Sample Final Exam - BMTH202

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TRUE/FALSE.  Write ʹTʹ if the statement is true and ʹFʹ if the statement is false.

1) Non-stop Airlines determined that the mean number of passengers per flight is 152 with 1)
a standard deviation of 10 passengers. Practically all flights have between 142 and 162
passengers.

MULTIPLE CHOICE.  Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.

2) The time to fly between New York City and Chicago is uniformly distributed with a 2)
minimum of 120 minutes and a maximum of 150 minutes. What is the distribution's
mean?
A) 150 minutes B) 120 minutes C) 135 minutes D) 270 minutes

3) The time to fly between New York City and Chicago is uniformly distributed with a 3)
minimum of 120 minutes and a maximum of 150 minutes. What is the probability that a
flight is between 125 and 140 minutes?
A) 0.50 B) 1.00 C) 0.33 D) 10.00

4) The mean amount spent by a family of four on food is $500 per month with a standard 4)
deviation of $75. Assuming that the food costs are normally distributed, what is the
probability that a family spends less than $410 per month?
A) 0.1151 B) 0.2158 C) 0.8750 D) 0.0362

5) The mean score of a college entrance test is 500; the standard deviation is 75. The scores 5)
are normally distributed. What percent of the students scored below 320?
A) About 34.13% B) About 7.86%
C) About 0.82% D) About 50.82%

6) Suppose we select every fifth invoice in a file. What type of sampling is this? 6)
A) Systematic B) Random C) Stratified D) Cluster

7) When dividing a population into subgroups so that a random sample from each subgroup 7)
can be collected, what type of sampling is used?
A) Systematic sampling B) Cluster sampling
C) Simple random sampling D) Stratified random sampling

8) For a distribution of sample means constructed by sampling 5 items from a population of 8)

15, ________.
A) The mean of the sample means will be 3
B) The sample size is 15
C) There will be 3,003 possible sample means
D) The standard error will be 1

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 9) The wildlife department has been feeding a special food to rainbow trout fingerlings in a 9)
pond. Based on a large number of observations, the distribution of trout weights is
normally distributed with a mean of 402.7 grams and a standard deviation 8.8 grams.
What is the probability that the mean weight for a sample of 40 trout exceeds 405.5
grams?
A) 0.3782 B) 0.0222 C) 0.5 D) 1.0

SHORT ANSWER.  Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question.

10) A population consists of the following five values: 3, 8, 11, 13, and 16. Find all 10)
sample of szie 3, then find the mean of each sample and the mean of all samples.
Compare the last one with the population mean.

MULTIPLE CHOICE.  Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.

11) The mean number of travel days per year for salespeople employed by three hardware 11)
distributors needs to be estimated with a 0.90 degree of confidence. For a small pilot
study, the mean was 150 days and the standard deviation was 14 days. If the population
mean is estimated within two days, how many salespeople should be sampled?
A) 452 B) 2,100 C) 511 D) 133

12) There are 2,000 eligible voters in a precinct. A total of 500 voters are randomly selected 12)
and asked whether they plan to vote for the Democratic incumbent or the Republican
challenger. Of the 500 surveyed, 350 said they would vote for the Democratic
incumbent. Using the 0.99 confidence coefficient, what are the confidence limits for the
proportion that plan to vote for the Democratic incumbent?
A) 0.612 and 0.712 B) 0.826 and 0.926
C) 0.647 and 0.753 D) 0.397 and 0.797

13) Mileage tests were conducted on a randomly selected sample of 100 newly developed 13)
automobile tires. The results showed that the mean tread life was 50,000 miles, with a
standard deviation of 3,500 miles. What is the best estimate of the mean tread life in
miles for the entire population of these tires?
A) 50,000 B) 35 C) 500 D) 3,500

14) A random sample of 85 supervisors revealed that they worked an average of 6.5 years 14)
before being promoted. The population standard deviation was 1.7 years. Using the 0.95
degree of confidence, what is the confidence interval for the population mean?
A) 4.15 and 7.15 B) 6.99 and 7.99 C) 6.49 and 7.49 D) 6.14 and 6.86

15) A random sample of 42 college graduates revealed that they worked an average of 5.5 15)
years on the job before being promoted. The sample standard deviation was 1.1 years.
Using the 0.99 degree of confidence, what is the confidence interval for the population
mean?
A) 5.04 and 5.96 B) 2.67 and 8.33 C) 4.40 and 6.60 D) 5.06 and 5.94

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16) To test the hypothesis that 55% of those families who plan to purchase a vacation 16)
residence in Florida want a condominium, the null hypothesis is π = 0.55 and the
alternate is π ≠ .55. A random sample of 400 families who planned to buy a vacation
residence revealed that 228 families want a condominium. What decision should be made
regarding the null hypothesis using the 0.01 level of significance?
A) Cannot accept it or reject it based on the information given.
B) Do not reject it.
C) Purchase a condominium.
D) Reject it.

17) The mean length of a candy bar is 43 millimeters. There is concern that the settings of 17)
the machine cutting the bars have changed. Test the claim at the 0.02 level that there has
been no change in the mean length. The alternate hypothesis is that there has been a
change. Twelve bars (n = 12) were selected at random and their lengths recorded. The
lengths are (in millimeters) 42, 39, 42, 45, 43, 40, 39, 41, 40, 42, 43, and 42. The mean
of the sample is 41.5 and the standard deviation is 1.784. Computed t = -2.913. Has there
been a statistically significant change in the mean length of the bars?
A) Yes, because the computed t lies in the rejection region.
B) Yes, because 43 is greater than 41.5.
C) No, because the information given is not complete.
D) No, because the computed t lies in the area to the right of -2.718.

18) A machine is set to fill the small-size packages of M&M candies with 56 candies per 18)
bag. A sample revealed: three bags of 56, two bags of 57, one bag of 55, and two bags of
58. To test the hypothesis that the mean candies per bag is 56, how many degrees of
freedom are there?
A) 7 B) 8 C) 1 D) 9

19) Using a 5% level of significance and a sample size of 25, what is the critical t value for a 19)
null hypothesis, H0: µ ≤ 100?
A) 2.060 B) 2.064 C) 1.708 D) 1.711

20) The claim that "40% of those persons who retired from an industrial job before the age 20)
of 60 would return to work if a suitable job was available" is to be investigated at the
0.02 significance level. If 74 out of the 200 workers sampled said they would return to
work, what is our decision?
A) Do not reject the null hypothesis because -0.879 lies in the region between +2.326
and -2.326.
B) Reject the null hypothesis because 37% is less than 40%.
C) Do not reject the null hypothesis because -0.879 lies in the region between +2.5760
and -2.576.
D) Do not reject the null hypothesis because 37% lies in the area between 0% and
40%.

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 21) If the decision is to reject the null hypothesis of no difference between two population 21)
proportions at the 5% level of significance, what are the alternative hypothesis and
rejection region?
A) H 1: π 1 ≠ π2; z > +1.960 and z < -1.960
B) H 1: π 1 > π2; z < -1.960
C) H 1: π 1 ≠ π2; z > +1.645 and z < -1.645
D) H 1: π 1 > π2; z < -1.645

TRUE/FALSE.  Write ʹTʹ if the statement is true and ʹFʹ if the statement is false.

22) A statistics professor wants to compare grades in two different classes of the same 22)
course. This is an example of a paired sample.

MULTIPLE CHOICE.  Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.

23) A recent study focused on the number of times men and women send a Twitter message in 23)
a day. The sample information is summarized below.

At the .01 significance level, is there a difference in the mean number of times men and
women send a Twitter message in a day? What is the test statistic for this hypothesis?
A) p-statistic B) df-statistic C) t-statistic D) z-statistic

24) A recent study focused on the number of times men and women send a Twitter message in 24)
a day. The information is summarized next.

At the .01 significance level, is there a difference in the mean number of times men and
women send a Twitter message in a day? What is the value of the test statistic for this
hypothesis test?
A) 2.668 B) 2.58 C) 2.40 D) 2.672

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25) A recent study focused on the number of times men and women send a Twitter message in 25)
a day. The information is summarized next.

At the .01 significance level, is there a difference in the mean number of times men and
women send a Twitter message in a day? What is the p-value for this hypothesis test?
A) 0.0164 B) 0.0082 C) 0.0001 D) 0.0500