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This document contains 9 questions for a statistics assignment. Students are asked to complete the assignment individually by the due date of March 8th by uploading it to the assignment folder on Blackboard. The questions cover topics like probability, binomial distribution, mutually exclusive and independent events, and expected value and standard deviation.

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Assignment 2 (2024)

This document contains 9 questions for a statistics assignment. Students are asked to complete the assignment individually by the due date of March 8th by uploading it to the assignment folder on Blackboard. The questions cover topics like probability, binomial distribution, mutually exclusive and independent events, and expected value and standard deviation.

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STAT 1011 – Assignment 2

There are 9 questions in this assignment. Please do it yourself for the purpose of revision. You need to
apply some of the concepts in our notes.
Due Date : 8th March, please upload your assignment onto the assignment folder in the blackboard.

Question 1
In a College in USA, according to the admission record of last year, 8073000 male students and
10980000 female students were enrolled as undergraduates. Receiving scholarship were 60.6% of the
male students and 65.2% of the female students. Of those receiving scholarship, 44.8% of the males
got presidential scholarship and 50.4% of the females got presidential scholarship. Choose 1 student
at random. Find the probability that the student is
a) A male student without scholarship
b) A male student, given that the student has scholarship
c) A female student or a student who receives presidential scholarship

Question 2
Given a sample space with events A and B such that P(A) = 0.342, P(B) = 0.279, and P(A or B) = 0.601.
Are A and B mutually exclusive? Are A and B independent?

Question 3
Show that the mean for a binomial random variable 𝑋 with 𝑛 = 3 is 3𝑝.

Question 4
The probability that Amy watches a movie is 0.4. The probability that Susan watches a movie is 0.5.
The probability that Amy watches a movie, given that Susan does, is 0.7.
a) Find the probability that both Amy and Susan watch the movie.
b) Find the probability that Susan watches the movie, given that Amy does.
c) Do Amy and Susan watch the movie independently of each other? Justify your answer.
d) Find the probability that either Amy or Susan watches the movie.

Question 5
In a study by Department of Geography, they reported the following information.
Of 100 past sites that were drilled and produced no oil, 91 gave a low reading. Of the 400 past sites
that were drilled and produced some oil, 16 gave a low reading. Of the 300 past sites that were drilled
and produced much oil, 3 gave a low reading. Given P(no oil) = 0.7, P(some oil) = 0.2 and P(much
oil) = 0.1, calculate the probabilities of no oil, some oil, and much oil, given a low reading.

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Question 6
a) According to a record of from Department of Physics, the probability of a failure in a single
mission of the Space Shuttle was 1/600000. Using this value of p and assuming all missions
are independent calculate the probability of at least one mission failure in 25 attempts.

b) How small must p be made in order to ensure that the probability of no mission failures in 25
attempts is 0.999?

Question 7

a) Suppose one of the telephone company’s goal is to have no more than five monthly line
failures on any 100 miles of line. The company currently experiences an average of two
monthly line failures per 50 miles of line. Find the probability that the company will have
no more than five monthly failures on a particular 200 miles of line.

b) Suppose that you purchase (randomly select) 3 TV sets from a production run of 10 TV
sets. Of the 10 TV sets, 9 are destined to last at least five years without needing a single
repair. What is the probability that all three of your TV sets will last at least five years
without needing a single repair?

Question 8

In a recent survey concerning the Body Mass Index (to the nearest integer) and Intelligence Quotient
(to the nearest 10 units) of a group of International Mathematical Olympiad participants in this year,
the following probability distribution was obtained:

Body Intelligence Quotient


Mass Index 100 110 120 130 140

19 0.02 0.09 0.09 0.01 0.02

20 0.06 0.15 α 0.05 0.03

21 0.02 0.06 0.11 0.04 0.05

a) Find the value of α


b) Construct the probability distribution of the Intelligence Quotient of these students.
c) A student is selected at random. What do you expect his/her Intelligence Quotient to be?
d) What is the standard deviation of the distribution in (b)?
e) Are “Body Mass Index” and “Intelligence Quotient” independent? Why or why not?

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Question 9

Suppose Faculty of Education wants to study the number of part time jobs of two groups of students
(distribution A and distribution B) from different universities. Given the following probability
distributions:

Distribution A Distribution B

X P(X) X P(X)

0 0.50 0 0.05

1 0.20 1 0.10

2 0.15 2 0.15

3 0.10 3 0.20

4 0.05 4 0.50

a) Compute the expected value for each distribution.


b) Compute the standard deviation for each distribution.
c) Compare the results of distributions A and B.

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