Applications

Exercises
extracted from Mathematical Statistics 6 th Ed.
by
John E. Freunds

Question 1
A random sample of size n=64 is
taken from a normal population with
a mean 51.4 and s.d. 6.8. What is the
probability that the mean of the
sample will
(a) exceed 52.9;
(b) fall between 50.5 and 52.3;
(c) be less than 50.6?

Question 2
A random sample of size 100 is taken
from a normal population with s.d.
25. What is the probability that the
mean of the sample will differ from
the mean of the population by 3 or
more either way?

Question 3
A random sample of size n=200 is
taken from a uniform population with
a=24 and b=28. Based on the
central limit theorem (CLT), what is
the probability that the mean of the
sample will be less than 35?

Question 4
A random sample of size n=225 is
taken from an exponential population
with =4. Based on the central limit
theorem (CLT), what is the probability
that the mean of the sample will
exceed 4.5?

Question 5
A
random sample of size n=100 is taken
from an infinite population with the mean
75 and the variance 256.
(a)Based on Chebyshevs theorem, with what
probability can we assert that the value
we obtain for will fall between 67 and 83?
(b)Based on central limit theorem(CLT), with
what probability can we assert that the
value we obtain for will fall between 67
and 83?

Question 6
A
random sample of size n=81 is
taken from an infinite population with
the mean 128 and the standard
deviation 6.3. With what probability
can we assert that the value we
obtain for will not fall between 126.6
and 129.4 if we use
(a)Chebyshevs theorem;
(b)central limit theorem (CLT)?

Question 7
The
actual proportion of families in a certain city who
own, rather than rent their home is 0.70.
If 84 families in this city are interviewed at random
and their response to the question of whether they
own their home, are looked upon as values of
independent random variables having identical
Bernoulli distributions with he parameter =0.70, with
what probability can we assert taken that the value
we obtain for the sample proportion will fall between
0.64 and 0.76 if we use
(a)Chebyshevs theorem;
(b)central limit theorem (CLT)?

Question 8
Integrate the appropriate Chi-square
density to find the probability that
the variance of a random sample of
size 5 from a normal population with
population variance 25 will fall
between 20 and 30.

Question 9
The claim that the variance of a
normal population is 25 is to be
rejected if the variance of a random
sample of size 16 exceeds 54.668 or
is less than 12.102.
What is the probability that this
claim will be rejected even though
population variance is 25?

Question 10
A random sample of size n=25 from
a normal population has the sample
mean 47 and s.d. 7. Can we say that
the given information supports the
estimation that the mean of the
population is 42?