CHINHOYI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS CUPE105

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS

ASSIGNMENT II NOVEMBER 2020

Time : hours

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 CUPE105

Q1. (a) Briefly define the term ’variable’. [2]

(b) List the three common characteristics of a variable. [3]
(c) Describe, fully, each of the following variables:
(i) Number of items of a product of students in your programme. [2]
(ii) Social class. [2]
(d) Which measure of central tendency is applicable for a qualitative variable. [1]

Q2. Determine the type of sampling used in each of the following cases:

(a) A soccer coach selects 6 players from a group of boys aged 8 to 10, 7 players
from a group of boys aged 11 to 12, and 3 players from a group of boys
aged 13 to 14 to form a recreational soccer team. [2]
(b) A pollster interviews all human resource personnel in five different high tech
companies. [2]
(c) A high school educational researcher interviews 50 high school female
teachers and 50 high school male teachers. [2]
(d) A medical researcher interviews every third cancer patient from a list of
cancer patients at a local hospital. [2]
(e) A student interviews classmates in his algebra class to determine how many
pairs of jeans a student owns, on the average. [2]

Q3. An urn contains 10 balls: 4 red and 6 blue. A second urn contains 16 red balls and an
unknown number of blue balls.

(a) A single ball is drawn from each urn. The probability that both balls are the
same color is 0.44. Calculate the number of blue balls in the second urn. [5]
(b) Suppose the number of blue balls in the second urn is now known to be 4. A ball
is now drawn from the first urn and put in the second urn. A ball is then drawn
from the second urn. Find the probability that
(i) This ball is red given that the one from the first urn is red. [3]
(ii) This ball is red. [4]
(iii) The ball from the first urn is red given that the one from the second urn is
blue [4]
(iv) Both balls are of the same color [4]

DUE: 29 OCTOBER 2020 at 0730 SHARP

END OF ASSIGNMENT
CHIMWANDA P.(THE TEACHER)

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