Section A [45 marks]

Answer all questions in this section.

1. The lengths of the sixty songs recorded by a group of singers are shown in the following table:
Length of a song in
seconds (x)
Number of songs
120 0 x 1
180 120 x 9
240 180 x 15
300 240 x 17
360 300 x 13
600 360 x 5

(a) Display the data in a histogram. [4 marks]
(b) Determine the mean length of a songs. [2 marks]
(c) Determine the standard deviation of the length of the songs. [2 marks]


2. The events A and B are such that P(A|B) = 0.5, P(B|A)=0.25, ) ( P B A =0.1
(a) Calculate the value of P(B). [2 marks]
(b) Give a reason why A and B are not independent. [1 mark ]
(c) Calculate the value of ) ' ( P B A [3 marks]


3. Let Pearsons correlation coefficient between variables x and y for a random sample be r.
(a) (i) What does r measure? [1 mark ]
(ii) State the range of possible values of r and what it means when r = 1 [2 marks]
(b) A sample of 8 data point are summarized as follows.
423 x

, 470 y

,
2
24479 x

,
2
29450 y

and 26520 xy

Calculate the Pearsons correlation coefficient and comment on your answer. [3 marks]


4. A discrete random variable X has the probability distribution as follows:
X 0 2 5 n 12
P(X = x) p 0.25 2p 0.3 0..15
where p is a constant.

(a) Find the value of p. [2 marks]
(b) The value of n, given that E(X) = 5.7 [2 marks]
(c) Calculate the variance of X. [3 marks]


5. The following data shows the number of tourist (000) in the years 2011, 2012 and 2013
Year Quarter 1 Quarter 2 Quarter 3 Quarter 4
2011 22 12 110 31
2012 21 26 150 70
2013 50 36 146 110

(a) Find the four-quarter centred moving average for the time series. [2 marks]
(b) Calculate the seasonal variation using an additive model. [3 marks]
(c) Use this model to predict number of tourist for the first quarter of the year 2014.
[5 marks]

6. The table below shows the unit price and the quantities of several daily food bought by a family
for month of January and July.

Food January July
Prices (RM/kg) Quantity (kg) Prices (RM/kg) Quantity (kg)
Rice 2.50 20 3.00 10
Meat 10.00 10 12.00 8
Fruit 6.00 10 a 9
Fish 12.00 15 14.00 10
Vegetable 5.00 5 6.00 4

(a) If the simple aggregate price index increases by 20% from January to July,
determine the value of a. [2 marks]
(b) Calculate the Laspeyres price index, and comment on your answer. [3 marks]
(c) Calculate the Paasche quantity index, and comment on your answer. [3 marks]


Section B [15 marks]
Answer any one question in this section.

7. In an accountancy examination, 70% of the students pass the examination.
(a) If 10 students were selected at random, find
(i) the probability that exactly 5 students pass.
(ii) the probability that at least two students pass.
(iii) the expected number of students not pass.
(iv) how many of them are most likely to pass. [9 marks]
(b) Calculate the least number of students needed to selected at random in order that the
probability of getting at least one students pass is greater than 99%. [3 marks]
(c) If there are 150 students take the examination, calculate the probability that more than 50
students pass the examination. [3 marks]


8. An advertising firm conducted a survey on television viewing habits for boys and girls. The table
below shows the number of hours per week spent watching television by 20 boys and 18 girls.
Boys Girls
35 35 36 38 45 16 48 31
34 34 45 30 47 24 50 32
29 39 40 40 40 48 34 42
26 40 31 35 40 34 40 44
47 43 36 35 25 8
(a) Construct a suitable stemplot for the above data set. [3 marks]
(b) Comment on the skewness of the two distributions. [2 marks]
(c) Find the interquartile range of the two distributions. [3 marks]
(d) Calculate the mean and the standard deviation of the number of hours spent watching
television for each gentle. [6 marks]
(e) Compare the dispersion of the two distributios. [1 mark ]



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