Theoretical Distributions

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Paper 3: Quantitative Aptitude

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4-6 Marks

Key Topics

Binomial, Poisson, Normal Distribution

This chapter covers Binomial, Poisson, Normal Distribution and is part of Paper 3: Quantitative Aptitude in the CA Foundation exam.

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3437

If $p$ is increased for a fixed $n$; the Binomial distribution shifts to the

3413

The variance of a binomial distribution with parameters $n$ and $p$ is:

3414

An example of a bi-parametric discrete probability distribution is

3415

Probability distribution may be

3416

The mean of the Binomial distribution $B(4, 1/3)$ is equal to

3417

The probability that a student is not a swimmer is $1/5$ then the probability that out of five students four are swimmer is

3418

If mean and variance are $5$ and $3$ respectively then relation between $p$ and $q$ is:

3419

Find mode when $n = 15$ and $p = 1/4$ in binomial distribution?

3420

In a binomial distribution $B(n, p)$, $n = 4$, $P(X=2) = 3P(X=3)$ find $p$

3421

If the probability of success in a binomial distribution is less than one-half, then the binomial distribution

3422

A coin with probability for heads as $1/5$ is tossed $100$ times. The standard deviation of the number of head $5$ turned up is.

3423

If $X$ is a binomial variate with $p = 1/3$, for the experiment of $90$ trials, then the standard deviation is equal to:

3424

Four unbiased coins are tossed simultaneously. The expected no. of heads is:

3425

For a binomial distribution, there may be -

3426

The standard deviation of binomial distribution is:

3427

The incidence of skin diseases in a chemical plant occurs in such a way that the workers have $20\%$ chance of suffering from it. What is the probability that out of $6$ workers $4$ or more will have skin diseases?

3428

If mean and variance of a random variable which follows the Binomial Distribution are $7$ and $6$ respectively, then the probability of success is:

3429

If six coins are tossed simultaneously. The probability of obtaining exactly two heads are:

3430

For a binomial distribution the mean and standard deviation are $10$ and $3$ respectively. Find the value of $n$.

3431

For a binomial distribution, the variance is $0.2$ and the mean is $0.6$. The probability of getting $3$ successes out of a trial of $5$ is _____.

3432

When '$p$' $= 0.5$, the

3433

If mean and standard deviation of a binomial distribution is $10$ and $4$ respectively, $p$ will be

3434

The mean of Binomial distribution is $4$ and the Standard Deviation $\sqrt{3}$, what is the value of $p$.

3435

The mean of binomial distribution is

3436

In Binomial distribution the trails are

3438

A binomial distribution is

3439

The maximum value of the variance of binomial distribution with parameters $n$ and $p$ is

3440

The max. value of the variance of binomial distribution with parameters $n$ and $p$ is

3441

If $X$ & $Y$ are two independent variables such that $X \sim B(n_1, p)$ and $Y \sim B(n_2, p)$ then the parameter of $Z = X+Y$ is

3442

Five coins tossed 3200 times. The number of times 5 heads appeared is.

3443

Find the probability of a success for the binomial distribution satisfying the following relation $4 P(x=4) = P(x=2)$ and having the parameter $n$ as six.

3444

An experiment succeeds thrice as after it fails. If the experiment is repeated 5times, what is the probability of having no success at all?

3445

The overall percentage of failures in a certain examination was 30. What is the probability that out of a group 6 candidates at least four passed the examination? Note: Exact Ans is 0.74431

3446

What is the probability of getting exactly 2 head in 7 tosses of a fair coin?

3447

The Binomial Distribution for which mean = 15 and variance = 6.0 is

3448

The SD of a binomial distribution with parameter $n$ and $p$ is

3449

Bivariate Data are the data collected for Note: From correlation regression chapter.

3450

If $x$ is binomial variate with parameter 15 and $1/3$ what is the value of mode of the distribution.

3451

The mean of a binomial distribution with parameter $n$ and $p$ is

3452

The Binomial distribution $n=9$ and $p=1/3$. What is the value of the variance?

3453

In a Binomial Distribution $B(n, p)$, $n=4$, then $P(x=2) = 3 P(x=3)$. Find $p$

3454

The variance of a binomial distribution with parameters $n$ and $p$ is

3455

What is the probability of getting 3 heads if 6 unbiased coins are tossed simultaneously?

3456

The mode of the binomial distribution for which the mean is 4 variance 3 is equal to ?

3457

If a variate $x$ has, mean=variance, then the distribution will be _____

3458

In a Binomial distribution $n=9$ and $p=1/3$. What is the value of Variance.

3459

Examine the validity of the following: Mean and standard deviation of a binomial distribution are 10 and 4 respective:

3460

The probability of a man hitting the target is $1/4$. If he fires 7 times, the probability of hitting the target at least twice is :

3461

If mean and variance are 5 and 3 respectively then relation between $p$ and $q$ is

3462

If a coin is tossed 5 times then the prob. of getting Tail and Head occurs alternatively is:

3463

The probability that a student is not a swimmer is $1/5$, then the probability that out of five students four are swimmers is:

3464

A random variable $x$ follows Binomial Distribution With $E(x)=2$ and $V(x)=1.2$. then the value of $n$ is

3465

If $x$ is binomial with parameter $15$ and $\frac{1}{3}$, what is mode of the distribution?

3466

When '$p$' is large than $0.5$, the Binomial Distribution is

3467

A die is thrown $100$ times, if getting an even number is considered a success then the variance number of success.

3468

The standard deviation of Binomial distribution is

3469

In Binomial distribution $n=9$ and $P=\frac{1}{3}$, what is the value of variance?

3470

The overall percentage of failure in a certain examination is $0.30$. What is the probability that out of a group of $6$ candidates at least $4$ passed the examination?

3471

For binomial distribution $E(x)=2$, $V(x)=\frac{4}{3}$. Find the value of $n$.

3472

Parameter is a characteristic of:

3473

If mean & variance are $5$ and $3$ respectively then relation between $p$ and $q$ is:

3474

Find the variance of binomial distribution with $n=10$, $p=0.3$

3475

When $p=0.5$, the binomial distribution is

3476

If mean and standard deviation of a binomial distribution is $10$ and $2$ respectively, $q$ will be

3477

A random variable $X$ follows Binomial Distribution With $E(x)=2$ and $V(x)=1.2$, then the value of $n$ is

3478

When '$p$' is large than $0.5$, the Binomial Distribution is:

3479

If $X$ is a binomial variable with parameters $n$ and $p$, then $X$ can assume

3480

$X$ is a binomial variable such that $2P(X=2)=P(X=3)$ and Mean of $X$ is known to be $\frac{10}{3}$. What would be the probability that $X$ assumes at most the value $2$?

3481

In a Poisson distribution if $P(X=4)=P(X=5)$ then the parameter of Poisson distribution is:

3482

For a poisson distribution:

3483

In Poisson distribution, if $P(X=2) = \frac{1}{2}P(X=3)$ find $m$?

3484

Which of the following is uni-parametric distribution?

3485

Which one of the following has Poisson distribution?

3486

For a Poisson distributed variable $X$, we have $P(X=7)=8P(X=9)$, the mean of the distribution is:

3487

If the parameter of Poisson distribution is $m$ and $(Mean + S.D.) = \frac{6}{25}$ then find $m$:

3488

$X$ is a Poisson variate satisfying the following condition $9P(X=4)+30P(X=6)=P(X=2)$. What is the value of $P(X \le 1)$?

3489

For a Poisson variate $X$, $P(X=2)=3P(X=4)$, then the standard deviation of $X$ is

3490

$4$ coins were tossed $1600$ times. What is the probability that all $4$ coins do not turn head upward at a time?

3491

If $X$ is a Poisson variable and $P(X=1) = P(X=2)$, then $P(X=4)$ is

3492

Which one of the following is an unparametric distribution?

3493

It is Poisson variate such that $P(X=1) = 0.7, P(X=2) = 0.3$, then $P(X=0) =$

3494

The average number of advertisements per page appearing in a newspaper is 3. What is the probability that in a particular page zero number of advertisements are there?

3495

If, for a Poisson distributed random variable $X$, the probability for $X$ taking value 2 is 3 times the probability for $X$ taking value 4, then the variance of $X$ is

3496

The manufacturer of a certain electronic component is certain that $2\%$ of his product is defective. He sells the components in boxes of 120 and guarantees that not more than $2\%$ in any box will be defective. Find the probability that a box selected at random would fail to meet the guarantee? ($e^{-2.4} = 0.0907$)

3497

A renowned hospital usually admits 200 patients everyday. One percent patients, on an average, require special room facilities. On one particular morning, it was found that only one special room is available. What is the probability that more than 3 patients would require special room facilities?

3498

If Standard Deviation is 1.732 then what is the value of poisson distribution. The $P(-2.48 < X < 3.54)$ is

3499

If a Poisson distribution is such that $P(X=2) = P(X=3)$ then the variance of the distribution

3500

Between 9 AM and 10 AM, the average number of phone calls per minute coming into the switchboard of a company is 4. Find the probability that in one particular minute there will be either 2 phone calls or no phone calls (given $e^{-4} = 0.018316$)

3501

If a Poisson distribution is such that $P(X=2) = P(X=3)$, then the standard deviation of the distribution is:

3502

$The mean of Poisson distribution is 4. The probability of two-successes is____.$

3503

A company produces 5 defective items out of 300 items. The probability distribution follows

3504

If a random variable $X$ follows Poisson distribution such that $P(X=1) = P(X=2)$, then the mean of the distribution is:

3539

If for a normal distribution $Q_1 = 54.52$ and $Q_3 = 78.86$, then the median of the distribution is

3505

The number of accidents in a year attributed to taxi drivers in a locality follows Poisson distribution with average 2. Out of 500 taxi drivers of that area, what is the number of drivers with at least 3 accidents in a year? (Given that $e^{-2} = 0.18$)

3506

Which one is uniparametric distribution?

3507

Find the probability that at least 2 defective bolts will be found in a box of 200 bolts. If it is known that $2\%$ of such bolts are expected to be defective (Given: $e^{-4} = 0.0183$)

3508

Number of misprints per page of a thick book follows

3509

If for a Poisson variable $X$, $E(X^2) = 3E(X)$, what is the variance of $X$?

3510

If $P(X=2) = P(X=3)$ for a Poisson Variate $X$, then $E(X)$ is

3511

In Poisson distribution which of them is same.

3512

Number of defects in clothes a garments showroom will form a

3513

In a certain Poisson frequency distribution, the probability corresponding to two success is half the probability corresponding to three successes. The mean of the distribution is

3514

Which one is not a condition of Poisson model

3515

$In ______ distribution, mean = variance.$

3516

For a Poisson variate X, $P(X=1) = P(X=2)$. What is the mean of X?

3517

For a Poisson distribution,

3518

For Poisson Distribution :

3519

For a Poisson variate X, $P(X=2) = 3 P(X=4)$. Then the standard deviation of X is

3520

If X be a Poisson variates with parameter $\lambda$, then find $P(3 < X < 5)$ (Given $e^{-0.36783} = 0.6923$)

3521

In a Poisson Distribution $P(X=0) = P(X=2)$. Find $E(X)$

3522

Name of the distribution which has Mean=Variance

3523

If $5\%$ of the electric bulbs manufactured by a company are defective, use Poisson distribution to find the probability that in a sample of $100$ bulbs, $5$ bulbs will be defective. [Given : $e^{-5} = 0.007$ ]

3524

For a Poisson variate X, $P(X=1) = P(X=2)$, what is the mean of X?

3525

In a Poisson distribution if $P(X=4) = P(X=5)$ then the parameter of Poisson distribution is:

3526

If Poisson distribution is such that $P(X=2) = P(X=3)$ then the Standard Deviation of the distribution is

3527

To find the distribution of number of airplanes crashing every hour in the world, which of the following distribution is appropriate to apply:

3528

The mean and variance are equal for which of the following:

3529

For the Poisson distribution:

3530

Which of the following is uni-parametric distribution

3531

The probability that a man aged $45$ years will die within a year is $0.012$. What is the probability that of $10$ men, at least $9$ will reach their $46$th birthday? [Given $e^{-0.12} = 0.88692$ ]

3532

In a certain manufacturing process, $5\%$ of the tools produced turn out to be defective. Find the probability that in a sample of $40$ tools, at most $2$ will be defective: Given $e^{-2} = 0.135$

3533

If standard deviation of a Poisson distribution is $2$, then its Mode

3534

In Poisson distribution if $P(X=4) = P(X=5)$ then the parameter of Poisson distribution is:

3535

$In _________ distribution, mean = variance.$

3536

The mean of Poisson distribution is $4$. The probability of two-successes in

3537

What is the first quartile of $x$ having the following probability density function? $f(x) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{72\pi}} e^{-\frac{(x-10)^2}{72}}$ for $-\infty < x < \infty$

3538

If the area of standard normal curve between $z=0$ to $z=1$ is $0.3412$, then the value of $\phi(1)$ is

3540

What is the mean of X having the following density function? $f(x) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{4\pi}2} e^{-\frac{(x-10)^2}{32}}$ for $-\infty < x < \infty$

3541

Area between $-1.96$ to $+1.96$ in a normal distribution is:

3542

If the points of inflexion of a normal curve are 40 & 60 respectively, then mean deviation is:

3543

Area under $\pm 3\sigma$

3544

What is the mean and SD if $f(x) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}} e^{-\frac{(x-3)^2}{2}}$, $-\infty < x < \infty$.

3545

If we change the parameter(s) of a distribution the shape of probability curve does not change.

3546

The quartile deviation of a normal distribution with mean 10 and standard deviation 4 is

3547

For a normal distribution, the value of third moment about mean is.

3548

In normal distribution, Mean, Median and Mode are:

3549

For a certain type of mobile, the length of time between charges of the battery is normally distributed with a mean of 50 hours and a standard deviation of 15 hours. A person owns one of these mobiles and want to know the probability that the length of time will be between 50 and 70 hours is (given $q(1.33) = 0.9082, q(0) = 0.5$)?

3550

Let $x$ be normal distribution with mean 2.5 and variance 1. If $P(x \le 2.5) = 0.4772$ and that the cumulative normal probability value at 2 is 0.9772, then $a = ?$

3551

In a normal distribution, variance is 16 then the value of mean deviation is.

3552

Skewness of Normal Distribution is:

3553

The speeds of a number of bikes follow a normal distribution model with a mean of 83 km/hr and a standard deviation of 9.4 km/hr. Find the probability that a bike picked at random is travelling at more than 95km/hr.? Given $P(Z > 1.28) = 0.1003$

3554

In a Standard Normal distribution, then the value of the mean($\mu$) and SD ($\sigma$) is:

3555

If 'x' and 'y' are independent normal variate with mean and SD $\mu_1, \mu_2$ and $\sigma_1, \sigma_2$ respectively, then for $z = x + y$ which also follows normal distribution mean and SD are:

3556

$For a normal distribution, the ratio of mean deviation to the standard deviation is _____ $

3557

In a class of 100 students, the mean marks was 50 with Standard Deviation 14.9. Assuming the distribution of marks to be normal, find the number of students who obtained more than 70% marks (at $Z = 1.34$, area $= 0.4099$).

3558

Quartile deviation of a normal distribution with Mean of 10 and SD of 4 is:

3559

If X and Y are 2 independent normal variables with mean as 10 and 12 and Standard Deviation (S.D) as 3 and 4 respectively, then $(X + Y)$ is normally distributed with:

3560

If the quartile deviation of a normal curve is 4.05, then its mean deviation is

3561

$In a normal distribution skewness is _____ $

3562

The points of inflexion of the normal curve $f(t) = \frac{1}{4\sqrt{2\pi}} e^{-\frac{(t-32)^2}{32}}$ are

3563

If X and Y are independent Normal Variables with mean 100 and 80 respectively and standard deviation as 4 and 3 respectively. What is the distribution of $(X+Y)$?

3564

If X is normal variate with mean 6 and variance 16 then the value of the probability. $P(2 \le X \le 10)$ is equal to.

3565

The total area of the normal curve is

3566

If the mean deviation of a normal variable is 16, what is its quartile deviation?

3568

For Poisson fitting to an observed frequency distribution

3569

The mean deviation about median of a standard normal variate is

3570

If the points of inflexion of a normal curve are 40 and 60 respectively, then its mean deviation is

3571

What is the first quartile of X having the following probability density function? $f(t) = \frac{1}{4\sqrt{2\pi}} e^{-\frac{(t-10)^2}{32}}$ for $-\infty < X < \infty$

3572

For the normal distribution density function $f(x) = K e^{-\frac{(x-6)^2}{8}}$, the mean and variance are.

3573

The mean deviation of normal distribution is 16. The Quartile Deviation is

3574

The Quartile Deviation of the normal distribution $f(x) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{18\pi}} e^{-\frac{(x-10)^2}{18}}$, $-\infty < x < \infty$ is

3575

If X and Y are two independent normal random distributions with mean and SD's are (10, 5) and (15, 12) these mean and SD of (x+y) is.

3576

If the two quartiles of a normal distribution are 47.30 and 52.70 respectively, what is the mode of the distribution? Also find the mean deviation about median of this distribution.

3577

X follows normal distribution with mean as 50 and variance as 100. What is $P(X \ge 60)$? [Given $P(1) = 0.8413$]

3578

The mean and mode of the normal distribution

3579

Area covered normal curve by $\mu \pm 3\sigma$

3580

The Quartile Deviation of Normal Distribution with mean is 10 and variance is 16 is

3581

For a normal distribution with mean 150 and SD is 45, Find Q1 and Q3

3582

The normal curve is

3583

For a normal distribution $Q_1 = 54.32$ and $Q_3 = 78.86$, then the median of the distribution is

3584

What is the mean of X having the following density function $f(x) = \frac{1}{4\sqrt{2\pi}} e^{-\frac{(x-10)^2}{32}}$ for $-\infty < x < \infty$

3585

What is the first quartile of X having the following probability density function? $F(x) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}} e^{-\frac{(x-10)^2}{32}}$ for $-\infty < x < \infty$

3586

If X follows normal distribution with $\mu = 50$ and $\sigma = 10$, what is value of $P(X \le 60 | X > 50)$?

3587

For a normal distribution with mean as 500 and SD as 120, what is the value of k so that the interval [500, k] covers 40.32 per cent area of the normal curve? (Given $\phi(1.30) = 0.9032$)

3588

An example of a bi-parametric continuous probability distribution

3589

What is the mean of X having the following density function? $f(x) = \frac{1}{4\sqrt{2\pi}} e^{-\frac{(x-10)^2}{32}}$ for $-\infty < x < \infty$

3590

The variance of standard normal distribution

3591

For a normal distribution, the first and third quartile are given to be 37 and 49, the mode of the distribution is.

3592

Area between -1.96 to +1.96 in a normal distribution is :

3593

The speeds of bikes follow a normal distribution model with a mean of $80$ km/hr. and a standard deviation of $9.4$ km/hr. Find the probability that a bike picked at random is travelling at more than $95$ km/hr.? $[P(z) = P(1.60) = 0.4452]$

3594

Which of the following is not a property of normal distribution?

3595

For a continuous random variable following standard normal distribution, what is the value of standard deviation?

3596

If the inflexion points of a normal distribution are $6$ and $14$. Find its SD

3597

Normal distribution is also known as

3598

The mean deviation about median of standard normal variate is

3599

If the Quartile Deviation of a normal distribution with mean $10$ and SD $4$ is

3600

If the two Quartiles $N(\mu, \sigma^2)$ are $14.6$ and $25.4$ respectively. What is the standard deviation of the distribution?

3601

The wages of workers of a factory follows

3602

If the inflexion points of a Normal Distribution are $6$ and $14$. Find its SD?

3603

An approximate relation between quartile deviation (QD) and standard deviation (S.D.) of normal distribution is:

3604

Which of the following is not a characteristic of a normal probability distribution?

3605

The Interval $(\mu - 3\sigma, \mu + 3\sigma)$ covers

3606

If the mean deviation of a normal variable is $16$, what is its quartile deviation?

3607

If the quartile deviation of a normal curve is $4.05$, then its mean deviation is

3608

$In a normal distribution skewness is ______$

3609

The points of inflexion of the normal curve $f(t) = \frac{1}{4\sqrt{2\pi}}e^{-\frac{(t-10)^2}{32}}$ are

3610

The mean deviation abut median of standard normal variate is

3611

The probability density function of a normal variable $x$ is given by

3612

The average weekly food expenditure of a group of families has a normal distribution with mean $₹1,800$ and standard deviation $₹300$. What is the probability that out of $5$ families belonging to this group, at least one family has weekly food expenditure in excess of $₹2,100$? Given $F(1) = 0.84$.

3613

For a standard normal distribution, the points of inflexion are given by

3614

The interval $\mu-3\sigma$ & $\mu+3\sigma$ covers

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