and y are X = 19.13-0.87y and y = 11.64-
0.50x. Also variance of x is 9 Find (1) mean of x and y (2) the correlation coefficient between x
and y (3) The standard deviation of y.

Q4) Two Examiner A and B independently award marks to seven students. Obtain the equations
of regression lines. If examiner A awards 36 marks to roll no. 8, what would be the marks
expected to be awarded by examiner B to the same candidate.

Roll no. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Marks by A 40 44 28 30 44 38 31

Marks by B 32 39 26 30 38 34 28

Q5) Fit a straight line of the form y = ax + b to the following data by the least square method:
0 6 8 10 14 16 18 20
3 12 15 18 24 27 30 33

Q6) Obtain the line of regression of y on x for the following data. Also, estimate the value of y
for x = 10.
2 4 5 6 8 11
18 12 10 8 7 5

Q7) The first four moments of distribution about the working mean 3.5 are 0.0375, 0.4546,
0.0609 and 0.5074. Calculate the first four moments about the mean. Also calculate coefficient
skewness.
Q8) Fit a straight line of the form y = ax + b to the following data by the least square method:
0 1 2 3 4
14 27 40 55 68

Q9) Calculate the coefficient of correlation for the following data:

X 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Y 9 8 10 12 11 13 14 16 15

Q10) Fit a straight line y = ax +b to the following data:-

x 1 3 4 5 6 8

y -3 1 3 5 7 11

Q11) F it a straight line of following data:-

x 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

y 9 8 10 12 11 13 14 16 15

Q12) Fit a straight line y = ax +b to the following data:-

x 1 3 4 5 6 8

y -3 1 3 5 7 11

Q13) Fit a straight line of following data:-

x 0 5 10 15 20 25

Y 12 15 17 22 24 30

Q14) Find the coefficient of correlation for following data:-

x 10 14 19 26 30 34 39

f 12 16 18 26 29 35 38

Q15) Find coefficient of correlation of following data:-

x 10 14 18 22 26 30
y 18 12 24 6 30 36

Q16) First four moments of a distribution about the value 2 are 1, 2.5, 5.5 and 16. Find first four
moments about mean,
Q17) First four moments of a distribution about the value 4 are -1.5, 17,-30 and 108. Find first
four moments about mean,

Q18) Obtain regression line of following data:-

x 1 2 3 4 5
y 2 5 3 8 7

Q19) Obtain regression line of following data:-

x 6 2 10 4 8
y 9 11 5 8 7

Q20) Calculate the first four moments about the mean from the following data:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
5 15 17 25 19 14 5

Probability

Q1) From 20 tickets marked 1 to 20, one ticket is drawn at random. Find the probability that it is
marked with multiple of 3 or 5.

Q2) A fair coin is tossed 6 times. Find a probability of getting: i) at least four heads ii) not
heads

Q3) A can hit the target 1 out of 4 times. B can hit the target 2 out of 3 times. C can hit the target
3 out of 4 times. Find the probability that at least 2 hit the target.

Q4) A class has 12 boys and 4 girls. Suppose three students are selected at random from the
class. Find the probability that they are all boys.

Q5) An envelope contains 6 tickets with numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6,7. Another envelope contains 4
tickets with numbers 1,3,5,7. An envelope is chosen random and ticket is drawn from it. Find the
probability that ticket bears the numbers ( i ) 2 or 5 ; ( ii ) 2.

Q6) An unbiased coin is thrown 10 times. Find the probability of getting exactly 6 heads using
Binomial Distribution

Q7) A dice is thrown five times. If getting an odd number is a success, then what is the
probability of getting: (i) four successes (ii) at least four successes.

Q8) Out of 2000 families with 4 children each, how many would you expect to you
i) At least one boy (ii) 1 or 2 girls
 Q9) A certain factory turning cotter pins knows that 2% of his product is defective. If he sells
cotter pins in a packet of 100 and guarantee that not more than 5 pins will be defective in a box.
Find the approximate probability that a box will fail to meet guarantee quality.

Q10) A fair coin is tossed 6 times. Find a probability of getting:i) at least four heads ii) not
heads

Q11) In a certain factory turning out razor blades there is a small chance of 1/ 500 for any blade to be
defective. The blades are supplied in a pack of 10. Use Poisson distribution to calculate the
approximate number of packets containing no defective and two defective blades, in a consignment of
10,000.

Q12) Number of absent student in a class follows Poisson distribution with mean5. Find the probability
that in a certain month number of absent student in a class will be: (i)
More than 3 ( ii ) Between 3 and 5.

Q13) Number of road accidents on a highway during a month follows a Poisson distribution with
mean 5. Find the probability that a certain month number of accidents on the highway will be:

(i) less than 3 (ii) Between 3 and 5. (iii) more than 3.

Q14) In a town, 10 accidents took place in a span of 50 days. Assuming that the number of accidents
per day follows Poisson distribution, find the probability that there will be : (i) at least 3 accidents in
a day (ii) at least 2 accidents in a day.

Q15) The average number of misprints per page of a book is 1.5. Assuming the distribution of number
of misprints to be Poisson, find the probability that a particular book is free from misprints.

Q16) In a certain examination test, 2000 students appeared in a subject of mathematics. Average
marks obtained were 50% with standard deviation 5%. How many students do you expect to
obtain more than 60% of marks, supposing that marks are distributed normally?

(Given: A (z = 2) = 0.4772).

Q17) A random sample of 200 screws is drawn from a population which represents the size of
screws. If a sample is distributed normally with mean 3.15cm and standard deviation 0.025cm, Find
expected number of screws whose size falls between 3.12cm and 3.2cm.Area corresponding to 1.2 is
0.3849 and Area corresponding to 2.0 is 0.4772.
Q18) In certain city 4000 tube lights are installed. If the lamps have average life of 1500 burning hours
with standard deviation 100 hours. Assuming normal distribution. (i) How many lamps will fail in first
1400 hours.(ii) How many lamps will last beyond 1600 hours. (Given: A (1) = 0.3413)

Q19) Assuming that the distance of 1000 brass plugs taken consecutively from machine from a
normal distribution with mean 0.7515 cm and standard deviation 0.0020 cm. How many of the
plugs are likely to be approved if the acceptable diameter is 0.752 0.004 ± cm. (Given Area =
0.478 for z = 2.25 and Area 0.4599 for z = 1.75).

Q20) Among 64 off spring of a certain cross between European horses, 34 were red, 10 were
black and 20 were white. According to a genetic model, these numbers should be in the ratio 9 :
3 : 4. Is the data consistent with the model at 5% level of significance ( )

Q21) The number of computer science books borrowed from a library during a particular week is
given below.

Day Mon Tue Wed Thurs Fri Sat

Number of 140 132 160 148 134 150
book borrowed

Test the hypothesis that the number of books borrowed does not depend on the day. Taking 5%
of level of significance ( )

Q22) 5000 candidate appeared in a certain exam carrying a maximum of 100. It was found that
marks were normally distributed with men 39.5 and S.D 12.5. Determine approximately the
number of students who secured a first class for which a minimum of 60 marks is necessary.

Vector Calculus

Q1) A curve is given by equations Find angle between

tangents to the curve at t=1 and t = 2.

Q2) Find the directional derivative of at (1, 1, 1 ) in the direction of tangent to

the curve

Q3) Show that the vector field is conservative and

find scalar field such that
Q4) If and C is the straight line joining (0,0) and (3,2), then calculate

Q5) A curve is given by equations 𝑥 = 𝑡 2 + 1 , 𝑦 = 4𝑡 − 3, 𝑧 = 2𝑡 2 − 6𝑡 .Find angle between

tangents to the curve at t=1 and t = 2.

Q6) Find the directional derivative of at (2,-1, 1)

(i) along the line 2(x-2) = (y+1) = (z-1)

(ii) along the direction normal the surface

Q7) If the D.D. of at (2, 1, 1) has maximum magnitude 12 in the

direction parallel to x axis find a,b,c.

Q8) Show that the vector field is conservative

(irrotational) and find scalar field such that

Q9) If the vector field (x+2y +az) i + (bx-3y-z)j +(4x+cy)k is irrotational, find a, b, c and
determine 𝜑 such that

Q10) Find the directional derivatives of at the point (1, 2, 3) in the direction
of 4i -2j +k. 𝜑 = 4𝑥𝑧 3 − 3𝑥 2 𝑦 2 𝑧

Q11) Find directional derivative of 𝜑 = 4𝑥𝑧 3 − 3𝑥 2 𝑦 2 𝑧 at (2, –1, 2) (i) towards the point i+j-
k. (ii) in the direction 2i + 3j +6k [Here towards the point i+j-k means towards the point 1,
1,-1]

Q12) Show that the vector field is

conservative (irrotational) and find scalar field such that

Q13) Find the directional derivative of at (1,-1, 1) along the vector i+2j+2k.

Q14) Find the directional derivative of at (1, 1, 1) along the vector i+2j+2k.

Q15) Find the directional derivative of at (2,-1, 1) along the vector i+2j+2k.
Q16) Show that the vector field is
conservative (irrotational) and find scalar field such that

Q17) If the directional derivative of = axy + byz + czx at (1, 1, 1) has maximum magnitude 4 in
a direction parallel to x-axis, find the values of a, b, c

Q18) Show that the vector field is conservative

(irrotational) and find scalar field such that

Q19) Find the work done in moving a particle once round the ellipse under the
field force .

Q20) Evaluate for along straight line joining (0, 0, 0) and

(2, 1, 3).

Q21) Using Green’s Lemma evaluate along the curve

C: x =1, y = x, y = 0.

Q22).Find the work done by the force field given by along the curve
from x = 0 to x = 2.

Q23) Show that the vector field is conservative

(irrotational) and find scalar field such that

24) Prove the following vector identities:-

𝑟̅ 2 𝑟̅ −2𝑟̅
a) ∇2 [∇. (𝑟2 ) = 𝑟4 . b) ∇ × [𝑎̅ × (𝑏̅ × 𝑟̅ )] = 𝑎̅ × 𝑏̅ . c) ∇ [∇. 𝑟 2 ] = 𝑟4

𝑏̅ ×𝑎̅ ̅ 𝑟̅ )
(𝑎. 6
d) 𝑏̅ × (∇(𝑎̅. ∇𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑟)) = − 2 (𝑏̅ × 𝑟̅ ) e) ∇4 (𝑟 2 𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑟) = .
𝑟2 𝑟4 𝑟2

𝑎̅.𝑟̅ 𝑎̅ ̅̅̅𝑟̅
(𝑎̅.𝑟) 1 ̅̅̅𝑟̅
3(𝑎̅.𝑟) 𝑎̅ ̅̅̅𝑟̅
2(𝑎̅.𝑟) 𝑎̅
f) ∇ ( 𝑟2 ) = −2 g) ∇ (𝑎.
̅ ∇ 𝑟) = − 𝑟3 h) ∇(𝑎.
̅ ∇𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑟) = − + 𝑟3
𝑟2 𝑟4 𝑟 5 2

1 𝑛(𝑛−2) 4
h) ∇. [𝑟∇ (𝑟𝑛 ) = (Also prove it by taking n =3) i) ∇4 𝑒 𝑟 = 𝑒 𝑟 + 𝑟 𝑒 𝑟
𝑟 𝑛+1
 Application of Partial Differential Equation

Q1) A string of length L is stretched and fastened to two ends. Motion is started by displacing

the string in the form u(x) = a sin ( ) from which it is released at t = 0. Find the displacement
u(x,t) from one end.

Q2) The temperature at any point of the insulated metal rod of one meter length is governed by
𝜕𝑢 2
2𝜕 𝑢
the differential equation:. = 𝑐 𝜕𝑥 2 Find u(x,t) subject to the following:
𝜕𝑡

i) u(0,t) = 0 0C ii) u(1,t) = 0 0C iii) u(x,0)= 500 C.

𝜕2 𝑢 𝜕2 𝑢
Q3) If = 𝑐 2 𝜕𝑥2 represents the vibration of the string of length l, fixed at both ends,
𝜕𝑡 2
find solution with the conditions

𝜕2 𝑢 2 𝜕2 𝑢
i) y(0,t)= 0, ii) y(l,t) =0, = 𝑐
𝜕𝑡 2 𝜕𝑥 2

( iii) iv) y(x,0) = k(lx – x2 ) , 0< x<l.

𝜕𝑢 𝜕2 𝑢
Q4) Solve = 𝑐 2 𝜕𝑥 2
𝜕𝑡

(𝑖)𝑖𝑓 𝑢(𝑥, ∞) = 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒 ∀ 𝑥 (𝑖𝑖)𝑢(0, 𝑡) = 0 ∀ 𝑡 (iii)𝑢(𝑙, 𝑡) =

0∀𝑡 (𝑖𝑣)𝑢(𝑥, 0) = 20𝑥 0 < 𝑥 < 𝐿.

Q5) An infinite long uniform metal plate is enclosed between lines y = 0 and y = l for x> 0 .The
temperature is 0 along the edges y = 0 , y = l and at infinity.If the edges x = 0 is kept at a
constant temperature u0. Find the temperature distribution u(x, y).