ASSIGNMENT

Academic Year 2017 – 2018

Subject : Environmental Engineering Statistics
Lecturer : Dr. Yunita Ismail
Study Program : Environmental Engineering
Due Date : Wednesday, April 4th 2018
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1. The following data represent the length of life, in second, of 50 fruit flies subject to a new
spray in a controlled laboratory experiment:
17 20 10 9 23 13 12 19 18 24
12 14 6 9 13 6 7 10 13 7
16 18 8 13 3 32 9 7 10 11
13 7 18 7 10 4 27 19 16 8

Set up a frequency distribution table and draw the histogram

2. Suppose the diagram of an waste fluid system is as given in Figure 1.

Figure 1. Diagram of an electrical system

Note: The number as a probability for component work.
What is the probability that the system works? Assume the components fail
independently.
3. An waste water firms claims that the proportion of defective bacteria from a certain
process is 5%. A buyer has a standard procedure of inspecting 15 bacteria selected
randomly from a waste sample. On a particular occasion, the buyer found 5 bacteria
defective. What is the probability of this occurrence, given that the claim of 5% bacteria
defective is correct?
4. The weights of a large number of soil polluted are approximately normally distributed
with a mean of 8 kilograms and a variance is 0.81 kilograms. If measurements are
recorded to the nearest tenth of a kilogram, find the probability of theses soil polluted
with weights
a. Over 9.5 kilograms
b. At most 8.6 kilograms
5. A coin is tossed 400 times. Use the normal curve approximation to find of obtaining:
a. Between 185 and 210 heads inclusive
b. Exactly 205
c. Fewer than 176 or more than 227 heads.
(Note: Consider about Normal Approximation to the Binomial)
6. A new radar device is being considered for a certain missile defense system. The system
is checked by experimenting with aircraft in which a kill or a no kill is simulated. If, in
300 trials, 250 kills occur, accept or reject, at the 0.04 level of significance, the claim that
the probability of a kill with the new system does not exceed the 0.8 probability of the
existing device.
7. In a controlled laboratory experiment, scientists at the University of Minnesota
discovered that 25% of a certain strain of rats subjected to a 20% coffee bean diet and
then force-fed a powerful cancer-causing chemical later developed cancerous tumors.
Would we have reason to believe that the proportion of rats developing tumors when
subjected to this diet has increased if the experiment were repeated and 16 of 48 rats
developed tumors? Use a 0.05 level of significance.
8. According to Chemical Engineering, an important property of fiber is its water
absorbency. The average percent absorbency of 25 randomly selected pieces of cotton
fiber was found to be 20 with a standard deviation of 1.5. A random sample of 25 pieces
of acetate yielded an average percent of 12 with a standard deviation of 1.25. Is there
strong evidence that the population mean percent absorbency is significantly higher for
cotton fiber than for acetate? Assume that the percent absorbency is approximately
normally distributed and that the population variances in percent absorbency for the two
fibers are the same. Use a significance level of 0.05.
9. A colony of laboratory mice consists of several thousand mice. The average weight of all
the mice is 32 grams with a standard deviation of 4 grams. A laboratory assistant was
asked by a scientist to select 25 mice for an experiment. However, before performing the
experiment the scientist decided to weigh the mice as an indicator of whether the
assistant’s selection constituted a random sample or whether it was made with some
unconscious bias (perhaps the mice selected were the ones that were slowest in avoiding
the assistant, which might indicate some inferiority about this group). If the sample mean
of the 25 mice was 30.4, would this be significant evidence, at the 5 percent level of
significance, against the hypothesis that the selection constituted a random sample?
10. There is some variability in the amount of phenobarbitol in each capsule sold by a
manufacturer. However, the manufacturer claims that the mean value is 20.0 mg. To test
this, a sample of 25 pills yielded a sample mean of 19.7 with a sample standard deviation
of 1.3. What inference would you draw from these data? In particular, are the data strong
enough evidence to discredit the claim of the manufacturer? Use the 5 percent level of
significance.