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Statistics Quiz
if A and B are the two event of sample space S then what the following symbol signifies?
Only A
Only B
Either A or B or both
Either A or B
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It is required to place 7 white marble and 6 black marble in a row that the black marble occupies
the even places. How many possible arrangements can be made?
7!6!
3628800
Both a and b
None of them
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Among n=5 bottles coming of a filling line r1=2 have accepted fills (A) and r2=3 have
nonconforming fills (N). one possible sequence or permutation for the five bottles as they are
filled ANNNA. What is the Number of Permutation
5!/2!3!
10
Both a and b
None of them
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If we toss a coin 1000 times and find that it comes up with heads 645 times. What is the
probability of a head coming up?
645/1000
0.645
6.45
0.0645
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A card is drawn at a random from an ordinary deck of 52 playing cards. Find the probability of
picking a 10 or a spade
3/13
3/4
1/13
4/13
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Statistics II
if the x1,x2…..xn are the set of n numbers then the formula, x or µ = (X1+X2…………Xn)/n gives
us,
Median
Mean
Variance
Standard deviation
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If variance is denoted by б2 then which of the following is true for standard deviation,
√б
√ б^2
√2б
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Find the mean and median for the set of data { 10,20,30,40,50,60,70}
40, 40
40, 50
50, 50
None of above answers
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5.25
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Statistics III
A random variable that takes on a finite or countably infinite number of value is called….
Nondiscrete random variable
Discrete random variable
Both a and b of them
None of them
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Is the expression true or false for expectation theorem (If X and Y are random variables)
E(X+Y)=E(X)E(Y) E(XY)
True
False
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Suppose that a game is to be played with a single die assumed fair. In this game a player wins
120 $ if a 3 turns up, $60 if 4 turns up and losses $30 is 5 and 6 turns up. The player neither wins
nor do losses if any other face turns up. Which one of the following answer is sum of expected
money?
10
20
30
40
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theorem of variance: if µ=E(X) then the expression for the variance is б2= E{(X- µ)2}=E(X2)- µ=
E(X2)- {E(X)} 2
True
False
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Let X and Y be the random independent events of rolling a fair die. Compute the expected value
and variance of X and Y respectively.
5.8,7
7, 5.8
7.5,8
8.5,7.8
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Statistics IV
if x is a continuous random variable having probability density function f(x), then the variance is
given by
E[(X-µ)2]
Both a and b
None of the Answer
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A health system analyst obtained the probability distribution for the annual number of visit by
families to a clinic is as below.
Number of Visit (x) ProbabilityP(x)
0 0.37
1 0.40
2 0.15
3 0.05
Find the expected value of visit by each family.
9.7
0.97
0.097
1
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Statistics V
Let ‘p’ be the probability that an event will happen in any single Bernouli trail. Then q=1-p is the
probability that event will fail to happen in any single trail. The probability that the event will
happen exactly x time in n trails. Then what is the probability function
P(x)=
P(x)=
P(x)=
None of the above equation
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The special case of binomial distribution with n=1 is also called Bernouli distribution.
True
False
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Toss a fair coin 1000 times and count the number of heads that appear. What is the standard
deviation of the experiments?
5
250
15.8
51
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The wait X of a metal ingot producer in a smelter is normally distributed with the mean and
standard deviation of X being µ=520 pounds and σ=11.What is the probability that an ingot
weighting 525 pounds or less? (Use the table of cumulative probabilities and
percentiles of the standard normal distribution)
0.6763
0.6736
0.3676
0.7626
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Suppose that the population form which samples are taken has a probability
distribution with mean µ and variance σ2that is not necessarily a normal distribution.
Then the standardized variable associated with , given by,
True
False
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A team preparing a bid on an excavation project assesses that the lowest competitive
bid is a continuous uniform random variables X with a=$250 thousand and b=$300
thousand. Fin the probability that lowest competitive bid is between $250 thousand
and $270 thousand.
0.5
0.4
0.6
4
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The number of crimes occurring in a city district in the one hour period between 1
A.M and 2 A.M is a poisson random variables with λ=0.2. What is the probability that
no crime occurs during this period.
0.8718
0.8817
0.8187
0.7818
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The number of calls to a police dispatcher between 8:00 P.M and 8:30 pm on Friday is
a poison random variable X with λ= 3.5. what is the probability of two or fewer calls
during the period
0.0302
0.1850
0.3209
0.3219
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if n is large and if neither p or q (q=1-p) is too close to zero, the binomial distribution
can be closely approximated by a normal distribution with standardized random
variable given by,
True
False
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Find the probability of getting between 3 and 6 head inclusive in 10 tosses of a fair
coin by using the normal approximation to the binomial distribution.
0.7734
0.3289
0.4429
0.7718
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What are the condition that the binomial distribution is very closely approximated by
Poisson distribution
n is large and probability of occurrence of event is close to 1
n is small and probability of occurrence of event is close to 0
n is large and probability of occurrence of event is close to 1 or 0
n is large and probability p of occurrence of an event is close to 0
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A distance are measured as 27.3 inches and 15.6 inches with the standard deviation
(error) of 0.16 inches and 0.08 inches respectively. Determine the mean and the
standard deviation of the sum.
42.9 inches and 0.18 inches
11.7 inches and 0.18 inches
42.9 inches and 11.7 inches
None of the above answer
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Statistics VI
Five hundred ball bearings have a mean weight of 5,02oz and a standard deviation of
0,30oz find the probability that a random sample of 100 ball bearings chose from this
group will have a combined weight between 496 and 500oz.
Choose one of the answers below.
a = 0.2164 b = 0.3064 c = 0.4868 d = 0.2704
a
b
c
d
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It has been found that 2% of the tools produced by a certain machine are defective.
What is the probability that defection is 3% or more in a ship of 400 such tools?
Choose right solution or solutions below.
a)
b)
(a)
(b)
(a) and (b)
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(a) or (b) is called the sampling distribution of differences of the statistics.Which one?
(a) = S1 – S2
(b) = µ1 - µ2
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Statistics VII
A simple of measurements of the diameter of a sphere gave a mean 4.38 inches and standard
deviation 0.06 inch. Find 99 % confidence limits for the actual diameter. Choose one of the
answers.
(a) 4.38 + 0.00452
(b) 4.38 + 0.0650
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The variance for the difference of means is the same as the variance for the sum of means.
True
False
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Statistics VIII
Often we may be interested only in extreme values to one side of the mean, i.e., in tail of the
distribution, as for example, when we are testing the hypothesis that one process is better that
another. Such tests are called one-tailed tests or one-sided tests
True
False
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Scientists have two lakes who they want to compare. They have take few tests on pH-value on
each lake with same method
Lake 1: x1, x2, x3, x4, x5
Lake 2: y1, y2, y3, y4
(The test result is independent normal distributed random variable with µ1 for lake 1 and µ2 for
lake 2, same standard deviation for lake 1 and lake 2)
A confidence interval for µ1-µ2 with a confidence level of 95% is 0.40 + 0.43
True
False
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Scientists have two lakes who they want to compare. They have take few tests on pH-value on
each lake with same method
Lake 1: x1, x2, x3, x4, x5
Lake 2: y1, y2, y3, y4
(The test result is independent normal distributed random variable with µ1 for lake 1 and µ2 for
lake 2, same standard deviation for lake 1 and lake 2)
A confidence interval for µ1-µ2 with a confidence level of 95% is 0.40 + 0.43.
Should we reject H0 or accept if the level of significance is 0.05?
reject
accept
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The linear correlation coefficient may be positive or negative. If the r is positive, y tends to ……….
with x.
Increase
Decrease
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