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2015-3-PAH
Section A [ 45 marks ]
Answer all questions in this section .
1. The 19 employees of a company take an aptitude test. The scores out of 40 are illustrated
in the stem and leaf diagram below.
Scores
0
1
2
3
4

7
8
4
2
0

8
4 6 8
3 3 3 4 5 9
0 0 0 0

(1)
(2)
(4)
(7)
(5)
2 6 means 26

Find
(a) the median score,

[1 mark]

(b) the interquartile range.

[3 marks]

(c) The company director decides that any employees whose scores are so low that they are
outliers will undergo retraining. An outlier is an observation whose value is less than the
lower quartile minus 1.5 times the interquartile range.
Determine the number of employee(s) who will undergo retraining.
[2 marks]
2. On a randomly chosen day the probability that Boon travels to school by car, by bicycle or
1 1
1
,
and
respectively. The probability of being late when using these
2 6
3
1 2
1
methods of travel is
,
and
respectively.
5 5
10

on foot is

(a) Draw a tree diagram to represent this information.

[3 marks]

(b) Find the probability that on a randomly chosen day

(i) Boon travels by foot and is late,
(ii) Boon is not late.

[4 marks]

5
.
6
[4 marks]

(c) Given that Boon is late, show that the probability that he did not travel on foot is

3.The number of customers entering a shop per minute follows a Poisson distribution with
mean 1.2. It is given that the probability that a customer entering the shop is female is 0.6.

(a) If 4 customers enter the shop in 1 minute, find the probability that exactly 2 of them
are female customers.
[2 marks]
(b) Show that the probability that 4 customers enter the shop in 1 minute, and the numbers of
male customers and female customers are different is 0.017 0 (correct to three significant
figures).
[3 marks]
4.The allowance that all teenagers receive is known to be normally distributed.
100 teenagers were asked to indicate the allowance they received a week from their parents.
The results are in the table below .

Weekly allowance (RM)

Frequency

0 x < 10
5

10 x < 20
18

20 x < 30 30 x < 40
39
28

40 x < 50
10

(a) Find an unbiased estimate of the variance of the weekly allowance that all teenagers
receive.
[2 marks]
(b) Find a 95% confidence interval for the mean weekly allowance that all teenagers receive.
[4 marks]
5.A pharmaceutical company claimed that a course of its vitamin tablets would improve
examination performance. To publicise its claim, the company offered to provide the tablets
free to candidates taking a particular STPM examination. This offer was taken up by some
but not all of the candidates . The average mark in the examination for all candidates from
those who did not take the course or vitamin tablets was 42 and with a standard deviation of
12.8.
A random sample of 120 candidates from those who had taken the course of vitamin tablets
gave a mean mark of 43.8

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(a) Why was it not necessary to know that the examination marks were normally distributed
before carrying out the test ? Determine the distribution of the sample mean.
[2 marks]
(b) Test the pharmaceutical companys claim , at the 5% significance level.[6 marks]
6. A firm producing mugs has a quality control scheme in which a random sample of 5 mugs
from each batch is inspected . The number of defective mugs in each sample is given in the
table.
Number of defective mugs
0
1
2
3
4
5
Number of samples
5
13
15
12
4
1
Test at the 5% level of significance , whether or not the binomial distribution with
parameters n = 5 and p = 0.3 is an adequate model for these data.
[9 marks]

Section B [ 15 marks ]
Answer one question only in this section .
7. The continuous random variable X has cumulative distribution function
0,
x 0,
1 2
2
F( x) 3 x (4 x ) , 0 x 1,
1
x 1.

(a) Find P(X > 0.7).

[2 marks]
(b) Find the probability density function f(x) of X.

[2 marks]

(c) Calculate E(X) and show that, to 3 significant figures, Var (X) = 0.0573.
[6 marks]
(d) One measure of skewness is
Mean Mode
Standard deviation

Solve
, hence evaluate the skewness of the distribution of X.
Comment on the result
marks]
8. Forty three of n randomly selected houses in a housing area are found to have
installed CCTVs. A symmetric k % confidence interval for the proportion of houses with
CCTVs is ( 0.0654 , 0.1066 ) . Given that n > 30 .
(a) Determine the distribution of the sample proportion.

[2 marks]

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(b) Determine the value of n .

[3 marks]

(c) Show that k 90 .

[6 marks]

(d) Estimate the size of the required random sample so that a symmetric 90% confidence
interval has a width of 0.014.
[4 marks]