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Uttar Pradesh
India 201303
ASSIGNMENTS
PROGRAM: DBM
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INSTRUCTIONS
a) Students are required to submit all three assignment sets.
ASSIGNMENT
Assignment A
Assignment B
Assignment C

DETAILS
Five Subjective Questions
Three Subjective Questions + Case Study
Objective or one line Questions

MARKS
10
10
10

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c)
d)
e)

Total weightage given to these assignments is 30%. OR 30 Marks

All assignments are to be completed as typed in word/pdf.
All questions are required to be attempted.
All the three assignments are to be completed by due dates and need to be
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Assignment
Assignment B
Assignment C
A

Quantitative Techniques in Management

Section A
All questions carry equal marks.
1. Define Quantitative Techniques. Name the two major divisions in which you can divide these
techniques. Explain the modus oprendii of each and give names of a few techniques under each
category.
2. a. Show for the following function f(x) = x + 1/x has its Mi value greater that its ax value.
b. An enquiry into the faculty budgets of middle class families gave the following information
given below.

3. a. Calculate the Mean, Median and Standard Deviation of the following data
Wages Up to (Rs.)

15 30 45 60 75 90 105 120

No. of Workers

12 30 65 107 157 202 222 230

b. Also calculate
a. Coefficient of correlation
b. Interquartile Range (Q3-Q1)
c. Skewness

4. a. Two brands of tyres are tested with the following results.

Life (in thousands of Kms) Brand A Brand B

20-25 8 6
25-30 15 20
30-35 12 32
35-40 18 30
40-45 13 12
45-50 9 0
Which brand of tyre would you use on the fleet of trucks and why?
b. Answser the following guestions.
1. The income of a person in a particular week is Rs.5o per day. Find mean deviation of his
income for the week.
2. The median and variance of a distrthution are 35 & 2.56 per day. Find median and variance if
each observation is multiplied by 3.
3. The mode and standard deviation of a distrnbution are 55 and 4.33 respectively. Find mode
and standard deviation if 8 is added to each observation.
4. The mean and standard deviation of a distribution are 15 & w respectively. Find meamn and
standard distribution if each observation is multiplied by 5.

5. a. Define the following Matrix with an example of each.

a. Row Matrix

b. Column Matrix

c. Zero or Null Matnx

d. square Matrix

e. Diagonal Matrix

f. Scalar Matrix

g. unit or dentity Matrix

h. Upper Triangular Matrix

j. Comparable Matrix

k. Equal Matrix

5. b. Solve the following equations using MATRIx method.

-2x y + 3z = 9
x.+.y.+.x =-6.
xo-.y.+.z =-2.

i. Lower Triangular Matrix

Section B
1. Two women customers are randomly selected in a super market and are asked to taste 7
different types of juices and rank them in order of preference from 7(best) to 1(least
desirable). The results are as follows.
Juices

MANU

sONU

1. Calculate the Rank Correlation and Coefficient.

2. Is the relationship significant?

2. a. Fit a straight line trend by the method of least square to the following data.
Year Production
1991 240
1992 255
1993 225
1994 260
1995 280
b. Estimate the likely production for the year 2o0o.
c. when will the production be double that of year 1993?

CASE STUDY

Case Study
The marks obtained by seven students in Statistics and Accountancy are as follows:
Age(X)56

Blood

42

36

147

125

47

118

49

42

60

72

63

55

128

145

140

155

160

149

150

Pressure(Y)

i.

Given the form of the scattered diagram, does it appear that a straight line provides an
accurate
model for the data?

ii.

Find the correlation coefficient between Age(X) and Blood Pressure(Y) and discuss its
nature.

iii.

Find the two lines of regression.

iv.

Estimate the blood pressure of a woman whose age is 45

Assignment C
(Objective type Questions)

Total Marks -10

Ques.1 a sequence of interrelated decisions made either simultaneously or over several time periods
called dynamic decisions.

a.
b.
c.
d.

dynamic decisions
static decisions
Both
None

Ques.2 Stocking of an item for sale in a certain trade fair, illustrates a

a. Static decision
b. Where uncertainly exists
c. Nature is opponent.
d. All of above
Ques.3 Quantitative analysis is also called

a.
b.
c.
d.

Operations research
Management science
Quantitative techniques
All the above

Ques.4 Quantitative research provides the fundamental connection between

a. empirical observation and mathematical expression
b. empirical observation and qualitative expression
c. empirical observation and social expression
d. empirical observation and all expression
Ques.5 Most of the business decisions can be made on the basic of
a.
b.
c.
d.

Rule of thumb
Commonsense
Snap judgment.
Quantitative Techniques

Ques.6 Statistics is a branch of

a. applied physics

b. applied mathematics
c. applied commerce
d. Dramatics
Ques.7 The mean of 7, 12, 24, 20, 19 is

a.
b.
c.
d.

14
16
15.4
16.4

Ques.8 (X/c) =

a. ( X)/n c
b. ( X)/ c
c. ( X)/c
d. X/c.
Ques.9 Midterm exam scores for a small advanced neuroanatomy class are provided below. Scores
represent percent of items marked correct on the exam.
87,99,75,87,94,75,35,88,87,93
The mode of the distribution
a.
b.
c.
d.

75
87
88
94

Ques.10 Which measure of Central tendency is most efficient

a. Mean
b. Median
c. Mode
d. All are equal
e.
Ques.11 Mean Deviation can be calculated from
a. Mean
b. Median
c. Mode.
d. All the three
Ques.12 Qualitative data are
a. Non-numeric
b. Numeric

c. Can be both
d. None
Ques.13 The numeric data that have a finite number of possible values is called
a. Continuous data
b. Discrete data
c. Datum
d. None
Ques.14 The Coefficient of Variance is expressed as
a. CV =

.S . X 100
Xmean

b. CV =

.S .
Xmean

c.

CV =

. Xmean . X 100
S

d. CV = (X - Xmean )
Ques.15 Which one is unaffected by extreme scores

a.
b.
c.
d.

Mean
Median
Mode
Range

Ques.16 A storeowner kept a tally of the sizes of suits purchased in her store. Which measure of central
tendency should the storeowner use to describe the average suit sold?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Mean
Median
Mode
None

Ques.17 The correlation coefficient, r = -1, implies

a.
b.
c.
d.

Perfect negative
Perfect positive
No correlation
Limited correlation

Ques.18 If two variables changes in the opposite direction and in the same proportion, the correlation
between the two is

a. Perfect positive
b. Limited positive

c. Limited Negative
d. Perfect negative

Ques.19 The value of r gives the magnitude of correlation and its sign denotes its

a.
b.
c.
d.

Value
Direction
Both
None

Ques.20 By the Rank method the value of R is -0.73 it suggests a

a.
b.
c.
d.

fairly strong negative relationship

fairly strong positive relationship
Perfect negative
Perfect positive

Ques.21 The range of the correlation coefficient is?

a. -1 to 0.
b. 0 to 1.
c. -1 to 1.
d. None of the above.
Ques.22 When looking at a sequence of monthly postal revenue data, we note that the revenue is
consistently highest in December. The high December revenue is an illustration of:

a.
b.
c.
d.

trend
seasonal variation
irregular fluctuations
a cycle

Ques.23 Which of the following is NOT an assumption of the Binomial distribution?

a.
b.
c.
d.

All trials must be identical.

All trials must be independent.
Each trial must be classified as a success or a failure.
The probability of success is equal to .5 in all trials.

Ques.24.In Regression Analysis the independent variable is also known as

a. Regressed variable

b. Regressor variable
c. Random variable
d. All of the above
Ques.25.Given that we have collected pairs of observations on two variables X and Y , we would consider
fitting a straight line with X as an explanatory variable if:

a.
b.
c.
d.

the change in Y is an additive constant.

the change in Y is a constant for each unit change in X
the change in Y is a fixed percent of Y
the change in Y is exponential

Ques.26 In Regression Analysis, a single regression line is obtained in case if

a.
b.
c.
d.

r=
r=
r=
r=

+1
-1
+1
0

Ques.27 The regression Analysis Studies

a.
b.
c.
d.

one-way causal effect

two-way causal effect
interdependence of the variables
dependence of the variables

Ques.28 Correlation Coefficient is the ---------------between the regression coefficients

a. arithmetic mean
b. geometric mean
c. harmonic mean
d. median
Ques.29 Gradual shifting of a time series over a long period of time is called

a. periodicity.
b. cycle.
c. regression.
d. trend.

Ques.30 The trend component is easy to identify by using

a. moving averages
b. exponential smoothing
c. regression analysis
d. the Delphi approach

Ques.31 Seasonal components

a. cannot be predicted.
b. are regular repeated patterns.
c. are long runs of observations above or below the trend line.
d. reflect a shift in the series over time.

1. Ques.32 What probability is shown on the Venn diagram by the shaded region below t probability is
shown on the Venn diagram below

a. a. p(A)
b. b. p(B)
c. p(A and B)
d. p(not B)
Ques.33 At Sanjay Middle School, 3 out of 5 students make honor roll. What is the probability that a
student does not make honor roll?

a.
b.
c.
d.

65%
40%
60%
None of the above

Ques.34 In a class of 30 students, there are 17 girls and 13 boys. Five are A students, and three of these
students are girls. If a student is chosen at random, what is the probability of choosing a girl or an A
student?

a.
b.
c.
d.
Ques.35

19/30
11/50
12/30
15/40

In a shipment of 100 televisions, 6 are defective. If a person buys two televisions from that shipment, what is the
that both are defective?

a.
b.
c.
d.

3/100
1/330
9/2500
6/100

Ques.36 Find the correlation coefficient r(X, Y) between X and Y,when

Cov(X,Y) = -2.45, Var (X) = 8.25 and Var (Y) = 21.49

a.
b.
c.
d.

0.18
0.18
0.36
0.36

Ques.37 A coin is tossed 5 times. What is the probability of getting atleast 3 heads?

a.
b.
c.
d.

1/2
1/3
1/4
1/5

Ques.38 Normal Distribution is symmetrical about its

a.
b.
c.
d.

Harmonic mean
Mean
Range
Standard deviation

Ques.39 In Normal Distribution 95% of the observations fall within 2 standard deviations of the mean, that
is, between

a. - and +

b. - 2 and +2
c. - 3 and +3
d. Not defined
Ques.40 Condition for the Applicability of Binomial Distribution:

a.
b.
c.
d.

There should be a finite number of trials.

The trials do not depend on each other.
Each trial should have only two possible outcomes, either a success or a failure.
All of the above