STK110: Revision 1 - 2020

Questions 1 to 4 are based on the following information:

The pie chart given below represents the statistics of the top 5 sports brands in the world.
New
Balance
12%

Puma Nike
16% 40%

Reebok
11%
Adidas
21%

1. Variable
2. Data type
3. Measurement scale
4. Covert “Nike” percentage to degrees (144°)

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following information:

Consider the table below summarizing the number of people within different age groups who go
to bed before 9pm.
Age groups
10-19 11
20-29 4
30-39 6
40-49 7
50-59 12

1. Variable
2. Data type
3. Measurement scale
4. Grouped mean (37.75)
5. Grouped standard deviation (16.2)

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following information:

Consider the following box plot:

Answers will be approximate

1. Range (±75)
2. Median (±23)
3. Middle 50% of the values (±31)
4. Upper limit for the box plot (±89.5)
5. Shape of the distribution
Questions 1 to 10 are based on the following information:
The Stem and Leaf plot below represents exam marks scored by 53 STK 110 students:

Given:

1. Variable
2. Data type
3. Measurement scale
4. The shape of the distribution
5. Mean and Standard deviation for 6 highest scores (93.67; 2.58)
6. Mode (76)
7. Median (74)
8. (77.72)
9. Interquartile Range (20)
10. Outliers

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following information:

A petrol station recorded the petrol sales (in litres) for a sample of 80 clients in the following
Ogive.
Ogive for petrol sales
80

70
Cumulative frequency

60

50

40

30

20

10

0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
Petrol sales (in litres)

Answers will be approximate

1. Median (±30)
2. Modal interval (±30; ±40)
3. percentile (±38)
4. Number of clients who bought less than 25 liters of petrol. (±25)
5. Percentage of clients who bought more than 40 liters of petrol. (±18.75%)
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following information:
A bell-shaped distribution has a mean of 10 and a variance of 4.

1. 84th percentile (±12)

2. 16th percentile (±8)
3. Limits of ±95% of the values (±6; ±14)
4. Percentage of values between 6 and 12 (±81.5%)
5. Percentage of values above 14 (±2.5%)
Questions 1 to 6 are based on the following information:
The contingency table was constructed to investigate the relationship between gender and the
type of wine preferred:

Gender
Wine Total
Male Female
Red 80 40 120
White 55 75 130
Total 135 115 250

Define events:
Person is male
Red wine

Use correct notation, i.e.

1. (0.48)
2. (A randomly selected person is a male, given that he preferred red wine) (0.6667)
3. (A randomly selected person is female and preferred white wine) (0.3)
4. (A randomly selected person is female or preferred white wine) (0.68)
5. and independent (No)
6. and mutually exclusive (No)

Questions 1 to 3 are based on the following information:

Suppose we have two events, and , with , and .

1. (0.7)
2. | (0.6667)
3. A and B independent? (No)

Questions 1 to 7 are based on the following information:

of students prefer an iPhone. A random sample of 12 students was selected for the study.
Students prefer an iPhone and is binomially distributed

1. Why Binomial?
2. Number of groups of 5 students that can be selected from 12 students (792)
3. Mean and standard deviation (8.4; 1.5875)
4. (4 students of the 12 prefer an iPhone ) (0.0078)
5. (More than 11 of the 12 prefer an iPhone ) (0.0138)
6. (At least 5 but less than 7 of the 12 prefer an iPhone ) (0.1084)
7. (7 students do not prefer an iPhone ) (0.0291)