Gulf University for Science and Technology

College of Arts and Sciences

Basic Probability and Statistics

Final Examination

Course Code: MATH 121 Semester: Fall, 2023

Instructor: Date:

Student Name: ________________________

Student Number: ________________________

Lecture Time: ________________________

Aids Allowed: You can use a calculator, but it cannot be shared.

Instructions:

1. This examination has 10 pages including this cover page and total of 12 questions. In addition, 2 pages
for formula sheets and 2 pages for tables (normal distribution tables) are provided. Before you start the
examination, please verify them.

2. No Questions are allowed during the examination.

Student signature: _____________________________________

Objective 1 2 3 4 Total
Question 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Score per 8 12 10 8 8 6 6 8 8 10 6 10
question

Score per
objective
Out of 20 26 20 34 100

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1. Given the following frequency distribution of Final exam scores for College Algebra.

Classes Frequency Cumulative Percentage Cumulative

Frequency (%) Percentage
10 but less than 20 16
20 but less than 30 32
30 but less than 40 24
40 but less than 50 8
Total 80

a. (3 pts) Fill in the table above.

b. (3 pts) Plot a percentage histogram.

c. (3 pts) Find the approximate mean (group mean) of this frequency distribution.

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2. Given the following set of data for the temperature for days in Kuwait in February,
9, 20, 21, 17, 14, 19, 18, 22.

a. (4 pts) Find the mean, median, mode and range.

b. (2 pts) Find quartiles, Q1, Q2, Q3, and inter quartile range IQR.

c. (2 pts) Draw box-plot and comment the shape.

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 3. Consider the following two variables X and Y:

X 6 12 13 20
Y 5 8 9 14
.
a. (2 pts) Construct a scatter diagram for the given data.

b. (4 pts) Find the covariance between X and Y and comment on your result.

c. (4 pts) Find the standard deviation of X and the standard deviation of Y.

d. (2 pts) Find the correlation between X and Y and comment on your result.

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4. The following data is observed from a survey about the preference of students as their choice of
elective course in the spring semester.

Math English Art Total

Male 100 a31 130 300
Female 40 135 75 250

Total 160 140 140 450

a. (2 pts) Complete the table.

b. (2 pts) What is the probability that a randomly selected students takes English?

c. (3 pts) What is the probability that a randomly selected person is a male or takes Art?

d. (3 pts) What is the probability that a randomly selected person is a male or does not take Art?

e. (2 pts) Given a randomly selected person takes Art, what is the probability that the person is
male?

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5. (5 pts) According to a survey, 55% of the students have a smart phone. Of those who have a smart
phone, 60 % have a Twitter account. Of those who do not have a smart phone, only 30 % have a
Twitter account. Given a student has a Twitter account, what is the probability that he/she has a smart
phone?

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6. (6 pts)
a. A committee of 4 is to be selected from a group of 9 people. How many possible committees
can be selected?

b. Assume a businessman has 8 suits and 10 ties. He is planning to take 4 suits and 2 ties with
him on his next business trip. How many possibilities of selection does he have?

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7. A certain type of new business has 75% chance of success. Suppose that 10 such businesses open.
Assuming a binomial distribution,
a. (3 pts) what is the probability that all businesses will succeed?

b. (3 pts) what is the probability that exactly one business will not succeed?

c. (3 pts) what is the probability at most one business will succeed?

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8. Past history indicates that on average 10 calls per 5 minutes are received at a call center.
(Hint: Poisson distribution)
a. (3 pts) What is the probability that 6 calls will be received during the next 5 minutes?

b. (3 pts) What is the probability that at least one call received in 5 minutes?

c. (3 pts) What is the probability that at most 2 calls received in 10 minutes?

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9. The production time of a Samsung tablet is normally distributed with a mean of 8 minutes and a
standard deviation of 6 minutes.

a. (3 pts) What is the probability that the production time of a randomly selected Samsung tablet is
less than 8.3 minutes?

b. (3 pts) What is the probability that the production time of a randomly selected Samsung tablet is
greater than 8.3 minutes?

c. (4 pts) What is the probability that the production time of a randomly selected Samsung tablet is
between 8 and 8.3 minutes?

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10. The time to fix the breaks of a car is uniformly distributed between 130 and 280 minutes.

a. (3 pts) Write the probability density function and graph it.

b. (3 pts) What is the probability that it will take more than 220 minutes to fix the breaks of a
randomly selected car?

c. (3 pts) What is the probability it will take between 240 and 320 minutes to fix the breaks of a
randomly selected car?

d. (2 pts) Calculate the expected amount of time to fix the cars.

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11. Assume that the weight of a person has a normal distribution with a mean of 80 kilograms and a
variance of 64. A random sample of 36 persons is selected.

a. (4 pts) What is the standard error for the sample mean?

b. (5 pts) What is the probability that the sample mean weight of persons is between 76 and 84
kilograms?

12. Given the probability distributions for variables X and Y shown.

P(x,y) X Y

0.2 -200 60

0.2 40 30

0.2 200 10

0.4 250 20

a) (4 pts) Find the expected values of E(X) and E(Y).

b) (4 pts) Find the covariance 𝜎𝑥𝑦

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