1.

State three reasons that may discourage you from using measures of central tendency in
analyzing data.
2. Differentiate between discrete and continuous random variables giving an example in each case.
3. The data below represents marks scored by a student in two units, A and B.

A 23 54 65 36 78 41 25 17 86
B 86 41 42 39 70 62 59 15 10
Can we say that the two units are correlated? Justify your answer.
4. The data below represents the mass of students in a statistics class
35 42 31 56 21 37 50 64 72 80
25 35 40 43 68 36 54 60 40 46
59 48 55 62 48 39 40 40 54 28
a) What is the mode of the data?
b) Create a frequency distribution table with a class width of 5.
c) Use the table to calculate the mean and the standard deviation.
d) Use the table to evaluate the quartile deviation.
e) Use the table to find the difference between the median and the 7 th decile.
5. The probability that a student is left-handed in a class of 50 students is 30%.
a) What is the probability that no student is left-handed?
b) What is the probability that more than two students are left-handed?
c) What is the probability that those that are left-handed are between 10 and 15?
6. The probability mass function of a random variable is given below.

X -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3
P(X=x) a 2a (1/2)a a 3a a 2a
a) Find the value of a.
b) Evaluate the mean and standard deviation of X
7. A random variable X has a p.d.f. defined by

{
1 −2 x
e , for x >0
f ( x )= t
0 , otherwise
a) Find the value of t.
b) Evaluate E[x]
c) Calculate the standard deviation of x.
8. The rate at which oil drops trip on an oil leakage is 3 drops pe minute.
a) What is the probability that exactly 5 drops will trip in 2 minutes?
b) What is the probability of exactly 10 drops will trip in 1 minute?
c) What is the mean and variance of the number of drops that trip per second?