QUIZ #1 : Probability and Probability Distribution
Due Jun 5 at 6:30pm Points 70 Questions 35
Available Jun 5 at 4pm - Jun 5 at 8pm 4 hours Time Limit 120 Minutes
Instructions
This is a 35 Items , 70 points Quiz to be accomplished within 2 hours from 4:00PM to 6:00PM
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Numerical answers should have 4 decimal places to be recorded
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Attempt History
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LATEST Attempt 1 94 minutes 50 out of 70
Score for this quiz: 50 out of 70
Submitted Jun 5 at 5:36pm
This attempt took 94 minutes.
Question 1 2 / 2 pts
Course Chat
Which of the following random variables is NOT a discrete random
variable?
Number of stars in the sky
Number of rings before a person answers a call
Number of likes in a given post
Correct! Waiting time for a Grab Food to arrive
Question 2 0 / 2 pts
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If S = {x | 0 <x< 20}, M = {x | 11 <x< 19}, and N = {x | 0 <x< 5}, find M∩NC
ou Answered ∅
orrect Answer {11<x<19}
{5<x<20}
{5<x<20}
Question 3 2 / 2 pts
The probability that a vaccinated patient recovers from COVID 0.9. What
is the probability that all of the next 4 patients who have COVID survive?
0.8100
1.0521
Correct! 0.6561
0.1113
Question 4 2 / 2 pts
Which of the following is NOT TRUE regarding any given probability mass
function?
Correct! P[X<a]=P[X a]
All probabilities must be nonnegative
The sum of all probabilities must be equal to 1
The probability of either one of two possible outcomes happening is the
sum of their corresponding probabilities.
Question 5 2 / 2 pts
p(x) = 1/6; for x=20,30,40,50,60,70 is a probability mass function
Correct! True
False
Question 6 2 / 2 pts
The table below is a probability mass function
x -2 3 5 10
P(X=x) 0.30 0.11 0.31 0.31
True
Correct! False
Question 7 2 / 2 pts
The function p(x) = (0.4)x (0.5)1-x ; for x=0,1 is a probability distribution
True
Correct! False
Question 8 0 / 2 pts
In an experiment to study the relationship of hypertension and smoking
habits, the following data are collected for 180 individuals:
Nonsmokers Moderate Smokers Heavy Smokers
Hypertension 21 36 30
Non Hypertension 48 26 19
If one of these individuals is selected at random, find the probability that
the person is experiencing hypertension, given that the person is a non-
smoker
ou Answered None of the above
orrect Answer 21/69
30/49
36/62
Question 9 2 / 2 pts
Given the following probability distribution function
x -1 0 1
P(X=x) 0.3 0.2 0.5
Find E[X]
0.8
1.0
Correct! 0.2
None of these is E[X]
Question 10 2 / 2 pts
Given the following probability distribution function
x -1 0 1
P(X=x) 0.3 0.2 0.5
Find E[2X+1]
Correct! 1.4
2.0
None of these is E[2X+1]
0
Question 11 2 / 2 pts
Given the following probability distribution function
x -1 0 1
P(X=x) 0.3 0.2 0.5
Find Var[X]
0.8
Correct! 0.76
None of these is Var[X]
0.04
Question 12 2 / 2 pts
Which of the following special distributions is NOT a Discrete probability
distribution?
Poisson Distribution
Binomial Distribution
Correct! Normal Distribution
Hypergeometric Distribution
Question 13 2 / 2 pts
What is the probability distribution of the random variable that counts the
number of trials until the first success occurs
Correct! Geometric Distribution
Binomial Distribution
Uniform distribution
Hypergeometric Distribution
Question 14 2 / 2 pts
What is the probability distribution of the random variable that counts the
number of occurrence of a typo error on a page, assuming that the
chance of an error is the same for all pages
Correct! Poisson Distribution
Binomial Distribution
Geometric Distribution
Negative binomial
Question 15 2 / 2 pts
What is the probability distribution with the same mean and variance?
Normal distribution
Uniform Distribution
Bernoulli Distribution
Correct! Poisson Distribution
Question 16 2 / 2 pts
What probability distribution has a mean given by E[X] = nK/N?
Normal Distribution
Correct! Hypergeometric distribution
Poisson Distribution
Geometric Distribution
Question 17 2 / 2 pts
Which probability distribution has a bell shaped curve?
Geometric Distribution
Negative Binomial Distribution
Correct! Normal Distribution
Poisson Distribution
Question 18 2 / 2 pts
How many times on average do you have to play a game to experience
your first win, with only a 5% chance of winning at each attempt?
Correct! 20
None of these
5
10
Question 19 2 / 2 pts
John sells frozen chicken drumsticks in the market in 1kg bags.
Accidently, he mixed 5 bags of old stocks with 10 bags of the new ones in
a container. What is the probability that a buyer would get 2 bags of the
old chicken drumsticks if he/she purchases 6 bags and they will be taken
from that container?
0.6667
None of these
Correct! 0.4196
0.1333
Question 20 2 / 2 pts
15% of the employees in a certain government organization have a
postgraduate degree. If people are selected at random from this
population, what is the probability that the 7th person selected is the first
one that has a postgraduate degree?
0.6561
0.5666
None of these
Correct! 0.0566
Question 21 2 / 2 pts
What is the expected number of Twitter users you will get from a sample
of 100 users from a pool of 1000 people, 650 of which are actual Twitter
users?
35
100
None of these
Correct! 65
Question 22 0 / 2 pts
(Use your Poisson table) Historical records of managers of a fastfood
suggest that they have an average of 3 customers per hour who pay using
credit card, and that this average is the same for every hour of operation
of the fastfood. It is of interest to the managers to compute certain
probabilities given these data.
What is the probability that there will be exactly 4 customers paying with
credit card in the next hour?
None of these
0.6472
ou Answered 0.8153
orrect Answer 0.1681
Question 23 0 / 2 pts
(Use your Poisson table) Historical records of managers of a fastfood
suggest that they have an average of 3 customers per hour who pay using
credit card, and that this average is the same for every hour of operation
of the fastfood. It is of interest to the managers to compute certain
probabilities given these data.
What is the probability that there will be 5 customers who pay using credit
card in the next 2 hours?
ou Answered 0.4457
0.9161
0.1008
orrect Answer 0.1606
Question 24 0 / 2 pts
(Use your Poisson table) Historical records of managers of a fastfood
suggest that they have an average of 3 customers per hour who pay
using credit card, and that this average is the same for every hour of
operation of the fastfood. It is of interest to the managers to compute
certain probabilities given these data.
What is the probability that there will be more than 2 customers who
pay using credit card from 1 to 2PM?
None of these
orrect Answer 0.5768
ou Answered 0.4232
0.8009
Question 25 0 / 2 pts
(Use Binomial Table) The probability that a patient recovers from a rare
blood disease is 0.6. If 15 people are known to have contracted this
disease, what is the probability that at least 10 survive,
None of these
0.2173
ou Answered 0.7827
orrect Answer 0.4032
Question 26 0 / 2 pts
(Use Binomial Table) The probability that a senior patient recovers from
pnuemonia is 0.4. If 15 people are known to have contracted this disease,
what is the probability that from 3 to 8 survive (inclusive of 3 and 8)?
0.9050
ou Answered 0.8145
None of these
orrect Answer 0.8779
Question 27 0 / 2 pts
(Use Binomial Table) The probability that a patient recovers from an
eating disorder is 0.4. If 10 people are known to have contracted this
disease, what is the probability that exactly 5 survive?
None of these
ou Answered 0.8338
0.6331
orrect Answer 0.2007
Question 28 2 / 2 pts
(Use normal distribution Table) The IQs of 600 applicants of a certain
college are normally distributed with a mean of 115 and a standard
deviation of 12. What is the probability that a randomly selected
applicant will have an IQ of 100 or less?
None of these
0.8749
Correct! 0.1056
1.25
Question 29 0 / 2 pts
(Use normal distribution Table) The IQs of 600 applicants of a certain
college are normally distributed with a mean of 115 and a standard
deviation of 12. What is the probability that a randomly selected
applicant will have an IQ of at least 121?
0.5000
ou Answered 0.6915
None of these
orrect Answer 0.3085
Question 30 2 / 2 pts
(Use normal distribution Table) The IQs of 600 applicants of a certain
college are normally distributed with a mean of 115 and a standard
deviation of 12. What is the probability that a randomly selected
applicant will have an IQ from 100 to 121?
0.1056
0.7734
Correct! 0.5859
None of these
Question 31 0 / 2 pts
(Use normal distribution Table) The IQs of 600 applicants of a certain
college are normally distributed with a mean of 115 and a standard
deviation of 12
If an applicant with an IQ of at least 100 will be accepted, how many
will be admitted?
95
orrect Answer 536
505
ou Answered None on these options is correct
Question 32 2 / 2 pts
(Use normal distribution Table) The IQs of 600 applicants of a certain
college are normally distributed with a mean of 115 and a standard
deviation of 12
If the college will consider only applicants with IQ score in the top
20%, what is the cut off IQ score?
110
Correct! 125
105
100
Question 33 2 / 2 pts
A roulette wheel with numbers from 1-30 is spinned. What is the
probability that
the result shows a number less than 6.
Correct! 1/6
1/3
1/4
1/5
Question 34 2 / 2 pts
A manufacturing plant uses 3000 electric light bulbs whose life spans are
normally distributed with mean 500 and standard deviation 50 hrs. After
how many hours should the light bulbs be replaced if the supervisor
wishes that no more than 10% of the bulbs to burn out between
replacement.
564 hrs
1.285 hrs
None of these
Correct! 436 hrs
Question 35 2 / 2 pts
Write something/anything you are grateful for
Your Answer:
I am grateful for a lot of things. However, lately, I've been very thankful for
my friends who keep motivating me so that I can overcome all of the
challenges I'm currently facing and graduate with the degree I'm taking.
Quiz Score: 50 out of 70
