NYADIRE HIGH SCHOOL INTERNAL EXAMINATIONS

General Certificate of Education

Advanced Subsidiary Level and Advanced Level

MATHEMATICS (Upper Six) 9164/41

Paper 4 Statistics & Mechanics
March 2017
3 hours
Additional Materials: Answer Booklet/Paper
Graph Paper
List of Formulae
Electronic calculator

READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST

If you have been given an Answer Booklet, follow the instructions on the front cover of the Booklet.
Write your Name, form and class on all the work you hand in.
Write in black pen.

Answer all questions.

Give non-exact numerical answers correct to 2 significant figures, or nearest degree in the case of angles in
degrees, unless a different level of accuracy is specified in the question.

If a numerical value for g is necessary, take g = 9.81 ms– 2

The use of an electronic calculator is expected, where appropriate.

You are reminded of the need for clear presentation in your answers.

At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together.
The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question.
The total number of marks for this paper is 120.

Questions are printed in the order of their mark allocations and candidates are advised to attempt questions
sequentially.

This document consists of 5 printed pages and 1 blank page.

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Section A: Statistics

1 The random variable X has a probability density function given by

2𝑥 𝑘 , 0≤𝑥<1
𝑓(𝑥) = { where 𝑘 is an integer.
0, otherwise

Find the

(a) value of k, [2]

(b) expected value of X. [2]

2 The marks obtained by candidates in an examination, marked out of 100, are given in the table.

mark ≤ 44 45 – 54 55 – 59 60 – 74 ≥ 75
frequency 90 70 75 45 25

(a) The height of the bar of a histogram of the class 55 – 59 is 15.

Calculate the heights of the other bars of the histogram. [3]

(b) Hence construct a histogram to represent this data. [2]

3 In a national election of a country, 65 % of the voters population support Party A, 30 % support Party
B and 5 % support Party C. A referendum in the same country on an issue is to be decided by a “Yes”
or a “No” vote. A survey carried out indicates that 48 % of the voters population would vote “Yes”.

(a) Find the probability that a voter votes “No” and supports Party A. [2]

(b) Given that a voter voted “No”, calculate the probability that the voter is from Party A. [3]

4 The probability that a learner passes a driving test is 0.24. Ten learners from a driving school took the
test.

(a) Calculate the probability that

(i) exactly three learners pass the test, [3]

(ii) more than eight learners fail the test. [3]

(b) Another driving school sent 45 learners for the test.

Calculate the probability that at most 18 learners passed the driving test. [4]

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5 Soft drinks are sold in 2 types of bottles, king size and family size. The contents in the bottles are
assumed to be Normally distributed. The contents of the family size bottles have a mean of 505 ml and
variance 94. Contents in a king size bottle have a mean of 298 ml and variance 14.

Find the probability that

(a) five randomly chosen king size bottles have total contents less than 1.5 litres. [3]

(b) five randomly chosen king size bottles have total contents less than those of three randomly chosen
family size bottles. [4]

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(c) the contents of a randomly chosen king size is less than 5 of that of a randomly chosen family size
bottle. [4]

6 The salary $ x, earned by a random sample of 100 workers at an institution gave the following results:

∑ 𝑥 = 23 200 ∑ 𝑥 2 = 5 402 300

(a) Calculate the unbiased estimate of the

(i) mean salary, [1]

(ii) variance. [2]

(b) (i) Determine a 95 % confidence interval for the mean salary. [3]

(ii) It is required to have a 95 % confidence interval with a total width of less than 7.
Find the least number of workers who should be taken to achieve this. [5]

7 The number of births that occur at a clinic can be modelled by a Poisson distribution with a standard
deviation of 3 births per given week. Find

(a) the probability that there will be exactly 10 births in a given week, [3]

(b) the probability that there are no births during 3 consecutive weeks, [3]

(c) the smallest integer n such that the probability of more than n births occurring in a week is less
than 0.912. [5]

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8 Ten women were asked their ages and the amount of money they spent on jewellery each year.
The results are shown in the table.

age (x 18 20 19 30 25 40 35 32 36 38
years)
amount 200 120 180 100 125 50 100 90 100 60
spend $ y

(a) Draw a scatter diagram to illustrate the above information. [2]

(b) (i) Find the regression line y on x. [3]

(ii) Fit in the regression line on the scatter diagram and use it to estimate the amount spent on
jewellery by a 28 year old woman. [3]

(c) Calculate the product moment correlation co-efficient and comment on it. [4]

9 A genetics engineer was attempting to cross a tiger and a cheetah. A phenotypic outcome of the traits
will follow the ratio 4 stripes only: 3 spots only: 9 both stripes and spots, that is the phenotypic ratio.
When the cross was performed, she counted the individuals and found 50 with stripes only, 41 with
spots only and 85 with both.

Test at 5 % level of significance whether the results follow the phenotypic ratio. [13]

10 The mass of a standard loaf of bread is known to follow a Normal distribution with mean of 0.75 kg.
Customers complained that the loaf of bread being sold by a certain bakery was underweight. To test
this claim, a sample of 16 loaves was taken and the mass x kg of each loaf was measured. The results
are summarised below:

∑ 𝑥 = 11.232 ∑ 𝑥 2 = 18.4

(a) Test at 5 % level of significance whether the loaves were indeed underweight. [9]

(b) Assuming that the standard deviation of a standard loaf of bread is known to be 0.02 kg.

Test the same claim at 5 % level of significance. [5]

11 The number of computer system breakdowns per month at a University were observed over a period of
100 months and summarised in the table below.

Breakdowns (X) 0 1 2 3 4 5 or more

Frequency 15 25 30 21 9 0

Test the hypothesis that X has a Poisson distribution. [12]

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Section B: Mechanics

12 A block of weight 20 N is held at rest on a smooth plane inclined at 45° to the horizontal by a force of
magnitude P N.

Find the value of P if it is

(i) parallel to the plane, [2]

(ii) applied horizontally. [2]

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A particle of mass 2 kg is held in equilibrium by two light inextensible strings PQ and PR which make
angles of 30° and 35° respectively with the horizontal (see diagram).

Find the tensions T1 and T2 in the strings. [4]

14 A particle of mass 8 kg rests on a rough plane inclined at 30° to the horizontal and is about to slip.

1
Show that the coefficient of friction between the plane and particle is . [4]
√3

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