Engineering Data Analysis by ASEAN Eng. Nestley I.

Sore, PIE

PROBLEM SETS

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1. Which of the following is a method of counting events?

(A) addition (C) permutation

(B) multiplication (D) combination

2. The peakedness of the data is called:

(A) kurtosis (C) lepto

(B) skewness (D) modal

3. Which of the following statements are true?

I. Categorical variables are the same as qualitative variables.

II. Categorical variables are the same as quantitative variables.
III. Quantitative variables can be continuous variables.

(A) I only (C) I and II

(B) II only (D) I and III

4. When the word AND is verbalized in probability it means to perform the arithmetic operation
of:

(A) addition (C) multiplication

(B) subtraction (D) division

5. When the occurrence of one event negates the possibility of another event, it is called?

(A) independent (C) mutually exclusive

(B) dependent (D) A and C

Problem 6
An auto analyst is conducting a satisfaction survey, sampling from a list of
10,000 new car buyers. The list includes 2,500 Ford buyers, 2,500 GM buyers,
2,500 Honda buyers, and 2,500 Toyota buyers. The analyst selects a sample of
400 car buyers, by randomly sampling 100 buyers of each brand.

6. Is this an example of a simple random sample?

(A) Yes, because each buyer in the sample was randomly sampled.
(B) Yes, because each buyer in the sample had an equal chance of being sampled.
(C) No, because every possible 400-buyer sample did not have an equal chance of being
chosen.
(D) No, because the population consisted of purchasers of four different brands of car.

7. It implies that any particular sample of a specified sample size has the same chance of being
selected as any other sample of the same size.

(A) Biased sampling (C) Convenience sampling

(B) Stratified sampling (D) Random sampling

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8. Which of the following is a measure of the central tendency?

(A) mode (C) variance

(B) standard deviation (D) range

9. In a clinical study, volunteers are tested for gene that has been found to increase the risk
for a disease. The probability that a person carries the gene is 20%. What is the probability
that 4 will have to be tested before 2 with the gene are detected?

(A) 0.1536 (C) 0.0201

(B) 0.0400 (D) 0.0768

10. A certain team wins with probability 0.7, loses with probability 0.2 and ties with probability
0.1. The team plays three games. What is the probability that team wins at least 2 games
but not lose?

(A) 0.392 (C) 0.049

(B) 0.490 (D) 0.343

11. Among twenty-five articles, nine are defective, six having only minor defects and three
having major defects. Determine the probability that an article selected at random has major
defects given that it has defects.

(A) 3/25 (C) 1/3

(B) 1/2 (D) 25/27

12. Two cards are drawn in succession from a deck with replacement. What is the probability
that both cards are greater than 2 and less than 8?

(A) 0.143 (C) 0.148

(B) 0.038 (D) 0.203

13. Next weekend, you are expecting a visit from Bonnie and Clyde. The probability that Bonnie
will show up is 0.4, whereas the probability that Clyde will show up is 0.8. What is the
probability that at least one of them will visit you the next weekend?

(A) 0.33 (C) 0.88

(B) 0.26 (D) 0.22

14. The mean and standard deviation of the tax value of all vehicles registered in NCR are
μ=550,000 and σ=80,000. Suppose random samples of size 100 are drawn from the
population of vehicles. What is the standard deviation σx̄ of the sample mean X̅ ?

(A) 8000 (C) 7000

(B) 6000 (D) 9000

15. A coin is tossed three times. What is the probability that it lands on heads exactly one time?

(A) 0.125 (C) 0.333

(B) 0.250 (D) 0.375

16. Suppose X and Y are independent random variables. The variance of X is equal to 16; and
the variance of Y is equal to 9. Let Z = X - Y. What is the standard deviation of Z?

(A) 2.65 (C) 7.00

(B) 5.00 (D) 25.0

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17. A sample consists of four observations: {1, 3, 5, 7}. What is the standard deviation?

(A) 2 (C) 6
(B) 2.58 (D) 6.67

18. Nine hundred (900) high school freshmen were randomly selected for a national survey.
Among survey participants, the mean grade-point average (GPA) was 2.7, and the standard
deviation was 0.4. What is the margin of error, assuming a 95% confidence level?

(A) 0.013 (C) 0.500

(B) 0.025 (D) 1.960

19. A national achievement test is administered annually to 3rd graders. The test has a mean
score of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. If Jane's z-score is 1.20, what was her score on
the test?

(A) 82 (C) 100

(B) 88 (D) 118

20. Molly earned a score of 940 on a national achievement test. The mean test score was 850
with a standard deviation of 100. What proportion of students had a higher score than Molly?
(Assume that test scores are normally distributed.)

(A) 0.10 (C) 0.50

(B) 0.18 (D) 0.82

Problem 21
The number of adults living in homes on a randomly selected city block is
described by the following probability distribution.
Number of adults, x 1 2 3 4 or more
Probability, P(x) 0.25 0.50 0.15 ???

21. What is the probability that 4 or more adults reside at a randomly selected home?

(A) 0.10 (C) 0.25

(B) 0.15 (D) 0.50

22. A major metropolitan newspaper selected a simple random sample of 1,600 readers from
their list of 100,000 subscribers. They asked whether the paper should increase its coverage
of local news. Forty percent of the sample wanted more local news. What is the 99%
confidence interval for the proportion of readers who would like more coverage of local
news?

(A) 0.30 to 0.50 (C) 0.35 to 0.45

(B) 0.32 to 0.48 (D) 0.37 to 0.43

23. Suppose an extremely large population has a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 8. If
the sample means of all samples of size 9 were extracted, what would be the value of the
standard deviation of this group of sample means?

(A) 9/100 (C) 8/3

(B) 8/9 (D) 3/8

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24. Suppose a die is tossed 5 times. What is the probability of getting exactly 2 fours?

(A) 0.028 (C) 0.167

(B) 0.161 (D) 0.333

25. Bob is a high school basketball player. He is a 70% free throw shooter. That means his
probability of making a free throw is 0.70. What is the probability that Bob makes his first
free throw on his fifth shot?

(A) 0.0024 (C) 0.0081

(B) 0.0057 (D) 0.0720

Problem 26
An archer claims that 25% of her shots will be in the center of the target (i.e., a
bulls-eye). A sports writer plans to test this claim by sampling 300 shots. If the
300 shots result in 60 or fewer bulls-eyes (i.e., 20% bulls-eyes), the writer will
reject the archer's claim.

26. What is the probability that the sports writer will reject the archer's claim, when it is actually true?

(A) 0.01 (C) 0.04

(B) 0.02 (D) 0.08

27. A child has 2 blue cubes, 3 red cubes, one yellow cube and one green cube. How many
different arrangements can he make within the 7 cubes if they may be arranged in any
linear arrangement?

(A) 105 (C) 420

(B) 210 (D) 840

28. Acme Corporation manufactures light bulbs. The CEO claims that an average Acme light bulb
lasts 300 days. A researcher randomly selects 15 bulbs for testing. The sampled bulbs last an
average of 290 days, with a standard deviation of 50 days. If the CEO's claim were true,
what is the probability that 15 randomly selected bulbs would have an average life of no
more than 290 days?

(A) 0.100 (C) 0.334

(B) 0.226 (D) 0.443

29. A class has four quizzes worth 30% (w1) of their grade, three tests worth 40% (w2), and final worth 30%
(w3). Is these are Jenny’s scores, what will her grade-point average be?
Quizzes: 67, 75, 85, and 72 Tests: 85, 95, and 80 Final: 83

(A) 77.12% (C) 80.25%

(B) 81.47% (D) 82.00%

30. Mark, Linda, Bill, and Joan are billing clerks in an office. Of the number of erroneous billing
prepared, 40% were done by Mark, 20% were done by Bill, 10% were done by Linda, and
the rest were done by Joan. Given seven erroneous billings, what is the approximate
probability that two were prepared by Mark, one by Bill, one by Linda, and three by Joan?

(A) 0.036 (C) 0.058

(B) 0.047 (D) 0.082

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