MALWA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Deptt. Of Mathematics
Unit-V
Assignment Sheet

Curve Fitting:-

Q.1 Fit a straight line to the following data:-

x: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
y: 9 8 10 12 11 13 14 16 15
Q.2 The results of measurement of electric resistance r of a copper bar at
various temperature t c are listed below:-
t: 19 25 30 36 40 45 50
R: 76 77 79 80 82 83 85
Find a relation R = a + bt when a and b are constants to be determined.
Q.3 Fit a second degree parabola to the following data:-
x : 20 40 60 80 100 120
y : 5.5 9.1 14.9 22.8 33.3 46.0
Q.4 The profit of a certain company in the x th year of its life are given by:-
x: 1 2 3 4 5
y : 1250 1400 1650 1950 2300
y −1650
Taking u = x − 3 and v= , show that the parabola of second degree
50
of y on x is y =1140 .05 + 72 .1x +32 .15 x 2
Q.5 Fit a second degree parabola to the following data:-
x : 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0
y : 1.1 1.3 1.6 2.6 2.7 3.4 4.1

Binomial Distribution:-

Q.6 Find the mean, variance and standard deviation of binomial distribution.
Q.7 Out of 800 families with 4 children each, how many families would be
expected to have:-
(i) 2 boys and 2 girls
(ii) at least 1 boy
(iii) no girl
(iv) at most 2 girls? Assume equal probabilities for boys and girls.
Q.8 In a bombing action there is 50% chance, that any bomb will strike the
target. Two direct hits needed to destroy the target completely. How many
bombs are required to be dropped to give a 99% chance or better of
completely destroying the target?
Q.9 The probability that a bomb dropped from a plane will strike the target
is 1/5. If six bombs are dropped, find the probability that:-
(i) exactly 2 will strike the target.
(ii) at least 2 will strike the target.
Q.10 Fit a binomial distribution to the following data and compare the
theoretical frequencies with actual ones:
x: 0 1 2 3 4 5
y: 2 14 20 34 22 8
Q.11 A set of 8 biased coins was tossed 256 times and the frequencies of
heads obtained are given below:-
No. of heads ( x ): 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8
Frequencies ( f ): 2 6 24 63 64 50 36 10 1
Fit a binomial distribution to this data and find theoretical frequencies.

Poisson Distribution:-

Q.12 Find the mean, variance and standard deviation of Poisson distribution.
Q.13 In a certain factory turning razor blades, there is a small chance of
0.002 for any blade to be defective. The blades are in packets of 10. Use
Poisson’s distribution to calculate the approximate no. of packets containing
no defective, 1 defective and 2 defective blades respectively in a
consignment of 50,000 packets.
Q.14 If the probability that an individual suffers a bad reaction from a
certain injection is 0.001, determine the probability that out of 2000
individuals
(i) exactly 3 (ii) more than 2 individuals
(iii) none (iv) more than 1 individuals
will suffer a bad reaction.
Q.15 A car-hire firm two cars, which it hires out day by day. The no. of
demands for a car on each day is distributed as a Poisson distribution with
mean 1.5. calculate the proportion of days on which neither car is used and
the proportion of days on which some demand is refused.
Q.16 Fit a Poisson’s distribution to the set of observations:-
R: 0 1 2 3 4
f : 122 60 15 2 1
Q.17 Fit a Poisson’s distribution to the set of observations:-
x: 0 1 2 3 4
f : 46 38 22 9 1
Q.18 In a sampling a large no. of parts manufactured by a machine, the
mean no. of defectives in a sample of 20 is 2 . Out of 1000 such samples,
how many would be expected to contain at least 3 defective parts?

Normal Distribution:-

Q.19 Write the properties of normal distribution.

Q.20 Prove that the points of inflexion of the normal curve are x = ±σ .
Q.21 Prove that in a normal distribution, all the moments of odd order about
the mean are vanish i.e., zero.
Q.22 Prove that in normal distribution mean deviation from mean is 4/5
times of its standard deviation.
Q.23 In a normal distribution 31% of the items are under 45 and 8% are over
64. Find the mean and standard deviation of the distribution.
Q.24 A sample of 100 dry battery cells tested to find the length of life
produced the following results:-
Mean x =12 hours, standard deviation σ = 3 hours.
Assuming the data to be normally distributed, what percentage of battery
cells are expected to have life:-
1.) More than 15 hours
2.) Less than 6 hours
3.) Between 10 and 14 hours
Q.25 Assuming that the diameters of 1000 brass plugs taken consecutively
from a machine from a normal distribution with mean 0.7515 cm. and the
standard deviation 0.0020 cm, how many of the plugs are likely to be
rejected, if the approved diameter is 0.752 ± 0.004 cm.
Q.26 Write a short note on “Theory of Reliability”, Decision Theory and
forecasting.
Q.27 Given a θ of 5000 hours and uniform failure rate, what is the
reliability associated with a specified service period of 200 hours?