Question 1

Parents often wonder how tall their kids would be. Would they be short, average, or tall? Is height
inherited?
1 (a) Select a random sample of 50 upper secondary students of the same gender from your school.
Describe how to ensure the randomness of your sample.
(b) Record the heights of the students and their parents in centimeters.
2 Determine suitable confidence intervals for the mean height of the students using a normal distribution.
Interpret your results.
Measure your height
The height, in cm, of a person can be predicted from ones parents heights using the following formulae:
For girl: 0.5(fathers height + mothers height) 6.35
For boy: 0.5(fathers height + mothers height) + 6.35
3 (a) Calculate the predicted heights of the students based on of the formulae given above.
(b) Classify the predicted heights into three categories (short, average and tall).
4 (a) Carry out a suitable hypothesis test to determine whether the students actual heights can be modeled
by the predicted heights by category.
(b) What can you say about the formula given?
(c) Comment on whether the height of a person is inherited from ones parent