SAVEETHA NAGAR, THANDALAM, CHENNAI-602105
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
QUESTION BANK
Sub. Code/ Sub. Name: Data Analytics with Python
1. A college plans to interview 8 students for possible offers of graduate assistant-ships.
The college has three assistant-ships available. How many groups of three can the
college select?
a. 126
b. 56
c. 136
d. 130
2. Which of the following is each individual outcome of an experiment called?
a. the sample space
b. a sample point
c. an experiment
d. an individual
3. Two events having nonzero probabilities
a. can be both mutually exclusive and independent
b. cannot be both mutually exclusive and independent
c. are always mutually exclusive
d. are always independent
4. Ten individuals are candidates for positions of president, vice president of an
organization. How many possibilities of selections exist?
a. 90
b. 100
c. 120
d. 130
5. A standard normal distribution has:
a. Mean 1 and standard distribution 0
b. Mean 0.5 and standard distribution 0.5
c. Mean 0 and standard distribution 1
d. Mean 1 and standard distribution 1
6. The weight of cows in a farm is normally distributed with a mean of 200 pounds and a
standard deviation of 25 pounds. The probability of a cow weighing more than 241.25
pounds is:
a. 0.4505
b. 0.0495
c. 0.9505
d. 0.9010
7. The weight of cows in a farm is normally distributed with a mean of 200 pounds and a
standard deviation of 25 pounds. what is the probability of a cow weighing less than
250 pounds?
a. 0.4772
b. 0.9772
c. 0.0528
d. 0.5000
8. Statement: Binomial and normal Distributions are discrete probability distributions
a. True
b. False
c. Blue ocean strategy
d. On ground strategy
9. For a binomial experiment with p = 0.5 and a sample size of 100. The expected value
of this distribution is?
a. 0.50
b. 0.30
c. 100
d. 50
10. If we have a sample size of 20 and population standard deviation is known, we will
use:
a. t- test for hypothesis testing
b. z-test for hypothesis testing
c. both t and z test
d. F-test
11. Null hypothesis, Ho: mu1- mu2 = 0 is a:
a. Upper tail test
b. Lower tail test
c. Two tail test
d. F-test
12. The quality-control manager at a Li-BATTERY factory needs to determine whether
the mean life of a large shipment of Li-Battery is equal to the specified value of 375
hours. The process standard deviation is known to be 100 hours. A random sample of
64 batteries indicates a sample mean life of 350 hours. State the null and alternative
hypotheses
a. Mu = 375
b. Mu ≤ 375
c. Mu = 350
d. Mu ≥ 350
13. The quality-control manager at a Li-BATTERY factory needs to determine whether the
mean life of a large shipment of Li-Battery is equal to the specified value of 375 hours. The
process standard deviation is known to be 100 hours. A random sample of 64 batteries
indicates a sample mean life of 350 hours. At the alpha = 0.05 level of significance is there
any evidence that the mean life is different from 375 hours?
a. Yes, there is
b. No, there is not
c. No, there is
d. None of the above
14. For one-tailed test, the test statistic z is determined to be zero. The p-value for this test
is:
a. Zero
b. -0.5
c. +0.5
d. 1.0
15. The error of rejecting a true null hypothesis is:
a. a Type I error
b. a Type II error
c. is the same as Beta
d. committed when not enough information is available
16. The mean cost of a hotel room in a city is said to be $168 per night. A random sample of
25 hotels resulted in X-bar = $172.50 and sample standard deviation s = 15.40. Calculate the t
statistic.
a. 2
b. -2
c. 1.46
d. -1.46
17. In hypothesis testing if the null hypothesis is rejected,
a. no conclusions can be drawn from the test
b. the alternative hypothesis is true
c. the data must have been accumulated incorrectly
d. the sample size has been too small
18. In the hypothesis testing procedure, alpha is
a. 1 – the level of significance
b. the critical value
c. the confidence level
d. the level of significance
19. If a hypothesis is rejected at the 5% level of significance, it
a. will always be rejected at the 1% level
b. will always be accepted at the 1% level
c. will never be tested at the 1% level
d. May be rejected or not rejected at the 1% level
20. In a problem of ANOVA, involving 3 treatments and 10 observations per treatment, SSE
= 500. The MSE for this situation is:
a. 130.2
b. 48.8
c. 18.52
d. 30.0
21. In the analysis of variance procedure (ANOVA) the term “factor” refers to:
a. the dependent variable
b. the independent variable
c. different levels of a treatment
d. the critical value of F
22. The ‘F’ ratio in a completely randomized ANOVA is the ratio of
a. MST/MSE
b. MSTR/MSE
c. MSE/MSTR
d. MSE/MST
23. An ANOVA procedure is applied to data obtained from 7 samples where each sample
contains 10 observations. The degrees of freedom for the critical value of F are:
a. 7 numerator and 20 denominator degrees of freedom
b. 5 numerator and 20 denominator degrees of freedom
c. 6 numerator and 63 denominator degrees of freedom
d. 7 numerator and 63 denominator degrees of freedom
24. In an ANOVA problem if SST = 200 and SSTR = 80, then SSE is
a. 280
b. 120
c. 80
d. 220
25. The critical F value with 8 numerator and 29 denominator degrees of freedom at alpha =
0.01 is
a. 2.18
b. 3.20
c. 3.53
d. 3.94
26. Two Independent simple random samples are taken to test the difference between the
means of two populations. The standard deviations are not known, but are assumed to be
equal. The sample sizes are n1 = 15 and n2 = 35. The correct distribution to use is the:
a. t distribution with 51 degrees of freedom
b. z distribution with 50 degrees of freedom
c. z distribution with 49 degrees of freedom
d. t distribution with 48 degrees of freedom
27. Mean marks obtained by male and female students of school ABCD in first unit test are
shown as below.
Male Female
Sample Size 64 36
Sample Mean Marks 44 41
Population Variance 128 72
If you are interested in testing whether or not the average marks of males is significantly
greater than that of females, the test statistic is:
a. 2.0
b. 1.5
c. 1.96
d. 1.645
28. Mean marks obtained by male and female students of school ABCD in first unit test are
shown as below.
Male Female
Sample Size 64 36
Sample Mean Marks 44 41
Population Variance 128 72
The standard error for the difference between the two means is
a. 4.0
b. 7.46
c. 4.24
d. 2.0
29. Statement: The sampling distribution of two populations P bar1 -P bar2 is approximated
by a normal distribution
a. True
b. False
c. None of the above
d. Neither (i) or (ii)
30. Which one of the following is not a classification of Data Analytics?
a. Deceptive analytics
b. Categorical data
c. Nominal data
d. percentile