Name: _____________________ID num_________________AMS____________

Pretest C

Please show all work for questions 1 thru 7

1. During the last week of the semester, students at a certain college spend on the
average 4.5 hours using the school's computer terminals with a standard deviation of 1.8
hours. For a random sample of 36 students at the college, find the probabilities that the
average time spent using the computer terminal during the last week of the semester is

(a) at least 4.8 hours (b) between 4.1 and 4.5 hours.

ANSWER1: A_______________________B__________________________

2. Ten randomly selected shut-ins were each asked to list how many hours of
television they watched per week. The results were:

82 66 100 84 75 88 82 94 110 91

a. Find x-bar b. Find s c. How many degrees of freedom will you use?

Hint df = (n-1) when computing s

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d. Determine the 99% Confidence interval estimate for the mean number of hours of
television watched per week by shut-ins. Assume the number of hours is normally
distributed.

e. What is the length of the 99% CI? Note: Length = 2(E).

f. Based on the Confidence interval, would you reject Ho: u = 75 at alpha=1% ?

Please explain

A_____________B_______________C____________D___________E_______

F_______________________________________________________________

3. A cab driver knows from experience that the number of fares he

will pick up in an evening is a random variable with u = 21 and standard
deviation = 3.4. Assuming that the distribution of this random
variable can be approximated closely with a normal curve, find the probabilities that in an
evening the driver will pick up (a) at least 30 fares (b) anywhere from 20 to 25 fares
(including 20 and 25) . Since the number of fares is a discrete random variable, and we
are using a normal curve, we will need continuity corrections on both parts a and b
above. These continuity corrections are given below.
a. P(At least 30 fares) = P(X greater than or equal to 30)= P(X>29.5) after continuity
correction. If you don’t know what a continuity correction is, Please find this probability
for the given normal distribution: P(X>29.5).

b. P(between 20 and 25 fares inclusive) = P(19.5<X<25.5) after a continuity correction.

Please find this probability.

ANSWER 3 A___________________B________________________

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4. A major truck stop has kept extensive records of various transactions with its
customers. If a random sample of 15 of these records shows average sales of 63.9
gallons of diesel fuel with a standard deviation of 5.6 gallons, construct a 95% CI for the
truck stop's average sales of diesel fuel.

ANSWER 4 _____________________

5. When we sample from an infinite population, describe in detail what happens to the
standard error of the mean if the sample size is decreased from 490 to 160?

ANSWER5: New standard error = _________*(old standard error)

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6. Show all work please: A researcher claims that the average age of a woman before
she has her first child is greater than the 1993 mean age of 27.1 years, on the basis of
data obtained from the National Vital Statistics Report, volume 48, number 14.
She obtains a simple random sample of 13 women who gave birth to their first child in
1999 and finds the sample mean age to be 28.2 years. The population standard
deviation is 6.4 years. Test the researcher’s claim using alpha = .10 level of
significance.

a. State the null and the alternate hypotheses

Ho: ___________________and Ha: ___________________

b. State the critical value(s) for this test. ________________

c. Find the test statistic. ___________________

d. Find the p-value for this test. ______________________

e. Can we use a symmetric confidence interval for u to solve this problem?

___________. If so, state the confidence interval. __________________

f. State your conclusion in the context of this problem.

7. Before bidding on a contract, a contractor wants to be 99% confident that he is in

error by less than 20 minutes in estimating the average time it takes a certain kind of
cement to dry. If the standard deviation of the time it takes to dry can be assumed to be
70 minutes, on how large a sample should she base the estimate?

ANSWER 7__________

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8. For the following problems, please either show your work or provide the
calculator command you used and box in your final answer after placing it on the
blank provided. Just an answer will not suffice.

Given a particular probability mass function,

Xi p(xi)
3 .2
4 .2
5 .6

Find: E(5X) _________________

Var (5X-10)_____________

P(X>2)_________________

V(3X – 5Y) =_____V(X) + ______V(Y). NOTE: the sign is plus since the (-5) gets squared!

9. Binomial questions: n=10, p=.3, Find P(r=6), P(at most 2 successes) _______________

P(at least 6 successes)__________________________

What is the mean of the binomial distribution above?_____________

What is the standard deviation?______________the variance?_______________

10. What is the formula for the standard error of the mean E(X-bar)=_______________

11. When the sample size is increased from 400 to 900, what is the effect on the std. error?

Ans: New standard error = ______* (old standard error)

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12. Kindergarten children have heights that are normally distributed about a mean of 39 inches and a
standard deviation of 4 inches. A random sample of size 25 is taken and the mean is calculated. Find the
probability that the mean value (X-bar) will be between 35 and 40 inches.

_____________________

13. Let X be the length of a pregnancy in days. X is a continuous random variable with a normal distribution.
Its mean is 266 days and its standard deviation is 16 days.

What is the variance of X?________________

What is the probability that a randomly selected pregnancy lasts more than 274 days?

______________________

What is the probability that a simple random sample of 16 pregnant women have a sample mean pregnancy of
more than 274 days?____________________

14. State the Central Limit Theorem?

_________________________________________________________________________________

15. Perform a Two sided hypothesis test to see if the mean is different from 32,000 (the current mean) ,
sample size=30 , The sample mean =31,896 and the sample standard deviation is 480. Assume that the
observations are normally distributed. Perform a hypothesis test at the 1% significance level.

What is a point estimate for the mean µ?________________

Describe the critical region for this test by providing the critical values and describing the proper
region___________________________________________________________________

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Calculate the test statistic________________________________

The correct decision at the 1% alpha level is:______________________

Calculate the P-value for this test________________________

Calculate the appropriate Confidence interval µ to help us confirm our conclusion.

____________________________________

16. An appropriate 95% confidence interval for µ has been calculated as ( -0.70, 1.96 ) based on
n = 15 observations from a population with a normal distribution. The hypotheses of interest are
Ho: µ = 1 versus Ha: µ ≠ 1. Based on this confidence interval,
What is the conclusion at alpha = .05? (Note: the alpha level and the confidence level add up to
100%)

______________________________________________________________________

17. Grades on a test follow a normal distribution with a mean of 60 and a std deviation=15.
Approximate the percentage of the students having scores below 50.

_______________________

Refer to the info in the preceding question. What is the approximate 80th percentile of the grade
distribution?

_______________________

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18. X is normal distribution with a mean of 0.2 and a standard deviation of 0.07 . The situation
is considered safe if X is below 0.25 . What proportion of situations are safe?

__________________________

19. Refer to the previous question. Find the cutoff of the top 10% of X’s distribution. (Hint: see t
table since t table deals with areas in the tail) What percentile is this?

___________________________
20. X is normal with a mean of 12 and standard deviation of 3 minutes. The probability that X
takes a value between 11 and 13 minutes is:

________________________

21. (Hint: Please don’t forget that the denominator should be sigma divided by radical n since
the question is about the mean of the sample!)A random sample of 100 observations is to be
drawn from a population with a mean of 40 and a standard deviation of 25. The probability that
the mean of the sample will exceed 35 is

________________________

22. A random sample of 16 has a sample mean of 400 and a sample standard deviation of 15 kg.
Assume normality. A 90% confidence interval for the mean is:

________________________

The Margin of sampling error is: ________________

The Length of the confidence interval is: __________________

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Would the 95% confidence interval be wider or narrower than the 90% confidence interval?
________________________

Referring to the previous part, about how many should be sampled in order to be 99% confident
of determining the true mean weight WITHIN 5 kg (E= 5)?

________________________

23. The average monthly rent for NYU students is µ = $800 with standard deviation of σ = $320.
A random sample of 100 recent students is selected. The approximate probability that their
average monthly rent payment will be more than $900 is:

________________________

24. A random sample of size 9 taken from a normally distributed population revealed a sample
mean of 60 and a sample variance of 16. Find the left end point of a 80% confidence interval for
the population mean µ.

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Find the Margin of sampling error if the confidence level is decreased to 60%.

____________________________________

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25. P(0< Z < 2.50) = ______________________

P(Z < −2.0) = _________________________

P(Z >1.0) = ___________________________

P(Z < 2.5) =___________________________

P(Z > −1.5) = __________________________

26. The life of a toaster oven is normally distributed with mean 2.0 years and std dev.
1.0 year. What proportion of toaster ovens lasts less than 3.6 years.

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27. Approximate the value of z alpha where alpha = .2, and again when alpha = .025

____________________ _______________________

28. Suppose the mean for the data was 300 and the standard deviation was 30
If you know that the relative frequency distribution for the data is symmetric
and mound-shaped,( use Empirical rule ), roughly what percentage of data will be > 360

______________________________

roughly what percentage of data will be <270 ?

______________________________

29. A large data set has a maximum value of 87 and a minimum value of 47. Using only the
range, what is the estimated sample standard deviation s? assume the distribution is mound
shaped. Hint: See Empirical rule notes!
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30. Find z .05 __________________

Recall that this means that 5% lies in the right tail. Look on t table!

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31. The probability density function for a random variable is given by f(x) = x/8, (0<x<4)
Find P(X>2). (Probability = Area under the curve!)

______________________

32. A distribution has a mean of 110 and a standard deviation of 20 If nothing is known about
the shape of the distribution, what is the minimum percentage of data between 60 and 160
(Chebyshev)

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In addition to these types of questions, you should review all homeworks and
Hypothesis testing questions for your exam.

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