MAS291 Sample Exam

QN=1 (1782) The process of using sample statistics to draw conclusions about true population
parameters is called _______________

a. the scientific method.
b. statistical inference.
c. sampling.
d. descriptive statistics.
QN=2 (1784) Jared was working on a project to look at global warming and accessed an Internet site
where he captured average global surface temperatures from 1866. Which of the four
methods of data collection was he using?
a. Surveying
b. Experimentation
c. Observation
d. Retrospective study
QN=3 (13612) There are 10 computers in a store. Among them, 7 are brand new and 3 are
refurbished. Four computers are purchased for a student lab. They are
indistinguishable, so the four computers are selected at random. How many
possibilities that among the chosen computers, two are refurbished?
a. 62
b. 63
c. 64
d. 65
QN=4 (7956) You have six unread mysteries and six unread science fiction books on your bookshelf.
The first three of each type are hardcover, and the last three are paperback. Consider
randomly selecting one of the six mysteries and one of the six science fiction books to
take on a post-finals vacation. What is the probability of the event A that both selected
books are paperbacks?
a. ½
b. ¼
c. 1/6
d. 1/3
e. None of the other choices is correct
QN=5 (See picture)

(1830)
a. 0.001
b. 0.122
c. 0.514
d. 0.061
QN=6 (1842) A class in advanced physicist comprised of 10 juniors, 30 seniors, and 10 graduate
students. The final grades show that 3 of the juniors, 10 of the seniors, and 5 of the
graduate students received an A for the course. If a student is chosen at random from
this class and is found to have earned an A, what is the probability that he or she is a
senior?
a. 2/9
b. 4/9
c. 5/9
d. 7/9
QN=7 (11615) A company has 2 machines that produce widgets. An older machine produces 10%
defective widgets, while the new machine produces only 2% defective widgets. In
addition, the new machine produces 3 times as many widgets as the older machine
does.
Given a randomly chosen widget tested, what is the probability that the widget was
defective.
a. 3%
b. 4%
c. 5%
d. 6%
e. 7%
QN=8 (1868) Find the probability of answering the two multiple choice questions correctly if
random guesses are made. Assume the questions each have five choices for the
answer. Only one of the choices is correct.
a. 0.02
b. 0.04
c. 0.004
d. 0.4
QN=9 (13618) Bag A contains 10 white and 6 black balls, Bag B contains 12 white and 4 black balls
while Bag C contains 4 white and 4 black balls. One ball is drawn at random from one
of the bags and it is found to be white. Find the probability that it was drawn from Bag
A.
a. 1/12
b. 1/6
c. 1/4
d. 1/3
QN=10 (15977) Which of the following is NOT TRUE about continuous random variables?
a. …takes an infinite number of possible values.
b. …is usually about measurement.
c. … is quantitative data.
d. … has a countable infinite range.
QN=11 (15865) The probability of a successful optical alignment in the assembly of an optical data
storage product is 0.8. Assume that the trials are independent. Let X denote the
number of trials required until the first successful alignment occurs. The possible
values of X are:
a. 1,2,3,…
b. 0,1,2,…
c. 0,1,2,…,8
d. 1,2,…,8
QN=12 (13603) Which of the following is FALSE about the probability mass function f(x) of a random
variable X?
a. Always non-negative
b. Be a continuous function
c. Specify the probability at each of the possible discrete values for X
d. None of the other choices is correct
QN=13 (15988) (See picture)

a. 0.96
b. 0.86
c. 0.76
d. 0.66
QN=14 (See picture)

(1910)
a. mean: 1.14; standard deviation: 1.08

b. mean: 1.30; standard deviation: 1.54
c. mean: 1.54; standard deviation: 1.30
d. mean: 1.30; standard deviation: 2.38
QN=15 (6292) Suppose that X has a discrete uniform distribution on the integers 10 to 99. Which of
the followings are true?
(i) P(X > 49) = 5/9
(ii) E(2X) = 109.

a. Both (i) and (ii)
b. (ii) only
c. (i) only
QN=16 (1936) A die is rolled 18 times and let X be the number of twos that come up. Find the
standard deviation of X.
a. 2.543
b. 1.581
c. 1.730
d. 1.622
QN=17 (1940) In a manufacturing process that laminates several ceramic layers, 2% of the assemblies
are defective. Assume that the assemblies are independent. What is the mean number
of assemblies that need to be checked to obtain five defective assemblies?
a. 500
b. 480
c. 250
d. 200
QN=18 (1948) A quality-control engineer inspects a random sample of 3 batteries from each lot of 24
car batteries that is ready to be shipped. If such a lot contains 6 batteries with slight
defects, what is the probability that the inspector’s sample will contain only one of the
batteries with defects?
a. 0.8168
b. 0.4536
c. 0.5464
d. 0.1832
QN=19 (1959) A naturalist leads whale watch trips every morning in March. The number of whales
seen has a Poisson distribution with a mean of 4.3. Find the probability that on a
randomly selected trip, the number of whales seen is 3.
a. 0.3057
b. 0.1798
c. 0.3596
d. 0.5394
QN=20 (11510) A catalog company that receives the majority of its orders by telephone conducted a
study to determine how long customers were willing to wait on hold before ordering a
product. The length of time was found to be a random variable best approximated by
an exponential distribution with a mean equal to 2.8 minutes. What proportion of
callers is put on hold longer than 2.8 minutes?
a. 0.632121
b. 0.367879
c. 0.60810
d. 0.50
a. 0.76
b. 0.51
c. 0.68
d. 0.89

a. 1
b. 0.75
c. 0.5
d. 0
a. 104
b. 14
c. 6
d. 96
e. None of the others
QN=24 (2008) Suppose X is a uniform continuous random variable over the interval [40, 70]. Find the
standard deviation of X.
a. 3.03
b. 1.58
c. 8.66
d. 31.75
QN=25 (2062) The weekly salaries of elementary school teachers in one state are normally
distributed with a mean of $490 and a standard deviation of $45. What is the
probability that a randomly selected elementary school teacher earns more than $525
a week?
Let P(Z < 0.778) = 0.7817, P(Z < 0.163) = 0.5646.

a. 0.7823
b. 0.4354
c. 0.2823
d. 0.2183
QN=26 (2040) A supermarket manager has determined that the amount of time customers spend in
the supermarket is approximately normally distributed with a mean of 45 minutes and
a standard deviation of 6 minutes. Find the probability that a customer spends
between 39 and 43 minutes in the supermarket.
Let P(Z < -1) = 0.159, P(Z < -0.33) = 0.371, P(Z < 0.02) = 0.508 and P(Z < 0.85) = 0.802.
a. 0.823
b. 0.212
c. 0.345
d. 0.646
QN=27 (6516) Transportation officials tell us that 70% of drivers wear seat belts while driving. Use
normal distribution to approximate the probability that more than 579 drivers in a
sample of 800 drivers wear seat belts.
Let P(Z < 1.5) = 0.9332; P(Z < 0.25) = 0.6

a. 0.0668
b. 0.9332
c. 0.4
d. 0.6
QN=28 (11518) Find the variance of the data: 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, and 16.
a. 14
b. 3.74
c. 11.67
d. 13.25
QN=29 (3559) A small company has 7 employees. The numbers of years these employees have
worked for this company are shown as follows:
4 14 3 16 9 8 16
Based upon this information, the median number of years that employees have been
with this company is______________
a. 16
b. 10
c. 9
d. 21
QN=30 (See picture)

(12994)
a. (1)
b. (2)
c. (3)
d. None of the other choices is true
QN=31 (3580) Recently a study of fans attending the New York Mets baseball games was conducted.
One of the variables for which data were collected from the 500 fans surveyed was the
miles from home to the stadium. The data for this variable were formulated into 5
classes and a frequency distribution was developed. The first class contained 247 fans
and was for those traveling between 0 and 5 miles. Based on this information what
was the relative frequency distribution for the first class?
a. 0.247
b. 0.494
c. 0.30
d. Can't be determined without more information.
QN=32 (3589) The following data reflect the number of customers

who test drove new cars each day for a sample of
20 days at the Redfield Ford Dealership.
(See picture)
Given these data, what is the interquartile range?
a. 14
b. 3
c. 4
d. 7
QN=33 (2139) The monthly electrical utility bills of all customers for the Far East Power and Light
Company are known to be distributed as a normal distribution with mean equal to 87
dollars a month and standard deviation of 36 dollars. If a statistical sample of n = 100
customers is selected at random, what is the probability that the sample mean bill for
those sampled will exceed 75 dollars?
Let P(Z < -3.33) ≈ 0, P(Z < -0.33) = 0.37 and P(Z < 0.63) = 0.73.
a. 0.63
b. None of them.
c. Approximately 1.00
d. -0.33
QN=34 (2143) The amount of time required for an oil and filter change on an automobile is normally
distributed with a mean of 45 minutes and a standard deviation of 10 minutes. A
random sample of 16 cars is selected. What is the probability that the sample mean is
between 45 and 52 minutes?
Let P(Z < 0) = 0.5, P(Z < 2.8) = 0.9974, P(Z < 3.2) = 1 and P(Z < -1) = 0.3974.
a. 0.6974
b. 0.5974
c. 0.3974
d. 0.4974
QN=35 (2174) Suppose a 95% confidence interval for μ turns out to be (1000, 2100). Give a definition
of what it means to be 95% confident in an inference.
a. 95% of the observations in the entire population fall in the given interval.
b. In repeated sampling, 95% of the intervals constructed would contain the population
mean.
c. 95% of the observations in the sample fall in the given interval.
d. In repeated sampling, the population parameter would fall in the given interval 95% of
the time.
QN=36 (11480) Weights of women in one age group are normally distributed with a standard
deviation of 13 lb. A researcher wishes to estimate the mean weight of all women in
this age group. Find how large a sample must be drawn in order to be 90 percent
confident that the sample mean will not differ from the population mean by more
than 3.5 lb.
a. 38
b. 23
c. 44
d. 32
QN=37 (2207) If you were constructing a 99% confidence interval of the population mean based on a
sample of n = 25 where the standard deviation of the sample s = 0.05, the percentage
points will be ______________
a. 2.576
b. 2.326
c. 2.492
d. 2.797
QN=38 (2222) A manufacturer of golf equipment wishes to estimate the number of left-handed
golfers. How large a sample is needed in order to be 95% confident that the sample
proportion will not differ from the true proportion by more than 4%? A previous study
indicates that the proportion of left-handed golfers is 10%.
a. 153
b. 15
c. 217
d. 241
QN=39 (3638) If an economist wishes to determine whether there is evidence that average family
income in a community exceeds $25,000, ________________
a. a one-tailed test should be utilized.
b. either a one-tailed or two-tailed test could be used with equivalent results.
c. a two-tailed test should be utilized.
QN=40 (3643) A sample is used to obtain a 95% confidence interval for the mean of a population. The
confidence interval goes from 15 to 19. If the same sample had been used to test the
null hypothesis that the mean of the population is equal to 20 versus the alternative
hypothesis that the mean of the population differs from 20, the null hypothesis could
be rejected at a level of significance of 0.05.
a. True
b. False
QN=41 (3645) An article stated that students in FPT university system take an average of 4.5 years to
finish their undergraduate degrees. Suppose you believe that the average time is
longer. You conduct a survey of 49 students and obtain a sample mean of 5.1 with a
sample standard deviation of 1.2. Assume that time to finish their undergraduate
degrees is normally distributed. Calculate the value of the test statistic and the critical
values for this test statistic. Use a significance level of 0.05.
a. Test statistic: 3.5 and critical value: 1.96
b. Test statistic: 3.5 and critical value: 1.677
c. Test statistic: -3.5 and critical value: -1.645
d. Test statistic: -3.5 and critical value: -2.011
QN=42 (11550) The National Center for Education Statistics would like to test the hypothesis that the
proportion of Bachelor's degrees that were earned by women equals 0.60. A random
sample of 140 college graduates with Bachelor degrees found that 75 were women.
The National Center for Education Statistics would like to set the significant level to be
0.10. What is the value of the test statistic for this hypothesis test?
a. -1.55
b. 2.18
c. -1.21
d. 1.43
a. (-3.684, -2.116)
b. (-3.556, -2.244)
c. (-4.002, -2.778)
d. (-2.897, -1.995)
a. -0.96
b. 4.59
c. 0.96
d. -4.59
QN=45 (See picture)

(16417)
a. (0.039, 0.101)
b. (0.044, 0.096)
c. (0.023, 0.105)
d. (0.050, 0.088)
QN=46 (16404) The residuals represent_____________
a. the difference between the actual Y values and the predicted Y values.
b. the difference between the actual Y values and the mean of Y.
c. the square root of the slope.
d. the predicted value of Y for the average X value.
QN=47 (See picture)

(16386)
a. 173.37
b. 1610.53
c. 185.435
d. 198.56

a. 0.37
b. 3.47
c. 4.02
d. 2.15
e. None of the other choices is true

a. negative linear correlation
b. positive linear correlation
QN=50 (2130) Suppose a sample of n = 15 items is drawn from a population of manufactured

products and the weight, X, of each item is recorded. Prior experience has shown that
the weight has a probability distribution with mean = 6 ounces and standard deviation
= 2.5 ounces. Which of the following is true about the sampling distribution of the
sample mean if a sample of size 15 is selected?
a. All of the others are correct.
b. The mean of the sampling distribution is 6 ounces.
c. The standard deviation of the sampling distribution is 2.5 ounces.
d. The shape of the sample distribution is approximately normal.
For Examination Department Only
Answer of Paper Code=MAS291_SU21_1[1006]
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MULTIPLE CHOICES QUESTIONS:(Mark=50)
[id=1782, Mark=1]1. B
[id=1784, Mark=1]2. D
[id=13612, Mark=1]3. B
[id=7956, Mark=1]4. B
[id=1830, Mark=1]5. C
[id=1842, Mark=1]6. C
[id=11615, Mark=1]7. B
[id=1868, Mark=1]8. B
[id=13618, Mark=1]9. D
[id=15977, Mark=1]10. D
[id=15865, Mark=1]11. A
[id=13603, Mark=1]12. B
[id=15988, Mark=1]13. A
[id=1910, Mark=1]14. A
[id=6292, Mark=1]15. A
[id=1936, Mark=1]16. B
[id=1940, Mark=1]17. C
[id=1948, Mark=1]18. B
[id=1959, Mark=1]19. B
[id=11510, Mark=1]20. B
[id=1966, Mark=1]21. C
[id=11695, Mark=1]22. A
[id=13048, Mark=1]23. A
[id=2008, Mark=1]24. C
[id=2062, Mark=1]25. D
[id=2040, Mark=1]26. B
[id=6516, Mark=1]27. A
[id=11518, Mark=1]28. A
[id=3559, Mark=1]29. C
[id=12994, Mark=1]30. A
[id=3580, Mark=1]31. B
[id=3589, Mark=1]32. B
[id=2139, Mark=1]33. C
[id=2143, Mark=1]34. D
[id=2174, Mark=1]35. B
[id=11480, Mark=1]36. A
[id=2207, Mark=1]37. D
[id=2222, Mark=1]38. C
[id=3638, Mark=1]39. A
[id=3643, Mark=1]40. A
[id=3645, Mark=1]41. B
[id=11550, Mark=1]42. A
[id=16421, Mark=1]43. A
[id=16426, Mark=1]44. A
[id=16417, Mark=1]45. A
[id=16404, Mark=1]46. A
[id=16386, Mark=1]47. A
[id=16364, Mark=1]48. A
[id=16347, Mark=1]49. B
[id=2130, Mark=1]50. B
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QN=1 (1782) The process of using sample statistics to draw conclusions about true population

parameters is called _______________

QN=5 (See picture)

QN=13 (15988) (See picture)

QN=14 (See picture)

a. mean: 1.14; standard deviation: 1.08

(i) P(X > 49) = 5/9

(ii) E(2X) = 109.

QN=21 (1966) (See picture)

QN=22 (11695) (See picture)

QN=23 (13048) (See picture)

Let P(Z < 0.778) = 0.7817, P(Z < 0.163) = 0.5646.

Let P(Z < 1.5) = 0.9332; P(Z < 0.25) = 0.6

QN=30 (See picture)

QN=32 (3589) The following data reflect the number of customers

Given these data, what is the interquartile range?

QN=43 (16421) (See picture)

QN=44 (16426) (See picture)

QN=45 (See picture)

QN=47 (See picture)

QN=48 (16364) (See picture)

QN=49 (16347) (See picture)

QN=50 (2130) Suppose a sample of n = 15 items is drawn from a population of manufactured

Answer of Paper Code=MAS291_SU21_1[1006]

MULTIPLE CHOICES QUESTIONS:(Mark=50)

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