QUIZ 1

(10 marks)

Instruction: Answer all questions. The deadline for the answer submission is Tuesday

24 Nov 2020 at 11.59 p.m. Answer scripts must be submitted through PutraBlast.

1. Joe Biden is a brilliant student. He scores highest mark in his class 60% of the time. Today, he

sits for six tests.

a. What is the probability that he exactly scores the highest for three tests? (2 marks)

b. What is the probability that he scores the highest mark for more than three tests? (2 marks)

c. What is the probability that he scores the highest mark at least for three tests? (2 marks)

2. Diva is a sharpshooter. She hits a target 80% of the time. She fires 5 shots at the target.

a. What is the probability that exactly 2 shots hit the target? (2 marks)

b. What is the probability that more than 2 shots hit the target? (2 marks)

3. St. Louis was cited as the most dangerous city in the United States. The average number of

murder cases in St. Louis is five times per week.

a. Find the probability of eight murder cases occurring within a week. (2 marks)

b. Find the probability that more than eight murder cases occur within a week. (2 marks)

4. Anis is a cake maker. She made several hundred cakes for wedding parties. The cakes produced

by Anis have different weights and follow the normal probability distribution with mean of 2.9

kilograms and standard deviation of 2.6.

a. Determine the values of the z-score when the weights of the cakes are 2.5 and 3.4 kilograms.

(2 marks)
 b. Sketch a graph showing the probability distribution for the weights of the cakes between 2.5

and 3.4 kilograms. (2 marks)

c. What is the probability that a randomly selected cake has a weight between 2.5 and 3.4

kilograms? (2 marks)

d. How heavy is the cake such that only 5% of all cakes exceed this weight? (2 marks)

5. Rou Ying is a K-Pop singer. The duration of songs sung by Rou Ying are not of the same length

but are normally distributed with a mean of 3.65 minutes and standard deviation of 2.25.

a. What is the probability that a randomly selected song has duration between 3.0 and 4.1

minutes? (2 marks)

b. What is the probability that a randomly selected song has duration between 4.1 and 5.0

minutes? (2 marks)

c. Sketch a graph showing the probability distribution for the durations of songs between 4.1 and

5.0 minutes. (Hint: Label the graph with both z and x-values) (2 marks)

d. What is the duration of songs that only 6% of all songs are less than this duration? (2 marks)

e. What is the duration of songs that only 7% of all songs exceed this duration? (2 marks)

6. The Department of Public Transport claims 9.3% of cars in Malaysia are black. A statistician

named Abdulaziz randomly samples 224 cars.

a. What is the percentage of cars in Malaysia are not black? (1 mark)

b. Determine the probability that more than 12% of the car samples are black.

(Hint: Round your answer to 4 decimal places) (2 marks)

7. Charlotte claims that only 12% of cookies are brown. She randomly samples 191 cookies.

Determine the probability that more than 8% cookies are brown. (Hint: Round your answer to 4

decimal places) (2 marks)

ALL THE BEST!