Palestine Polytechnic University

College of Applied Sciences

Department of Mathematics
Probability and Statistics
Final Exam
Date: 19/8/2020 Time: 110 min.
1 :‫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

6 members. If members A and B will not serve together, then the number of different
possible choices is ……………

2) The probability of getting a total 7 or 11 when a pair of fair dice is tossed is

…………

3) Two cards are drawn at a succession without replacement from 5 numbered

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

4) Let A and B be two events such that P ( A) = 0.25 , P ( B) = 0.45 , and

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 P( A  B) = 0.1 . Then P( Ac  B) = ....................................

5) From a box of fruit containing 3 oranges, 2 apples, and 3 bananas. A random

sample of 4 pieces of fruit is selected. If X is the number of oranges and Y is the
number of apples 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 2/7. The probability that 8 mice are required is ………………………..

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

events, too.

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

………………….

Q2: (6 points)
The joint density for the random variables (X, Y ), where X is the unit temperature

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change and Y is the proportion of spectrum shift that a certain atomic particle
produces, is
10 x 2 y, 0  x  y  1,
f ( x, y) = 
0, otherwise.
Find the probability that the spectrum shifts more than half of the total observations
and the temperature change is less than 2/3 unit.

Q3: (5 points = 2 + 3)

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The height of 1000 students is approximately normally distributed with a mean of
174.5 centimeters and a standard deviation of 6.9 centimeters. If 200 random
samples of size 25 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 200 sample their sample means
falling below 172 centimeters.

Q4: (6 points = 4 + 2)
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A random sample of 25 automobile owners in the state of Jerusalem shows that an
automobile is driven on average 24,500 kilometers per year with a standard deviation
of 4000 kilometers. Assume the distribution of measurements to be approximately
normal.
(a) Construct a 98% 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 98% confident that our sample
mean will be within 100 kilometer of the true mean?

Q5: (6 points)
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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 220 milligrams per day, which is surpassed in most single servings of
ready-to-eat cereals. If a random sample of 20 similar servings of a certain cereal
has a mean sodium content of 244 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 greater than 220 milligrams? Assume
the distribution of sodium contents to be normal

The end of the exam

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