2020-3-TER-STATE 954/3/2020 CONFIDENTIAL*

Section A [45 marks]

Answer all questions in this section

1. The data below shows the life span (in months) of 40 bulbs.

2 15 45 10 30 36 40 20
55 49 15 56 33 65 18 3
4 47 25 12 4 23 7 13
12 10 26 30 35 20 25 9
19 5 60 51 3 28 12 8

a) Build a frequency distribution table by using 0 - 9 as the first class.

Hence, calculate the mean and median of the data. [5 marks]
b) State, with reason, the distribution is symmetrical, positively or negatively skewed.
[2 marks]

2. A biased dice is rolled, the probability of obtaining a score of 6 is . The probabilities of

obtaining each of the other five scores 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 are all equal. Calculate the probability of
obtaining a score of five with this biased dice. [1 mark]
a) The biased dice and an unbiased dice are now rolled together. Calculate the probability
that the total score is 11 or more. [2 marks]
b) The two dice are rolled again. Given that the total score is 11 or more, calculate the
probability that the score on the biased dice is 6. [3 marks]

3. A continuous random variable, X, has probability density function

a) Find F(x), the cumulative distribution function. [3 marks]

b) Sketch F(x). [2 marks]
c) The median of X is m. Verify that m [3 marks]

4. A random sample of students from a rural school received less than RM10
per week for pocket money is normally distributed with mean, and standard deviation, . The
amounts (RMX) of pocket money received by the students are summarised by and
.
a) Find an unbiased estimate of the population mean and the variance. [2 marks]
b) Determine a 90% confidence interval for the population mean. [3 marks]
c) Calculate the number of students required in order to obtain 99% confidence that the
estimate is within RM0.50 of the population mean. [3 marks]

© Jabatan Pendidikan Negeri Terengganu Page 2

STPM 954/3
 954/3/2020 CONFIDENTIAL*

5. Over a long period of time, 20% of the durians produced from a particular orchard are imperfect
and cannot be sold. The farmer introduces a new pesticide to be used in the orchard and claims
that the new pesticide shown an improvement on the quality of the durians produced. A random
sample of 20 fruits produced by the new process is examined and 3 durians are found to be
imperfect.
Perform a hypothesis test to determine whether the new pesticide used would provide evidence
of a reduction in the proportion of imperfect durians. [7 mark]

6. experiments, the results of a sample of 768 pea plants produced in the lab
are observed and recorded. The colours and the shapes of the pea are grouped in the table
below.

Round and Yellow Wrinkled and Yellow Round and Green Wrinkled and Green

418 153 142 55

Genetics theory, the expected figures follows the ratio 9 : 3 : 3 : 1.

Perform a goodness-of-fit test, at the 10% significance level whether the sample supports
the claim. [9 marks]

© Jabatan Pendidikan Negeri Terengganu Page 3

STPM 954/3
 954/3/2020 CONFIDENTIAL*

Section B [15 marks]

Answer any one question in this section.

7. Studies conducted in the past show that the mean number of serious accidents in a certain factory
is one per year. The factory wishes to find the probability of the number of serious accidents
occurring on a yearly basis for the purpose of revising the insurance premium of its employees.
The factory is required to increase the insurance premium if the probability of having less than
two serious accident-free years out of five years is more than 0.35.

a) Define the relevant random variable, and identify its distribution. [3 marks]
b) Find the probability that
(i) There is no serious accident occurring in the next one year, [2 marks]
(ii) There are at least three serious accidents occurring in the next two years,
[4 marks]
(iii) There are less than two accident-free years occurring out of five years. [4 marks]
c) Based on the result in (b) (iii), state with reason whether the factory is required to
increase the insurance premium or not. [2 mark]

8. The speed limit for a road in rural area is 60 km/h. The speeds y km/h of 70 cars were summarised
as and . In the survey conducted, the speeds for 21 cars
were more than 65 km/h.
a) Find a 90% confidence interval for the population proportion of cars with the speed more
than 65 km/h. [5 marks]
b) Estimate the population mean and variance of the speed of the cars. [4 marks]
c) Test, at 10% level of significance, whether the speed limit of the cars are
overstating. [6 marks]

© Jabatan Pendidikan Negeri Terengganu Page 4

STPM 954/3