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MMPC 005 (July 2024 - January 2025) - ENGLISH

ASSIGNMENT

Course Code:MMPC-005

Course Title: Quantitative Analysis For Managerial Applications

Assignment Code: MMPC-405/TMA/JULY/2024

Coverage:All Blocks

Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment to the Coordinator of your study centre. Last date of submission for July 2024 session is 31 October, 2024 and for January 2025 session is 30th April 2025.

1. Describe briefly the questionnaire method of collecting primary data. State the essentials of a good questionnaire.

2. Discuss the importance of measuring variability for managerial decision-making.

3. An investment consultant predicts that the odds against the price of a certain stock will go up during the next week are 2:1 and the odds in favour of the price remaining the same are 1:3. What is the probability that the price of the stock will go down during the next weck?

4. In practice, we find situations where it is not possible to make any probability assessment. What criterion can be used in decision-making situations where the probabilities of outcomes are unknown?

5. A purchase manager knows that the hardness of castings from any supplier is normally distributed with a mean of 20.25 and SD of 2.5. He picks up 100 samples of castings from any supplier who claims that his castings have heavier hardness and finds the mean hardness 20.50. Test whether the claim of the supplier is tenable.

MMPC 005 (July 2025 - January 2026) - ENGLISH

ASSIGNMENT

Course Code

MMPC-005

Course Title

Quantitative Analysis for Managerial Applications

Assignment Code

MMPC-005/TMA/JULY/2025

Coverage

All Blocks

Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment to the Coordinator of your study centre. Last date of submission for July 2025 Semester is 31" October, 2025 and for January 2026 Semester is 30 April 2026.

1. What is Statistical Decision Theory? Describe the four different states of decision environment in managerial applications. Which is the most prevalent state?

2. A certain manufacturing process yields electrical fuses of which, in the long run, 15% are defective. Find the probability that in a sample of 10 fuses selected at random there will be:

a) No defective

b) At least one defective

3. A manager at a drug manufacturing wants to estimate what proportion of the adult population of India has high blood pressure. He wants to be 99% sure that the error of his estimate will not exceed 0.02. Census reports indicate that about 0.20 of all adults have high blood pressure. What sample size shall he take?

4. For a set of 1000 observations known to be normally distributed, the mean is 534 cm and SD is 13.5 cm. How many observations are likely to exceed 561 cm? How many will be between 520.5 and 547.5 cm?

5. Write short notes on any three of the following:

a) Level of significance

b) Quartile Deviation

c) Criterion of optimism

d) Disproportional Stratified Sampling

e) Least Square Criterion

MMPC 005 (July 2026 - January 2027) - ENGLISH

ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MMPC-005
Course Title : Quantitative Analysis for Managerial Applications
Assignment Code : MMPC-005/TMA/ JULY/2026
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment to the Coordinator of your
study centre. Last date of submission for July 2026 Semester is 31st October 2026
and for January 2027 Semester is 30th April 2027.
1. Distinguish between primary and secondary data. Discuss various methods of collecting
primary data. Indicate the situation in which each of these methods should be used.
2. Based on a recent nation-wide poll, a seller of printed advertisements estimates that 56%
of all adults usually open all the mails they receive. If this is still the current rate at which
adults open mail, what is the probability that, in a random sample of 1000 adults, the
number who usually open all of their mails will be
a) Less than 541?
b) 570 or more?
3. List the various reasons that make sampling so attractive in drawing conclusions about
the population. Also explain the major difference between probability and non-probability
sampling.
4. As part of an investigation of employee turnover, an industry-wide survey of people in
sales management positions gave the number of years of experience in sales relate
positions. The data is as follows:
Males Females
Sample size 80 70
Mean years 21.7 18.5
Std.dev of years 9.3 4.8
Construct a 95% confidence interval for the difference of means µ1 - µ2 .
5. Write short notes on any three of the following:
a) Decision Tree Approach
b) Non-Probability Sampling Methods
c) Central Limit Theorem
d) The Correlation Coefficient

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