Dr. M.M.

Gharage Vidyavardhak Samsthe, Mudhol

KUMAKALE PU COLLEGE
MUDHOL

Second PUC – STATISTICS

Prepared According To Revised QB 2024-25

IMPORTANT QUESTIONS FOR THE

ANNUAL EXAMINATION 2025.

PRINCIPAL
Mr. MAKAJI INGALE UGC-NET & SLET
KUMAKALE PU COLLEGE MUDHOL
Contact number: 9902003950
 TEN MARK QUESTIONS

1. Calculate standardized death rates for the following data and state which locality
is more healthier.

Age group Locality A Locality B Standard

(in years) Population
Population Deaths Population Deaths
0-10 6000 48 5000 45 4000

10-25 11000 77 10000 100 14000

25-60 18000 216 17000 187 20000

60 & above 5000 175 4000 168 2000

2. From the following data, compute standardized death rates by taking locality B
population as standard and comment on results.

Age group (in Locality A Locality B

years)
Population Deaths Population Deaths

0-20 4000 68 6000 120

20-40 7000 54 12000 60

40-60 9000 91 8000 104

60 & above 3000 129 4000 160

3. a) Calculate total fertility rate for the following data:

Age group (in years) Female population No. of live births

15-19 7000 140

20-24 10000 800

25-29 16000 1600

30-34 20000 2200

35-39 14000 980

40-44 5000 150

45-49 4000 40
b) Calculate the standardized death rate from the data given below.
Age group (in Locality A Standard
years) Population
Population Deaths
Under 18 14000 266 15000

18-50 28000 252 30000

50-70 8000 120 10000

70 & above 4000 156 5000

4. Calculate the Marshall-Edgeworth’s and Dorbish-Bowley’s price index numbers

from the following data.
Items Base year Current year

Price (in Rs) Quantity Price (in Rs) Quantity

A 17 10 25 14

B 22 12 29 17

C 30 13 24 22

D 41 12 47 15

5. Show that Fisher’s index number satisfies time reversal test and factor reversal
test for the following data.
Items 2018 2025

Price (in Rs) Quantity Price (in Rs) Quantity

A 10 15 13 18

B 15 20 20 22

C 12 10 10 15

D 08 18 10 20
6. Calculate gross reproduction rate and net reproduction rate for the following data
and comment on the result.
Age group (in Female population Female births Survival ratio
years)
15-19 16000 480 0.91

20-24 14500 899 0.90

25-29 13000 650 0.90

30-34 11500 460 0.88

35-39 10000 300 0.87

40-44 8700 87 0.86

45-49 7500 30 0.85

7. For the following data, compute the GRR, NRR and hence comment on the
results.
Age group (in Female population Female births Survival ratio
years)
15-19 3000 60 0.9

20-24 2500 100 0.9

25-29 2200 132 0.8

30-34 2000 80 0.8

35-39 1800 54 0.8

40-44 1500 30 0.7

45-49 1200 12 0.7

8. Fit a curve of the type y = abx for the following data and estimate the value for
the year 2024.
Year 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

Value 7 18 32 54 85 108
9. Fit a second degree trend equation of the form y = a + bx + cx2 by the method of
least squares to the following time series data. Estimate the value for 2024.
Year 2020 2021 2022 2023

Value 32 20 23 25

10. a) Estimate the trend values by four yearly moving averages for the following
time series data.
Year 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

Value 16 18 16 24 20 30 26 34 40

b) Fit a straight line trend equation of the form y = a + bx to the data given below.
Year 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 2022

Production 16 18 16 24 20 30 26
(000)

11. a) Calculate the simple geometric mean price index number for the following
data.
Items A B C D

2018 10 12 08 20

2023 15 21 10 30

b) Compute cost of living index number by using aggregative expenditure method

and comment.

Commodities Base year Price per unit (in Rs)

quantity
Base year Current year

A 10 03 06

B 15 06 05

C 20 07 10

D 12 05 08

E 08 10 12
 FIVE MARK QUESTIONS
1. Four unbiased coins are tossed 80 times. Find the theoretical frequencies for the
number of tails obtained.
2. A basket has 12 mangoes, out of which 8 mangoes are ripe. 3 mangoes are
randomly selected. Use hypergeometric distribution and find:
(i) the expected number of ripe mangoes among the picked ones
(ii) (ii) the probability that all the picked mangoes are ripe.,.
3. It is required test whether those who practice yoga have average blood sugar less
than 120. A sample consisting of 17 persons who practice yoga is observed. If
their mean blood sugar is 116 and standard deviation is 8, what would you
conclude? Use 5% level of significance.
4. The annual demand for an item is 3000 units. Capital cost is Rs 7 per unit.
Inventory carrying cost is 20% of capital cost per annum. If ordering cost is Rs
150, determine economic order quantity and minimum average inventory cost.
5. It has been found that on an average 3 patients visit the doctor during one hour.
Find the probability that during a particular hour, (i) 2 patients visit (ii) at least
one patient visits the doctor.
6. In a hyper-geometric distribution, if a = 6, b = 9 and n = 4, find (i) P(X = 2) (ii)
standard deviation.
7. Variance of 10 observations drawn from a population is 30. Can we conclude that
population variance is less than 45? (Use 5% level of significance).
8. The probability that a team winning the game is 2/5. If this team plays in 6 games,
then find the probability that it wins in i) all the games ii) one or more games.
9. From a random sample of 64 students of PUC, 16 students were found wearing
spectacles. Can we conclude at 5% level of significance that the proportion of
students wearing spectacles is 20%?
10. Calculate Kelly’s price index number for the following data and write your
conclusion on the result.

Items Quantity Price (in Rs)

Base year Current year

A 05 06 10

B 06 25 20

C 04 25 30

D 08 06 15
11. Compute the value index number for the following data and write your conclusion
on result.

Items 2019 2025

Price (in Quantity Price (in Quantity

Rs) Rs)

A 10 05 12 04

B 15 08 18 07

C 06 03 04 05

D 03 04 03 05

12. Calculate the consumer price index number by using family budget method for
the following data.

Items Weight Price (in Rs)

Base year Current year

Food 30 3000 4200

Food 20 2500 3280

Clothing 10 2000 2160

Housing 30 3200 4000

Entertainment 10 1600 2000

Other 20 3000 3600

13. Interpolate and extrapolate the sales for the years 2016 and 2024 by using
binomial expansion method.
Year 2014 2016 2018 2020 2022 2024

sales 87 108 ---- 127 141 ----

14. Interpolate and extrapolate the sales of a business concern for the years 2015 and
2019 from the following data.
Year 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

sales 13 ---- 25 38 65 -----

15. Interpolate the value of Y when X = 26 by using Newton’s advancing difference

method.
X 20 30 40 50

Y 72 202 557 1137

16. Obtain the theoretical frequencies by fitting Poisson distribution for the number of
mistakes per page from the following distribution.
Number of mistakes per 0 1 2 3 4
page
Number of pages 92 79 50 15 4

17. The purchase price of a machine is Rs 5000. Its maintenance costs and resale values are
as follows:
Years 1 2 3 4 5

Maintenance 100 200 330 510 860

cost (in Rs)
Resale value 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000
(in Rs)

18. The cost of a machine is Rs 5700 and its scrap value is Rs 700. The maintenance costs in
different years are as follows:
Year 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2106

Maintenance 200 350 450 600 900 1800

cost (Rs)
Find the annual average cost and the optimal replacement period of the machine.
19. Find an initial basic feasible solution for the following transportation problem by matrix
minima method and compute the total transportation cost.
TO SUPPLY
D1 D2 D3
Q1 8 4 12 500

Q2 10 5 6 200

Q3 7 5 3 100

From Demand 400 200 200 800

20. Solve the following game by using maximin-minimax principle. Is the game fair?

21. Solve the following game by using dominance principle. Is the game fair?

22. In an institution, the weights of students follow normal distribution with mean 60 kg.
and standard deviation 4.5 kg. If committee decides to consider the students with
minimum weight of 62 kg., show that only 33% of the students got selected.
23. Daily wages of 50 workers are normally distributed with mean Rs 500 and standard
deviation Rs 40. Find the number of workers getting wages between Rs 380 and Rs 460.
24. The weights of students are normally distributed with mean 60 kg. and standard
deviation 4 kg. Find the probability that a randomly selected student whose weight is:
(i) more than 52 kg. (ii) less than 64 kg.
25. A driving school examined the result of 90 men and 110 women who were taking their
driving test for the first time gave the following results.

26. In a printing industry, at regular intervals, cloth is inspected for defects in printing. If on
an average 0.6 defects are expected per square meter, obtain suitable control limits.
27. Solve the following linear programming problem graphically:
Minimize Z = 50x + 60y
Subject to constraints:
5x + 4y ≤ 40
3x + 4y ≥ 24
and x, y ≥ 0
28. Solve the following linear programming problem graphically:
Minimize Z = 10x + 15y
Subject to constraints:
3x + 2y ≤ 18
4x + 3y ≥ 12
and x, y ≥ 0
29. Solve the following linear programming problem graphically:
Maximize Z = 6x + 10y
Subject to constraints:
x+y≤8
x + 3y ≤ 18
and x, y ≥ 0
30. The following data represents the blood pressure of 5 persons before and after
performing dhyana.

31. Test whether the means differ significantly at 5% level of significance, from the
following data.

32. Ten samples of 100 each of P.V.C. pipes manufactured by a firm are inspected for
number of defectives. The number of defective pipes are noted as below: 1, 2, 3, 0, 3, 2,
4, 5, 6, 4. Calculate control limits for np- chart.

TWO MARK QUESTIONS

1. Mention two merits of moving averages method.
2. Write two assumptions of interpolation and extrapolation.
3. In a Poisson distribution, if λ = 3, find P(X = 0).
4. If the standard deviation of a normal distribution is 9, then find its quartile
deviation.
5. What is meant by null hypothesis and alternative hypothesis?
6. If (p1 – p2) = 0.03 and S.E.(p1 – p2) = 0.02, find the value of test statistic Z.
7. Compute the upper control limit for -chart when = 30, = 5 and A = 1.342.
8. The cumulative maintenance cost of a machine during 4th year is Rs 13,500. If
purchase cost is Rs 8,500, find annual average cost assuming that machine has no
resale value.
9. Mention two uses of time series.
10. Write two conditions for applying binomial expansion method of interpolation
and extrapolation
11. Find the mean of a hyper-geometric distribution whose parameters are a = 3, b =
9 and n = 4.
12. A random sample of size 36 is drawn from a population whose standard deviation
is 3. Compute standard error of the sample mean.
13. Given: n = 10, s2 = 14.4 and σ2 = 16, compute the chi – square test statistic.
14. In statistical quality control, if = 4, determine the upper control limit for the c -
chart.
15. If R = 3000 units/year, C1 = Rs 4/unit/year and C3 = Rs 60/order, then calculate
the minimum average inventory cost.
16. State the different phases of a business cycle.
17. Define ‘interpolation’ and ‘extrapolation’.
18. If p = 0.8, find the standard deviation of Bernoulli distribution.
19. Mention two features of student’s t- distribution.
20. Define ‘parameter’ and ‘statistic’.
21. Given = 153cm, μ = 151cm, s = 3cm and n = 10, calculate test statistic ‘t’.
22. In statistical quality control, name the control charts for variables.
23. Find the maximum inventory level if Q0 = 400 units, C1 = Rs 10/unit/year and
C2 = Rs 15/unit/year.
24. Write one use of life table
25. Give an example for secular trend
26. Write the range of chi-square distribution.
27. Define interval estimation.
28. Mention one disadvantage of inventory.
29. Define fecundity.
30. Mention a factor which causes seasonal variation in time series.
31. For what value of ‘p’ binomial distribution is symmetrical?
32. Write the formula to find the standard error of sample proportion.
33. Mention a need for replacement of an equipment.
34. Mention a method of obtaining vital statistics.
35. Which component of the time series is unpredictable?
36. Which component of the time series is unpredictable?
37. Define statistical hypothesis.
38. When is transportation problem said to be balanced?
39. Define survival ratio.

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