MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS

Midterm Examination Statistics 2500 – 001 Winter 2003

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Set by Dr. H. Wang

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Instructions:
1. Please PRINT your name in the format of “LAST-NAME, FIRST-NAME”.

2. This is a closed book examination.

3. You have 50 minutes to complete this exam.

4. Try to answer all questions, no penalty for guessing.

5. You may use a self-prepared formula sheet and a calculator.

6. The exam consists of 20 questions, 6 pages, and a table sheet.

7. Do NOT separate the Answer Sheet from the Exam Book.

8. Please write your answers of ALL questions on the Answer Sheet (page 2).
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1. In skewed-right distributions, what is the relationship of the mean, median, and mode?
(a) Mean > Median > Mode
(b) Median > Mean > Mode
(c) Mode > Median > Mean
(d) Mode > Mean > Median
(e) None of any above

2. How are x̄ and µ related?

(a) µ is the sample mean that we often use to estimate x̄, the population mean;
(b) x̄ and µ are both measures of central tendency for a data set;
(c) µ is the population mean that we often use to estimate x̄, the sample mean;
(d) x̄ is the sample mean that we often use to estimate µ, the population mean;
(e) There is no relation between x̄ and µ.

3. The distribution of the amount of money spent on book purchases for a semester by MUN
students has a mean of $280 and a standard deviation of $40. If the distribution is mound-
shaped and symmetric, what proportion of students will spend approximately between $160
and $320 this semester?
(a) 0.9500 (b) 0.9750 (c) 0.8150 (d) 0.8400 (e) 1.0000

4. The average time for students in MUN to commute to the university from their home is claimed
to be 20 minutes with standard deviation of 10 minutes. Assuming the elapsing time (X) for
the student population is normal. If a random sample of size 4 is taken, the probability value
of P {10 ≤ X̄ ≤ 30} is:
(a) 0.5639 (b) 0.9974 (c) 0.6742 (d) 0.8999 (e) 0.9544

5. The average time for students in MUN to commute to the university from their home is claimed
to be 20 minutes with standard deviation of 10 minutes. Assuming the distribution of elapsing
time (X) for the student population is unknown. If a random sample of size 100 is taken, the
probability value of P {19 ≤ X̄ ≤ 21} is:
(a) 0.9544 (b) 0.0082 (c) 0.6826 (d) 0.9918 (e) 0.5082
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6. The probability P {−2.16 ≤ Z ≤ 0.55} of the standard normal random variable Z is:
(a) 0.2758 (b) 0.6934 (c) 0.4846 (d) 0.2088 (e) 0.5154

7. The probability P {−1.96 ≤ Z ≤ −0.33} of the standard normal random variable Z is:
(a) 0.3457 (b) 0.4750 (c) 0.1293 (d) 0.6043 (e) 0.3707

8. What is the value of z0 for the standard normal random variable Z such that P {−z0 ≤ Z <
z0 } = 0.8472?
(a) 1.41 (b) 1.42 (c) 1.43 (d) 1.44 (e) 1.45

9. Suppose that the random variable X ∼ N (µ = 11, σ 2 = 4). The the probability P {10 < X ≤
11} is:
(a) 0.6915 (b) 0.3085 (c) 0.3830 (d) 0.1170 (e) 0.1915

10. Suppose that the random variable X ∼ N (µ = 50, σ 2 = 9). What is the value of x0 for this
random variable X such that P {X ≥ x0 } = 0.8413?
(a) 53 (b) 47 (c) 54 (d) 45 (e) 50

11. Given the following data set {−1, −4, −3, 1, −4, −4}. The numerical measurements mode, me-
dian, mean, variance and standard deviation of this data set is:
(a) −4, −3.5, −2.5, 4.30, 2.07 (b) −4, −4.0, +2.5, 4.30, 2.07 (c) +4, −4.5, −2.5, 3.58, 1.89
(d) −4, −3.5, −2.5, 3.58, 1.89 (e) None of any above

12. Consider the probability distribution showing here:

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x | 1 2 4 10
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p(x)| 0.2 0.4 0.2 0.2
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What are the mean (µ) and variance (σ 2 ) of this probability distribution?
(a) 3.80 & 16.25 (b) 4.25 & 16.25 (c) 4.25 & 10.56 (d) 3.80 & 10.56 (e) 3.80 & 25.00
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13. If a data set is taken from an unknown population with mean µ and variance σ 2 , then the
proportion of measurements you would expect to fall into the interval µ ± 2σ is:
(a) approximately 68% (b) at least 75% (c) approximately 95% (d) at least 95%
(e) at least 68%

14. Let Xb be a binomial random variable with n = 200 and p = 0.06. The the mean (µ) and
standard deviation (σ) of Xb are:
(a) 12 & 11.28 (b) 6 & 3.36 (c) 6 & 11.26 (d) 12 & 3.36 (e) None of any above

15. Let Xb be a binomial random variable with n = 200 and p = 0.06. Can we use normal
approximation to calculate probabilities associated with this binomial random variable Xb ?
(a) Yes, since the sample size n = 200 is large enough;
(b) No, since normal random variable is continuous;
(c) No, since the sample size n = 200 is not large enough;
(d) No, since Xb is a discrete random variable;
(e) Yes, we can always use normal approximation to Xb .

16. Let Xb be a binomial random variable with n = 200 and p = 0.06. Assuming that we can use
normal approximation to calculate probabilities associated with this binomial random variable
Xb , then the approximated value of P {10 ≤ Xb < 20} is:
(a) 0.2575 (b) 0.7647 (c) 0.7575 (d) 0.6679 (e) 0.6607

17. If events A and B are independent and P(A) = 0.6 and P(B) = 0.4, which of the following is
correct?
(a) P (A|B) = 0.50 (b) P (A ∪ B) = 0.76 (c) P (A ∩ B) = 1.00 (d) P (A ∪ B) = 0.24
(e) P (A ∩ B) = 0

18. What is the relationship between the events B and B c ?

(a) P (B|B c ) = 1 (b) P (B|B c ) = 0 (c) P (B ∪ B c ) = 0 (d) P (B ∩ B c ) = 1 (e) P (B) = P (B c )

19. Given two events F and G such that P (F ) = 0.40, P (G) = 0.25 and P (F |G) = 0.75. Then the
value of the probability P (G ∪ F ) is:
(a) 0.3375 (b) 0.1875 (c) 0.6500 (d) 0.4625 (e) 1.1500
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20. A friend of yours claims to have the psychic gift. You are skeptical of her claim. To test her
gift, you take the ace of hearts, ace of spades, ace of diamonds, and ace of clubs from a deck
of cards. You randomly choose one of the cards from the deck and ask your friend (without
seeing the card) to tell you what it is. You replace the card and repeat the experiment three
times. If your friend is really not a psychic (and is merely guessing at the cards), what is the
probability that she guesses all three cards correctly?
(a) 1/64 (b) 4/64 (c) 8/64 (d) 16/64 (e) 24/64