Exam Details

Subject FOUNDATION IN MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
Paper
Exam / Course POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN APPLIED STATISTICS (PGDAST)
Department School of Sciences (SOS)
Organization indira gandhi national open university
Position
Exam Date December, 2016
City, State new delhi,


Question Paper

1. State whether the following statements are True or False. Give reasons in support of your answers.
Allotment of license number plates to different cars comes under the ordinal scale of measurement. The 10th term of the sequence ... is 28. Caption refers to the row heading, and explains what information the row presents. Number of patients visiting a hospital over a period of seven days is an example of discrete data. lim x x^2 x^3 ... x^100) =10l.

2.(a) If A B C are subsets of the universal set

U 9},then verify De-Morgan's laws.
Find the domain of the function f R defined by =sqrt(x X E R.
Also evaluate and f(5).
OR
(c) Find the sum of the G.P. ... up to 8 terms

(d) How many 4-digit numbers are possible using 9 digits ..., 9 such that Three digits 8 are always included?

(ii) Two digits 8 are always excluded?

3.(a) Discuss the continuity of the function at x 3.
Find the derivative of the function sqrt x^2 x l
OR Evaluate:
Integration dx

(d) Evaluate:

<br><br> <img src='./qimages/11550-3d.jpg'>

4.(a) Using the properties of determinants evaluate <img src='./qimages/11550-4a.jpg'> Solve the following system of equations using the matrix method:

4x 2y=6

6x 3y=8
OR Distinguish between quantitative and qualitative data, and discrete and continuous data. Also give an example in each case.
Write the five differences between primary and secondary data.

5.(a) Present the following information in a suitable tabular form:

In 2009, out of a total 2000 employees in a company, 1550 were members of a trade union. The number of women employees was 250, of which 200 did not belong to any trade union. In 2010, the number of union employees was 1725, out of which 1600 were men. The number of employees who did not belong to any trade union was 380, of which 155 were women.
A company is started by four persons C and D and they distribute the profit or loss among themselves in the proportion 4 3 2 1. In the year 2010, the company earned a profit of Rs. 14,400. Represent the shares of their profits in a pie chart.
OR Draw a histogram for the following data:
<img src='./qimages/11550-5c.jpg'> Draw a box plot for the following data:
31, 42, 22, 27, 33 27, 37, 28, 34, 44, 25, 39, 26,31,26,33,46,48,50.


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Departments

  • Centre for Corporate Education, Training & Consultancy (CCETC)
  • Centre for Corporate Education, Training & Consultancy (CCETC)
  • National Centre for Disability Studies (NCDS)
  • School of Agriculture (SOA)
  • School of Computer and Information Sciences (SOCIS)
  • School of Continuing Education (SOCE)
  • School of Education (SOE)
  • School of Engineering & Technology (SOET)
  • School of Extension and Development Studies (SOEDS)
  • School of Foreign Languages (SOFL)
  • School of Gender Development Studies(SOGDS)
  • School of Health Science (SOHS)
  • School of Humanities (SOH)
  • School of Interdisciplinary and Trans-Disciplinary Studies (SOITDS)
  • School of Journalism and New Media Studies (SOJNMS)
  • School of Law (SOL)
  • School of Management Studies (SOMS)
  • School of Performing Arts and Visual Arts (SOPVA)
  • School of Performing Arts and Visual Arts(SOPVA)
  • School of Sciences (SOS)
  • School of Social Sciences (SOSS)
  • School of Social Work (SOSW)
  • School of Tourism & Hospitality Service Sectoral SOMS (SOTHSM)
  • School of Tourism &Hospitality Service Sectoral SOMS (SOTHSSM)
  • School of Translation Studies and Training (SOTST)
  • School of Vocational Education and Training (SOVET)
  • Staff Training & Research in Distance Education (STRIDE)

Subjects

  • BASIC STATISTICS LAB SET-1
  • BASIC STATISTICS LAB SET-2
  • DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
  • FOUNDATION IN MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
  • INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS I
  • INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS II
  • INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS LAB SET-1
  • INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS LAB SET-2
  • PROBABILITY THEORY
  • STATISTICAL INFERENCE
  • STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES