B.B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION December 2014 (SECOND YEAR) (PART – III)
260. QUANTITATIVE METHODS (Common with Double Degree) Time: Three hours
Maximum: 100 marks
SECTION – A
(10 × 2 = 20)
Answer any TEN questions 1.
Define statistics.
2.
What is a sampling?
3.
What do you understand by central tendency?
4.
What is geometric mean?
5.
How does mean deviation differ from standard deviation?
6.
What purpose does a measure of dispersion?
7.
Desire Karl Pearson’s coefficient of correlation.
8.
What is regression line?
9.
Explain the term “Personal Index”.
10. Desire Binomial Distribution. 11. What is Symmetric matrix? 12. What is scalar matrix?
SECTION - B
(4
10 = 40)
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Answer any FOUR questions 13.
Discuss the scope and limitation of statistics.
14.
Explain the purpose of tabular presentation of statistical data.
15.
The following table gives the height of students in a class. Find out the quartile deviation. Height (inches) : No. of students :
50-53 2
53-56 7
56-59 24
59-62 27
62-65 13
65-68 3
2
5702 16.
Five men in a company of 20 are graduates. It 3 men are picked out of them 20 at random, what is the probability that they are all graduates? What is the probability of atleast one graduate?
17.
Calculate Karl Pearson’s coefficient of correlation for the following data: Subject
18.
Marks obtained
Mathematics
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
55
60
Statistics
16
20
23
25
33
38
46
50
55
The following table shows the number of customers returning the products in a marketing territory. The data is for 100 stores: Fit a Poisson distribution 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 4 14 23 23 18 9 9
No. of returns : No. of stores :
SECTION - C
(2
20 = 40)
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Answer any TWO questions 19.
Calculate mean, median and mode from the following data: Marks more than : No. of students :
20.
40 50
60 28
80 18
100 9
120 3
91 71
97 75
108 69
121 97
67 70
124 91
51 39
73 61
111 80
57 47
The following are the Index Numbers of prices-shift the base from 1975 to 1978: Year : Index number:
22.
20 76
From the following data obtain the two regression equations: Sales : Purchases :
21.
0 80
1975 100
1976 110
1977 110
1978 200
1979 320
1980 400
1981 410
Solve the following equation by using inverse of matrix. 2x + 3y – z = 9 x+y+z=9 3x – y – 2 = -1