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a) b) JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY EXAMINATION 2022/2023 ACADEMIC YEAR SECOND YEAR FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN: ACTUARIAL SCIENCE, BIOSTATISTICS, COMPUTER SCIENCE, FINANCIAL ‘ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS & COMPUTER SCIENCE, STATISTICS, OPERATIONS RESEARCH, PHYSICAL SCIENCE AND THIRD YEAR SECOND SEMESTI TER BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, STA 2200 PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS LI DATE: DECEMBER, 2022 Instructions i),Answer question one and nay other two questions. ii) Strictly submit this question paper together with the answer booklet QUESTION ONE (30 MARKS) } ‘A discrete random variable W bas the following probability distribution we 0 1 2 3 4 Pw =w) 1004 [o3s[ a [021] b Given that E(W) = 2.28, find the value of a and b hence compute P< W <4). (3 marks) ‘The queueing time, T minutes of customer at a tll in a supermarket has probability density ¥ a fkt4-0,0 In2. What is the weekly expected number of claims for this company? (2 marks) Veronicah, a taxi driver in London, charges her customers a fixed fee of £5 plus £1.20 per mile. The length of her customers’ Journeys are normally distributed with mean 16.7 miles and a standard deviation of 4.1 miles (i) Find the mean and standard deviation of prices of veronicah’s taxi rides (2 marks) Gi) Find the probability that a taxi ride will cost less than £30. (2 marks) (ii)A random sample of 16 customers who took her aki ride was taken, what are the chances that the average cost for their taxi ride is between £22.58 and £27.50. (3 marks) 'A group insurance policy covers the medical claims of the employees of a small company. The ‘Value, V, of the claims made in one year is described by V = 100,000 where Y is a random men) variable with density function f(y) = {F(t ~99*:0 <¥ <7 and kis a constant, Caleulate the 0 otherwise conditional probability that V exceeds 40,000, given that V exceeds 10,000. (3 marks) 1 6 a) b) b) Dan enjoys a cup of coffee in his favorite mug every morning. He wants to check that the amount of coffee dispensed by his coffee machine stays consistent. He measures the volume of coffee in hhis mug each morning and records the data in a spreadsheet for 31 days, The mean of Dan’s data is 218 ml and the standard deviation is 4.6 ml. Dan decided that the machine needs its setting adjusted if the amount of coffee itis dispensing on average is different to 220 ml. Using a. 95% confidence interval for the population mean, decide if Dan needs to adjust the settings on the coffee machine. Justify your answer. (4 marks) QUESTION TWO (20 MARKS) Thanks to the Math Department's acquisition of a coffee tank in October, there are now 300 cups of coffee available to the graduate students each day. The department wants to assess how much of the coffee is drunk and how much is wasted. Let C be the amount of coffee drunk in one day, measured in hundreds of cups of coffee. The probability density function for C is given by (0.15c? O G marks) (ii) between 3 and 5 persons inclusive have ginger hair @ marks) Suppose that on a certain stretch of highway, cars pass at an average rate of five cars per minute. Assume that the duration of time between successive cars follows the exponential distribution. (After a car passes by, how long on average will it take for another seven cars to pass by? (i mark) (ii) Find the probability that after a car passes by, the next car will pass within the next 20 seconds. (2 marks) (ii)Find the probability that after a car passes by, the next car will not pass for at least another 15 seconds. (2 marks) (iv) What is the median of the duration of time between successive cars? (2 marks) QUESTION THREE (20 MARKS) Household size in south C estate in Nairobi County have a mean of 3.75 people and standard deviation of 2 people. i. 2) What can you say about the skewness of this distribution? Justify your answer. (1 mark) ‘> (i) What is the probability that the average household size of a random sample of 100 households is more than 4? G marks) ‘The graph below shows the normal distribution of the volume, in ml, of a drink in a can provided by a manufacturer with the central 68,26% of the distribution shaded. o- e2$4a5q3 ¢) b) °) (ii) The probability that a can picked at random has a volume that is greater than vis 0.19. find v. (2 marks) (iii)A sample of n cans of the drink were analyzed and 27 were found to have a 38 Sas 88a Sa volume of less than 320 ml. find an (i) State the mean volume and the standard estimate of n, the number of cans that deviation of the volume of the drink were in the sample. (2 marks) found in a can. (1 mark) ‘An executive travels home from her office every evening. Her journey consists of a train ride followed by a bicycle ride. The time spent on the train is normally distributed with a mean 52 minutes and a standard deviation of 1.8 minutes, while the time spent on the bike is normally distributed with a mean 8 minutes and a standard deviation of 2.6 minutes. Assuming these two factors are independent, estimate the percentage of occasions on which the whole journey exceeds 65 minutes. (4 marks) ‘According to Kepics 42% of Kenyan aged 15 years and above access internet frequently. If random sample of 300 Kenyan aged 15 years and above is taken, use normal approximation to estimate the probability that at least 120 access internet frequently (4 marks) QUESTIONN FOUR (20 MARKS) ‘Accompany states that the lifespan in hours, H, of the bulbs that they manufacture follows a normal distribution with the parameters H~N(3000 , 7207) (j) The company advertises that their light bulbs exceeds a lifespan of / hours. Given that P(H MS 54062 94TT9 94255 Seaba nie] Ste? 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