Q101. In a town there are 4 crossroads with traffic. Each traffic light opens or closes the traffic with the same probability of 0.5, then the probability of a car crossing all the crossroads 4 without stopping is:
A 0.05
B 0.0625
C 0.025
D 0.0125
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Correct answer: 0.0625
Q102. The value of k for the probability density function of a variate X is equal to: X 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 P(X) k 2k 4k 6k 7k 8k 11k
A 0
B 1
C 1/39
D 1/35
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Correct answer: 1/39
Q103. To create a code for each employee in a Company, 5 letters (A to E) and 10 digits (0 to 9) can be used. A Code consists of 3 letters followed by 3 digits. What is the probability that all the three letters are same in the code?
A 1/25
B 1/125
C 72/12500
D 72/2500
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Correct answer: Discrepancy / answer not specified in source
Q104. In an experiment with 15 observations on 'x' the following results are available ∑ ∑ ∑x2 = 2830, ∑ ∑x = 170. One observation that was 20, was found to be wrong and was replaced by correct value 30. What is the correct variance?
A 186
B 158
C 18
D 78
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Correct answer: 78
Q105. Find the minimum number of students required in a class to be sure that three of them are born in the same month.
A 20
B 25
C 15
D 10
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Correct answer: 25
Q106. Two numbers 'a' and 'b' are selected successively without replacement in that order from the integers 1 to 10. The probability that a/b is an integer is:
A 17/45
B 8/45
C 17/90
D 1/5
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Correct answer: 17/90
Q107. Which of the following inequalities is useful for interpreting variance?
A Chebyshev
B Statutory
C All of the given options
D Testory
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Correct answer: Chebyshev
Q108. Conditions such as large sample size to represent the population and random drawing of samples are included in:
A the Principle of Inertia
B the Principle of Sampling Error
C the Principle of Statistical Regularity
D the Principle of Statistical Irregularity
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Correct answer: the Principle of Statistical Regularity
Q109. Variables of linear equations are implicitly raised to:
A Third Power
B Fourth Power
C First Power
D Second Power
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Correct answer: First Power
Q110. Two unbiased coins are tossed. What is the probability of at most one tail?
A 1/2
B 1/3
C 3/2
D 3/4
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Correct answer: 3/4
Q111. Which of the following is one of the categories of statistical methods?
A Industry statistics
B Decision science
C Managerial statistics
D Inferential statistics
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Correct answer: Inferential statistics
Q112. What is a measure of spread of a random variable?
A Variance
B Standard Deviation
C All of the given options
D Empirical Mean
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Correct answer: Variance
Q113. The square root of variance is called:
A Mean
B Standard Deviation
C Empirical Deviation
D Continuous Deviation
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Correct answer: Standard Deviation
Q114. Consider 10 tosses of a fair dice. Let Xt denote the number of times digit 'i' appears. Find P () 2 1 P X = 2 X = 2.
A () () 2 8 10 2 C 1/6 5/6
B () () 2 6 8 2 C 1/5 4/5
C () () 2 6 8 2 C 1/6 5/6
D () 2 1/6
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Correct answer: () () 2 6 8 2 C 1/5 4/5
Q115. We have P (X = x, Y = y) = 1/9 for all { } x,y 1,2,3 ∈. Find P (X > Y).
A 0
B 1/3
C 1
D 1/2
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Correct answer: 1/3
Q116. The size of a population of small rodents was recorded as follows: Month 0 2 6 10 Population 2 5 20 109 The growth rate as a percentage per month and the population at the end of 12 months are respectively:
A 37.2428% and 234
B 38.2428% and 235
C 32.2428% and 131
D 39.2428% and 231
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Correct answer: 39.2428% and 231
Q117. Consider 10 tosses of a biased coin with probability of obtaining head as 1/3. Let Y denote the total number of tails observed. Find E (5Y + 2)
A 10
B 56/3
C 106/3
D 10/3
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Correct answer: 106/3
Q118. In a take-away food joint with single service counter, the customers are served on a first- come-first-serve basis. The arrival rate of customers follows Poisson distribution, while the expected service time follows exponential distribution. If 2 customers arrive every 10 minutes and 18 customers are served per hour, what is the probability for an incoming customer to wait for more than 30 minutes before being served?
A (2/3)e–4
B (2/3)e–2.5
C (2/3)e–3
D (2/3)e–2
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Correct answer: (2/3)e–3
Q119. Suppose (X, Y) jointly distributed with the following density function: () 2 2 1/xif s + t 1 f s,t = 0 otherwise ≤ Find Cov (X, Y).
A –1
B 1
C 0
D π
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Correct answer: 0
Q120. Which one of the following gives a pair of independent random variables?
A 10 coins are thrown at random. X denotes the total number of heads that appear and Y denotes the total number of tails that appear.
B 10 coins are tossed at random. X denotes the total number of heads appeared on even tosses i.e., on 2; 4,.., 10th toss whereas Y denotes the total number tails appeared on odd tosses i.e., 1st, 3rd,...9th toss.
C For 1 ≤ i ≤ 6, let Xi denote the number of times digit 'i' appears in 10 tosses of a dice. Consider (X1, X2).
D Two dice are thrown at random and X denote the maximum of the digits appeared and Y denote the minimum of the digits appeared.
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Correct answer: 10 coins are tossed at random. X denotes the total number of heads appeared on even tosses i.e., on 2; 4,.., 10th toss whereas Y denotes the total number tails appeared on odd tosses i.e., 1st, 3rd,...9th toss.