PRACTICE QUESTIONS

ZIDD

THEORETICAL DISTRIBUTION

1. If x follows Binomial distribution with mean and SD as 10 and 6 respectively, then Mode of the distribution is
(A) 10
(B) 11
(C) 10 or 11
(D) Neither 10 nor 11

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2. If in a binomial distribution P(x = 3) = P(x = 5) and number of trials is 8, then p =
4

(A) 1/4
(B) 3/4
(C) 2/5
(D) 3/5

3. If (0.6+0.4)8 then P(x = at least 2) is

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4. In a Normal Distribution, if x = 47.5, z = 2.5 and x = 52.5, z = 3.5, then μ and σ.
(A) 40, 2.5
(B) 30, 5
(C) 35, 5
(D) 35, 2.5

(𝑥−22)2
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5. If F(x) = 𝑒− 50 , then Q3 of the distribution is
√50𝜋

(A) 22
(B) 25
(C) 18.62
(D) 25.37

6. If the demand of Umbrella in the rainy reason in a shop with mean 5 follows Poisson’s Distribution, then what is
the probability that on given day there will be demand of only 3 Umbrellas
(A) 10.39%
(B) 23.42%
(C) 19.91%
(D) 14.04%

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7. If x~P (2), then P(2.2 ≤ x ≤ 4.9) is
(A) 0.27
(B) 0.35
(C) 0.44
(D) 0.49

8. There are 200 students in a class and their average mark is 75 and S.D. of marks is 5. Number of students who
have secured more than 85 marks is (Given that area under the normal curve for z = 2 is 0.4772)
(A) 105
(B) 103
(C) 3
(D) 5

9. If the mean and SD of Normal distribution are 40 and 3 respectively, then the coefficient of Mean deviation is
(A) 6%
(B) 7.5%
(C) 9%
(D) Data Inadequate

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10. For a Binomial distribution mean is 4 and variance is 3, then 3 rd central moment is
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(A)
2
7
(B)
4
3
(C)
2
1
(D)
3

ANSWER KEY

1 A 2 C 3 A 4 C 5 D

6 D 7 A 8 D 9 A 10 C

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 Speed Test

1. Skewness of Normal Distribution is

2. If a Poisson distribution is such that P(X=2) = P(X=3) then the variance of the
distribution is
(A) √3 (B) 3 (C) 6 (D) 9

3. The Standard Deviation of Bin omial distribution is

4. In a Standard Normal distribution, then the value of the mean (μ) and standard
deviation (σ) is:
(A) μ = 0 and σ = 0 (B) μ = 0 and σ = 1
(C) μ = 1 and σ = 0 (D) μ = 1 and σ = 1

5. If mean and variance of a random variable which follows the Binomial Distribution are
7 and 6 respectively, then the probability of success is:
(A) 6/7 (B) 36/49 (C) 1/7 (D) 1/493

6. If 'x' and 'y' are independent normal variate with mean and Standard deviation μ 1 & μ2
and σ1 & σ2 respectively, then for z = x + y, which also follows normal distribution
mean and SD are:
(A) Mean = μ1 + μ2, SD= √𝜎12 + 𝜎22 (B) Mean = (μ1 + μ2)/2, SD = √𝜎12 + 𝜎22 /2
(C) Mean = μ1 ‒ μ2, SD = √𝜎12 − 𝜎22 (D) Mean = (μ1 ‒ μ2)/2, SD = √𝜎12 + 𝜎22 /2

7. For a binomial distribution the mean and standard deviation are 10 and 3
respectively. Find the value of n.
(A) 30 (B) 9 (C) 90 (D) 100

8. Between 9 AM and 10 AM, the average number of phone calls per minute coming into
the switchboard of a company is 4. Find the probability that during one particular
minute, there will be either 2 phone calls or no phone calls (given e–4 = 0.018316).
(A) 0.156 (B) 0.165 (C) 0.149 (D) 0.194
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9. If a Poisson distribution is such that P(x = 2) = P (x = 3), then the standard
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deviation of the distribution is:
(A) √3 (B) 3 (C) 2 (D) 1

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10. The incidence of skin diseases in a chemical plant occurs in such a way that the
workers have 20% chance of suffering from it. What is the probability that out of 6
workers 4 or more will have skin disease?
(A) 0.1696 (B) 0.01696 (C) 0.1643 (D) 0.01643

11. A company produces 5 defective items out of 300 items. The probability distribution
follows
(A) Binomial distribution (B) Normal distribution
(C) Poisson distribution (D) Standard normal distribution

12. The mean of Poisson distribution is 4. The probability of two successes is __________.
8 4 16 8
(A) 4 (B) 4 (C) 4 (D) 2
𝑒 𝑒 𝑒 𝑒

13. For a normal distribution, the ratio of mean deviation to the standard deviation is
_________.
(A) 0.4 (B) 0.6 (C) 0.8 (D) 1.0

14. For a binomial distribution, the variance is 0.2 and the mean is 0.6. The probability of
getting 3 successes out of a trial of 5 is
80 40 20 160
(A) 5 (B) 5 (C) 5 (D) 5
3 3 3 3

15. The number of accidents in a year attributed to taxi drivers in a locality follows
Poisson distribution with average 2. Out of 500 taxi drivers of that area, what is the
number of drivers with at least 3 accidents in a year? (Given that e = 2.718)
(A) 162 (B) 180 (C) 201 (D) 190

16. In a class of 100 students, the mean marks was 50 with standard deviation 14.9.
Assuming the distribution of marks to be normal, find the number of students who
obtained more than 70% marks [at Z=1.34, Area=0.4099].
(A) 10 (B) 9 (C) 8 (D) 7

17. If a random variable X follows Poisson distribution such that P(X=1)= P(X=2), then
the mean of the distribution is :
(A) 2 (B) 1 (C) 0 (D) ½

18. The quartile deviation of a normal distribution with Mean of 10 and Standard
Deviation of 4 is:
(A) 2.70 (B) 3.20 (C) 0.675 (D) 6.75

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19. If X and Y are 2 independent normal variables with mean as 10 and 12 and Standard
Deviation (S.D.) as 3 and 4 respectively, then (X + Y) is normally distributed with:
(A) Mean 22 and S.D.=7 (B) Mean 22 and S.D.=25
(C) Mean 22 and S.D.=5 (D) Mean 22 and S.D.= 49

20. Which of the following is a bi-parametric continuous probability distribution?

Answer Key – Speed Test

1 C 2 B 3 B 4 B 5 C

6 A 7 D 8 B 9 B 10 B

11 C 12 A 13 C 14 A 15 A

16 B 17 A 18 A 19 C 20 C