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PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS – I
(Also common to B.Sc. Maths with CA)
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
SECTION A — (10 × 2 = 20 marks)
Answer ALL the questions
1. What is the addition theorem of probability?
2. Define Mutually Exclusive Event.
3. What are the different types of random variables?
4. Write a probability distribution of discrete random
variable.
5. Write any two properties of characteristic
function.
6. State the Chebychev’s Inequality.
7. Define Correlation.
8. Write any two properties of correlation coefficient.
9. What is a Gamma distribution?
10. Define exponential distribution.
SECTION B — (5 × 7 = 35 marks)
Answer ALL the questions.
11. (a) A bag contains 4 white and 6 black balls.
Two balls are drawn at random. What is the
probability that (i) both are white (ii) both
are black (iii) one white and one black ball.
Or
(b) A company has three machines A, B, C which
produces 25%, 35% and 40% of the products
respectively. Their respective percentage of
defectives is 5, 4 and 2. One product is
chosen at random and found to be defective.
What is the probability that it has been
produced by machine A?
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12. (a) A random variable X has the following pdf
X: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
P(x) : a 3a 5a 7a 9a 11a 13a 15a 17a
(i) Find a
(ii) Find P (X < 3)
(iii) Find P (0 < X < 5)
Or
(b) Find the moment generating function
of the rectangular distribution with pdf
1
f (x ) = , a < x < b.
b−a
13. (a) Obtain the characteristic function of the
Binomial distribution.
Or
(b) A random variable X has the density
function e − x , (0 ≤ x < ∞ ). Use Chebychev’s
inequality to obtain a lower bound to the
probability of the inequality − 1 ≤ X ≤ 3 and
compare it with the actual value.
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14. (a) Calculate the coefficient of correlation for the
following data :
X: 1 3 5 8 9 10
Y : 3 4 8 10 12 11
Or
(b) The following are the ranks obtained by 10
students in Statistics and Mathematics
Statistics : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Mathematics : 1 4 2 5 3 9 7 10 6 8
Find the rank correlation coefficient.
15. (a) If 3% of the electric bulbs manufactured by a
company are defective, find the probability
that in a sample of 100 bulbs exactly five
( )
bulbs are defective e −3 = 0.0498 .
Or
(b) A Poisson distribution has a double mode at
x = 1 and x = 2. What is the probability that x
will have one or the other of these two
values?
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SECTION C — (3 × 15 = 45 marks)
Answer ALL the questions.
(Question Number. 16 is Compulsory)
16. A bag contains 6 white and 9 black balls. Four
balls are drawn at a time. Find the probability for
the first drawn to give 4 white and the second to
give 4 block balls in each of the following cases:
(a) The balls are replaced before the second draw,
(b) The balls are not replaced before the second
draw.
17. (a) A continuous random variable has the pdf
6x (1 − x ), 0 ≤ x ≤ 1
f (x ) = .
0, otherwise
Determine a number b such that
P (X < b ) = P (X > b ) .
Or
(b) Define Characteristic function. Obtain the
characteristic function of the Poisson
distribution and also find its mean and
variance.
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18. (a) Find the Regression line of X on Y and Y on
X, for the following data.
X 65 66 67 67 68 69 70 72
Y 67 68 65 68 72 72 69 71
Or
(b) The life of electronic tubes of a certain type
may be assumed to be normally distributed
with mean 155 hours and standard deviation
19 hours. What is the probability (i) that the
life of a randomly chosen tube is between 136
hours and 174 hours. (ii) that the life of a
randomly chosen tube is less than 117 hours
and (iii) that the life of a randomly chosen
tubes will be more than 395 hours.
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