Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani K.K.

Birla Goa Campus

First Semester 2023-2024
Comprehensive Examination (Closed Book)
Course No: MATH F113 Probability & Statistics Max. Mark: 45
Date: 14/12/2023 PART-A Time: 1 Hour 30 Minutes

Name ID No. Marks Awarded

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Instructions: (1) There are 15 questions for three marks each. Each question is provided with four
alternative answers, out of which one is correct. There is no negative marking. (2) Encircle (O) the correct
choice in question paper cum answer sheet itself. (3) Any rough work should be done on the back of the
main answer sheet.
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1. Aand B throw alternatively a pair of unbiased six-sided dice. A wins if he throws a sum of six points
before B throws a sum of seven points, and B wins if he throws sun of seven points before A throws
a sum of six points. If A begins the game, then the probability of his winning is
(C) 0.2824 (D) none of these.
(A) 0.8611 B))0.4918
2. Suppose that we have 3 cards identical in form exccpt that both sides of the first card are colored red,
both sides of the second card are colored black, and one side of the third card is colored red and the
other side black. The 3 cards are mixed up in a hat, and 1 card is randomly selected and put down
on the ground. If thc upper side of the chosen card is colored red,then the probability that the other
side colored black is
(A) 1/2 (B) 1/6 (O)1/3 (D)none of these.

3. An urn contains 7 white and 3black balls. Two balls are drawn simultancously from this urn, then
expected number of white balls drawn is
(A) 8/5 (B)7/5 (C) 7/15 (D) none of these.

4. If the revenue that company ABC makes in a week is a random variable X, with moment generating
function Mx(t) = (1-2500t)-4,then the standard deviation of the revenue that company ABC makes
in a week is
(A)5000000 (B) 1000000 (C) 25000000 (D) none of these

5. A telecommunications company has discovered that users arc three timcs as likely to make two-minute
calls as to make four-minute calls. The length of a typical call has a Poisson distribution then the
expected length (in minutes) of a typical call is
A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 6 (D) none of these.

6. Let Ss0o denotes the sum of the outcomes on the downturned face of a fair tetrahedron tosscd 500 times.
If1,2,3,4 are possible outcomes of each toss of a tetrahedron, then approximation to PS500 < 1275) is
(A)0.84. (B) 0.16 (C) 0.32 (D) none of these.

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 7. If arandom sample {X1, X2, ,X} is drawn from a Gamma distribution with parameters a and B,
then the method of moments estimator of B, is
1
(A) n-1
i=l
(B)x?. i=1 i=1
(D) none of these.

8. Let {X1, X3,** , Xj00} be a random sample from N(,25). Ifthep-value of atest Ho := 10 against
H, :>10 is given by 0.1, then the valuc of the sample mean is
(A) 9.36 B) 10.64 (C) 11.28 (D) none of these.

9. A normal population has a standard deviation of 16. The critical region for testing HÍ : = 5 against
the alternative H, : u> 5 is X>k-2. The value of constant k and the sarmple sizen which would
allow the probability of type-I error to be 0.0228 and the probability of type-lIerror to be 0.16 while
true u is k, are
A) n = 64, k = 11 (B) n = 4, k = 11 (C) n = 12, k=7 (D)nonme of these.

10. If for a sample of size n, a nul hypothesis Ho :=o against the alternative H,:pois rejected
at a = 10% level of significance(LOS), then for the same sample
(A)it will not be rejected at 15% LOS. B it will be rejected at 12% LOS.
(C) it will not be rejected at 2% LOS. (D) none of these.

11. Asample of 20 cigarettes is tested to determine nicotine content and the average value observed was
1.98 mg with sample standard deviation 0.04 mg. Assuming nornal population, avalue of cfor which
we can assert with 99.5% confidence that cis larger than the mean nicotine content(D)
of none
a cigarette is
of thesc.
(A) 1.9904 (B) 2.0006 (C) 2.0056
12. An experiment was conducted in which two types of engines, A and B, were compared. Gas mileage,
in miles per gallon, was measured. Fifty experiments were conducted using engine type A and 75
experiments were donc for enginc typc B. The gasoline used and other conditions werc held constant.
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The average gas mileage for engËne A was 36 miles per gallon and the average for machine B was
miles per gallon. If populations for machines A and B are normal with standard deviations 6 and 8,
respectively, then a 90% confidence lower bound on uB - A, where uA and ug are population nean
gas mileage for machines A and B, respectively, is
(A) 4.7128 (B) 3.9429 (C) 4.3945 (D)none of these.

13. If_X~ U(0,1), and given X = 1, the random variable Y is U(0, z²), then E(XY) is
(B) 0.152 (C) 0.251 (D) none of these.
A) 0.125
14. Consider a true line Y;=1-2T;+ E;, E; ~ N(0, 49). Suppose a random samplc of size 7 is sclected,
which gives z = 25900,>,T; = 420. The probability that the slope of estimated line is less
then -1.5, is
B) 0.9706 (c) 0.9 (D) none of these.
(A) 0.9772
by X inchcs. If X has a
15. A box is to be constructcd so that tho height is 4 inches and its base is X
U(0, 1) distribution, then the density of the volume of the box is
AS)=4yi, 0<y<4. (B) f(y) = V, 0 <y<4.
(D)none of these.
fu)= G0<y<4.

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