Exam Stat 201 Practice

THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING :

A company hires management trainees for entry level sales positions. Past experience indicates that only 10% will
still be employed at the end of nine months. Assume the company recently hired six trainees.
1) What is the probability that three of the trainees will still be employed at the end of nine months?
A) 0.0146
B) 0.0446
C) 0.0415
D) 0.0012
2) What is the probability that at least two of the trainees will still be employed at the end of nine
months?
A) 0.1143
B) 0.0159
C) 0.9841
D) 0.0984
3) What is the probability that none of the trainees will still be employed at the end of nine months?
A) 0.3771
B) 0.5314
C) 0.0000
D) 0.4686
4) What is the probability that between one and three (inclusive) of the trainees will still be employed at
the end of nine months?
A) 0.0984
B) 0.3543
C) 0.0146
D) 0.4673
THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING :
A cereal manufacturer produces a cereal that claims to contain 16 ounces in each box. A sample of boxes results in
the following table.
Weight in Ounces
Probability

14
0.10

15
0.30

16
0.40

17
0.20

5) What is the mean weight of the sample of cereal boxes?

A) 16.5
B) 15.5
C) 16.0

D) 15.7

6) What is the standard deviation of the weight of cereal in the boxes?

A) 0.90
B) 0.81
C) 1.19

D) 1.25

THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING :

In an office of 18 people, there are 7 men and 11 women. A subcommittee of four people will be formed from this
group.
7) What is the probability that the subcommittee contains two men and two women?
A) 0.522
B) 0.755
C) 0.261
D) 0.377
8) How many different ways can you select four people from a group of 18?
A) 1,386
B) 1,584
C) 3,060

D) 3,280

THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:

The length of time it takes to be seated at a local restaurant on Friday night is normally distributed with a mean of
15 minutes and a standard deviation of 4.75 minutes.
9) What is the probability that you have to wait more than 20 minutes to be seated?
A) 0.3531
B) 0.1761
C) 0.6761
D) 0.1469
10) What is the probability that you have to wait between 13 and 16 minutes to be seated?
A) 0.163
B) 0.246
C) 0.663
D) 0.083

THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:

Let X be a continuous random variable with mean of 1200 and standard deviation of 250. Define the random
variable Y as follows: Y = 80 + 0.05X
11) What is the mean of Y?
A) 120
B) 330
C) 680
D) 140
12) What is the standard deviation of Y?
A) 12.5
B) 55.9

C) 11.89

D) 92.5

THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:

Let the random variable X follow a normal distribution with mean = 48 and variance 2 = 60.84.
13) Find the probability that X is greater than 58.
14) Find the probability that X is greater than 36 and less than 60.
THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
You have recently joined a Weight Watchers club. Suppose that the number of times you expect to visit the club in a
month is represented by a normally distributed random variable with a mean of 12 and a standard deviation of 2.50.
15) Over the course of the next year, what is the probability that you average more than 13 visits to the
club?
A) 0.1554
B) 0.0823
C) 0.3446
D) 0.4177
16) The probability is 85% that you average less than how many visits to the club per month over the
course of next year?
A) 11.75
B) 12.50
C) 11.50
D) 12.75
THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
Suppose that 20% of all invoices are for amounts greater than $800. A random sample of 50 invoices is taken.
17) What is the probability that more than 22.7% of these 50 invoices are for more than $800?
A) 0.3156
B) 0.1368
C) 0.2266
D) 0.2734
18) What is the probability that at least 25% of these 50 invoices are for more than $800?
A) 0.3106
B) 0.8894
C) 0.1894
D) 0.8106
THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
It has been found that 62.1% of all unsolicited third class mail delivered to households goes unread. Over the course
of a month, a household receives 100 pieces of unsolicited mail.
19) What is the standard error of the sample proportion?
20) What is the probability that the sample proportion is greater than 0.60?

Answer Key
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1) A
2) A
3) B
4) D
5) D
6) A
7) D
8) C
9) D
10) B
11) D
12) A
13) P(X > 58) = P( Z > 1.28) = 0.50 - 0.3997 = 0.1003
14)
P(36 < X < 60) = P(-1.54 < Z < 1.54) = 0.4382 + 0.4382 = 0.8764
15) B
16) D
17) A
18) C
19) ^ = 0.00235 = 0.0485
P
^

20) P(P > 0.60) = P(Z > -0.43) = 0.6664