REVIEW OF STATISTICAL CONCEPTS: ASSIGNMENT

1. Consider the salaries (in thousands of rupees) of a group of business executives:

177, 54, 98, 57, 209, 56, 45, 98, 58, 90, 116, 42, 142, 152, 85, 53, 52, 85, 72, 45, 168, 47,
93, 49, 79, 145, 149, 60, 58
a. Construct a histogram of this data set. b. Describe the distribution shape.
c. Draw cumulative distribution.
2. The data for actual number of cups, which can be made from 20 different brands of packets of same
weight, is given below.
11.0 10.5 9.0 11.0 8.5 8.5 8.5 10.5 9.5 9.0 11.5 10.5
11.0 9.0 9.5 11.0 9.5 11.0 9.0 10.5
a. Find the median number of cups from these coffee makers.
b. What is the mode and Mean for this distribution?

3. The time required to assemble an electronic component is normally distributed with a mean of 12
minutes and a standard deviation of 1.5 minutes.
a, Find the probability that a particular assembly takes more than 14.25 minutes.
b. What is the probability that the assembly time is between 12 to 16 minutes?

4. A car-hire firm has two cars, which are hired out everyday. The number of demands for a car on each
day is distributed as a Poisson variate with mean 1.5.
a. What is the proportion of days on which neither car is used?
b. What is the proportion of the days on which a demand can not be met due to lack of cars?
5. A manufacturing process produces semiconductor chips with a known failure rate of 20%. Assume that
chip failures are independent of one another. You will be producing 100 chips tomorrow
a. What is the name of probability distribution of the number of defective chips produced tomorrow?
b. Find the expected value and standard deviation of number of defective chips Produced
c. Find the expected proportion and standard deviation of proportion of defective chips produced
d. Find the probability that there is no defective chip tomorrow
e. Find the probability that you will produce fewer than 98 chips tomorrow

6. Consider the following data, which is the number of traffic accidents involving children within two
kilometres of schools, listed by days of the week.

Day No. of accidents (Observed)

Monday 23
Tuesday 18
Wednesday 17
Thursday 19
Friday 23
Test the hypothesis at χ 0.10, 4 = 7.78 (as obtained from the χ table).
2 2

H0: There are the same number of accidents each day of the week
versus
H1: There are not the same number of accidents each day of the week.

7. A new casino game involves rolling 3 dice together. The winnings are directly proportional to the total
number of sixes rolled. Suppose a gambler plays the game 100 times, with the following observed
counts:
Number of Sixes Number of Rolls
0 48
1 35
2 15
3 3
The casino becomes suspicious of the gambler and wishes to determine whether the dice are fair. What
do they conclude? Test an appropriate hypothesis at χ20.05, 3 = 7.815 (as obtained from the χ2 table).