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KOLEJ MATRIKULASI MELAKA

 Session 2019/2020  Mathematics 2  SM025 

Name : Marks : /100

Practicum : Date Set : 27th January 2020 Date of Submission :100
17th Feb 2020

ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS

1. The masses (in kg) of solid waste collected from a town for 25 consecutive days are as
follows:

41 53 44 55 48 57 50 38
53 50 43 56 48 33 46 55
49 50 52 47 39 51 49 52
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(a) Find the median and interquartile range.
[5 marks]
(b) Draw a box-and-whiskers plot to represent the data.
[4 marks]
(c) Comment on the shape of the distribution and give a reason for your answer.
[2 marks]
2. The student affairs officer of a college keeps a record on the number of hours spent on
part–time jobs in a semester amongst students. The number of hours spent on part–
time jobs for a sample of 20 students are displayed in the stem–and–leaf diagram
below.

2 3 8

3 4 4 5 7

4 0 3 4 5 6 8
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5 1 2 4 5

6 1 9

7 8

8 8

Key: 5 | 3 means 53 hours

Find the mean and standard deviation of the distribution. [4 marks]

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3. The number of graduates employed within six months of graduation against the
duration of industrial training are summarised as follows:

Durations Number of graduates employed

1–4 2

5–8 7

9 – 12 19

13 – 16 16

17 – 20 15

21 – 24 16

(a) Calculate the mean and median of the duration of training of the graduates.

[6 marks]

(b) Determine the Pearson’s coefficient of skewness, and interpret your answer.

[4 marks]

4. Suppose license plates in Melaka have 3 letters which include letters A until Z except
I, O and Z followed by 4 digits from a set of digits 0,1, 2,3, 4,5, 6, 7,8,9 .

(a) How many license plates can be created if the plate must starts with letter M and
no other restrictions for the others?
[2 marks]
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(b) What if only letters cannot be repeated?

[2 marks]
(c) What if only digits cannot be repeated?
[2 marks]
(d) What if all the letters and digits cannot be repeated?
[2 marks]

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5. A town council plans to plant 12 trees along the centre of a main road. The council
buys the trees from a garden centre which has 4 different hibiscus trees, 6 different
angsana trees and 2 different yellow flame trees for sale.

(a) How many different arrangements of these 12 trees can be made if the hibiscus
trees have to be next to each other, the angsana trees have to be next to each other
and the yellow flame trees have to be next to each other?
[2 marks]
(b) How many different arrangements of these 12 trees can be made if no hibiscus
tree is next to another hibiscus tree?
[2 marks]
(c) How many different arrangements of these 12 trees can be made if the plantation
begins with an angsana tree and ends with a yellow flame tree?
[3 marks]
6. (a) Three coins of respective diameters 1.5 cm, 2 cm and 2.5 cm are to be inserted into
a box. The box has four slots, whose diameters are 1.6 cm, 2.1 cm, 2.1 cm and 2.6 cm
respectively. Find the number of different ways one can insert the three coins into the
box if
(i) no slot can be used more than once.
[2 marks]
(ii) the slots can be used more than once.
[2 marks]
(b) A group of 4 senior students and 2 junior students are to be selected from a group of 6
senior students and 5 junior students to form a committee. Find the number of
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different ways of
(i) selecting 4 members for the post of president, vice president, secretary
and treasurer.
[3 marks]
(ii) forming a committee of 6 members with a senior student as president and
a junior student as a vice president.
[3 marks]

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7. (a) Two independent events, A and B, are such that P( A)  1 and P(A  B)= 1 . Find
3 6
(i) P( B)
[3 marks]
(ii) P(A U B)
[2 marks]
(iii) P(B| A)
[2 marks]

(iv) P(A|B)
[3 marks]

(b) For any two sets A and B, P( A)  P( A  B )  P( B  A) . Prove that

P ( B | A)  1  P( B | A)
[4 marks]
8. A company is worried about the high turnover of its employees and decides to investigate

whether they are more likely to stay if they are given training. On 1 January one year the

company employed 256 people (excluding those about to retire). During that year a record

was kept of who received training as well as who left the company. The results are

summarised in this table.

Still employed Left company Total

Given training 109 43 152

Not given training 60 44 104

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Totals 169 87 256

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(a) Find the probability that a randomly selected employee

(i) received training

[2 marks]

(ii) received training and did not leave the company.

[2 marks]

(b) Are the events of the employee received training and the event of the employee stayed in
the company independent?
[4 marks]
(c) Find the probability that a randomly selected employee
(i) did not leave the company, given that the person had received training
[2 marks]
(ii) did not leave the company, given that the person had not received training.
[2 marks]

9. A box contains 20 thumb drives of two colours; red and white; two capacities; 16GB and
32GB. There are eight red and five white 16GB thumb drives, four red and three white
32GB thumb drives. The thumb drives cannot be distinguished except for their colours and
capacities. Three thumb drives are selected at random from the box. Find the probability
that
(a) one white thumb drive is selected,
[2 marks]
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(b) two 16GB thumb drives are selected,

[2 marks]
(c) one white thumb drive and two 16GB thumb drives are selected,
[3 marks]
(d) one white thumb drive or two 16GB thumb drives are selected,
[2 marks]
(e) one white thumb drive is selected, given that two 16GB thumb drives are selected.
[2 marks]

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10. Rachel and Anna play each other at badminton. Each game results in either a win for
Rachel or a win for Anna. The probability of Rachel winning the first game is 0.6. If
Rachel wins a particular game, the probability of her winning the next game is 0.7, but if
she loses, the probability of her winning the next game is 0.4.
(a) Construct a probability tree diagram to represent the above information.
[3 marks]
(b) Find the conditional probability that Rachel wins the first game, given that she loses
the second,
[4 marks]
(c) find the probability that Rachel wins 2 games and loses 1 game out of the first three
games they play.
[3 marks]
(d) find the probability that Rachel wins at least 2 games out of the first three games they
play.
[3 marks]

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