Final Assessment Test (FAT) – May 2017

Course: MAT2001 - Statistics for Engineers

Class NBR(s):4445 / 4533 / 4535 Slot: E1+TE1
Time: Three Hours Max. Marks: 100
Statistical Tables are permitted

5 X 20 = 100 Marks)
Answer any FIVE Questions
1. a) A study of the effects of smoking on sleep patterns is conducted. The measure observed is the time, in
minutes, that takes to fall asleep. These data are obtained:
Smokers 69.3 56.0 22.1 47.6 53.2 48.1 52.7 34.4 60.2 43.8 23.2 13.8
Non- 28.6 25.1 26.4 34.9 29.8 28.4 38.5 30.2 30.6 31.8 41.6 21.1 36.0 37.9 13.9
smokers

(i) Find the sample mean for each group. [4]

(ii) Find the standard deviation for each group. [4]
(iii) Comment on what kind of impact smoking appears to have on the time required to fall asleep. [2]

b) The kilo meters X in thousands which car owners get with a certain kind of tyre is a random variable
having probability density function:
1
( ) = 20 , >0
0 , ≤0
Find probabilities that one of these tyres will last
[3]
(i) at most 10,000 kms,
[4]
(ii) anywhere from 16,000 to 24,000kms
[3]
(iii) at least 30,000 kms

2. Suppose that two dimensional continuous random variable (X,Y) has joint probability density function
given by:
6 , 0 < < 1, 0 < < 1
( , )=
0, ℎ
(i) Verify that ∫ ∫ ( , ) =1 [5]
Find (ii) (0 < < , < < 2) [5]
[5]
Find (iii) ( > ) and
[5]
Find (iv) ( < 1 / < 2)

3. a) The fraction X of male runners and the fraction Y of female runners who compete in marathon races are [10]
8 , 0≤ ≤ ≤1
described by the joint density function ( , ) =
0, ℎ
Find the covariance and correlation coefficient of X and Y.

b) The probability that a patient recovers from a rare blood disease is 0.4. If 15 people are known to have [10]
contacted this disease, what is the probability that (a) atleast 10 survive, (b) from 3 to 8 survive and (c)
exactly 5 survive?

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4. a) Obtain the equations of two lines of regression for the following data. Also, estimate of X for Y=70. [12]
X 65 66 67 67 68 69 70 72
Y 67 68 65 68 72 72 69 71

b) Based on extensive testing, it is determined that the time Y in years before a major repair is required for [8]
certain washing machine is characterized by the density function
1
( )= 4 , ≥0
0, ℎ
(i) Find ( > 6)
(ii) What is the probability that a major repair is required in the first year?
5. a) The television picture tubes of manufacturer A have mean life time of 6.5 years and a standard [10]
deviation of 0.9 year, while those of manufacturer B have a mean lifetime 6.0 years and a standard
deviation of 0.8 year. What is the probability that a random sample of 36 tubes from manufacturer A
will have a mean life time that is at least 1 year more than the mean life time of a sample of 49 tubes
from manufacturer B?
b) A die is thrown 9,000 times and a throw of 3 or 4 is observed 3,240 times. Show that the die cannot be [10]
regarded as an unbiased one and find the limits between which the probability of a throw of 3 or 4 lies.
6. a) The heights of 10 males of a given locality are found to be 70,67,62,68,61,68,70,64,64,66 inches. Is it [10]
reasonable to believe that the average height is greater than 64 inches? Test at 5% significance level
assuming that for 9 degrees of freedom P(t>1.83)=0.05.
b) A manufacturer of car batteries guarantees that the batteries will last, on average, 3 years with a [10]
standard deviation of 1 year. If five of those batteries have lifetimes 1.9,2.4,3.0,3.5 and 4.2 years,
should the manufacturer still be convinced that the batteries have a standard deviation of 1 year?
Assume that the battery lifetime follows a normal distribution.
7. a) The lifetime of a component is modeled by a Weibull distribution with distribution function [8]
( ) = 1− . Starting with a large number of components, it is observed that 15% of the
components that have lasted 90 hours fail before 100 hours. Determine the parameter .
b) Assuming that the life of a given subsystem, in the wear-out phase, is normally distributed with [6+6]
µ=10,000 hours and σ=1,000 hours, determine the reliability for an operating time of 500 hours given
that (i) the age of the component is 9,000 hours (ii) the age of the component is 11,000 hours.

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