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PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS (A)

1. If the class marks in a frequency table distribution of the weights of the students are 128, 137, 146, 155, 164, 173, and 182 pounds.
Find the class interval size.
a. 8 b. 9 c. 10 d. 11

2. What would be the range of the following array of numbers? 12, 56, 42, 21, 5, 18, 10, 3 ,61, 34, 65, and 24.
a. 62 b. 60 c. 58 d. 56

3. Ten measurements of the diameters of a cylinder were recorded as 3.88, 4.09, 3.92, 3.97, 4.02, 3.95, 4.03, 3.92, 3.98, and 4.06
centimeters. Find the arithmetic mean of the measurements.
a. 4.06 cm b. 2.74 cm c. 3.21 cm d. 3.98 cm

4. Out of 100 numbers, 20 were 4’s, 40 were 5’s, 30 were 6’s, and the remainder were 7’s. Find the arithmetic mean of the numbers
a. 4.4 b. 10.7 c. 5.3 d. 39.6

5. Four groups of students consisting of 15, 20, 10, and 18 individuals, reported mean weights of 162, 148, 153, and 140 pounds,
respectively. Find the mean weight of all the students.
a. 110 lbs b. 150 lbs c. 135 lbs d. 121 lbs

6. The weight of 40 male college students of the state university were taken and arranged in the frequency distribution table shown:
Find the median weight.
Weight (lb) Frequency
118-126 3
127-135 5
136-144 9
145-153 12
154-162 5
163-171 4
172-180 2

a. 150.2 lbs b. 152.2 lbs c. 146.8 lbs d. 147.9 lbs

SITUATION 1
An array of numbers is given: 3, 5, 2, 6, 5, 9, 5, 2, 8, 6

7. Find the mean

a. 5.0 b. 5.1 c. 5.2 d. 5.3

8. Find the median

a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d. 5

9. Find the mode

a. 6 b. 5 c. 4 d. 3

10. Find the geometric mean of the following numbers: 3, 5, 6, 6, 7, 10, and 12.
a. 6.43 b. 673.50 c. 35.35 d. 100.07

11. The bacterial count in a certain culture increased from 1000 to 4000 in 3 days. What was the average percentage increase per
day?
a. 200% b. 167% c. 59% d. 20%

12. Find the harmonic mean of the following numbers: 4, 5, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, 16.
a. 6.87 b. 5.56 c. 9.12 d. 10.17

13. Find the quadratic mean of the following numbers: 2, 4, 4, 7, 10, 12, 12.
a. 5.15 b. 8.22 c. 9.91 d. 4.44

14. Cities A, B, and C are equidistant from each other. A motorist travels from A to B at 30 mph, from B to C at 40mph, and from C to
A at 50 mph. Determine his average speed for the entire trip.
a. 40 mph b. 38 mph c. 42 mph d. NOTA
SITUATION 2
The frequency table of grades on a final examination in college algebra is shown:
Grade Number of Students
91-100 9
81-90 32
71-80 43
61-70 21
51-60 11
41-50 3
31-40 1

15. Find the first quartile

a. 66 b. 67 c. 68 d. 69

16. Find the second quartile.

a. 73 b. 74 c. 75 d. 76

17. Find the third quartile.

a. 82 b. 83 c. 84 d. 85

18. Find the interquartile range.

a. 16 b. 15 c. 14 d. 13

19. Find the mean deviation of the set of numbers: 2, 3, 6, 8, 11.

a. 2.4 b. 2.6 c. 2.8 d. 3.0

20. Find the mean deviation of the heights of the 100 male students at XYZ University.
Height (in) Frequency
60-62 5
63-65 18
66-68 42
69-71 27
72-74 8

a. 1.12 in b. 3.46 in c. 2.26 in d. 4.41 in

21. Find the third moments of the set: 2, 3, 7, 8, 10.

a. 378 b. 412 c. 50 d. 112

22. Find the third moments about the mean of the set: 2, 3, 7, 8, 10.
a. -3.6 b. 3.6 c. -7.2 d. 7.2

23. At a certain stretch of highway, the speeds of vehicles were found to have a normal distribution with a mean of 54 kph and a
standard deviation of 3 on a sample of 25 vehicles. What is the upper two-standard deviation average speed?
a. 52.8 kph b. 55.2 kph c. 53.2 kph d. 58.2 kph

SITUATION 3
A large batch of electric light bulbs have a mean time to failure of 2400 hours and the standard deviation of 60 hours for a batch of
4200 bulbs.

24. How many light bulbs will likely last more than 2500 hours?
a. 201 b. 256 c. 183 d. 154

25. What percentage of the total number of bulbs will likely last between 2200 hours to 2500 hours?
a. 92.74% b. 90.28% c. 95.18% d. 96.35%

26. What is the probability that any light bulbs will last for 2450 hours?
a. 0.0054 b. 0.0031 c. 0.0063 d. 0.0047
SITUATION 4
A function is normally distributed with mean value of 8 and standard deviation of 2.

27. What percentage of the observation will be greater than 5?

a. 93.32% b. 85.64% c. 56.32% d. 75.41%

28. What percentage of the observation will be greater than 10?

a. 13.26% b. 12.89% c. 15.87% d. 18.75%

29. What percentage of the observation will have a value less than 3?
a. 2.837% b. 0.968% c. 1.256% d. 0.621%

30.The observed error “E” in a series of measurements is normally distributed with mean of 0. Approximately 2% of the error are -10
or less. Approximately what fraction of the measurements have errors between 0 and 5.
a. 0.287 b. 0.348 c. 0.425 d. 0.397

31. Preventing fatigue crack propagation in aircraft structures is important element of aircraft safety. An engineering study to
investigate fatigue crack in n = 9 cyclically loaded wing boxes reported the following crack lengths (in mm): 2.13, 2.96, 3.02, 1.82,
1.15, 1.37, 2.04, 2.47, 2.60. Calculate the sample variance.
a. 0.33 b. 0.21 c. 0.27 d. 0.43

32. The pH of a solution is measured eight times by one operator using the same instrument. She obtains the following data: 7,15,
7.20, 7.18, 7.19, 7.21, 7.16, and 7.18. Calculate the sample standard deviation.
a. 0.01 b. 0.02 c. 0.03 d. 0.04

33. The attendance at four cinema halls on a given day was 200, 500, 300, and 1000. Calculate the coefficient of variation.
a. 0.22 b. 0.42 c. 0.62 d. 0.82