BENG 2143

ENGINEERING STATISTICS

TUTORIAL: 1 DATA DESCRIPTION

1. The following data represent the number of robberies in 2005.

Types of crime Number of Offences (in

000)
Bank 12
Gas station 12
Street or highway 224
Convenience store 32
residence 56
Commercial house 64
a) Construct a relative frequency distribution.
b) What a percentage of robberies were of a gas station?
c) Construct a frequency bar graph.
d) Construct a relative frequency bar graph.
e) Construct a pie chart.

2. The following data represent the number of live multiple delivery births in 2001 for
women aged 15-49 years old.

Age Number of multiple births

15 – 19 66
20 – 24 411
25 – 29 1653
30 - 34 2926
35 - 39 1813
40 - 44 356
45 - 49 96
a) Find the mean and standard deviation age.
b) Draw a frequency histogram for the data to verify that the data are bell
shaped.

3. If P(A) = 0.6, P(B) = 0.3 and P(A∩ B) = 0.05 , determine the following probabilities:

(a) P(A')
(b) P(A ∪ B)
(c) P(A'∩B)
(d) P(A ∩ B')
(e) P[(A ∪ B)']
(f) P(A'∪ B)
4. One bag contains 8 white and 9 black marbles. A second bag contains 11 white, 10
black and 12 green marbles. If 1 marble is selected at random from each bag, find the
probability that
(a) all marbles are black.
(b) neither marbles are white.
(c) there are 2 marbles with different colours.

5. Suppose that in an assembly of 500 defective computers, it is found that 230 are due
to overload, 245 are due to software problem, 208 are due to hardware problem, 132
are due to overload and software problems, 67 are due to hardware and software
problems, 75 are due to overload and hardware problems and 45 defective computers
are due to all 3 problems. If a defective computer is selected at random from this
assembly, find the probability that this computer is defective due to:
(a) overload but not due to software problems.
(b) overload and hardware problems but not due to software problems.
(c) neither software nor hardware problems.