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Mathematics For Technologist 3

Tutorial 1
1. Determine which of the following term is a constant or a variable. If it is a variable,
determine whether it is quantitative or qualitative. If it is quantitative, determine whether it
is discrete or continuous.
a. Number of days in January.
b. Maximum time taken to answer a
quiz.
c. Minimum marks to get grade B.

d. Marital status of the workers in a

firm.
e. The length of 2000 screws in a
production line.

2. State whether each of the following statements refers to a population or a sample.

a. 45 students who have been selected to represent MIIT UniKL in a game.
b. Number of leaves taken by all the employees of a company last month.
c. Favourite colour of 50 young girls in a school.
3. The daily high temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit for Kansas City during the month of March
are given in the following frequency table:
Temperature
28
35
42
56
67
75
Frequency
1
2
8
12
5
3
a) Find the mean and the mode.
b) Calculate the variance and standard deviation of the data
4. The following table of values showing the number of persons (frequency) reporting the
indicated estimate hours on the Internet:
Estimate (hours)
04
5 9 10 14 15 19 20 24 25 29
Frequency (person)
2
9
19
11
6
3
Calculate the mean and find the standard deviation of the estimated hours on the Internet.
5. Given P( A ) = 0.23 and P( A
exclusive events.

B )= 0.57, determine P( B ), if A and B are not mutually

6. In a group of 67 staff, 41 like durians, 22 like rambutans and 17 like both,

a)
Draw a Venn diagram to represent the above information.
b)
Find the probability that, a staff chosen at random,
i.
likes to eat only 1 type of fruit.
ii.
does not like to eat either fruits.
7. Among the 400 inmates of a prison, some are first offenders, some are hardened criminals,
some serve terms of less than five years and some serve longer terms as shown below:
Term of less than
Longer Terms
Total
5 years
(L)
First Offenders
120
40
160
Hardened criminals (H)
80
160
240
200
200
400
If one of the inmates is to be selected at random to be interviewed about prison conditions,
H is the event that the inmate is a hardened criminal, and L is the event that he is serving a
longer term, determine the following probabilities directly from the table.
a).
P(H)
c) P(L H)
b).

P(L)

d)

P (L \ H )

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e)

Use the above results to verify that

P (L H )
P (L \ H )
P (H )