STA 408 QUIZ

Online Assessment
1 hour (2:10-3:10 pm)

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SELF DECLARATION
1. I know that plagiarism is wrong. Plagiarism is to use another’s work and pretend that it is
one’s own.
2. This continuous assignment (test &quiz) is my own work.
3. I have not involved, and will not allow, anyone to copy my work with the intention of
passing it off as their own work.
4. I acknowledge that copying someone else’s work (or part of it) is wrong and declare that
the answer script submitted is my own work.

Answer all the questions below and upload your solutions in MS Teams. Marks will be
deducted if student fail to submit during the allocated time.

PART 1
TRUE Or FALSE
1 Discrete random variable is a countable or exact value chosen randomly.
2 Standard deviation is a measure of variability of a random variable.
3 The number of trials for Binomial Distribution and Poisson Distribution must be fixed.

4 It is appropriate to use the Poisson distribution as an approximation to the binomial

distribution when n (number of trial) is large and p (probability of success) is small.
5 Normal distribution is an example of probability distribution of discrete random variable.

6 The mean, median and mode of the normal distribution are equal and located at the centre
of the distribution.
3 marks

PART 2
QUESTION 1
A box contains 5 balls. Two are numbered 3, one is numbered 4 and two are numbered 5. The
balls are mixed and one is selected at random, number is recorded and it is replaced. If the
experiment is repeated many times, find the variance and standard deviation of the numbers on
the balls.
5 marks