Difference of Means Exercises
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The head of a company's headquarters states that the ages of its
employees follow a normal distribution with a mean of 41 years and a
standard deviation of 5 years. On the other hand, the person in charge of
a branch office of said company in another country has determined that
his employees also have ages that fit a normal distribution with a mean of
39 years and a standard deviation of 3 years.
In order to carry out a comparative study, samples of 40 people are
selected from each company headquarters.
a) Determine the distribution for the difference in the sample means.
b) What is the probability that the employees at the headquarters have an
average age of at least 3 years older than those at the foreign branch?
Quality control tests for a model A bulb have determined that the duration
is distributed as a normal mean of 3300 hours and standard deviation of
180 hours; while for another model B the average duration is 3200 hours
and standard deviation 155 hours.
If random samples of 100 bulbs of each model are taken:
a) What are the parameters of the mean and standard deviation of the
difference in the sample means?
b) Find the probability that the difference in the average durations of the
bulbs of each model is less than 40 hours.
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1) It is known that 10% of the inhabitants of a certain city regularly go to
the theater. A random sample of 100 inhabitants of this city is taken. What
is the approximate probability that at least 13% of them regularly go to the
theater? 0.1587
2) A study carried out by a car insurance company establishes that one in
five people injured is a woman. If, on average, 169 accidents are counted
each weekend:
a) What is the probability that, on a weekend, the proportion of women
injured exceeds 24%? 0.0918
b) What is the probability that, on a weekend, the proportion of men
injured exceeds 85%? 0.0475
c) What is, on average, the expected number of men injured each
weekend?
3) It is known that 40% of pregnant women give birth before the expected
date. In one hospital, 125 women have given birth in one week.
a) What is the expected number of women whose birth was delayed?
b) What is the probability that between 45 and 60 women have given birth
early?
4) In the country's general elections, the president of the government
elected by the citizens has received 64% of the favorable votes. A random
sample of 120 voters is chosen.
a) What is the distribution that follows the proportion of voters who have
voted for the president in the sample?
b) Find the probability that more than 70% of the voters in the sample
voted for the president.
5) 2% of the parts produced by a machine have some type of irregularity,
making it defective. A random sample of 60 pieces is taken.
a) What is the probability that there are no defective parts?
b) Find the probability that there are between 2 and 5 defective pieces in
the sample.
6) The head of a company's headquarters states that the ages of its employees follow a normal
distribution with a mean of 41 years and a standard deviation of 5 years. On the other hand, the
person in charge of a branch office of said company in another country has determined that his
employees also have ages that fit a normal distribution with a mean of 39 years and a standard
deviation of 3 years.
In order to carry out a comparative study, samples of 40 people are selected from each company
headquarters.
a) Determine the distribution for the difference in the sample means.
b) What is the probability that the employees at the headquarters have an average age of at least
3 years older than those at the foreign branch?
7) Quality control tests for a model A bulb have determined that the
duration is distributed as a normal with a mean of 3300 hours and a
standard deviation of 180 hours; while for another model B the average
duration is 3200 hours and standard deviation 155 hours.
If random samples of 100 bulbs of each model are taken:
a) What are the parameters of the mean and standard deviation of the
difference in the sample means?
b) Find the probability that the difference in the average durations of the
bulbs of each model is less than 40 hours.
8) The weight of chicken eggs produced by a farm follows a normal
distribution with a mean of 67 grams and a standard deviation of 6 grams.
In another farm with another type of feeding, it has been verified that the
weight of the eggs corresponds to another normal distribution of mean 65
grams and standard deviation 1 gram.
a) If samples of 200 eggs were taken at random from each farm, determine
the distribution for the difference in sample means. What is the probability
that the difference in the weights of the eggs is less than 3 grams?
b) If a sample of 120 eggs is taken from the first farm and 150 from the
second farm, what is the probability that the difference in the weights of
the eggs is 3 grams?
9) A mobile phone company equips its phones with batteries that come
from two different factories, A and B. The batteries from factory A last an
average of 114 hours, with a standard deviation of 23 hours, while those
from factory A last an average of 114 hours, with a standard deviation of
23 hours. factory B have an average duration of 109 hours and a standard
deviation of 17 hours.
A random sample is taken consisting of 63 batteries from factory A and 55
from factory B.
a) What is the distribution of the difference in means for the previous
sample?
b) What is the probability that the difference in the means is greater than
18 hours?
10) In a city court, 8,300 complaints were filed last year and this year there
have been 1,100 more. Random samples consisting of 3% and 5% of them,
respectively, will be selected.
If it is known that the time spent last year processing complaints follows a
normal distribution with a mean of 8 months and a standard deviation of 3
months, and that this year the distribution parameters have increased by
4% each, calculate the probability that the difference in average time
invested in the judicial procedures of the samples is less than 0.2 months.
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5) A population of a type of plant has an average size of 17 centimeters
and the standard deviation is 1.8 centimeters. A sample of 30 plants is
taken at random. What is the probability that the average size of the
sample is greater than 15 centimeters?
6) A manufacturer produces chocolate bars whose weight in grams follows
a normal distribution of mean 125 grams and standard deviation 4 grams.
a) If the tablets are packaged in lots of 25, what is the probability that the
average weight of the tablets in a lot is between 124 and 126 grams?
b) If the lots were 64 tablets, what would be the probability that the
average weight of the tablets in the lot would exceed 124 grams?
7) The salary of the workers of a multinational follows a normal distribution
of mean €2,500 and standard deviation €600.
If a sample of 64 workers is taken:
a) What type is the distribution of the means of the samples that can be
extracted?
b) What is the probability that the sample mean is less than €2,350?
8) It is assumed that the distribution of human body temperature in the
population has an average of 37 ºC and a standard deviation of 0.85 ºC.
A sample of 105 people is chosen and asked:
a) Calculate the probability that the average temperature is less than 36.9
ºC.
b) Calculate the probability that the average temperature is between 36.5
ºC and 37.5 ºC.
9) It is known that test scores follow a normal law of mean 36 and standard
deviation 4.8.
a) If a random sample of 16 individuals is taken, what is the probability
that the mean of this sample is greater than 35 points?
b) What percentage of samples of size 25 have a sample mean between 34
and 36?
10) It is known that the average weight of passengers on an airplane is 76
kg, with a standard deviation of 7.4 kg. Due to safety regulations, the sum
of the passengers' weights cannot exceed 16 tons. If the airline has sold
210 tickets, what is the probability that it complies with safety regulations?
11) The voltage of a manufacturer's batteries is 12 volts on average and
with a standard deviation of 0.3 volts. We randomly choose 5 of those
batteries and they are connected in series, which means that the voltages
are added. Find the probability that they have a joint voltage of more than
61 volts.
12) The weight of the tenants of a community of neighbors follows a
normal distribution with a mean of 67 kg and a standard deviation of 6 kg.
What is the probability that when 6 people board an elevator, they will not
exceed the maximum permitted weight of 400 kg?
13) The salaries, in euros, of the employees of a factory are distributed
according to a normal distribution of mean 1350 and standard deviation
270. A sample of 40 of them is chosen at random. What is the probability
that the sum of their salaries is greater than 55,000 euros?
14) In an urn there are six balls numbered from 1 to 6. Calculate the
distribution followed by the sample sums of size 15 and 40, extracting all
the balls with replacement. In the latter case, find the probability that the
sum of the scores is less than 145.
A PROPORTION
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1 It is known that 10% of the inhabitants of a given city regularly go to
the theater. A random sample of 100 inhabitants of this city is taken.
What is the approximate probability that at least 13% of them regularly
go to the theater?
2 A study carried out by a car insurance company establishes that one in
five people injured is a woman. If, on average, 169 accidents are counted
each weekend:
a) What is the probability that, on a weekend, the proportion of women
injured exceeds 24%?
b) What is the probability that, on a weekend, the proportion of men
injured exceeds 85%?
c) What is, on average, the expected number of men injured each
weekend?
