Revision Exercise

Question 1

Table below showed the amount of suspended solids (parts per million) in a sample of river
water over 40 days.

Amount of suspended Frequency

solids
1 - 10 4
11 - 20 10
21 - 30 9
31 - 40 8
41 - 50 9

(a) Calculate the

(i) mean
(3
marks)
(ii) median
(4
marks)
(iii) mode
(4
marks)
(iv) standard deviation.

(4 marks)
(v) value of x such that 10% of the amount of suspended solids less than x
parts per million.
(3 marks)

(b) Comment on the skewness of the distribution with reason.

(2
marks)

(Total: 20 marks)

Question 2

(a) A is an event independent of B , and such that P( A )=0. 4 and P ( A∪B )=0 .7 .
Calculate
(i) P (B)
 (3 marks)
(ii) P ( A∩B )
(3 marks)
(iii) P ( A|B )
(3 marks)

(b) The employees of the production line in a factory have to meet a predetermined monthly
production quota. 55% of the employees attended the training in operating the machine
and 80% of them are able to meet the quota. Only 60% for those who have not attend the
training able to meet the monthly production quota.
Given that an employee failed to meet the quota, calculate the probability that he has
attended the training.
(5 marks)

(c) Electronic components were sampled for quality control inspection and found that 10%
of them are defective.
Calculate the probabilities of following situations.

(i) All three components are defective.

(2 marks)
(ii) Three of four components are defective.
(4 marks)

(Total: 20 marks)

Question 3

(a) The discrete random variable X has the given probability distribution.

x 1 2 3 4 5
P( X= x) a 0.2 0.35 0.05 0.15

Calculate
(i) the value a.
(2 marks)
(ii) P (2≤X <5 )
(2 marks)
(iii) the mode
(1 marks)
(iv) the mean
(2 marks)

(b) The distance traveled by a hybrid car on 10 liters of fuel is normally distributed with a
mean of 120 kilometers and a standard deviation of 10 kilometers.
Calculate the probability of a car that travels
 (i) at least 90 kilometers,
(4 marks)
(ii) between 110 and 130 kilometers.
(5 marks)

(c) It is known that 1.5 flaws were detected for every millimeter of a copper wire. Calculate
the probability that less than 3 flaws were detected in a 5 millimeter length of wire.

(4 marks)
(Total: 20 marks)

Question 4

(a) An experiment was conducted to compare the maximum load capacity in tons for a steel
product produced by two different alloys A and B. Both alloys are having the same
variance of load capacity at 6 tons. A sample of 35 steel products from alloy A yield the
mean of 46.4 and 30 samples from alloy B yield the mean of 44.5 tons.

(i) Construct a 90% confidence interval for the difference mean load capacity of
alloys.
(5 marks)
(ii) Test, at the 10% significance level, that alloy A is stronger than alloy B.
(9 marks)

(b) A random sample of 12 diameter measurements of cylindrical metal pieces were recorded
during the production of a certain day. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the
variance diameter for the below readings.
1.02, 0.98, 1.04, 1.03, 0.96, 0.97, 0.98, 1.00, 1.02, 1.01, 0.99, 0.98
(6 marks)

(Total: 20 marks)

Question 5

A study was carried out on the effect of the temperature, T, in degrees of a particular day
on the power demand, D, with scale from 0 to 10, by an electrical engineer. Ten
observations were taken as follows.

D 3.5 0.6 0.8 4.2 5.2 8.1 1.8 2.9 3.3 6.8
T 45 56 34 65 52 72 6 91 80 41

(a) Form the equation of the estimated regression line T on D.

(10 marks)
(b) Calculate the coefficient of determination for the data and interpret the calculated value.
 (8 marks)
(c) Estimate the temperature when the demand power is 8.4, and comment on the value
found.
(2 marks)

(Total: 20 marks)