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Final Examination
April 2004
Time: 3 hours
Professor G. Ivanoff
Student Number:
Family Name:
First Name:
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1. Suppose that 10% of the radios produced by a certain factory are defective. An engineer tests a random sample of 250 radios. Approximate
the probability that there are at most 20 defective radios in the sample.
a) 0.7996
b) 0.5
c) 0.1469
d) 0.019
e) 0.2005
b) 15
c) 250
d) 90
e) 10
1 = 2X2 + 2 X2 + 2 X4 + 2 X6 + 2 X8 9 X10
3
3
3 =
a)
3 only
b)
1,
2,
3 and
4
e)
2 and
3
c)
1 ,
2 and
3
d)
4 only
5 =
X5 4 X6
+
5
5
and
6 =
3 X1 X2
+
.
4
4
b)
V ar(
5 ) = 1
V ar(
6 ) = 1
c)
V ar(
5 ) = 34/25
V ar(
6 ) = 5/4
b) 0.5
c) 0.1587
d) 0.8413
e) 0.3173
6. A widget manufacturer has two factories, A and B. 30% of the widgets are made in factory A, and the remainder in B. Suppose that 95%
of the widgets produced by factory A meet specifications while only
85% of the widgets produced by factory B meet specifications. If I buy
a widget made by this manufacturer, what is the probability that it
meets specifications?
a) insufficient information
b) 0.90
c) 0.95
d) 0.85
e) 0.88
b) 0.3239
c) 0.5
d) 0.4325
e) 0.7325
b) = 1.0, 2 = 2.4
d) = 0.5, 2 = 2.15
b) 0.8
c) 0.75
d) 0.55
e) insufficient information
12. Suppose that the requests for service at an information centre follow
a Poisson process with an average of 3 requests per day. What is the
probability that there will be exactly 5 requests in 4 days?
a) 0.0347
b) 0.2573
c) 0.0677
d) 0.1008
e) 0.0127
13. The joint probability mass function of discrete random variables X and
Y is given below:
y
x
1
2
1
1/30
2/30
2
2/30
4/30
3
4/30
5/30
4
3/30
9/30
Find P (X = 2, Y 3)).
a) 0
b) 5/30
c) 14/30
d) 6/30
e) 4/30
14. Using the p.m.f. from problem 13, find the covariance XY .
(a) 0
(b) -1/30
(c) 151/30
(d) 1/30
(e) -151/30
15. Using the p.m.f. from problem 13, find the conditional probability that
Y = 3 if it is known that X = 1 (i.e., find P ({Y = 3}|{X = 1}) ).
(a) 4/30
(b) 9/30
(c) 4/5
(d) 4/10
(e) 9/10
16. Let X and S 2 be the sample mean and sample variance of a random
sample of size 10 from a N(4, 9) distribution. Find a constant c such
that
!
X 4
c = .95
P
S/ 10
(a) 1.833
(b) 1.86
(c) 1.645
(d) 2.262
(e) 1.812
17. Suppose that in problem 16, the true mean is unknown. If we want
to be at least 95% certain that |X | 1, what is the smallest sample
size that we should take?
(a) 34
(b) 25
(c) 35
(d) 24
(e) 10
(c)
= .4404
= .4602
(d)
= .0082
= .0548
19. Consider the situation described in problem 18, but suppose now that
we cannot assume that the variance remains unchanged when the new
procedure is used. The times (in minutes) taken by the 16 workers
yield the following data: x = 29.5, s = 1.2. For a test of H0 : = 30
versus H1 : < 30, find bounds for the p-value of the appropriate test
statistic, and state your conclusion if = .05.
(a) .05 < p < .10, do not reject H0
(c) .025 < p < .05, do not reject H0
(e) none of the preceding
(b)10
(c) 14
(d) 9
21. Let Y denote the grade that a student will obtain in MAT 2377 and
x the students grade in first year calculus. Find the estimated least
squares regression line of Y on x if a sample of 10 students yielded the
following data:
P10
P10
P10 2
P10 2
xi = 810,
yi = 740,
xi = 66222,
i=1
i=1
i=1
i=1 yi = 55366,
P10
i=1 xi yi = 60534
(a) y = .04 + .91x
(d) y = 9.22 + .97x
22. Using the data from question 21, find an estimate of the variance of Y .
(a) 29.82
(b) 2.98
(c) 3.73
(d) 3.31
xi = 28.6,
i=1
UCL = 37.57
LCL = 19.63
UCL = 3.24
(d)
LCL = 2.48
(a)
10
X
ri = 12.3
i=1
UCL = 3.57
LCL = 2.15
UCL = 32.4
(e)
LCL = 24.8
(b)
(c)
UCL = 3.76
LCL = 1.96
24. Using the data in problem 23, estimate the standard deviation of the
tensile strength of a filament.
(a)
= 5.97 (b)
= 5.29
(c)
= 1.31
(d)
= 0.60
(e)
= 0.53
(a)
(a) .999
(b) .729
(b)
(a) .729
(b) .999
(c)
(a) .7
(b) .993
(d)
(a) .9
(b) .1