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VARDHAMAN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

(AUTONOMOUS)
II B.Tech I/II Semester Regular Examinations
(Regulations: VCE-R22)
COMPUTER ORIENTED STATISTICAL METHODS
(CSM,CSD,CSE,IT)
Date: XX /XX/XX Time: 3 Hours Maximum Marks: 60
Answer all questions at one place only.
Course Outcomes with Bloom’s Levels:
Bloom’s
CO# CO Statement
Level (L#)
CO1 Identify an appropriate probability distribution for a given discrete or continuous
L3
random variable and compute probabilities
CO2 Make use of probability distributions to analyze and solve a given problem L3
CO3 Interpret correlation coefficient in context and study regression analysis and apply
L3
statistical methods for analyzing experimental data.
CO4 Inspect scientific hypothesis and estimate confidence intervals at different levels. L4
CO5 Compute P-value of a test statistics using component of hypothesis test L4
Questions:
PART-A (Short Answer Type Questions)
BL Mar
CO#
# ks
1 a) Three newspapers A, B and C are published in a certain city. It is estimated CO1 L3 1M
. from a survey that of the adult population: 20% read A, 16%read B, 14%
read C, 8% read both A and B, 5% read both A and C, 4% read both B and C,
2% read all three. Find what percentage read at least one of the papers?
b) 30 x 4 (1  x), 0  x  1 CO1 L2 1M
Prove that f ( x)   is a p.d.f.
0, elsewhere
c) If X is uniformly distributed with mean 1 and variance 4 3 . CO2 L2 1M
Find P ( X  0) .
d) The mean and variance of a binomial distribution are 2 and 8/5. Find n. CO2 L2 1M
e) Given the following data, calculate the expected value of Y when X  12 CO3 L2 1M

X Y
Average 7.6 14.8
Standard deviation 3.6 2.5
r  0.9
f) Find the value of the finite population correction factor for n  10 and CO3 L2 1M
N  1000
g) What is the maximum error one can expect to make with probability 0.95 CO4 L2 1M
when using the mean of a random sample of size n=64 to estimate the
mean of population with variance 2.56
h) What is Type I error. CO4 L2 1M
i) A random sample of size 16 values from a normal population showed a CO4 L3 1M
mean of 53 and a sum of squares of deviations from the mean equals to
150. Obtain 95% confidence limits of the mean of the population.
 j) Two random samples gave the following results:
Sum of squares of deviations
Sample Size Sample mean
from the mean
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1 10 15 90
2 12 14 108
Find test statistic F?
PART-B (Descriptive Questions)
2. a) Box I contain 10 white and 3 black marbles while Box II contains 3 white CO2 L3 5M
and 5 black marbles. Two marbles are drawn at random from Box I and
placed in Box II. Then one marble is drawn at random from Box II. What is
the probability that it is a white marble?
b) A random variable X has the following probability function CO2 L3 5M

x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
P(x) K 3K 5K 7K 9K 11K 13k
(i)Determine K (ii) Find mean and Variance
(iii) Find P  X  4 , P  3  x  6
(OR)
c) A can hit a target 3 times in 5 shots, B hits target 2 times in 5 shots and C CO2 L3 5M
can hit 3times in 4 shots. Find the probability of the target being hit when
all them try.
d) If the probability density of a random variable is given by CO2 L3 5M

 k (1  x 2 ), for 0  x  1
f ( x)  
 0, otherwise

Find the value of k and the probability that a random variable having this
probability density will take on a value (i) between 0.1 and 0.2 (ii) greater
than 0.5.

3 a) If the probability that an individual suffers a bad reaction from a certain CO3 L3 5M
. injection is 0.001, determine the probability that out of 2000 individuals (i)
exactly 3 (ii) more than 2 individuals (iii) none (iv) more than one individual
suffer a bad reaction.
b) In a sample of 1000 cases, the mean of a certain test is 14 and standard CO3 L3 5M
deviation is 2.5. Assuming the distribution to the normal, how many
students score (i)between 12 and 15 (ii) above 18 (iii) below 18?
(OR)
c) Fit a Binomial Distribution to the following data: CO3 L3 5M

x 0 1 2 3 4 5
f ( x) 38 144 342 287 164 25
d) In a Normal distribution 7% of the items are under 35 and 89% are under CO3 L3 5M
63. Determine the mean and variance of the distribution

4. a) Calculate Karl Pearson’s coefficient of correlation from the following: CO4 L3 5M

Height of father(inches) 65 66 67 68 69 71 73
Height of son(inches) 67 68 64 72 70 69 70
 b) Determine equation of a straight line which best fit the data CO4 L3 5M
X 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
Y 4 2 5 10 4 11 12
(OR)
c) The following table gives the score obtained by 11 students in Science and CO4 L3 5M
Maths. Find the rank correlation coefficient

Science 40 46 54 60 70 80 82 85 85 90 95

Mathematics 45 45 50 43 40 75 55 72 65 42 70

d) A population consists of six numbers 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24. Consider all CO4 L3 5M
possible samples of size two that can be drawn without replacement from
this population. Find
a) The population mean
b) The population standard deviation
c) The mean of the sampling distribution of means
d) The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of means

5. a) Two types of new cars produced are tested for petrol mileage, one sample CO4 L4 5M
is consisting of 42 cars averaged 15kmpl, while other sample is consisting
of 80 cars averaged 11.5 kmpl with population variances 2.0 and 1.5
respectively. Test whether there is any significant difference in the petrol
consumption of these two types of cars at 0.01 level.
b) 20 people were attacked by a disease and only 18 survived. Will you reject CO4 L3 5M
the hypothesis that the survival rate if attacked by this disease is 85% in
favor of the hypothesis that is more at 5% level.
(OR)
c) A manufacturer of electronic equipment subjects samples of two CO4 L4 5M
completing brands of transistors to an accelerated performance test. If 45
of 180 transistors of the first kind and 34 of 120 transistors of the second
kind fail the test, what can be concluded at 5% level of significance about
the difference between the corresponding sample proportions
d) A oceanographer wants to check whether the depth of the ocean in a CO4 L4 5M
certain region is 57.4 fathoms, as had previously been recorded. If
recordings taken at 40 random locations in the given region yielded a
sample mean of 59.1 fathoms with S.D 5.2 fathoms. What can be
concluded at the 5% l.o.s, to reject null hypothesis that the mean depth is
57.4 fathoms?

6. a) Two horses A and B were tested according to the time (in seconds) to run a CO5 L4 5M
particular track with the following results .

Horse A 28 30 32 33 33 29 34

Horse B 29 30 30 24 27 29 -

Test whether the two horses have the same running capacity.
b) The following random samples are measurements of the heat-producing CO4 L4 5M
capacity (in millions of calories per ton) of specimens of coal from two
mines:
Mine I 8260 8130 8350 8070 8340 ---

Mine II 7950 7890 7900 8140 7920 7840

Use the 5% l.o.s to test whether it is reasonable to assume that the

variances of the two populations samples are equal.
(OR)
c) In a certain experiment to compare two types of animals foods A and B, CO5 L4 5M
the following results of increase in weights were observed in animals:

Animal Number 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Total

Increase Food A 49 53 51 52 47 50 52 53 407

weight in lb Food B 52 55 52 53 50 54 54 53 423
Assuming that the two samples of animals are independent, can we
conclude that food B is better than food A.
d) CO5 L4 5M
Two sample polls of votes for two candidates A and B for a public office are
taken, one from among the residents of rural areas. The results are taken
in the below table. Examine whether the nature of the area is related to
voting preference in this election.

Votes for
Area Total
A B
Rural 620 380
1000
Urban 550 450
1000
Total 1170 830 2000

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