Term 3: Maths T Final Test 1

Section A 1. The masses (in thousands of kg) of solid waste collected from a town for 25 consecutive days are as follows: 41 53 44 55 48 57 50 38 53 50 43 56 51 48 33 46 55 49 50 52 47 39 51 49 52 a) Construct a stem plot to represent the data. b) Find the median and interquartile range. c) Calculate the mean and standard deviation. d) Draw a boxplot to represent the data. e) Comment on the shape of the distribution and give a reason for your answer. 2. A building has 10000 new 10W-bulbs installed. The probability that each bulb is in good working order after operating 8 hours is 0.9995. Using a poisson distribution, find, correct to four decimal places, a) probability that all the bulbs are in good working order after operating 8 hours. b) the probability that at least 3 bulbs are faulty after operating 8 hours. 3. A and B are two events such that P(A) = , P(B) = , and P(B A) = . Calculate a) P(A B), b) P(A B). 4. A random sample of size 120 is obtained from a normal distribution. The upper limit and lower limit of the 97% confidence interval for the population mean are respectively 8.11 and 8.68. i) Find the sample mean and variance of the normal population. ii) Hence, construct a 95% confidence interval for the population mean, . 5. The mean time to serve a customer at a bank counter was estimated by the management as 12 minutes per customer. A random sample of 150 customers gave and where is the time, in minutes, to serve a customer. a) Calculate the unbiased estimates of the population mean and variance. b) Stating the null and alternative hypotheses, use a 10% significance level to test whether the managements estimated time is consistent with the data. 6. The continuous random variable X has probability density function ( ) { is a constant.

a) Determine the value of b. b) Find the cumulative distribution function of X and sketch its graph. c) Calculate E(X). Section B 7. a) The table shows the number of occasions in a year on which 100 patients had to consult the doctor. no. of 0 1 2 3 4 5 times no. of 48 32 15 3 1 1 patients i) Show that the mean for the number of times a person has to consult the doctor is 0.8. ii) Calculate the poisson frequencies corresponding to this mean. iii) Calculate probability that someone has to consult their doctor more than 3 times in a four years period, stating an assumption made. iv) Use the chi-squared test at 5 % level of significance to determine whether the observed sample show the poisson distribution is an appropriate model. b) The attention span of a certain group of children is known to be normally distributed with mean and standard deviation 1.9. It is required to have a 95% confidence interval for with a total width less than 2.0. Find the least possible number of children needed to achieve this.

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