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SCHOOL OF COMPUTING, INFORMATION &

MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

DIVISION OF MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS

ST130: BASIC STATISTICS

FINAL EXAMINATION – SEMESTER 1, 2010

SOLUTION

Time Allowed 3 hours plus 10 minutes reading

Total marks: 120

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. There are six (6) questions in the paper and all are compulsory.
2. Write your answers in the answer booklet provided and start each question
on a new page.
3. Show all necessary working. Partial marks will be awarded for partially
correct answers.
4. You may use NON PROGRAMABLE calculators.
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5. This exam is worth 55% of your overall mark. The minimum exam mark is
48/120.
6. Statistical Tables are attached.
QUESTION 1 [3+2+5+10=20 marks]
A. i. Categorical ii. Numerical, continuous iii. Numerical, discrete iv. Categorical
B. Open-ended frequency distributions have classes that have no specific beginning value or
specific ending value. It is important in that it includes those data that can possibly fall
within that class.
C. i. ii.
Category Frequency Pie Chart
A 8
B 8 A
27%
C
C 14 46%
 f  30 B
27%

iii. 53.4%
D. i.
Class Intervals Frequency Relative Frequency
6-10 5 0.2
11-15 3 0.12
16-20 9 0.36
21-25 7 0.26
26-30 1 0.04

ii.

iii. The area under the histogram between two values is five times the relative
frequency of observations that fall between those two values (where 5 is the width of a
class). The total area under the histogram is therefore equal to 5.

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QUESTION 2 [3+7+10=20 marks]

1061 60053  (10612 / 20)

A. x   53.05 and s   14.08
20 19
B. i. Q1=(856+899)/2=877.5; Q2=(947+956)/2=951.5; Q3=(1059+1477)/2=1268; P40=924;
percentile rank of 977=(7+0.5)/12*100=62.5
ii.

Skewed to the right or positively skewed

[4+3=7 marks]

C. i. μ =   f .xm  / N = 780 / 100 = 7.80 pounds

( f .xm ) 2 (780) 2
 f .xm 2  6440   =
ii.  2  N  100  3.5600 and 3.5600 = 1.89 pound
N 100
iii.

Cum Freq Polygon

150

100
Cum %

50

0
3 5 7 9 11 13
Wt(pounds)

From the graph we have median=8 and percentile rank of 4 is about 5th percentile.

[2+4+4= 10 marks]

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QUESTION 3 [2+4+4+5+5=20 marks]

A. 4  8  7  6  5  6720

B. i. P( X  2)  3(0.75  0.75  0.25)  0.422

ii. P( X  2)  1  P( X  3)
 1  3C 3(0.75  0.75  0.75)  0.578

P(ask and Male) .12

C. i. P (ask male)    .24
P(male) .25  .12  .13
P (consult map and Male) .25
ii. No because P(consult map male)    .5
P (male) .25  .12  .13
which is not equal to P(consult map)

13 13 13 12 25
D.      0.123
52 51 52 51 204
E. n( s):# of ways Simon and Peter will be in any one of the three cars, thus:
n( s )  12C 4  8C 4  4C 4  34650
n( E ):# of ways Simon and Peter will be in the same car, thus:
n( E )  10C 2  8C 4  4C 4  3150
P( E )  1/11  0.091.

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QUESTION 4 [4+4+4+4+4=20 marks]

A. Let X denote the number of black balls, therefore the probability distribution of X is

x 0 1 2
P( X  x ) 2/7 4/7 1/7

B. E ( X )  10(4 / 52)  1(48 / 52)  0.15.  0.15  20  3.08.

C. Let X = No. of airplane arrive late. Here, n = 7, p = 0.64 and q = 0.36
P ( X  4)  7C 4(.64) 4 (.36) 74  .274
D.The corresponding z score will be  1.28. Hence X  z.  
X = (1.28)(1500) + 145,500 = 147420
X = (-1.28)(1500) + 145,500 = 143580
 7  6.7 8  6.7 
E . P (7  X  8)  P  z 
 2.1 / 16 2.1 / 16 
 P  0.57  z  2.48  .4934  .2157  .2777

QUESTION 5 [5+5+5+5=20 marks]

2
 1.65  9 
A. n     56
 2 
.291(.709)
B. .291 1.65 =.291  .0144 147  pˆ  .305
995
C. The 95% confidence interval for the variance is
(10  1)(4.8) 2 (10  1)(4.8) 2
2  10.9 <  2 < 76.8  3.3    8.8 .
19.023 2.700
D. Hypothesis : H 0 :   14 (Claim) H1 :   14
Test value : z  (13.75  14) / (3 / 200)  1.18
P  value  .5  .3810  .119
Since P  value   , therefore we donot reject H 0

QUESTION 6 [5+5+5+5=20 marks]

A. Hypothesis : H 0 :   5 H1 :   5(Claim)
Critical value: =0.05,df  19  CV  1.729
Test value : t  (6.5  5) / (2.2 / 20)  3.05
Reject H 0 so there is enough evidence to support the doctors claim

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B. Hypothesis : H 0 : 1  2 H1 : 1  2 (Claim)
Critical value: =0.05  CV  2.58
Test value : z  (20  35) / ( 36 / 600  64 / 500)  34.59
Reject H 0 so the mean time spent exercising per day by males is more than females.

C. i. n  7,  x  605, y  62, xy  5535, x 2

 53219 and y 2
 600,
7(5535)  605(62)
r  0.811
[7(53219)  6052 ][7(600)  622 ]
ii. y  7.54  0.19 x  y  7.54  0.19(80)  7.66  8

D. Hypothesis : H 0 : 1  2  3 (claim) H1 :atleast one mean differs from the others

Critical value:k  3, N  18, d . f .N  2, d . f .D  15,   0.01 CV  3.68
Test value : F  66.5 /19  3.5
Accept H 0 , so there is no diff. in the price per bottle of 3 diff types of wine.

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