2020-3-PE-JIT SIN

Section A (45 marks)Answer all questions.

1. The following table shows the age, X, in years of the cars for a group of teachers in Light
School.

Age (X) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Number of cars 6 8 1 18 13 9 4 2 2
2

a) Find the median and the interquartile range. [4 marks]

b) Determine the outlier(s), if any. [2 marks]
c) Draw a box-and-whisker plot to represent the data. [2 marks]
d) Comment on the skewness of the distribution. [1 mark ]

2. A particular area experiences rainfall for 30% of the 30 days in November. Research findings
show that the probability of road accidents is 0.7 on rainy days and 0.2 on fine days.
a) Find the probability that a road accident occurs. [2 marks]
b) If a road accident does occur, what is the probability it occurs on a rainy day? [2 marks]

3. The continuous random variable X has probability density function given by:

{
x
,0 ≤ x< 2
f ( x )= 4
m ( 4−x ) , 2 ≤ x < 4
0 otherwise

a) Determine the value of m. [4 marks]

1
b) Find the value of k such that P(X < k) = . [5 marks]
3

4. The diameters of screws produced by a company have a normal distribution with mean 3 mm
and standard deviation 0.1 mm. A random sample of size n is taken and the diameter of each screw
is measured.
Find the smallest number of n such that the probability of the sample mean is not within 0.02 of
the population mean is less than 0.05. [7 marks]

5. A teacher claims that at least 80% of his students are able to state the null and alternative
hypotheses for a given hypothesis testing. A random sample of nine students is taken from his class
and it is found that five of them are able to state the null and alternative hypotheses for a given
hypothesis testing. Perform a test, at the 5% significance level, to justify the teacher’s claim.
[7 marks]

6 A random sample of 100 families with three children for each family is taken from a residential
area. The number of boys in the families is recorded and shown below.
Number of boys in the family 0 1 2 3
Frequency 16 50 27 7
Perform a chi-squared test, at the 2.5% significance level, to determine whether the data can be

modelled by a binomial distribution with n = 3 and probability of getting a boy is . [9 marks]

Section B (15 marks)Answer one question only.
7. a) In a survey to determine the relationship between high blood pressure and smoking habits, the
table below are the results.
Non Moderate Heavy Total
smokers smokers smokers
High blood 18 34 65 117
Non high blood 52 16 15 83
Total 70 50 80 200

If one of these individuals is selected at random. Calculate the probability of each of the following
events :
i) The person has high blood pressure. [1 mark]
ii) The person is a non-smoker and has no high blood pressure. [1 mark]
iii) The person has high blood pressure, given that the person is a heavy smoker.
[2 marks]
iv) The person is a non-smoker, given that the person has no high blood pressure.
[1 mark]

1 1 3
b) Two events A and B are such that P(B) = , P(B|A) = and P ( A ∪ B ) = .
2 2 5

Find i) P(A) [4 marks]

ii) P( A ∩ B) [2 marks]

Determine whether A and B are i) mutually exclusive. [2 marks]

ii) independent. [2 marks]

8. The BMI among the students of a secondary school have a mean of  and a standard deviation
of 3.5. A random sample of 200 students has a mean BMI of 21.0.
(a) State the sampling distribution of the sample mean. [3 marks]
(b) Construct a 95% symmetric confidence interval for the mean BMI among the students of the
secondary school. [3 marks]
Interpret your answer. [1 mark]
State the effects on the standard error and the width of the confidence interval when the size of
the sample is increased. [2 marks]

Explain how this confidence interval can be used to infer the result of a two
tailed hypothesis test on the mean BMI among the students of the secondary school.
[2 marks]
(c) It is found that the BMI of 24 students are below 18.5. Students with BMI below 18.5 are
underweight.
Construct a 95% symmetric confidence interval for the proportion of all the students who are
underweight. [4 marks]