1.

The serum cholesterol level X in 14-year-old boys has approximately a normal distribution
with mean 170 and standard deviation 30. Find the probability that the serum cholesterol level
of a randomly chosen 14-year-old exceeds 230?

2. A student gets a 70 on a test where the mean score was 64. What does the standard
deviation have to be in order for the student to be in the 95th percentile where z = 1.65?

3. A newly hired engineer commutes daily from his home to work.The average time for a one-
way trip is 24 minutes, with standard deviation of 3.8 minutes. Assume the distribution of
trips to be normally distributed, what is the probability that a trip will take more than 30
minutes?

4. Referring to problem, what is the probability that a trip will take between 20-30 minutes?

5. The average zinc concentration recovered from a sample of zinc measurements in 36

different locations is found to be 2.6 grams per milliliter. Find the 95% and 99% confidence
intervals for the mean zinc concentration in the river. Assume that the population standard
deviation is 0.3

6. The contents of 7 similar containers of sulfuric acid are 9.8, 10.2, 10.4, 9.8, 10.0, 10.2, and
9.6 liters. Find a 95% confidence interval for the mean of all such containers, assuming an
approximate normal distribution.

7. Due to the decrease in interest rates, the First Citizens Bank received a lot of mortgage
applications. A recent sample of 50 mortgage loans resulted in an average of $257,300.
Assume a population standard deviation of $25,000. If the next customer called in for a
mortgage loan application, find a 95% prediction interval on this customer's loan amount.

8. A meat inspector has randomly measured 30 packs of 95%. lean beef. The sample resulted
in the mean 96.2% with the sample standard deviation of 0.8%. Find a 99% prediction
interval for a new pack. Assume normality.

9. A machine is producing metal pieces that are cylindrical in shape. A sample of these pieces
is taken and the diameters are found to be 1.01, 0.97, 1.03, 1.04, 0.99, 0.98, 0.99, 1.01, and
1.03 centimeters. Find the 99% tolerance limits that will contain 95% of the metal pieces
produced by this machine, assuming an approximate normal distribution.

10. An experiment was conducted in which two types of engines, A and B, were compared.
Gas mileage, in miles per gallon, was measured. Fifty experiments were conducted using
engine type A and 75 experiments were done for engine type B. The gasoline used and other
conditions were held constant. The average gas mileage for engine A was 36per gallon and
the average for machine B was 42 miles per gallon. Find a 96% confidence interval on ~,
where and are population mean gas mileage for machines A and B, respectively. Assume that
the population standard deviations arc 6 and 8 for machines A and B, respectively.

11. Two independent sampling stations were chosen for this study, one located downstream
from the acid mine discharge point and the other located upstream. For 12 monthly samples
collected at the downstream station the species diversity index had a mean value 1 = 3.11 and
a standard deviation 1 = 0.771, while 10 monthly samples collected at the upstream station
had a mean index value 2 = 2.04 and a standard deviation 2 = 0.448. Find a 90% confidence
interval for the difference between the population means for the two locations, assuming that
the populations are approximately normally distributed with equal variances.
12. A study was conducted by the Department of Zoology at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University to estimate the difference in the amount of the chemical orthophosphorus
measured at two different stations on the James River. Orthophosphorus is measured in
milligrams per liter. Fifteen samples were collected from station 1 and 12 samples were
obtained from station 2. The 15 samples from station 1 had an average orthophosphorus
content of 3.84 milligrams per liter and a standard deviation of 3.07 milligrams per liter,
while the 12 samples from station 2 had an average content of 1.49 milligrams per liter and a
standard deviation of 0.80 milligram per liter. Find a 95% confidence interval for the
difference in the true average orthophosphorus contents at these two stations, assuming that
the observations came from normal populations with different variances.

13. The following are the weights, in decagrams, of 10 packages of grass seed distributed by a.
certain company: 46.4, 46.1, 45.8, 47.0, 46.1, 45.9, 45.8, 46.9, 45.2, and 46.0. Find a 95%
confidence interval for the variance of all such packages of grass seed distributed by this
company, assuming a normal population