MTH 157(Elementary Statistics)

Homework #5
Date Posted: 11/09/2015
Date Due: 11/16/2015
Q1. A nationwide study in 2010 indicated that 95% of college
students with cell phones send and receive text messages with
their phones. Suppose a simple random sample of n=1136 of
college students with cell phones is obtained.
(a). Let Phat denote the sample proportion of college students with
cell phones who send and receive text messages. Find the
following.
(i). E(Phat)
(ii). SD(Phat)
(b). What is the sampling distribution model for P hat?(Check with
the rule of thumb np10 and n(1-p)10.
(C).What is the probability that 1065 or fewer college students in
the sample send and receive text messages with their cell
phones?
(d).If you want to reduce SD(Phat) by half, how much larger does
the sample size n needs to be?
Q2. In a recent study of long-term effects of concussions in
football players, researchers at Virginia Tech concluded that
college football players receive a mean of 50 strong blows to head
that average 40G (40 times the force of gravity). Assume the
standard deviation of the number of blows to the head is 16.
Suppose you select a simple random sample of n=60 college
football players and install sensors on their helmets that records
x ,the number of strong blows to the head. Note that since x is a

count, the distribution of x cannot be modeled by a normal

distribution.
(a). Let Xbar denote the sample mean of the number of strong
blows to the head received by the 60 football players. Find the
following
(i). E(Xbar)
(ii). SD(Xbar)
(b). What is the sampling distribution model for (Xbar )? What
important theorem in statistics do you support your claim with?
(c). What is the probability that in a sample of 60 football players
the mean number of strong blows to the head is 45 or less? Would
this be unusual?
Q3. The number of eggs a female house fly lays during her
lifetime is normally distributed with a mean of 800 eggs and a
standard deviation of 100 eggs.
(a). Random sample of size 16 are drawn from this population and
the mean of each sample is determined. Find the mean and
standard error of the sampling distribution.
(b). Random sample of size 36 are drawn from this population and
the mean of each sample is determined. Find the mean and
standard error of the sampling distribution.
(c). Random sample of size 100 are drawn from this population
and the mean of each sample is determined. Find the mean and
standard error of the sampling distribution
(d). Sketch the distributions from part (a), (b) and (c).
Q4. The mean life span of a brand name tire is 50,000 miles.
Assume that the life spans of the tires are normally distributed,
and the population standard deviation is 800 miles.

(a). If you select 100 tires, what is the probability that their mean
life span is less than 50,200 miles?
(b). If you select 100 tires, what is the probability that their mean
life span is greater than 50,200 miles?
(c). ). If you select 100 tires, what is the probability that their
mean life span is between 48,500 miles and 50,200 miles?
Q5. In a 2001, a Gallup poll surveyed 1016 households in the U. S
about their pets. Of those surveyed 599 said they had at least one
dog or cat as a pet.
(a). Find and interpret a 90% CI for the population proportion.
(b). Find and interpret a 95% CI for the population proportion.
(c). Find and interpret a 99% CI for the population proportion.
(d).(i) Find the margin of errors from (a)-(c) and compare them.
(ii). Which interval has the smallest margin of error? and
why?
Q6. Based on a sample of 100 employees a 95% CI is calculated
for the mean age of all employees at a large firm. The interval is
(34.5 years to 47.2 years)
(a). Find the margin of error?
(b). What was the population standard deviation?
(c). What was the sample mean?
(d). If the sample size was increased from 100 to 200 calculate
the new 95% CI.