FCM2063/FDM2063 PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS

CHAPTER 1 REVISION (Tutorial 1)

ACTIVE LEARNING (INDIVIDUAL WORK) HOME WORK

Name : Student ID:

1. The compact discs from a certain supplier are analyzed for scratch and shock
resistance. The results from 100 discs tested are summarized as follows:
Scratch Resistance
High Low
High 30 10
Shock Medium 22 8
Resistance Low 25 5

Let A denote the event that a disc has high shock resistance, and B denote the
event that a disc has high scratch resistance. If sample is selected at random,
determine the following probabilities:

(i) P(A) (ii) P(B) (iii) P(B) (iv) P(AUB)

(v) P(A B) (vi) P(AUB) (vii) P( A B) (viii) P( B A)

2. A box contains 3 black and 4 while balls. Two balls are drawn at random one at
a time without replacement.

(i) What is the probability that a second ball drawn is black?

(ii) What is the conditional probability that first ball drawn is black if the second
ball is known to be black?
3. In a group of 22 players of Malaysia team, only 7 of them are totally fit for the
Sea-game tournament and every person of the remaining 15 players has either
knee injury or flue fever or both. However 8 of the players have knee injuries and
10 have flu fever. Let A be the event of knee injuries and B be the event of flu
fever. If one of them selected randomly from this group, what is the probability
that he has

i. both, knee injury and high flu fever?

ii. knee injury only?
iii. flu fever only?
iv. either knee injury or flu fever?

4. Three machines A, B and C produce identical items and the output of the items,
5%, 4% and 3% are defective respectively. On a certain day, machine A has
produced 25%, machine B has produced 30% and machine C has produced 45%
of the total output.

i. If one item be selected randomly, what is the probability that the item is
defective?
ii. If an item selected at random is found to be defective, what ia the
percentage that it was produced by machine C?

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 FCM2063/FDM2063 PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS
CHAPTER 2_ REVISION (Tutorial 2)

ACTIVE LEARNING (PAIR WORK) HOME WORK

Name : Student ID:

Name : Student ID:

1. The following data are direct solar intensity measurements (watts/m 2) on different
days at a location in southern Spain: 562, 869, 708, 775, 775, 704, 809, 856,
655, 806, 878, 909, 918, 558, 768, 870, 918, 940, 946, 661, 820, 898, 935, 952,
957, 693, 835, 905, 939, 955, 960, 498, 653, 730, 753. Calculate the sample
mean, sample variance and sample standard deviation.

2. The cold start ignition time of an automobile engine is being investigated

by a gasoline manufacturer. The following times (in seconds) were
obtained: 1.99, 3.13, 3.26, 2.65, 0.85, 2.87, 5.96, 2.46, 1.89 and 3.35.

i. Calculate the sample mean, sample variance and sample

standard deviation.
ii. Construct a box-plot of these data and identify the outlier(s) if any.
 3. The average age of the football players on each team of the premier league are as
follows.
29.4 29.8 29.4 31.8 32.7 34.0

28.5 27.9 30.9 29.3 28.8 28.6

29.1 31.0 30.7 30.3 29.7 31.0

28.4 28.9 27.7 28.7 30.5 29.8

26.6 27.9 27.9 29.9 29.3 28.1

i. Construct a stem-and-leaf display for these data;

ii. Find the mode and the mean of the data;
iii. Construct a box-plot for these data and identify the outlier(s) if any.

4. The following data are the joint temperatures of the O-rings (F) for each test
firing or actual launch of the space shuttle rocket motor (from Presidential
Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, Vol. 1, pp. 129131): 84,
49, 61, 40, 83, 67, 45, 66, 70, 69, 80, 58, 68, 60, 67, 72, 73, 70, 57, 63, 70, 78,
52, 67, 53, 67, 75, 61, 70, 81, 76, 79, 75, 76, 58, 31.

i. Calculate the median, the quartiles and the IQR;

ii. Construct a box plot of the data and comment on the possible presence of
outliers.

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