BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE, PILANI
Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division
Second Semester 2024-2025
Mid-Semester Test
(EC-2 Regular)
Course No. : S1-24_DSECLZC418
Course Title : Introduction to Statistical Methods
Nature of Exam : Closed Book
Weightage : 30% No. of Pages =4
Duration : 2 Hours No. of Questions = 6
Date of Exam : 18.01.2025 FN
Note to Students:
1. Please follow all the Instructions to Candidates given on the cover page of the answer book.
2. All parts of a question should be answered consecutively. Each answer should start from a fresh
page.
3. Assumptions made if any, should be stated clearly at the beginning of your answer.
Answer all the questions:
Q1. a) Consider waiting times (in minutes):
4.21, 5.55, 3.02, 5.13, 4.77, 2.34, 3.54, 3.20, 4.50, 6.10, 0.38, 5.12, 6.46, 6.19, 3.79.
Determine the five-number summary: Minimum, Q1, Median, Q3, Maximum. Based on the
results obtained, give an interpretation about the data. [3Marks]
b) The SpaceX space program lasted from 2020 until 2024 and included 13 launches. The missions
lasted from as little as 7 hours to as long as 301 hours. The duration of each launch is listed below:
9, 195, 241, 301, 216, 260, 7, 244, 192, 147, 10, 295, 142. Find the mean, standard
deviation of the launch times. [2Marks]
Q2. A study on ethics in the workplace by the Ethics Resource Center and Kronos, Inc., revealed
that 35% of employees admit to keeping quiet when they see co-worker misconduct. Suppose 75%
of employees who admit to keeping quiet when they see co-worker misconduct call in sick when
they are well. In addition, suppose that 40% of the employees who call in sick when they are well
admit to keeping quiet when they see co-worker misconduct. If an employee is randomly selected,
determine the following probabilities:
a. The employee calls in sick when well and admits to keeping quiet when seeing co-worker
misconduct.
b. The employee admits to keeping quiet when seeing co-worker misconduct or calls in sick when
well.
c. Given that the employee calls in sick when well, he or she does not keep quiet when seeing co-
worker misconduct.
d. The employee neither keeps quiet when seeing co-worker misconduct nor calls in sick when well.
e. The employee admits to keeping quiet when seeing co-worker misconduct and does not call in
sick when well [5Marks]
Q 3. a) Based on past experience, it is assumed that the number of flaws per foot in rolls of grade 2
paper follows a Poisson distribution with a mean of 0.2 flaw per foot. What is the probability that in a
i. 1-foot roll, there will be at least 2 flaws?
i. 50-foot roll, there will be greater than or equal to 5 flaws and less than or equal to 8
flaws
[3Marks]
b) An individual has 3 different email accounts. Most of her messages, in fact 70%, come into
account #1, whereas 20% come into account #2 and the remaining 10% into account #3. Of the
messages into account #1, only 1% are spam, whereas the corresponding percentages for accounts
#2 and #3 are 2% and 5%, respectively.
What is the probability that a randomly selected message is spam? [2M]
Q 4. a) The discrete random variables and have joint probability mass function [3Marks]
i) Find the value of constant .
ii) Find the marginal probability function for and .
b) From a lot of 10 items containing 3 defective items, a sample of 4 items is drawn at random.
Let the random variable denote the number of defective items in the sample. Answer the
following when the sample is drawn without replacement [2Marks]
i) Find the probability distribution of
ii) Find
i) Find
Q 5. If the weather is Snowy, then the player will play or not? [5Marks]
Weather Player play Weather Player play
Sunny Yes Cloudy Yes
Rainy No Sunny Yes
Cloudy Yes Snowy No
Sunny No Cloudy Yes
Sunny Yes Rainy No
Snowy No Snowy No
Rainy No Snowy Yes
Q 6. a) Incidence of a rare disease. Only 1 in 1000 adults is afflicted with a rare disease for which a
diagnostic test has been developed. The test is such that when an individual actually has the disease,
a positive result will occur 99% of the time, whereas an individual without the disease will show a
positive test result only 2% of the time. If a randomly selected individual is tested and the result is
positive, what is the probability that the individual has the disease? [3Marks]
b) A certain machine makes electrical resistors having mean resistance of 40 ohms and standard
deviation of 2 ohms. If the resistance follows a normal distribution and can be measured to any
degree of accuracy.
i) What percentage of resistors have resistances that exceed 43 ohms?
ii) What percentage of resistors will have resistances that exceed 43 ohms to the nearest
ohm? [2Marks]
