IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

SH2211- SNM

1. What do you mean by critical region?

2. Write the condition for the application of chi-square test.
3. What is random sampling?
4. Define one - tailed and two - tailed test.
5. Mention the various steps involved in testing of hypothesis.
6. What is the primary purpose of using the chi-square test?
Find the standard error of the sample mean for the following data 𝑛 =
7.
14, 𝜇 = 18.5, 𝑥 = 17.85, 𝑆 = 1.955.
How is Student's t-test defined for comparing the means of two
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independent samples?
9. What is ANOVA?
10. What are the three basic principles of the design of experiments?
11. What are the assumptions involved in ANOVA?
12. Why a 2 × 2 Latin square is not-possible? Explain
Calculate the correction factor for the following data:
Brands Groups
A B C D
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I 0 4 8 15
II 5 8 13 6
III 8 19 11 13
Discuss the advantages of the two-way classification method
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over one-way classification, if any.
15. Construct 4x4 Latin Square Design.
16. Write down the ANOVA Table for Latin Square
Show that the Newton Raphson formula to find 𝑎 can be expressed in
17. 1 𝑎
the form 𝑥𝑛+1 = 𝑥𝑛 + .
2 𝑥𝑛

18. Write the procedure involved in Gauss elimination method.

19. What is the criterion for the convergence in Newton-Raphson method?
Solve the linear system of equations 4𝑥 − 3𝑦 = 11, 3𝑥 + 2𝑦 = 4 by
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Gauss-Jordan method.
State the basic principle involved for finding 𝐴−1 by Gauss-Jordon
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method?
22. Compare Gauss Elimination method and Gauss Seidal method.
Solve the system of equations 𝑥 − 2𝑦 = 0, 2𝑥 + 𝑦 = 5 by Gaussian
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elimination method.
Determine the largest Eigen value and the corresponding Eigen vector
1 1
24. of the matrix correct to two decimal places using power
1 1
method.
A sample of 900 members has a mean 3.4 cm and standard
deviation 2.61 cm. Is the sample from a large population of mean
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3.25 cm and standard deviation of 2.61 cm? (Test at 5% level of
significance. The value of z at 5% level is (|𝑧𝛼| < 1.96).
26. A manufacturer of ballpoint pens claims that a certain pen model
 has a mean writing life of 400 pages with a standard deviation of
20 pages. A purchasing agent selects a sample of 100 pens and
tests them. The mean writing life for the sample was found to be
390 pages. Should the purchasing agent reject the manufacturer's
claim at the 5% significance level? The table value of z at 5%
level is 1.96 for two tail test and 1.64 approximately for one tail
test.
An insurance agent has claimed that the average age of policy
holders who insure through him is less than the average for all
agents which is 30.5 years. A random sample of 100 policy
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holders who had insured through him reveal that the mean and
S.D. are 28.8 years and 6.35 years respectively. Test his claim at
5% level of significance.
The average number of articles produced by two machines per
day are 200 and 250 with standard deviation 20 and 25
28. respectively on the basis of records of 25 days production. Can
you regard both the machines equally efficient at 1% level of
significance?
In one sample of 8 observations, the sum of the squares of
deviations of the sample values from the sample mean was 84.4
and in the other sample of 10 observations was 102.6. Test
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whether this difference is significant at 5% level, given that the 5
percent point of F for 𝜈1 = 7 and 𝜈2 = 9 degrees of freedom is
3.29.
The following data gives the number of aircraft accidents that
occurred during the various days of a week. Find whether the
accidents are uniformly distributed over the week.
30. Days Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
No. of 14 16 8 12 11 9 14
accidents

A normal population has a mean of 6.48 and a standard deviation

of 1.5. In a sample of 400 members, the mean is found to be 6.75.
31.
Is the difference between the sample mean and the population
mean statistically significant?
A sample of ten house owners is drawn and the following values
of their incomes are obtained, mean Rs. 6,000 standard deviation
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Rs. 650, test the hypothesis that average income of house owners
of the town is Rs.5,500.

The following table shows the lives in hours of four brands of

electric lamps
Brand
A 1610 1610 1650 1680 1700 1720 1800
33. B 1580 1640 1640 1700 1750
C 1460 1550 1660 1620 1640 1660 1740 1820
D 1510 1520 1530 1570 1600 1680

Perform an analysis of variance test the homogeneity of the mean

lives of the four brands of Lamps.
The following Latin square design tests 4 varieties of seed.
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Perform the analysis of variance table and state your conclusion.
 You may carry out any suitable changes of origin and scale.
A (12) D(20) C(16) B(10)

D(18) A(14) B(11) C(14)

B(12) C(15) D(19) A(13)

C(16) B(11) A(15) D(20)

The following results were obtained in a textile experiment to

compare the effects of sizing treatments A, B, C, D and the
number of warps breaking per hour is the different between the
treatments significant.
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A (54) B(31) C(70) D(45)
B(59) A(23) D(100) C(22)
C(40) D(41) B(74) A(33)
D(83) C(29) A(100) B(28)
The following data represent the number of units of production
per day turned out by four randomly chosen operators using three
milling machines
Machine 1 Machine 2 Machine 3
Operator 1 150 151 156
Operator 2 147 159 155
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Operator 3 141 146 153
Operator 4 154 152 159
Perform analysis of variance and test the hypothesis
(i) That the machines are not significantly different
(ii) That the operators are not significantly different at 5%level.

The yield of four strains of a particular variety of

wheat was planted in five randomized blocks in Kg
per plot is given below.
Blocks
Strains
1 2 3 4 5
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A 32 34 34 35 36
B 33 33 36 37 34
C 30 35 35 32 35
D 29 22 30 28 28
Test for differences between blocks and differences between
strains.
The following is the Latin square of a design when 4 varieties of
seed are being tested. Set up the analysis of variance table and
state your conclusion. You can carry out the suitable change of
origin and scale.
38. (A) 110 (B) 100 (C)130 (D) 120
(C) 120 (D) 130 (A) 110 (B) 110
(D) 120 (C) 100 (B) 110 (A) 120
(B) 100 (A) 140 (D) 100 (C) 120

39. The following table gives monthly sales (in thousand rupees) of a
 certain firm in three states by its four salesmen.
States Salesmen
I II III IV
A 6 5 3 8
B 8 9 6 5
C 10 7 8 7
Setup the analysis of variance table and test whether there is any
significant difference
(i) Between sales by the firm salesmen
(ii) Between sales in the three states.
The following are the numbers of mistakes made in 5 successive
days of 4 technicians working for a photographic laboratory as
follows:
Technician I Technician II Technician III Technician IV
(X1) (X2) (X3) (X4)
6 14 10 9
40. 14 9 12 12
10 12 7 8
8 10 15 10
11 14 11 11

Test at the level of significance α = 0.01, whether the differences

among the four sample means can be attributed to chance.
41. Solve by Newton’s method, a root of 𝑒𝑥 − 4𝑥 = 0.
Solve the following equation by Gauss elimination method
2𝑥 + 3𝑦 − 𝑧 = 5,
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4𝑥 + 4𝑦 − 3𝑧 = 3,
2𝑥 − 3𝑦 + 2𝑧 = 2.
Solve the equations by using Gauss Jordon method
43. 10𝑥 + 𝑦 + 𝑧 = 12, 2𝑥 + 10𝑦 + 𝑧 = 13,
𝑥 + 𝑦 + 5𝑧 = 7.
Using Newton’s iterative method, find the root between 0 and 1 of
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𝑓 𝑥 = 𝑥3 − 6𝑥 + 4 correct to two decimal places.
Using Gauss Jordan method, find the inverse of the matrix
2 2 3
45.
𝐴= 2 1 1 .
1 3 5
Solve the system of equations by Gauss elimination method
46. 10𝑥 − 2𝑦 + 3𝑧 = 23; 2𝑥 + 10𝑦 − 5𝑧 =− 33 ;
3𝑥 − 4𝑦 + 10𝑧 = 41.
Solve the following system of equations by Gauss Seidel method
47. 𝑥 + 𝑦 + 9𝑧 = 15, 𝑥 + 17𝑦 − 2𝑧 = 48,
30𝑥 − 2𝑦 + 3𝑧 = 75.
Using Gauss Jordan method, find the inverse of the matrix 𝐴 =
2 2 6
48. 2 6 −6 .
4 −8 −8
 Two horses A and B were tested according to the time (in
seconds ) to run a particular race with the following results :

49. Horse A 28 30 32 33 33 29 34
Horse B 29 30 30 24 27 29 -
Test whether the horse A is running faster than B at 5% level of
significance.
A sample analysis of examination results of 500 students was
made. It was found that 220 students have failed, 170 have
50. secured a third class, and 90 have secured a second class and the
rest, a first class. So do these figures support the general belief
that the above categories are in the ratio 4:3:2:1 respectively?
To study the performance of three detergents and three different
water temperature. The following whiteness readings were
obtained with designed equipment.
Water Detergent A Detergent B Detergent C
51. Temperature
Cold Water 57 55 67
Warm Water 49 52 68
Hot Water 54 46 58
A variable trial was conducted on wheat with 4 varieties in a Latin
square design. The plan of the experiment and the yield per plot
are given below:
D25 B23 A20 D20

52. A19 D19 C21 B18

B19 A14 D17 C20
D17 C20 B21 A15
Analyze the data to determine any significant differences among the
yields of the four wheat varieties.
Solve the following equation using Jacobi iteration method:
27𝑥 + 6𝑦 – 𝑧 = 85,
53. 𝑥 + 𝑦 + 54 𝑧 = 110,
6𝑥 + 15𝑦 + 2𝑧 = 72
And correct up to two decimal places.
Using Power method, find all the Eigenvalues of
5 0 1
54.
𝐴 = 0 −2 0
1 0 5