Palestine Polytechnic University

College of Applied Sciences

Department of Mathematics
Probability and Statistics
Final Exam IC
Date: 03/09/2020 Time: 110 min.
IC :‫الشعبة‬ Mohammad Adam :‫المدرس‬ ...…….................... :‫االسم‬
Question # Q1/12 Q2/6 Q3/5 Q4/6 Q5/6 Sum/35
Grade

Q1: (12 points)

Fill in the blank with the correct answers. Use the space to explain your
answers.

1) A president and a treasurer are to be chosen from a student club consisting

of 7 members. If members A and B will serve together or they will not serve at all,
then the number of different possible choices is ……………

2) The probability of getting a total 3 or 10 when a pair of fair dice is tossed is

…………

3) Two cards are drawn at a succession without replacement from 6 numbered

cards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. If card with number 3 is chosen at the first drop, then the
probability to get an even sum is ……………….

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4) Let A and B be two events such that P( A) = 0.25 , P( B) = 0.45 , and
P( A  B) = 0.1 . Then P( A  B c ) = .......... .......... .......... ......

5) From a box of fruit containing 4 oranges, 2 apples, and 2 bananas. A random

sample of 3 pieces of fruit is selected. If X is the number of apples and Y is the
number of bananas in the sample. Then P(( x, y) | x + y  2) = .......... .......... .....

6) A scientist inoculates )‫ (تطعيم‬mice, one at a time, with a disease germ )‫(جرثومة‬

until he finds 2 that have contracted the disease. If the probability of contracting
the disease is 3/7. The probability that 9 mice are required is
………………………..

7) Let A and B be independent events. Show that A and B c are independent

events, too.

8) In testing a statistical hypothesis, the level of significance  represents

………………….

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Q2: (6 points)
The joint density for the random variables (X, Y ), where X is the unit temperature
change and Y is the proportion of spectrum shift that a certain atomic particle
produces, is
10xy 2 , 0  y  x  1,
f ( x, y ) = 
0, otherwise.
Find the probability that the spectrum shifts is less than 2/3 units and the
temperature change is more than half of the total observations.

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Q3: (5 points = 2 + 3)
The height of 2000 students is approximately normally distributed with a mean of
174.5 centimeters and a standard deviation of 6.9 centimeters. If 300 random
samples of size 36 are drawn from this population and the means recorded. Find

(a) The mean and standard deviation of the sampling distribution of X .

(b) Approximately how many samples from the 300 sample their sample means
falling above 172 centimeters.

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Q4: (6 points = 4 + 2)
A random sample of 25 automobile owners in the city of Jerusalem shows that an
automobile is driven on average 24500 kilometers per year with a standard
deviation of 4000 kilometers. Assume the distribution of measurements to be
approximately normal.
(a) Construct a 96% confidence interval for the average number of kilometers an
automobile is driven annually in Jerusalem.

(b) How large a sample is needed if we wish to be 96% confident that our sample
mean will be within 100 kilometer of the true mean?

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Q5: (6 points)
According to a dietary study, high sodium intake may be related to ulcers ‫(قرحة‬
)‫المعدة‬, stomach cancer, and migraine headaches )‫(صداع نصفي‬. The human
requirement for salt is only 225 milligrams per day, which is surpassed in most
single servings of ready-to-eat cereals. If a random sample of 25 similar servings
of a certain cereal has a mean sodium content of 210 milligrams and a standard
deviation of 24.5 milligrams, does this suggest at the 0.05 level of significance that
the average sodium content for a single serving of such cereal is less than 225
milligrams? Assume the distribution of sodium contents to be normal

The end of the exam

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