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2015 Review Final Exam
2015 Review Final Exam
** For a comprehensive review, you should go through all notes, tests and assignments. Your text
also offers review:
Cumulative Reviews per Chapter
Pg. 218 220 #4, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Pg. 364 #1 6, 8 13
Pg. 476 #1 6, 8
Course Review
Pg. 477 #1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 17, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28
4. Last week 5 million dollars was stolen from the Gotham City Federal Bank. There was one
witness to the crime. The police asked the witness to identify the robber from a line-up of 6
suspects.
5. If 5 cards are dealt from a standard deck of 52, answer the following questions:
1. Below is a table showing the # of employees at a company and their hourly wage.
2. Go through your notes and test/quiz for examples of bias and sampling techniques.
3. A year ago, Mateo began working at a computer store. Her supervisor asked her to keep a record
of the number of sales she made each month. The following data set is a list of her sales for the last
12 months: 34, 47, 1, 15, 57, 24, 20, 11, 19, 50, 28, 37
1. The following data shows the percentage of women in the Canadian work force.
year 1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995
% women in WF 30 33 30 37 38 39 41 45 47 49
a) Create a fully labelled scatter plot with a line of best fit.
b) Calculate the correlation coefficient for the data.
c) Determine the equation of the line of best fit.
d) Describe the correlation in terms of type and strength.
2. Go through your notes/test for examples and questions related to cause and effect relationships.
3. Understand the difference between linear and non-linear relationships. Know the difference
between a correlation coefficient and a coefficient of determination.
2. A bag contains Lego blocks. 3 are red, 5 are blue, and 4 are yellow. 2 Lego blocks are drawn
without replacement.
3. If Cartman lives at House A and his buddy Kenny lives at House B, how many different routes
can Cartman take to Kenny’s house, if he can only walk south and west?
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4. a) The probability of an event not occurring is 5 . What are the odds in favour of the event
happening?
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b) The probability of an event occurring is 9 . Determine the odds against the event happening.
c) The odds in favour of an event happening is 4:11. What is the probability that the event
does not happen?
5. The owner of a fast food restaurant received 25 applications for the position of manager. Of the
25, 15 have worked there before, 8 have a high school diploma, and 5 have both worked there before
and have a diploma. What is the probability that a randomly selected applicant has worked there
before or has a diploma?
6. There are two tests for aptitude in Data Management (and in particular probability). Test A gives
a correct result 95% of the time. Test B is accurate 89% of the time. If a student is given both tests,
find the probability that
a) Both tests predict the correct result b) Neither test predicts the correct result
8. Review examples that used Pascal’s triangle and the patterns in the triangle!
1. You must know the 4 types of distributions, when to use them, and examples.
2. Many people believe that high school students are OBSESSED with their cell phones, especially
while in Data Management class. If the probability that the teacher will catch a student using their
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cell phone is 5 .
a) Show the probability distribution that the teacher will successfully catch a student using their cell
phone 4 days in a row.
b) What is the probability the teacher will catch students using their cell phones at least 3 days?
3. There are 6 birds and 8 hamsters in a pet store. Five pets are chosen at random to be relocated to
a different store.
a) What is the probability that exactly 3 of the pets chosen are birds?
b) What is the expected number of birds to be sent to the other store?
4. Homer really wants to stop working at the nuclear power plant. He buys some lottery tickets
from the local Kiwiki-Mart. The probability of winning on a ticket is 4 in 20.
5. Consider a game in which you roll a regular eight-sided die. When you roll an odd number you
win an amount of money equal to double the roll. When you roll an even number, you loose an
amount of money equal to half the roll.
1. Sketch and provide an example of the following distributions: bimodal, normal, skewed left,
skewed right.
2. The lifetime the common house cat ranges uniformly from 10 to 16 years. Determine the
probability that a cat selected at random will live less than 11.5 years.
3. 10% of North Americans have blue eyes. There are 850 students at Ancaster High School. What
is the probability that exactly 95 of these students have blue eyes?
4. A biologist measures the body length of 100 Japanese sardines. Their lengths are normally
distributed, with a mean of 20.20 cm and a standard deviation of 1.65 cm.