Reg. No.

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Karunya University
(Declared as Deemed to be University under Sec.3 of the UGC Act, 1956)

Trimester Examination September / October 2009

Subject Title:
Subject Code:

QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES
MS3118

Time : 3 hours
Maximum Marks: 100

Answer ALL questions (5 x 20 = 100 Marks)

1.

Case study: (Compulsory)

a. Make a frequency table having grades of wages with class-interval of two rupees each
from the following data of daily wages received by 30 labourers in a certain factory.
Daily wages in rupees are: 14, 16, 16, 14, 22, 13, 15, 24, 12, 23, 14, 20, 17, 21, 22, 18,
18, 19, 20, 17, 16, 15, 11, 12, 21, 20, 17, 18, 19, and 23.
b. Draw the histogram for the above data.
c. Find the mean, median and hence the mode for the above data.

a.

b.

3.

a.

b.

A lot contains 15 castings from a local supplier and 25 castings from a supplier in the
next state. Two castings are selected randomly, without replacement, from the lot of 40.
Let A be the event that the first casting selected is from the local supplier, and let B
denote the event that the second casting selected is from the local supplier.
Determine: (i) P (A), (ii) P (B/A), (iii) P (AB) and (iv) P (AB).
An assembly consists of three mechanical components. Suppose that the probabilities that
the first, second, and third components meet specifications are 0.95, 0.98 and 0.99.
Assume that the components are independent. Determine the probability mass function
of the number of components in the assembly that meet specifications.
(OR)
The supervisor of group of 20 construction workers wants to get the opinion of 2 of them
(to be selected at random) about certain new safety regulations. If 12 workers favour the
new regulations and other 8 are against them, what is the probability that
i.
both of the workers chosen by the supervisor will be against the new regulations
and
ii. one of them selected at random will be against the safety regulations..
Explain why there must be a mistake in each of the following statements:
i. The probability that a mineral sample will contain silver is 0.8 and the Probability
that it will not contain silver is 0.52.
ii. The probability that a drilling operation will be a success is 0.34 and that it will not
be success is 0.66.
iii. An air conditioning repair person claims that the probability is 0.82 that the
compressor is all right, 0.64 that the fan motor is all right and 0.41 that they are both
all right.
iv. The probability that a student will get an A in a geology course is 0.3, and probability
that he or she will get either an A or B is 0.27.
v. A company is working on the construction of two shopping centers, the probability
that the larger one will be completed on time is 0.35 and probability that both will be
completed on time is 0.42.
[P.T.O]

a.

During one stage in the manufacture of IC chips, a coating must be applied. If 70% of
chips receive a thick enough coating, find the probabilities that, among 15 chips,
i.
at least 1 will have thick enough coatings,
ii.
at most 1 will have thick enough coatings and
iii.
exactly 1 will have thick enough coatings.
(12)
b. Explain the normal distribution and its application in business administration.
(8)
(OR)
5. The life of a semiconductor LASER at a constant power is normally distributed with a mean
of 7000 hours and a standard deviation of 600 hours.
a. What is the probability that a LASER fails before 5000 hours?
b. What is the life in hours that 95% of the LASERs exceed?
c. If three LASERs are used in a product and they are assumed to fail independently, what is
the probability that all three are still operating after 7000 hours?
6

a.
b.

7.

a.

b.

8.

9.

Explain Type I and Type II error with an examples.

The advertised claim for batteries for cell phones is set at 48 operating hours, with proper
charging procedures. A study of 5000 batteries is carried out and 15 stop operating prior
to 48 hours. Do these experimental results support the claim that less than 0.2 percent of
the companys batteries will fail during the advertised time period, with proper charging
procedures? Use a hypothesis-testing procedure with 1% level of significance.
(OR)
Medical researchers have developed a new artificial heart constructed primarily of
titanium and plastic. The heart will last and operate almost indefinitely once it is
implanted in the patients body, but the battery pack needs to be recharged about every
four hours. A random sample of 50 battery packs is selected and subjected to a life test.
The average life of these batteries is 4.05 hours. Assume that battery life is normally
distributed with standard deviation 0.2 hour. Is there evidence to support the claims that
mean battery life exceeds 4 hours? Use = 0.05.
A random sample of 500 adult residents of Maricopa County found that 385 were in
favour of increasing the highway speed limit to 75 mph, while another sample of 400
adult residents of Pima County found that 267 were in favour of the increased speed
limit. Do these data indicate that there is a difference in the support for increasing the
speed limit between the residents of the two countries? Use = 0.05.

The following marks have been obtained by a class of students in Economics and Statistics.
Find the two regression equations. Estimate the most likely marks in Statistics when marks in
Economics are 30.
Marks in Economics :
25 28 35 32 31 36 29 38 34 32
Marks in Statistics
:
43 46 49 41 36 32 31 30 33 39
(OR)
A sample of 12 fathers and their eldest sons have the following data about their heights in
inches. Calculate the rank correlation coefficient and comment on it.
Heights of father
:
65 63 67 64 68 62 70 66 68 67 69 71
Heights of son
:
68 66 68 65 69 66 68 65 71 67 68 70