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CLABE Statistics
1.
The students at a local university spend a lot of money each term on textbooks. Suppose that
the amount of money spent on textbooks for a term, denoted by
with a mean of
e160
e20.
f(x)
(b) the local bookstore will oer a t-shirt to any student who spends more than
e200
on
e170
e170
correspond to?
(e) Complete the sentence: Based on the above model, 20% of the students spend less than
e____
on textbooks.
SOLUTION
In the following,
X
1
is
0.02
0.01
0.00
f(x)
80
100
120
140
160
180
200
220
240
(b) The proportion of students eligible for the t-shirt is equal to the probability that a randomly
selected student will spend more than 200 euros on textbooks. This amounts to 2.28% as
computed below,
P (100 < X < 150) = P (3 < Z < 0.5) = (.5) (3) = 0.3085 0.0013 = 0.3072.
(d) This percentile is the proportion of students who spend less than
e170
on textbooks, that
is
143.2 on textbooks.
Based on the above model, 20% of the students spend less than
2.
Half Moon Bay, California, has an annual pumpkin festival at Halloween. A prime attraction to
this festival is a largest pumpkin contest. Suppose that the weights of these giant pumpkins
are approximately normally distributed with a mean of 125 pounds and a standard deviation of
18 pounds. Farmer Harv brings a pumpkin that is at the 85% percentile of all the pumpkins in
the contest. What is the approximate weight of Harv's pumpkin?
SOLUTION
If we denote by
the weight of the pumpkins, then the approximate weight of Harv's pumpkin
z = 1.03
satised for
such that
then
equation
P (Z z) = 0.85
is
3.
A random variable
X N (, 2 ).
that is,
What is the probability that a term selected at random from this population will
0.90.
P (X > 50) =
of the distribution.
SOLUTION
Since
then
and therefore
= 50 + 1.28 12 = 65.36.
5.
You took a multiple-choice test.
deviation of 5 and you scored 82. If the distribution of scores is approximately normal, then how
good did you do?
SOLUTION
If
X1
and
X2
(a) Calculate
two i.i.d. random variables with discrete uniform distribution on the set
E(X1 ),
Var(X1 ),
E(X2 )
and Var(X2 ).
E(S)
S = X1 + X2 .
and Var(S).
{0, 1, 2}.
D = X1 X2 .
E(D)
and Var(D).
(f ) Verify that
SOLUTION
(a) Since
X1
and
X2
s = x1 + x2
for
x1 = 0, 1, 2
x2 = 0, 1, 2
and
are as follows
X1
X2
1/9
is
P (S = s)
1
9
2
9
3
9
2
9
1
9
S
4=
E(S) = 2, E(S 2 ) =
48
9 and Var(S)
d = x1 x2
48
9
for
4
3.
x1 = 0, 1, 2
and
x2 = 0, 1, 2
are as follows
X1
X2
-1
-2
-1
1/9
is
-2
-1
P (D = d)
1
9
2
9
3
9
2
9
1
9
E(D) = 0,
Var(D)
E(D2 )
4
3.
(f ) This check can be easily carried out by comparing the results of point (a) above with the
results of points (c) and (e).
7.
Let
the
X1 , X2 , . . . , X50
set {0, 1, 2}.
E(S)
obtained as
S = X1 + X2 + + X50 ;
and Var(S);
S;
given by
= X1 + X2 + + X50 ;
X
50
(e) nd the approximate distribution of
;
X
35 S 65;
1.3.
0.7 X
SOLUTION
X1 , X2 , . . . , X50
(e)
S N (50, 100/3).
0 1 2
98 99 100
,
,
,..., ,
,
50 50 50
50 50 50
= E(Xi ) = 1
E(X)
Since
and Var(X)
that is
N (1, 2/150).
X
(f )
and that
S = 50 X
1.3) = P (35 S 65) = 0.9904.
also note that
P (0.7 X