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Section A [45 marks]
Answer all questions in this section.
1 In an agricultural experiment, the gains in mass (in kilogram) of 100 cows during a certain
period were recorded as follows:

Gain in mass (kg) Frequency
5 9 4
10 14 12
15 19 29
20 24 32
25 29 13
30 34 7
35 39 3

(a) Calculate the mean and standard deviation of the gains in mass of 100 cows. [5 marks]
(b) Find the percentage of the gains in mass of cows in the range of one standard deviation
from the mean. [4 marks]

2 A container contains 5 green wooden blocks, 7 red wooden blocks and 8 blue wooden blocks.
The blocks are identical except for their colours. John randomly selects wooden blocks from the
container until a green block is selected. If John does not select a green block, he will put it back into
the container and repeat the process until a green block is obtained.
(a) Show that the probability that the second piece selected is red is
21
80
[2 marks]
(b) Find the probability that either the second piece selected is red or the fourth piece selected is
green. [6 marks]

3 A student takes a certain route to travel to school each day. The travel times (in minutes) for
the route can be assumed to be normally distributed with mean 23 and standard deviation 4.
(a) Find the probability that a journey will take between 20 and 25 minutes. [3 marks]
(b) If the student begins his journey at 7.05 a.m. each day and the first class starts at 7.30
a.m., find the probability he will be late to school for 2 out of 5 consecutive days. [5 marks]

4 A biscuit company has carried out a survey on the age of its customers and the weekly
consumption of its new product of biscuits. The table below shows the weekly consumption, y of the
company product and the age, x of the customer.

x (year) 11 13 19 26 32 38 46 51 58 62
y (gram per week) 42 48 60 70 66 62 49 34 16 8

(a) Determine the least square regression line of on x [5 marks]
(b) Find the non linear correlation curve between x and y. [2 marks]
(c) Determine the consumption of the biscuits for a customer of age 65. Justify your
answer. [1 mark]

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5 The following table shows the price and quantity for three different brands of 1 kg packed
milk powder sold at a hypermarket.

Brand of Milk Powder
Price (RM) Quantity (Thousands)
2010 2012 2010 2012
A 20 30 30 40
B 30 36 20 15
C 20 30 30 40
Taking 2010 as the base year, calculate
(a) the Paasche quantity index for the year 2012. [2 marks]
(b) the Laspeyres quantity index for the year 2013 if the quantity of milk powder brand A,
brand B and brand C sold increased by 5%, 10% and 15% respectively compared to the year 2012.
[4 marks]

6 The time series plot below shows the quarterly revenues (RM000,000) for a toy production
company from 1997 to 1999.













(a) Comment on the trend. [1 mark]
(b) State, with a reason, whether an additive or a multiplicative model is more suitable to
be used to decompose the time series. [2 marks]
(c) The quarterly seasonal variations for the above data are given in the table below.
Quarter 1 2 3 4
Seasonal variation 0.6895 k 0.6427 2.0761

(i) Determine the seasonal variation for the second quarter, k. [2 marks]
(ii) Interpret the seasonal variation for the fourth quarter. [1 mark]




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Section B [15 marks]
Answer only one question in this section.

7 (a) A discrete random variable X has the probability distribution function
, where c is a constant.
(i) Determine the value of the constant c. [2 marks]
(ii) Calculate the mean and variance of X. [5 marks]
(b) A continuous random variable X has the cumulative distribution function as follows.

2
0, 1
( ) , 1 2
1, 2
x
F x ax bx x
x
<

= s <

>

(i) Show that
1
6
a = and find the value of b. [3 marks]
(ii) Find
1
( 1 )
2
P X > . [2 marks]
(iii) Find the value of m such that
1
( )
2
P X m < = . [3 marks]

8 The table below shows the income tax collected (in million RM) quarterly and the centred
moving averages from year 2011 to year 2013.

Year Quarter Income tax (in million RM) Centred moving average
1 12
2011 2 25
3 20 29.125
4 55 31.625
1 21 34.750
2012 2 36 38.375
3 34 42.000
4 70 45.500
1 35 48.000
2013 2 50 51.875
3 40
4 95

(a) Using a multiplicative model, calculate the adjusted seasonal index for each of the
four quarters. Write down your answers correct to three decimal places. [4 marks]
(b) Obtain a seasonally adjusted time series. [2 marks]
(c) Find the equation of the trend line using the least squares method. [4 marks]
(d) Hence, predict the income tax collected in the first quarter of the year 2014 such that it
exceeds the current trend by 10%. [5 marks]
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