/BBA/BBM/Third Semester/SST 201: Business Statistics

[Prepare Practical File for the lab work in Ms-Excel]

Candidates are requested to answer all the questions using MS-Excel. The
figure is margin indicates full marks.
Importance Instructions:
1. Write your name and roll number on the question paper.
2. Create a new folder on the desktop and rename it with your roll number.
3. Click on Page Layout of the Ribbon, then click on both Print of Gridlines
and Headings. Set up Scale at 75%.
4. Click on the middle icon of view. After clicking on the Click to add header,
type your roll number so that your answer sheet won’t be misplaced.
5. Save your spreadsheet (file) with your roll number in the folder named
with your roll number.
6. Make sure that you should not write beyond the column of the
spreadsheet set under 75%.
7. For each end of every calculation, don’t forget to press Ctrl+S to save
your essential work.
8. You should submit your hard copy (print) with your signature.
Questions for Practical Examination Using MS-Excel.
1. Construct the suitable frequency table from the information given below:
45, 23, 56, 43, 45, 65, 76, 45, 34,55, 28, 47, 65, 54, 43, 76, 33, 39, 49, 51,
43, 41, 37, 56, 43, 39, 21, 36, 35, 28, 44, 48, 38, 34, 32, 61, 72, 33, 40, 32,
31, 59, 43, 35, 21, 47, 54, 38, 73,42
Draw the histogram from the frequency table.
2. Construct a frequency table with a suitable class.
22 32 41 24 46 52 24 36 23 38
44 37 49 33 54 44 38 48 45 56
55 25 42 58 57 43 64 65 46 62
47 66 46 42 23 34 36 53 64 41
Also, calculate Bowley’s coefficient of skewness.
3. Plot the stem and leaf and draw any three pieces of information from it.
22 32 41 24 46 52 24 36 23 38
44 37 49 33 54 44 38 48 45 56
55 25 42 58 57 43 64 65 46 62
47 66 46 42 23 34 36 53 64 41
4. Draw a less than Ogive curve and find the Median from the following
marks distribution.
Marks 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60
 No. of students 10 25 40 50 16 9
5. Construct the bar diagram from the following table.
Year 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
GDP(Rs.) 19,270 19,995 21,411 21,186 25,181 29,040
6. Draw a less than Ogive curve and find the Median from the following
marks distribution.
Marks 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60
No. of students 10 25 40 50 16 9
7. The table shows the monthly expenditure of two families A and B in the
month of December. Construct the Pie-diagrams from the data given
below:
Items Expenditure per month (Rs.00)
A B
Food 120 110
Rent 80 90
Clothes 100 120
Education 40 30
Misc. 20 10
8. Draw a Histogram for the following data of weight in Kg of people of a
certain city and locate the mode value.
Weight in Kg 50-60 60-70 70-80 80-90 90-100 100-110
No. of people 10 25 40 15 7 3
9. The following table shows the distribution of the monthly income of 600
families in a certain city.
Monthly income (in 0-75 75-150 150-225 225- 300- 375- 450-525
000 Rs.) 300 375 450
No. of families 50 170 200 60 50 40 30
Draw the less than and more than ogives and locate the median.
10. Draw the pie chart using the following data.
Items Expenditures in percentage
Food 50
Clothing 15
Housing 10
Fuel 5
Education 10
Entertainment 5
Miscellaneous 5
 Total 100
11. Compute a five-number summary from the following data and draw a box
and whisker plot then comment on the shape of the distribution.
10 15 18 30 42 50 60 23 27 55 20
12. From the price of a share of A and B respectively given below, state in
which the share is more stable in value on the basis of coefficient of
variation.
Price of Share A 154 153 151 152 155 157 151 149 150 148
Price of Share B 108 107 105 105 106 103 103 102 101 100
13. The running capacity of two horses is given below, state which is more
consistent on the basis of coefficient of variation.
Horse A 250 255 280 290 295 300
Horse B 280 282 290 295 298 295
14. The weight of the goat at monthly intervals is given below
Age (in a month) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Weight (in Kgs) 3 4 6 6 8 10 18 19 17 20
Calculate the correlation coefficient between age (in months) and weight
(in kgs). Also, estimate the weight of the goat at the age of 15 months.
15. Find the Kurtosis from the following data of daily income in thousand
rupees and comment.
Daily Income 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70
No. of 5 15 20 30 18 8 4
Employees
16. Calculate Karl Pearson’s correlation coefficient between the ages of the
husband and the age of the wife.
Husband’s age 23 22 24 23 26 27 28 20 30 20
Wife’s age 20 18 20 21 21 22 24 23 25 26
17. The Screw produced by a certain machine was checked by examining
samples of 5. The following table shows the distribution of 100 samples
according to the number of defectives.
No. of defectives 0 1 2 3 4 5
No. of samples 3 10 25 35 20 7
Fit a binomial distribution and find the expected frequencies if the chances
of a screw being defective are 0.5.
18. The light produced by a certain machine was checked by examining
samples of 6. The following table shows the distribution of 200 samples
according to the number of defectives.
No. of defectives 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
 No. of samples 13 24 32 40 38 30 23
Fit a binomial distribution and find the expected frequencies if the chances
of a screw being defective is 0.3.
19. Fit a Poisson distribution for the following distribution and find the
expected frequencies.
X 0 1 2 3 4 5 Total
F 45 20 15 10 6 4 100
20. From the given information, fit Poisson distribution.
No of accidents 0 1 2 3 4 5
No. of samples 165 80 30 38 22 5
Testing of Hypothesis
22. A sample of 100 students is taken from a large population, the mean
height of these students is 60 inches and the standard deviation is 5
inches. Can it be reasonably regarded that the population’s mean height of
the students is 58 inches?
23. The electric bulbs manufactured by X & Y company gave the following
results.
Company A Company B
No. of bulbs used 100 100
Mean life in hours 1300 1248
Standard deviation 82 93
Test whether there is any significant difference in the mean life of the two
types of electric bulbs.

Solution: Z – test for double means

Given,
Company A Company B
No. of bulbs used n1 = 100 n2= 100
Mean life in hours X 1 =¿1300 X 2 =1248
Standard deviation s1 = 82 S2 = 93
24. The average life of 64 Lead bulbs was found to be 1500 hours with a
standard deviation of 130 hours. Test, whether the sample is from a batch
having an average life of the bulb, is 1520 hours at a 5% level of
significance.
25. The mean marks of 100 students are 65 standard deviation is 10. Test the
hypothesis that the sample is drawn from a population having mean marks
of 67 at a 5% level of significance.
26. The mean and standard deviation of weight from a random sample of 100
students are found to be 55kgs and 12kgs. Test with 95% confidence that
the mean weight of the population is 60kgs.
27. The number of heads after tossing 500 coins is counted as 264, then test
the hypothesis that the coin is unbiased at a 5% level of significance.
28. A sample of 100 students is taken from a large population, the mean
height of these students is 60 inches, and the standard deviation is 5
inches. Can it be reasonably regarded that the population means the
height of the students is 58 inches?
29. Z-test for double proportions
In a certain data of large city, 400 out of a random sample of 500 men
were found to be smokers. After the tax on tobacco has been heavily
increased, another random sample of 600 men in the same city includes
400 smokers. Was the proportion of smokers decrease significantly? Test
at a 5% level of significance.
Size smoker Proportion of
smoker
Before-tax 500 400 0.80
After-tax 600 400 0.67
Regression Analysis:
30. The following table shows the number of motor registration and sales of
tires by a wholesale dealer in Kathmandu for a term of 5 years.
Motor registration in ‘000’ No. of tires sold in ‘000’ numbers
numbers
60 125
63 110
72 130
75 135
80 150
Estimate the sales of tires when the expected motor registration next year
is 90,000.
31. Seven coins are tossed together. Find the probability of getting (i) no head
(ii) one head (iii) at most 3 heads (iv) at least 4 heads.
32. The probability that a man fishing at Janakpur will catch 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
fishes are 0.10, 0.25,0.30, 0.20, 0.15, 0.10 respectively. Compute E(4X + 7)
and standard deviation of (4X + 7).
33. If a die is rolled at a time, then find the probability of getting (i) even
number (ii) a number multiple of 3 (iii) less than 5 (iv) more than 2 (v) at
least 2 (iv), not more than 2.
34. The following table shows the number of motor registration and sales of
tires by a wholesale dealer in Kathmandu for a term of 5 years.
Motor registration in ‘000’ No. of types sold in ‘000’ numbers
numbers
64 124
69 114
76 132
72 130
84 155
Estimate the sales of tires when the expected motor registration next year
is 90,000.
35. A continuous random variable X follows the normal distribution with a
mean 750 and a standard deviation 100. Find the probability of X lies (a)
between 650 to 950 (b) above 950.
36. Daily expenditure on lunch of the staff of Mega Bank of 400 employees
was found to be normally distributed with a mean of Rs.120 and a
standard deviation of Rs.30. Find the number of employees having
expenditures Rs.105 and Rs.140.
37. The annual salaries of employees in a large company are approximately
normally distributed with a mean of $50,000 and a standard deviation of
$20,000.
(i) What percent of employees earn less than $40,000?
(ii) What percent of employees earn between $45,000 and $65,000?

38. A sample of 500 bulbs from a company showed an average life of 1400
hours with a standard deviation of 30 hours. Obtain 95% and 99% fudicial
limits for the population mean.
39. A survey of 350 people shopping at a mall, selected at random showed
that 250 of them used cash and 100 of them used credit cards, construct a
95% confidence interval estimate of the proportion of all the persons at
the mall, who use cash for shopping.

Thank You
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