MS - 08 - 2011
MS - 08 - 2011
MS - 08 - 2011
Management Programme
ASSIGNMENT
FIRST SEMESTER
2011
Course Code : MS 08
Course Title : Quantitative Analysis for Managerial Applications
Assignment No. : 08/TMA-1/SEM-I/2011
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Answer all the questions and send them to the Coordinator of the Study Centre you are
attached with.
1. Calculate the mean, median and mode from the following data relating to production of a steel
mill for 60 days
2. A restaurant is experiencing discontentment among its customers. It analyses that there are three
factors responsible viz. food quality, service quality and interior décor. By conducting an
analysis, it assesses the probabilities of discontentment with the three factors as 0.40, 0.35 and
0.25 respectively. By conducting a survey among the customers, it also evaluated the
probabilities of a customer going away discontented on account of these factors as 0.6, 0.8 and
0.5, respectively. With this information, the restaurant wants to know that, if a customer is
discontented, what are the probabilities that it is so due to food, service or interior décor?
3. The monthly incomes of a group of 10,000 persons were found to be normally distributed with
mean equal to 15,000 and standard deviation equal to 1000. What is the lowest income among
the richest 250 persons?