PART 2 of Midterm 2 22S:131 16 April 2010 Name_______________

1) Suppose X ~ n(2Y, Y) & Y ~ Poisson(5). Determine Var(X).

a) 22 b) 24 c) 25 d) 27 e) 28

2) Find a right-sided 95% confidence interval of the form (c, ∞), for σ2 based
on a sample of size n = 15 and a sample variance s2 = 8.42

a) (2.24, ∞) b) (3.28, ∞) c) (3.63, ∞) d) (3.92, ∞) e) (4.98, ∞)

3) Three cards are chosen, without replacement, from a box containing θ cards
numbered 1, …, θ . Find the MLE for θ based on the observations 2, 5, 3.

a) 3 b) 5 c) 6 d) 8 e) 10

4) Suppose X = eY where Y ~ n(1, 4). Determine P(X > 10).

a) .08 b) .14. c) .18 d) .26 e) .34

5) Suppose X is lognormally distributed with E(X) = 1.54 & Var(X) = 1.02
Determine P(X > 3.16).

a) .067 b) .128 c) .156 d) .188 e) .212

6) Suppose that X & Y have a bivariate normal distribution with

E(X) = 30, Var(X) = 25, E(Y) = 15, Var(Y) = 16 & ρ = .75

Determine P( X + 3Y > 95)

a) .356 b) .288 c) .224 d) .156 e) .107

7) In (6), determine P( Y > 21 | X = 35)

a) .084 b) .104 c) .129 d) .168 e) .192