FOUNDATION OF DATA ANALYTICS

V Sem BCA(Big Data Analytics)

1. An event in the probability that will never be happened is called as -

a. Unsure event b. Sure event

c. Possible event d. Impossible event

2. What will be the probability of getting odd numbers if a dice is

thrown?

a. 1/2 b. 2 c. 4/2 d. 5/2

3. What is the probability of getting a sum as 3 if a dice is thrown?

a. 2/18 b.1/18 c.4 d.1/36

4. What is the probability of getting an even number when a dice is

thrown?

a. 1/6 b.1/2 c.1/3 d.1/4

5. The probability of getting two tails when two coins are tossed is -

a. 1/6 b.1/2 c.1/3 d.1/4

6. What is the probability of getting the sum as a prime number if two

dice are thrown?

a. 5/24 b.5/12 c.5/30 d.1/4

7. What is the probability of getting atleast one head if three unbiased

coins are tossed?

a. 7/8 b.1/2 c.5/8 d.8/9

8. What is the probability of drawing an ace from a pack of 52 cards?

a. 4/13 b.1/13 c.1/52 d.3/13

9. In 30 balls, a batsman hits the boundaries 6 times. What will be

the probability that he did not hit the boundaries?

a. 1/5 b.4/5 c.3/5 d.2/5

10. What will be the number of events if 10 coins are tossed
simultaneously?

a. 512 b.90 c.1000 d.1024

11. Four dice are thrown simultaneously. What will be the probability
that all of them have the same face?

a. 1/6 b.1/36 c.1/216 d.1/316

12. Which of the following statement is not true about probability?

a. The probability of an impossible event is 0.

b. Probability can be greater than 1 or less than 0.
c. Probability cannot be greater than 1.
d. None of the above

13. The set of one or more than one outcomes from an experiment is
called as -

a. Z-value b.Arithmetic mean

c. Event d. None of the above

14. If one event occurs, another event cannot happen, i.e., the events
that cannot occur simultaneously are called as -

a. Exhaustive Events b.Mutually exclusive events

c. Equally likely events d.Independent events

15. In binomial distribution, successive trials are -

a. Mutually exclusive b. Dependent

c. Independent d. None of the above

16. A table with all possible value of a random variable and its
corresponding probabilities is called ___________
a. Probability Mass Function b. Probability Density Function
c. Cumulative distribution function d. Probability Distribution
17. A variable that can assume any value between two given points is
called ___________
a. Continuous random variable b. Discrete random variable
c. Irregular random variable d. Uncertain random variable
18. What are independent events?
a. If the outcome of one event does not affect the outcome of
another
b. If the outcome of one event affects the outcome of another
c. Any one of the outcomes of one event does not affect the outcome of
another
d. Any one of the outcomes of one event does affect the outcome of
another
19. What is the formula for independent events?
a. P(AB) = P(A) P(B) b. P(A∩B) = P(A) P(B)
c. P(A+B) = P(A) P(B) d. P(A-B) = P(A) P(B)
20. Find the mean of tossing 8 coins.
a. 2 b. 4 c. 8 d. 1
21. What will be the value of P(not E) if P(E) = 0.07?

a. 0.90 b. 0.07 c.0.93 d. 0.72

22. ) What is the probability of getting the sum as a prime number if

two dice are thrown?

a. 5/24 b. 5/12 c. 5/30 d. 1/4

23. What is the probability of getting 1 and 5 if a dice is thrown once?

a. 1/6 b. 1/3 c. 2/3 d. 8/9

24. What will be the probability of losing a game if the winning

probability is 0.3?

a. 0.5 b. 0.6 c. 0.7 d. 0.8

25. If two dice are thrown together, what is the probability of getting
an even number on one dice and an odd number on the other dice?

a. 1/4 b. 3/5 c. 3/4 d. 1/2

26. In a box, there are 8 orange, 7 white, and 6 blue balls. If a ball is
picked up randomly, what is the probability that it is neither orange
nor blue?

a. 1/3 b. 1/21 c. 2/21 d. 5/21

27. A card is drawn from a pack of 52 cards. What is the probability

of getting a king of a black suit?

a. 1/26 b. 1/52 c. 3/26 d. 7/52

28. A dice is thrown twice. What is the probability of getting two

numbers whose product is even?

a. 6/4 b. 1/2 c. 5/4 d. 3/4

29. Suppose a number x is chosen from the numbers -2, -1, 0, 1, 2.

What will be the probability of x2 > 0?

a. 1/5 b. 2/3 c. 3/5 d. 4/5

30. If a number is selected at random from the first 50 natural

numbers, what will be the probability that the selected number is a
multiple of 3 and 4?

a. 7/50 b. 4/25 c. 2/25 d. 3/25

31. What is the probability of getting a prime number from the

numbers started from 1 to 100?

a. 1/4 b. 1/100 c. 1/25 d. 1/50

32. Which of the following probability cannot exist?

a. 2/5 b. -1.5 c. 1/100 d. 3/5

33. A card is drawn from a pack of 52 cards. What is the probability of

getting a queen card?

a. 1/26 b. 1/52 c. 3/13 d. 1/13

34. What will be the probability of an impossible event?

a. 0 b. 1 c. Infinity d. None of the above

35. If three coins are tossed simultaneously, what is the probability of
getting two heads together?

a. 3/8 b. 1/8 d. 5/8 d. 7/8

36. The probability of winning the first prize in a lottery of a girl is

8/100. If the total of 6000 tickets are sold, then how many tickets the
girl purchased?

a. 480 b. 750 c. 280 d. None of the above

37. There are 3 blue socks, 5 brown socks, and 4 white socks in a
drawer. If two socks are picked up randomly, what is the probability
that the selected socks are of the same color?

a. 1 b. 0 c. 19/66 d. 4/11

38. A card is drawn from a pack of 52 cards. What is the probability

that it is a face card (King, Queen, and Jack only)?

a. 1/26 b. 2/13 c. 1/13 d. 3/13

39. A stock of pens consists of 144 ball pens in which 20 pens are
defective, and others are good. A girl went to the shop to purchase a
pen. The shopkeeper randomly draws one pen and gives it to her.
What is the probability that a girl will buy the good pen?

a. 5/26 b. 5/36 c. 31/36 d. None of the above

40. The probability of randomly selecting a rotten apple is 0.18 from

the heap of 900 apples. So, what is the number of rotten apples in a
heap?

a. 162 b. 164 c. 136 d. 160

41. If a number is selected at random from the first 100 natural

numbers, what will be the probability that the selected number is a
perfect cube?

a. 1/25 b. 2/25 c. 3/25 d. 4/25

42. If two dice are thrown simultaneously, what is the probability of

getting a multiple of 2 on one dice and multiple of 3 on the other dice?

a. 5/4 b. 5/12 c. 11/36 d. 1/2

43. Two people X and Y apply for a job in a company. The probability
of the selection of X is 2/5, and Y is 4/7. What is the probability that
both of them get selected?

a. 1/6 b. 27/35 c. 8/35 d. 3/35

44. Two dice are thrown simultaneously. What will be the probability
of getting a sum of 7?

a. 1/6 b. 2/9 c. 5/6 d. None of the above

45. A card is drawn from a pack of 52 cards. What is the probability of

getting a non-face card?

a. 10/13 b. 3/13 c. 1/13 d. None of the above

46. A school has five houses named as A, B, C, D, and E. There are

23 students in a class in which 4 students are from house A, 8
students are from house B, 5 from C, 2 from D, and the rest from
house E. Class teacher randomly selects a student to be the class
monitor. What is the probability that the selected student is not from
house A, B, and C?

a. 1/23 b. 2/23 c. 5/23 d. 6/23

47. A dice is rolled. The probability of getting a number x where 1 ? x ?

6 is -

a. Greater than 0 b. Greater than 1

c. Between 1 and 0 d. Equal to 1

48. If three coins are tossed simultaneously, what is the probability of

getting atmost two heads?

a. 7/8 b. 1/8 c. 5/8 d. None of the above

49. If P is the probability of an event, what is the probability of its

complement?

a. 1 - 1/P b. P - 1 c. 1 - P d. None of the above

50. The probability of selecting a bad egg is 0.035 from the lot of 400
eggs. So, what is the number of bad eggs in the lot?

a. 14 b. 16 c. 18 d. 20
51. Using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, a number having five digits is
formed without any repetition. What is the probability that the
number is divisible by 4?

a. 1/5 b. 2/5 c. 5/6 d. 3/5

52. What is the probability of the random arrangement of letters in

the word "UNIVERSITY" and two I's should come together?

a. 1/7 b. 3/5 c. 1/5 d. 2/7

53. In class, 30% of students study Hindi, 45% study Maths, and
15% study both Hindi and Maths. If a student is randomly selected,
what is the probability that he/she study Hindi or maths?

a. 1/5 b. 3/5 c. 2/5 d. 2/7

54. The probability of event equal to zero is called;

a. Unsure event b. Sure Event
c. Impossible event d. Independent event
56. A bag has 3 red balls and 5 green balls. If we take a ball from the
bag, then what is the probability of getting red balls only?
a. 3 b. 8 c. 3/8 d. 8/3
57. A bag has 5 white marbles, 8 red marbles and 4 purple marbles.
If we take a marble randomly, then what is the probability of not
getting purple marble?
a. 0.5 b. 0.66 c. 0.08 d. 0.77
58. If we throw two coins in the air, then the probability of getting
both heads will be:
a. ½ b. ¼ c. 2 d. 4
59. A fish tank has 5 male fish and 8 female fish. The probability of
fish taken out is a male fish:
a. 5/8 b. 5/13 c. 13/5 d. 5
60. The sum of the probabilities of all the elementary events of an
experiment is
a. 0.5 b. 1 c. 2 d. 1.5
61. If an event cannot occur, then its probability is
a. 1 b. 3/4 c. 1/2 d. 0
62. An event is very unlikely to happen. Its probability is closest to
a. 0.0001 b. 0.001 c. 0.01 d. 0.1
63. The probability that a non leap year selected at random will
contain 53 Sundays is
a. 1/7 b. 2/7 c. 3/7 d. 5/7
64. Two players, Sangeeta and Reshma, play a tennis match. It is
known that the probability of Sangeeta winning the match is 0.62. The
probability of Reshma winning the match is
a. 0.62 b. 0.38 c. 0.58 d. 0.42
65. The system of equations 2x+y=5; x-3y=-1;3x+4y=k is consistent,
then k is equal to,
a. 1 b. 2 c. 5 d. 10

66. The set of linear equations:

6x-9y=12; 8-4x=6y=0 has
a. unique solution c. infinitely many solutions
b. no solution d. only two solutions

67. The inverse of the matrix is possible only for

a. Singular matrix c. Zero matrix
b. Symmetric Matrix d. Non-singular Matrix

68. If Rank(A)=2 and Rank (B)=3 then Rank(AB) is:

a. 6 b. 5 c. 3 d. Data inadequate

69. Multiplication of real valued square matrices of same dimension is

a. Associative c. Commutative
b. Always positive definite d. not always possible to commute

70. The relation |3-z| + |3+z|= 5 represents

a. a circle b. a parabola c. an ellipse d. a hyperbola

71. The rank of the matrix (m × n) where m<n cannot be more than?
a. m b. n c. m*n d. m-n
72. If a square matrix B is skew symmetric then.
a. BT = -B b. BT = B c. B-1 = B d. B-1 = BT

73. For the following set of simultaneous equations 1.5x-0.5y=2,

4x+2y+3z=9, 7x+y+5=10.
a. The solution is unique
b. Infinitely many solutions exist
c. The equations are incompatible
d. Finite number of multiple solutions exist
74. A set of linear equations is represented by the matrix equation
Ax=b. The necessary condition for the existence of a solution for this
system is
a. A must be invertible
b. b must be linearly dependent on the columns of A
c. b must be linearly independent os the columns of A
d. None of these

75. The rank of a 3 x 3 matrix C (= AB), found by multiplying a non-

zero column matrix A of size 3 x 1 and a non-zero row matrix B of size
1 x 3, is
a. 0 b. 1 c. 2 d. 3

76. In the matrix equation Px = q. which of the following is a

necessary condition for the existence of at least one solution for the
unknown vector x?
a. Augmented matrix [Pq] must have the same rank as matrix P
b. Vector q must have only non-zero elements
c. Matrix P must be singular
d. None of these

77. The matrix B = AT, where A is any matrix is

a. skew symmetri c. symmetric about the secondary diagonal
b. always symmetric d. another general matrix

78. Eigen values of a real symmetric matrix are always

a. Positive b. real & imaginary c. negative d. real

79. Which of the following statements is correct?

S1: Sum of the two singular n x n matrices may be non-singular
S2 : Sum of two the non-singular nx n matrices may be singular.
a. S1 and S2 are both true c. S1 is true, S2 is false
b. S1 is false, S2 is true d. S1 and S2 are both false

80. Normal distribution is symmetric about

a. Standard variation c. mean
b. Covariance d. variance

81. Standard normal distribution has which of the following properties

a. Mean=Variance=1 c. Standard deviation=Variance=0
b. Mean=0,Variance=1 d. Mean=Standard deviation

82. Cdf stands for

a. Cumulative Distribution Function c. Cost Density Function
b. Common Density Function d. Cost Distribute Function

83. Pdf stand for

a. Process Density Function c. Probability Density Function
b. Probability Deal Function d. Process Density Factorial

84. PMF stand for

a. Process Manual Function c. Process Mass Function
b. Probability Mass Function d. Probability Mass Factorial
1. What is cdf? Explain.
2. What is pdf? Explain.
3. How do you know if the events are dependant or independent?
4. What are dependent events?
5. What are independent events?
6. Explain Bayes theorem.
7. What is Bayes theorem state and prove.
8. What is central limit theorem? Explain.
9. What are the applications of central limit theorem?
10. How can you apply central limit theorem in real life situations?
11. How do you find the expectation of continuous function?
12. What is the expectation of discrete random variable?
13. What is Linear Algebra? Explain its various types.
14. What is Linear Algebra?Whats are the applications of Linear
Algebra.
15. What is regression? Explain.
16. What is K-means algorithm?
17. How does k-means algorithm work?
18. What is meant by joint distribution?
19. What is meant by marginal distribution?
20. What is mean shift algorithm ? Explain.
21. What are the advantage and disadvantage of dimensionality
reduction?
22. What do you mean by eigenvectors?
23. Explain the steps involved for PCA algorithm.
24. Explain PCA algorithm.
25. What is meant by Linear independence?
26. A problem is given to 3 students whose chances of solving it are
1/2, 1/3, and 1/4 respectively. What is the probability that the
problem will be solved?
27. In the given pdf, calculate cdf.

r(1+x2) for -2 < x <1

fx (x) = ｛ 0 elsewhere

28. In the given pdf,

calculate cdf.

｛
1/4 for 1 < x <3

fx (x) = 0 elsewhere

29. Find the value of constant ‘k’ such that, the function fx (x) given by
the expression provided below, is a pdf.
 ｛
1/k for a < x <b

fx (x) = 0 elsewhere

30. If x is a continuous random variable with pdf

2/x3 for x>1

fx (x) = ｛ 0 for x<1

Find E(x).

31. A pair of fair dice are thrown. Let x denote the number of the first
die and z the smaller of the two numbers. Find Fxz (1,2) and Fxz (2,3).
32. A pair of fair dice is thrown. Let, x denote the number of the first
die and z denote the the smaller of the two numbers. Find Fx (1) and Fx
(2)
33. A pair of fair dice is thrown. Let, x denote the number of the first
die and z denote the the smaller of the two numbers. Find Fz (1) and
Fz (2)
34. A pair of fair dice is thrown. Let, x denote the number of the first
die and z denote the the smaller of the two numbers. Find Fx (1) and
Fz (2)
35. A pair of fair dice is thrown. Let, x denote the number of the first
die and z denote the the smaller of the two numbers. Find Fx (2) and
Fz (2)
36. What do you mean by rank of Matrix? Find the rank of Matrix A
where, a11=1, a12=3, a13=5, a21=2, a22=-1, a23=4, a31=-2, a32=8, a33=2.
37. What do you mean by rank of Matrix? Find the rank of Matrix A
where, a11=1, a12=2, a13=3, a14=4, a21=2, a22=1, a23=4, a24=5, a31=1,
a32=5, a33=5, a34=7, a41=8, a42=1, a43=14, a44=17.
38. What do you mean by rank of Matrix? Find the rank of Matrix A
where, a11=2, a12=-3, a13=7, a14=5, a21=3, a22=1, a23=-3, a24=-13, a31=2,
a32=19, a33=-47, a34=22.
39. What do you mean by rank of Matrix? Find the rank of Matrix A
where, a11=0, a12=1, a13=1, a21=1, a22=0, a23=1, a31=1, a32=1, a33=0.
40. What do you mean by rank of Matrix? Find the rank of Matrix A
where, a11=1, a12=1, a13=0, a14=-2, a21=2, a22=0, a23=2, a24=2, a31=4,
a32=1, a33=3, a34=1.