CAPE Applied Mathematics 2013 Unit 1 Paper1

1. A sample of 5 is to be selected from a group of 4. Which of the following variables is discrete?

10 persons. Each person in the group has an equal
chance of being selected for the sample. This (A) Time of travel
method of sampling is known as (B) Number of books
(A) systematic random sampling (C) Weight of boys
(B) stratified random sampling (D) Height of shelves
(C) simple random sampling
(D) quota sampling 5. Which of the following describe(s) the MAIN
features of the normal distribution?
I. It is bell-shaped.
2. Under which condition, for a population divided
into strata, is it preferable to use stratified II. It is symmetrical about the mean, μ.
random sampling rather than simple random
III. The total area under the curve is 1.
sampling?
IV. It extends from 0 to ∞.
(A) Individuals in each strata are alike in
many ways.
(B) Large number of strata containing only a (A) I only
few individuals.
(B) II and IV only
(C) Individuals in each strata are very
different. (C) I, II and III only

(D) Strata are of equal size and each (D) III and IV only
individual is equally likely to be selected.

6. A pie chart drawn to illustrate the yearly

3. For data arranged in order of size, the LOWER expenditure for an adult has the sector
representing transport measured by 80°. If the
quartile is the value
expenditure for transport is $1000, to the nearest
(A) below which 75% of the distribution lies dollar, the TOTAL expenditure for the year is

(B) above which 50% of the distribution lies (A) $1 765

(C) below which 25% of the distribution lies (B) $2 294

(D) above which 20% of the distribution lies (C) $2 903

(D) $4 500
 Item 7 refers to the following information. 10. The heights, in centimetres, of 5 students are:
165, 175, 176, 159, 170. The median and mean,
The ages, in years, of 9 teachers at a school are
in centimetres, are respectfully
shown below.
(A) 169, 169
23, 28, 28, 29, 31, 32, 37, 38, 38
(B) 170, 169
7. The upper quartile for these data is
(C) 170, 170
(A) 28
(D) 176, 169
(B) 31.5
(C) 37.5
Items 11-12 refer to the following table which
(D) 38 shows the daily sales (in thousands of dollars)
Day
Item 8 refers to the following table which gives Outlet D1 D2 D3 D4 D5
the frequency distribution of the times, in A 4 6 7 9 10
minutes, that 90 patients spent waiting to be B 6 4 9 14 16
seen by a doctor.
Waiting time Frequency 11. Two pie charts are drawn to compare the total
(minutes) sales for the week. The radius of the pie chart
0-6 5 for Outlet A is r1 while that for Outlet B is r2 .
7 - 13 27
14 - 20 30 The ratio r1 : r2 is
21 - 27 20 (A) 49:36
28 - 34 8
(B) 36:49
8. The width of the class interval 14-20 minutes is (C) 7:6

(A) 6 minutes (D) 6:7

(B) 7 minutes
(C) 17 minutes 12. A pie chart with radius 8cm is drawn for a third
outlet, Outlet C. Using 6cm as the radius of the
(D) 30 minutes pie chart representing Outlet A, the total sales of
Outlet C (in thousands of dollars) when
compared to Outlet A is
9. The secretary of a club wants to obtain the
opinions of the members about the club’s (A) 36
facilities. The club has 339 members, of whom (B) 48
113 are males. The secretary decides to conduct
a survey using a random sample of 42 members. (C) 64
The representative sample would be (D) 288
(A) 14 males and 28 females
(B) 28 males and 14 females
(C) 21 males and 21 females
(D) 12 males and 30 females
13. A systematic random sample that makes up 20% of the population is to be selected from among 320 students
who are numbered from 001 through 320. If the first student chosen is numbered 002, then the last student
chosen would be numbered
(A) 300
(B) 312
(C) 315
(D) 317

Items 14-15 refer to the following box-and-whisker plot

14. The interquartile range is 15. The distribution is

(A) 10 (A) symmetric
(B) 30 (B) positively skewed
(C) 40 (C) normal
(D) 80 (D) negatively skewed

16. The random variable X is normally distributed with 17. If Z  N(0, 1), then P (−1 < Z < 2) is given by
mean µ and variance 3. P( X > 7) is given by
(A) 2(1 − Ф(2))
 µ − 7 (B) Ф(2) − Ф(1)
(A) P Z > 
 3  (C) 2Ф(2) − 1
 µ − 7 (D) Ф(1) + Ф(2) − 1
P Z >
3 
(B)

18. A football team has a probability 3 for winning
 7−µ 5
P Z >
3 
(C) whenever it plays. If the team plays 8 games, the

probability of winning exactly 5 games is

( )( )
 7−µ 3 5
(D) P Z >  (A) C5 3
8 2
 3  5 5

1 − C (3) ( 2)
3 5
8
(B) 5
5 5

1 − C (3) ( 2)
5 3
8
(C) 5
5 5

C (3) ( 2)
5 3
8
(D) 5
5 5
 Item 19 refers to the table below which shows Item 22 refers to the following information.
the probability distribution of the discrete
random variable X. A discrete random variable X has a probability
distribution function
x −2 −1 0 1 2
P( X = x)  px 3 , x = 0, 1, 2, 3
0.3 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.1 f ( x) =  
0, otherwise. 
19. P (−1 ≤ X ≤ 1) is where p is a constant.
(A) 0.1
(B) 0.6 22. P (Y ) =
(C) 0.9
(A) 1
(D) 0.4 135
(B) 2
5
20. If X  Bin(n, 0.2), which of the following is 3
(C)
valid? 5
14
(A) P( X= n=
) 0.8n (D)
15
(B) Var ( X ) = 0.8n
Item 23 refers to the information below.
(C) P( X= 0)
= 0.8n
The discrete random variable Y, where Y takes
(D) E ( X ) = 0.8n on only the values 1, 2, 3 and 4, has a cumulative
distribution function F( y ) as shown in the table
below.
Item 21 refers to the information given below.
y 1 2 3 4
Events X and Y are independent and
F( y ) 0.37 0.58 0.80 1
X ) 1 , P( X ∩=
P(= Y) 1 .
9 15
23. The value of P (Y = 3) is
21. P (Y ) =
(A) 0.20
(A) 1 (B) 0.21
135
(C) 0.22
(B) 2
5 (D) 0.37

(C) 3
5 24. The standard deviation of a discrete random
14 variable X is
(D)
E( X 2 )
15
(A)

(B) Var( X )

(C) E( X 2 ) − E( X )

(D) Var( X )
25. If A and B are two events such that 27. The heights of rose plants follow a normal
P( A | B) = 0.6, P( A) = 0.2 and P( B ) = 0.3, distribution with mean 215 cm and standard
then P( A ∩ B ) = deviation 20.2 cm. The probability, to three
significant figures, that the height of a randomly
(A) 0.05 chosen rose plant is less than 200 cm is
(B) 0.18 (A) 0

(C) 0.45 (B) 0.229

(C) 0.515
(D) 1.60
(D) 0.771

26. In which of the following Venn diagrams does

28. In each round of a game of cards, a player can
the shading BEST illustrate the possibility space
either win or lose the round. The probability of
for A ∩ B′ ? winning the first round is p and the probability
of losing the second round is 2 . If the rounds
5
are independent, then the probability of losing
the first round and winning the second round is
(A)
2p
(A)
5
2(1 − p )
(B)
5
3p
(C)
5
(B) 3(1 − p )
(D)
5

29. In a certain district, it is believed that 60% of the

houses are insured against fire. If 140 houses are
in the district, the number of houses expected to
be insured against fire is
(C) (A) 28
(B) 60
(C) 72
(D) 84

(D)
30. The random variable X is Bin (n, 0.8) and 34. Which of the following statements is NOT true
Var( X ) = 2.24. The value of n is for a chi-squared test for independence?

(A) 10 (A) It is always greater than or equal to zero.

(B) 13 (B) It tests whether or not two variables are

(C) 14 independent.

(D) 15 (C) It uses a parameter called the number of

degrees of freedom.
(D) It uses two-tailed tests.
31. For a χ 2 test of independence using a
contingency table with 4 rows and 5 columns,
the number of degrees of freedom is 35. A balloon manufacturing company claims that
at least 10% of its balloons are blue. A random
(A) 8 sample of 200 of these balloons is taken, and 16
(B) 9 are found to be blue. Which of the following
tests would be MOST appropriate for
(C) 12 establishing whether the balloon company needs
(D) 20 to change its claim?
(A) t-test of a population mean
32. If the level of significance, α , is increased in a (B) Chi-squared test for independence
hypothesis test, then the rejection region is (C) Two-tailed z-test of a population
(A) reduced in size proportion

(B) increased in size (D) One-tailed z-test of a population

proportion
(C) unaltered
(D) increased in size by α 36. In a one-tailed z-test, the null hypothesis
H 0 : µ = 30 is tested against the alternative
hypothesis H1 : µ > 30. At the 10% significance,
33. In a hypothesis test for a population proportion, p,
level, the critical z region is
the null hypothesis is p = 0.64 and the
alternative hypothesis is p ≠ 0.64. A sample of (A) z > 1.282
400 elements from the population produced a (B) z > 1.645
sample proportion of 0.58. The value of the test
statistic, z, is (C) z > 1.960
(A) −2.43 (D) z > 2.576
(B) −0.06
(C) 0.43
(D) 0.51
 Item 37 refers to the following contingency 39. A t-test is usually used when testing
table which gives the results of a football team
(A) the mean of a normal population with
over 40 matches.
unknown variance and when the sample
Weather Weather size is small.
Total
good bad (B) the mean of a normal population with
Win 13 5 18 unknown variance and when the sample
Draw 2 8 10 size is large.
Lose 2 10 12 (C) the mean of a normal population with
Total 17 23 40 known variance and when the sample size
is small.
37. A χ 2 significance test for independence is
(D) the mean of a normal population with
conducted on the effect of the weather on the known variance and when the sample size
team’s performance. The expected frequency is large.
for the number of losses in bad weather is
10 × 12
(A) 40. Which of the following conditions satisfies the
40
use of the central limit theorem?
23 × 10
(B) (A) The large samples are taken from
40
non-normal populations.
23 × 12 (B) The small samples are taken from
(C)
40 non-normal populations.
23 × 17 (C) The small samples are taken from normal
(D)
40 populations.
(D) The large samples are taken from normal
38. If the product-moment correlation coefficient populations.
between a person’s weight and annual income is 0.9,
it could be concluded that
41. If samples of size n are drawn from a population
(A) as income increases, a person’s weight which is not normally distributed, then the
decreases. sampling distribution of the sample mean is
(B) as income decreases, a person’s weight (A) The large samples are taken from
increases. non-normal populations.
(C) as income increases, a person’s weight (B) The small samples are taken from
increases. non-normal populations.
(D) as income increases, a person’s weight (C) The small samples are taken from normal
does not change. populations.
(D) The large samples are taken from normal
populations.
42. Which of the following is ALWAYS true for 44. When using a small sample of size n, to
all values of the product moment correlation construct a confidence interval for the
coefficient, r? population mean, the number of degrees of
freedom for the t-distribution are
(A) −1 ≤ r ≤ 1
(A) n−2
(B) 0 < r <1
(B) n −1
(C) r<0
(C) n+2
(D) r≥0
(D) n +1

43. A perfect negative correlation may be

interpreted to imply that 45. To construct a confidence interval for the
population proportion p, which of the
(A) the correlation coefficient r = 0.
following must be true for a sample size n ?
(B) the correlation coefficient r = 1.
(A) np > 5 and n(1 − p ) > 5
(C) the points in a scatter diagram lie on an
upward sloping line. (B) np > 5 and n(1 − p ) < 5

(D) the points in a scatter diagram lie on a (C) np < 5 and n(1 − p ) > 5
downward sloping line.
(D) np < 5 and n(1 − p ) < 5

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