H.T. No.

: Course Code: 231BS4T02

ADITYA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY (A)

B. Tech - IV Semester Regular Examinations,
PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS
(Common to CSE,IT,CSE-AIML,CSE-,IOT)
Time: 3 hours Max. Marks: 70
1. Answer all 10 questions from Section-A. Each question carries 2 marks.
2. Answer one question from each unit in Section-B. Each question carries 10 marks.

Section - A 10 × 2 = 20

1 a) Explain about Primary and Secondary data. CO1 L1 [2M]

b) Explain about Data Visualization. CO1 L1 [2M]
c) What are the normal equations to fit the straight line y =a+bx CO2 L1 [2M]
d) Write the formulae of Coefficient of correlation. CO2 L1 [2M]
e) Write two properties of Normal distribution. CO3 L1 [2M]
f) Define Discrete random variable. CO3 L2 [2M]
g) Define Point estimation. CO4 L2 [2M]
h) Define Population and Sample with one example. CO4 L2 [2M]
i) Define Type-I and Type – II error. CO5 L2 [2M]
j) Define Null hypothesis. CO5 L2 [2M]

Section - B 5 × 10 = 50
UNIT-I
2 a) Find the mean deviation of the following frequency distribution CO1 L3 [5M]
Class 0-4 4-8 8-12 12-16 16-20 20-24
interval
Frequency. 8 12 35 25 13 7
b) Calculate Karl Pearson’s coefficient of skewness for the CO1 L3 [5M]
following data: 25,15,23,40,27,25,23,25,20.
OR
3 a) Find the variance and standard deviation of the following CO1 L2 [5M]
data:5,12,3,18,6,8,2,10.
b) Find the Median from the following data. CO1 L2 [5M]
Marks 10-25 25-40 40-55 55-70 70-85 85-
100
Frequency 6 20 44 26 3 1
UNIT-II

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 4 a) The heights of mothers and daughters are given in the following CO2 L3 [5M]
table. From the two tables of regression find the equations of
two regression lines and estimate the expected average height of
daughter when the height of the mother is 64.5 inches.
Height 62 63 64 64 65 66 68 70
of
mother
Height 64 65 61 69 67 68 71 65
of
daughter
b) Fit the curve of the form y = aebx CO2 L3 [5M]
x 77 100 185 239 285
y 2.4 3.4 7.0 11.1 19.6

OR

5 a) Fit a straight line for the following data CO2 L3 [5M]

x 0 1 2 3 4
y 1 1.8 3.3 4.5 6.3
b) Calculate coefficient of correlation from the following data CO2 L3 [5M]
X 12 9 8 10 11 13 7
Y 14 8 6 9 11 12 3
UNIT-III
K6 a) In a bolt factory machines A,B,C manufacture 20%,30%and CO3 L3 [5M]
50% of the total of their output and 6%,3% and 2% are
defective. A bolt is drawn at random and found to be defective.
Find the probabilities that it is manufactured from (i) Machine
A.
b) The mean and standard deviation of the marks Obtained by CO3 L3 [5M]
1000 students in an examination are respectively 34.5 and 16.5.
Assuming the normality of the distribution, find the
approximate number of students expected to obtain marks
between 30 and 60
OR
7 a) Out of 800 families with 5 children each, how many would you CO3 L3 [5M]
expect to have (a) 3 boys (b) 5 girls. Assume equal probabilities
for boys and girls.
b) For discrete probability distribution CO3 L3 [5M]
X 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
F 0 2K 2K 3K K2 2K2 7K2+K
Find I) K II) Mean III) Variance

UNIT-IV
8 a) A random sample of size 100 is taken from an infinite population CO4 L3 [5M]
having the mean µ =76 and the variance 𝜎 =256 what is the
probability that 𝑥̅ will be between 75 and 78.
b) What is the maximum error one can expect to make with CO4 L3 [5M]
probability 0.90 when using the mean of a random sample of size
n = 64 to estimate the mean of population with 𝜎 = 2.56

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 OR
9 a) A Population consists of five numbers2,3,6,8,11. Consider all CO4 L3 [5M]
possible samples of size two which can be drawn without
replacement from this population. Find(a) The mean of the
population(b) The mean of the sampling distribution of means
and(c) The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of
means.
b) A random sample of size 81 was taken whose variance is 20.25 CO4 L2 [5M]
and means is 32, construct 98% confidence interval.
UNIT-V
10 a) According to the norms established for a mechanical aptitude CO5 L3 [5M]
test, persons who are 18 years old have an average height of 73.2
with a S.D of 8.6. If 4 randomly selected persons of that age
averaged 76.7,test the hypothesis 𝜇 = 73.2 against the alternative
hypothesis 𝜇 > 73.2 at the 0.01 level of significance.
b) In a big city 325 men out of 600 men were found to be smokers. CO5 L3 [5M}
Does this information support the conclusion that the majority of
men in this city are smokers.
OR
11 a) The nicotine contents in milligrams in two samples of tobacco CO5 L3 [10M]
were found to be as follows:
Sample 24 27 26 21 25 ----
A
Sample 27 30 28 31 22 36
B
Can it be said that the two samples have come from the same
normal population.

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IMPORTANT TOPICS AND MARKS DISTRIBUTION IN PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS

S.No TOPIC

UNIT-1
1 (a).Problems on mean, median, mode for grouped data and ungrouped data
(b).Problems on mean deviation about the (a).mean (b)median

2 (a).Variance and Standard deviation for grouped data and ungrouped data
(b).Problems on Karl Pearson’s coefficient of correlation and Kurtosis
3 (a).Explain about Primary and Secondary data
(b).Explain about Data Visualization
(c).Data science and its applications
(d).Population and samples
UNIT-2

1 (a).Problems on Rank correlation and correlation coefficient

(b).Problems on Regression lines
2 (a).fitting a straight line or fit an equation of the form y = a + bx
(b).fitting a parabola, second degree polynomial or an equation of the form𝑦 = 𝑎𝑥 2 + 𝑏𝑥 + 𝑐.
(c). fitting an exponential function or equation of the form 𝑦 = 𝑎𝑒 𝑏𝑥
(d).fitting a power function or an equation of the form 𝑦 = 𝑎𝑏 𝑥 .

UNIT-3

1 (a).Problems on Probability
(b).Problems on conditional probability and Baye’s theorem.
(c).problems on discrete probability functions and continuous probability functions.

2 (a).problems on Binomial Distribution

(b).Problems on Poisson Distribution
(c).Problems on normal Distribution
UNIT-4

1 (a).Problems on population mean, Population S.D, mean of sampling distribution of means, S.D

2 (a).Problems on Central limit theorem

(b).Explain about Point Estimation and interval Estimation
(c).Problems on Maximum error and confidence interval

UNIT-5

1 (a).Problems on Z test for one mean and two means for large samples
(b).Problems on single proportion and two proportions

2 (a).Problems on t test for one mean and two means.

(b).Problems on F-test
( c) .Problems on chi-square test