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TRIAL EXAMINATION 2016
MALAYSIA HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATE
Instructions to candidates:
DO NOT OPEN THIS QUESTION PAPER UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO.
Answer all questions in Section A.
Answer one question only in Section B. You may answer all the questios but, only the first
answer will be marked.
Write the answers in the answer sheets provided. Begin each answer on a fresh answer sheet.
All working should be shown.
Non-exact numerical answers may be given correct to three significant figures, or one decimal
place in the case of angles in degrees, unless a different level of accuracy is specified in the question.
Answers may be written in either English or Bahasa Malaysia.

Prepared by:

Checked by:

Approved by:

Loo Siaw Choon

Subject teacher

Sii Ai Sian
Academic Coordinator

Fu Yung Yung
6th Form Senior Assistant

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Section A [45 marks]
Answer all questions in this section.

1.

The amount of sales for 30 days in a supermarket are summarised by

x x

x 63000

and

59000

x
x
, where
denotes the mean sales for 30 days. Calculate
and the
standard deviation of the sales for 30 days.
[5 marks]

2.

3.

Astro Learning Package is an education televeision for participating schools equipped with
Astro satellite dish. A survey show that 38% of all schools in Malaysia subscribe for Astro
Learning Package. However, 5% of these subcribers never use the broadcast, while 15% use
more than 5 times per week. Find the probability that a random selected school
(a)
subscribes Astro Learning Package and never use the broadcast.
[3 marks]
(b)
subscribes Astro Learning Package and uses the broadcasts more than 5 times a week.
[3 marks]

The continuous random variable x has cumulative distribution function

below
0,
x0

ax b, 0 x 3

F x
1
cx 8 , 3 x 6
d,
x6

(a)

Calculate the values a, b, c and d.

(b)

Find the probability density function

f x
Sketch the graphs of
.

(c)

4.

f x

F x

is as given

[4 marks]
.

[3 marks]
[2 marks]

A survey was conducted among 400 police officers. It is found that 60 of them are obese.
(a)
Obtain a 98% confidence interval for the propotion of police officer who are obese.
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(b)

Determine the smallest sample size which should be surveyed so that the error of
estimation is not more than 0.03 at the 90% confidence level.
[3 marks]

5.

A horticulturist chooses a random sample of 100 bean plants and measures the total crop
weight, x kg, of each plant. The results are summarized as follows:
x 282.6 x 2 1016.8
and
Find the unbiased estimates of the population mean and variance of crop weight per plant.
[3 marks]
The holticulturist wishes to test the null hypothesis that the mean crop weight per plant is 3 kg
against the alternative hypothesis that the crop weight plant is less than 3 kg. Carry out the
test at 10% level of significance.
[4 marks]
Find the largest level of significance at which the test would result in rejection of the null
hypothesis.
[3 marks]

6.

Swatch plans to design a new watch and conducts a survey on people preferences with colour
of the watchband. Swatch wants to survey whether all four colours of the watchband are
equally preferred or people have special preferences with certain colour of the watchband. A
random sample of 80 prospective watch buyers is selected. Each person is shown the watch
with 4 different band colours and asked to state his or her preferences. The table below shows
the result of the survey.
Red

Yellow

Green

Blue

Total

12

40

20

80

If the null hypothesis is the four colours of the watchband are equally preferred, write down
the expected values in the last row of the table above. Calculate the chi-squared statistics
given by
4

Oi Ei 2

i 1

Ei

Test the null hypothesis against the alternative hypothesis that not all four colours of the
watchband are equally preferred.
[8 marks]
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Section B [15 marks]

Answer one question only in this section.
7.

The histogram shows the time, in hours, and the frequency density by a group of Form 6
students doing community service.
(a) Copy and complete the following frequency table.
Time (t)

5 10

10 14

14 18

Frequency

10

16

24

18 25

25 40

[2 marks]
(b) Estimate the number of students who do more than 20 hours of community service.
[3 marks]
(c) Find an estimate of the mean and standard deviation of the data.
[5 marks]
(d) Find the median and the quartiles of the data.
[3 marks]
3 (mean median)
.
standard deviation
(e) One measure of skewness is found using
Evaluate this
measurement and describe the skewness.
[2 marks]
8.

A health survey is made on daily calcium intake and osteoporosis for senior citizens in
Kuching.
(a)
It is known that the daily clacium intake per person has a mean of 1100 mg and a
standard deviation of 450 mg. For a random sample of 50 senior citizens,
(i)
determine the distribution og the sample mean.
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(ii)

(b)

find the probability that the mean daily calcium intake lies between 970 mg
and 1230 mg.
[4 marks]
(iii) State the effect on the probability in (a)(ii) if the sample size is increased and
justify your answer.
[2 marks]
It is estimated that 64% of the senior citizens have osteoporosis. If a sample of 125
senior citizens are selected at random,
(i)
determine the distribution of the sample proportion,
[3 marks]
(ii)
find the probability that at least 70% of them have osteoporosis.
[3 marks]
MATHEMATICAL FORMULAE

Summary statistics
For ungrouped data
x r x r 1
,

th

k percentile =

x r ,

k
n is an integer
100
k
n is not an integer
100

if r

if r

x x

x2

Standard deviation
For grouped data

kth percentile =

k
100 n F

c
Lk
fk

Standard deviation

f x x
f

fx
f

x2

Probability distributions
Binomial distribution
n x
n x
p 1 p , x 0, 1, 2,..., n
x

P X x
Poisson distribution

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e x
P X x
, x 0, 1, 2,...
x!

Chi-squared tests
Test statistic
k

i 1

Oi

Ei
Ei

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