Model AM025 Session 2022/2023 Kolej Matrikulasi Kedah

SECTION A [45 marks]

1. Vehicles pass through a junction on a busy road at an average rate of 300 per hour.
(a) Find the probability that none passes in a given minute. [3 marks]
(b) What is the expected number passing in two minutes? [1 marks]
(c) Find the probability that this expected number actually pass through in a given two-
minute period. [2 marks]

2. Given that X ~ N   ,  2  . If P  X  32   0.0228 and P  X  45  0.1056 , find the

values of  and  . [11 marks]

3. The glucose level of six patients of various ages are given in the following table.

Patient A B C D E F
Age (x) 43 21 25 42 57 59
Glucose Level (y) 9.9 6.5 7.9 7.5 8.7 8.1
(a) Find the value of the correlation coefficient and interpret its value. [5 marks]
(b) Find the coefficient of determination and interpret its value. [3 marks]

SECTION B [75 marks]

1. In a district, it is known that 45% of the days in December of a year are rainy days. A
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study has shown that on a rainy day, the probability that a car accident will occur is .
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If it is not a rainy day, the probability that no car accident will occur is .
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(a) Sketch a tree diagram for the above data. [3 marks]
(b) Find the probability that a car accident will occur on a day in December in the
district. [2 marks]
(c) If a car accident occurred on a day in December, calculate the probability that it is
a rainy day in the district. [2 marks]

2. Hotels H and K offer Deluxe and Superior rooms for a group of 200 tourists. A total of
90 tourists stayed in Hotel H where 70 of them are placed in Deluxe rooms. Of the
tourists who stayed in Hotel K, 60 are placed in Superior rooms. A tourist is picked at
random form the group of tourists.

(a) Calculate the probability that the tourist

(i) stayed in a Deluxe room in Hotel H or a Superior room in Hotel K. [3 marks]
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(ii) stayed in a Deluxe room if he stayed in Hotel K. [3 marks]

(iii) stayed in Hotel H if he stayed in a Superior room. [3 marks]
(b) Are the event Hotel H and Superior room independent? Are they mutually
exclusive? Give the explanations. [4 marks]

3. The number of complaints received a week is a discrete random variable X with the
following probability distribution.

x 0 1 2 3 4 5

P  X  x 0.03 m 0.1 3m 0.27 0.2

Find the value of m. Hence find [3 marks]

(a) The probability that there are less than 3 complaints received. [2 marks]
(b) the probability that at most a complaint received. [2 marks]
(c) the probability between 2 and 5 complaints received. [2 marks]

4. (a) If X ~ B  n, 0.45 and  2  2.475 , find

(i) the value of n [3 marks]

(ii) P  X  3 [2 marks]
(ii) P  X  4 [2 marks]

(b) Of all the pupils in a particular school, 60% go to school by bus. In a random
sample of 40 students, calculate
(i) the mean number of pupils that go to school by bus. [3 marks]
(ii) the probability that more than 15 pupils go to school by bus. [4 marks]

5. An air-conditioner manufacturer launches a new model of energy-saving air-conditioner.

The life span of its air compressor is normally distributed with a mean of 5 years and a
standard deviation of 2 years.
(a) find the probability that air-conditioner compressor will last not more than 7 years.
[4 marks]
(b) The manufacturer guarantees to replace the air-conditioner compressors that last
lest than m years. If the manufacturer replaces 10% of the air-conditioner
compressor sold, calculate the value of m. [5 marks]
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6. A farm produces eggs. The farmer claims that 60% of the eggs weight more than 64
grams. A random sample of 1 000 eggs is taken.

(a) Use a normal approximation to estimate the probability that more than 550 and
less than 600 eggs weigh more than 64 grams. [5 marks]

(b) If the probability that the eggs weight is less than t grams is 0.97, determine the
value of t. [5 marks]

7. A biologist assumes that there is a linear relationship between the amount of fertilizer
supplied to tomato plants and the subsequent yield of tomatoes obtained.
Eight tomato plants, of the same variety, were selected at random and treated weekly with
a solution in which x grams of fertilizer was dissolved in a fixed quantity of water. The
yield, y kilograms of tomatoes was recorded.
Plant A B C D E F G H
x 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5
y 3.9 4.4 5.8 6.6 7.0 7.1 7.3 7,7

(a) Find the equation of regression line of ŷ  a  bx and interpret the value of b.
[7 mark]
(b) Use your equation to predict the yield of plant treated weekly as much fertilizer;
(i) 3.2 grams [2 marks]
(ii) 20 grams [2 marks]

(c) Comment on the realibility of the result obtain in (b) (ii). [2 marks]
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SUGGESTED ANSWER
SECTION A
1. (a) 0.00674 (b) 10
(c) 0.1251

2.   4   40

3. (a) 0.5298 (b) 0.2807

SECTION B

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1. (a) DIY (b)
100
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(c)
37
13 5
2. (a) (i) (ii)
20 11
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(iii)
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(b) not independent, not mutually exclusive

3. m  0.1
(a) 0.23 (b) 0.13
(c) 0.57

4. (a) (i) n  10 (ii) 0.1665

(iii) 0.2660
(b) (i) 24 (ii) 0.9966

5. (a) 0.8413 (b) m  2.44

6. (a) 0.3811 (b) t  630

7. (a) yˆ  3.252  1.081x

(b) (i) 6.711 grams (ii) 24.852 grams
(c) not reliable - beyond the range of the data.