INEG 3017 (Probability and Statistics) Final Exam Study Guide

Basic from the Text book. Please review all the exercises that you have done to prepare for
Mid Exam 1, Mid Exam 2. And then do more the following exercises.

Topics

1. Hypothesis Tests on a mean.

2. Hypothesis Tests on a proportion.

3. Hypothesis Test on two means, on two proportions.

Some problems to practice INEG 3017 for The Final Exam

1. See Wildlife Inc. conducts three whale-watching tours daily in Juneau, Alaska during the months of
August and September. Let random variable X be the number of tours during which whales are
sported on a given day. The probability that whales are sported during n of the tours on a given day is
provided in the following table:

n 0 1 2 3

P (X = n ) 0.16 0.23 0.29 0.32

a) What is the probability that whales are sighted on no more than two trips on a given day?

b) Derive the F of X .

2. Given that P (A) = 0.35, P (A | B ) = 0.65, P (B ) = 0.45 ,

a) Are events A and B independent? Support your yes/no answer with reasoning.

b) Find P (A ∪ B ).

c) Find P (B | A).

3. Consider two jars containing balls, where each ball can be described by its color and the number
printed on it. Each jar and its contents are described in Table 1, along with the probability of drawing
each ball from its associated jar.
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Jar number Color of ball Number of ball Shorthand for ball Probability of drawing
ball from its jar

1 Yellow 3 Y3 0.43

1 Blue 2 B2 0.57

2 Green 6 G6 0.21

2 Yellow 5 Y5 0.79

Consider a random experiment that consists of first drawing a ball from jar 1 , and then drawing a ball
from jar 2 .

1) Find the sample space.

2) What is the probability two different colour balls are drawn in this experiment?

4. Suppose X is a continuous random variable having probability density function

c +1 2
fX (x ) = x , 3 < x < 5.
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a) Find the value of k . What is P (X = 1.45).

b) Derive the CDF of X .

c) Find P (0.3 < X < 1.7)

d) Find E (X ), V (X ) and σ .

5. The life in hours of a battery is known to be normally distributed with standard deviation σ = 1.25
hours. A random sample of 10 batteries has a mean life of X = 30.25 hours. We are interested in
determining whether there is evidence to support the claim that battery life exceeds 30 hours. Using a
level of significance equal to 0.05 , answer the following questions.

a) State the appropriate null and alternative hypothesis for this situation.

b) Identify the test statistic and critical region.

c) State the conclusion of the test (i.e. should we reject, fail to reject).

6. The life in hours of a battery is known to be normally distributed with standard deviation σ = 1.25
hours. A random sample of 10 batteries has a mean life of X = 30.25 hours. We are interested in
determining whether there is evidence to support the claim that battery life exceeds 30 hours. Using a
level of significance equal to 0.05 . What is the P-value for this test? Using this P-value, would what
would be the conclusion of our test if the level of significance was 0.13 ? Justify your answer.

7. An e-commerce site offers a diverse array products from multiple suppliers. When a customer
places an order with the e-commerce site, the order may contain items originating from more than one

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supplier. The site has determined that the number of different suppliers represented in a customer
order can be described as a discrete uniform random variable with range 1,2,…,5.

a) What is the standard deviation of the number of different suppliers represented in a customer
order?

b) What is the probability that less than or equals three suppliers are represented in a customer
order?

8. Making handcrafted pottery generally takes two major steps: wheel throwing and firing. That is, the
time for a piece of pottery to be finished is the sum of the time associated with these two steps. The
time for wheel throwing and the time for firing are each normally distributed random variables with
means of 40 min and 60 min and standard deviations of 2 min and 3 min, respectively. That is, if we
let the random variable X represent the time for wheel throwing, then X ∼ N (40; 4) . Furthermore, if
we let the random variable Y represent the time for firing, then Y ∼ N (60;9) .
a) What is the probability that the time for wheel throwing is greater than 36 minutes?
b) What is the probability that the time for firing is less than 63 minutes?
c) Find the value of x such that P (X < x ) = 0.6179 .
d) Find the value of y such that P (Y < y ) = 0.3821 .

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