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GATE Engineering Mathematics: Probability and Statistics: Random variables, Poisson and Normal distributions, linear regression – Previous Year Questions

3 GATE previous year questions on Probability and Statistics: Random variables, Poisson and Normal distributions, linear regression (Engineering Mathematics, Civil Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2024 CE (CE1) Q47 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – The return period of a large earthquake for a given region is 200 years. Assuming that earthquake occurrence follows Poisson's distribution, the…
  2. GATE 2025 CE (CE2) Q51 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – Consider a discrete random variable X whose probabilities are given below. The standard deviation of the random variable is (round off to one decimal…
  3. GATE 2026 CE (CE2) Q47 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – The age (in years) of a population is normally distributed with a mean of 36 and standard deviation of 12. The height (in cm) of the same population…