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Question 1

A large manufacturing company conducts a survey of 15% of its 80 factory sites at the
end of each year to determine the cost of potential upgrades needed for each site. At
the end of 2006 the survey indicated that the average amount needed for upgrades was
R780 000 per site.
Which of the following statements is true?
a) R780 000 is the value of the population parameter.
b) 80 factories were used in the sample.
c) 15% of the factory sites will be upgraded by R780 000.
d) 12 factories were used in the sample.
e) All factory sites will be upgraded by R750 000.

Question 2
Tom has a plot where he is growing plants for his biology experiment. Every Friday Tom
goes to measure the height of the plants.
Classify the variables as either continuous or discrete and give their level of
measurement.
i) Number of plants in his plot
ii) The types of plants in the plot
iii) The height of the plants

a) i) discrete, ratio ii) discrete, nominal iii) continuous, ratio


b) i) continuous, interval ii) discrete, ordinal iii) discrete, ratio
c) i) discrete, nominal ii) discrete, ratio iii) continuous, ratio
d) i) discrete, ratio ii) discrete, nominal iii) continuous, interval
e) i) discrete, ratio ii) continuous, ratio iii) discrete, ratio

Question 3
Which of the following statements is false?
a) Choosing an appropriate sampling method is vital for finding unbiased estimates
of population parameters.
b) The sample statistics calculated in designed experiments are always good
estimates of population parameters.
c) In both quota sampling and stratified sampling the items in the sample are
grouped according to a/some characteristic(s) of importance.
d) Quota sampling is not a probability sampling method.
e) In simple random sampling each sample of a specific size (n) has the same
probability of being selected.
Question 4
Consider the types of graphs below:
i) pie chart
ii) histogram
iii) pareto chart
Which of the three types of graphs given above can be used to display data of the
interval level of measurement?
a) (i) and (iii)
b) Only (i)
c) All three
d) (i) and (ii)
e) None of the above options is correct.

Questions 5 to 7 are based on the following:


A random sample of 180 Stat1 students were asked how long (in minutes) they spent
studying for their most recent exam. The captured data was summarized in a frequency
distribution in Microsoft Excel. (Note: 𝑚𝑖 denotes the class midpoint.)

Question 5
The shape of the data is
a) Positively skewed
b) Bimodal
c) Bell shaped
d) Negatively skewed
e) rectangular
Question 6
Which of the following commands should be used if Microsoft Excel is to be used to
calculate the approximate average time spent studying?

a) = 𝐴𝑉𝐸𝑅𝐴𝐺𝐸 ( 𝐶2: 𝐶8 )
b) = 𝑃𝑅𝑂𝐷𝑈𝐶𝑇𝑆𝑈𝑀 ( 𝐵2: 𝐵8 ; 𝐶2: 𝐶8 ) / 𝑆𝑈𝑀 ( 𝐵2: 𝐵8 )
c) = 𝑆𝑈𝑀. 𝑃𝑅𝑂𝐷𝑈𝐶𝑇 ( 𝐵2: 𝐵8 ; 𝐶2: 𝐶8 ) / 𝑆𝑈𝑀 ( 𝐵2: 𝐵8 )
d) = 𝐴𝑉𝐸𝑅𝐴𝐺𝐸 ( 𝐶2: 𝐶8 ; 𝐵2: 𝐵8 ) / 𝑆𝑈𝑀 ( 𝐶2: 𝐶8 )
e) = 𝑆𝑈𝑀𝑃𝑅𝑂𝐷𝑈𝐶𝑇 ( 𝐶2: 𝐶8 ; 𝐵2: 𝐵8 ) / 𝑆𝑈𝑀 ( 𝐵2: 𝐵8 )
Question 7

Thirty-five percent (35%) of the students spent more than 𝑥 minutes studying for the
Stat130 exam. What is the value of 𝑥?
a) 𝑥 = 600
b) 𝑥 = 609
c) 𝑥 = 738
d) 𝑥 = 610
e) 𝑥 = 720

Questions 8, 9 and 10 are based on the following:


The owner of a small chain of restaurants is deciding whether or not to change the
number of poultry, vegetarian and beef meals on the menu at his restaurants. He
recorded the number of poultry, beef and vegetarian meals ordered each day for the
last three months.

Question 8
The number of poultry meals ordered each day for a sample of 14 days is given below.

Which of the following statements is false?


a) The variance of the number of meals is 21.16.
b) The range of the data is 68.
c) The value being calculated in the active cell (B5) is the coefficient of variation
(CV).
d) The average number of meals is 66.93.
e) On only 3 of the days fewer than 50 poultry meals were ordered.

Question 9
The days on which only a few poultry meals are ordered are referred to as slow days.
What is the maximum number of poultry meals sold on the “slowest” 25% of days?
If the owner uses Microsoft Excel to do this calculation, which of the following
commands can he use?
a) = 𝑃𝐸𝑅𝐶𝐸𝑁𝑇𝐼𝐿𝐸. 𝐸𝑋𝐶 ( 𝐵2: 𝐻3 ; 25 )
b) = 𝑄𝑈𝐴𝑅𝑇𝐼𝐿𝐸. 𝐸𝑋𝐶 ( 𝐵2: 𝐻3 ; 1 )
c) = 𝑄𝑈𝐴𝑅𝑇 ( 𝐵2: 𝐻3 ; 0,25 )
d) = 𝑄𝑈𝐴𝑅𝑇𝐼𝐿𝐸 ( 𝐵2: 𝐻3 ; 25 )
e) = 𝑃𝐸𝑅𝐶𝐸𝑁𝑇𝐼𝐿𝐸 ( 𝐵2: 𝐻3 ; 0,25 )

Question 10
The restaurant owner would like to compare the number of beef and vegetarian meals
ordered. The number of beef and vegetarian meals ordered on 10 randomly selected
days was entered into Microsoft Excel and the mean and variance was calculated for
each sample. The information is shown below.

Which of the following statements is true?


a) The CV for the vegetarian data is 62% and the CV for the beef data is 75.5%
meaning that the beef data is more variable than the vegetarian data.
b) The standard deviations for both samples are similar meaning that the variability
of both samples will be similar.
c) The range for the vegetarian data is larger than that of the beef data meaning that
the vegetarian data is more variable.
d) The variability of the two data sets cannot be calculated because beef is a meat
product and vegetarian meals contain no meat.
e) The CV for the vegetarian data is 10.6 % and the CV for the beef data is 14.5%
meaning that the beef data is about one-and-a-half times more variable than the
vegetarian data.
Question 11
Which of the following statements is true?
a) The mode is used only for qualitative data.
b) For positively skewed data that has large-valued outliers, the mean is better than
the median as a measure of central location.
c) For symmetric data the mean and median will always be equal.
d) The standard deviation is found by dividing the interquartile range by two.
e) All of the above statements are false.

Question 12
The nicotine content of 300 cigarettes of a certain brand were tested recorded. The data
was found to be bell shaped with an average of 22 mg and a standard deviation of 0.4
mg. Approximately how many cigarettes would you expect to have a nicotine content of
between 21.2 mg and 2 mg?
a) 285
b) 95
c) 143
d) 48
e) 32

Question 13
Suppose you have the following sample space: 𝑆 = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}. Each element
has the same probability of being selected.
Define the following events:
A – the event that the number is less than, or equal to, 4
B – the event that the number is at least 5 but at most 9
C – the event that the number is at least 3 but less than 7.
̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅
Determine 𝑃[(𝐴 ∪ 𝐶) ∪ (𝐵 ∩ 𝐶)]
a) 0.45
b) 0.33
c) 0.75
d) 0.24
e) 0.15

Question 14
You want to randomly select 3 pens from a box containing 6 pens. You also want to
randomly select 2 markers from a box containing 5 markers. In how many different ways
can you choose the pens and the markers?
If you do this calculation in Microsoft Excel, which of the following commands will you
use?

a) = 𝑃𝐸𝑅𝑀𝑈𝑇 (5 ; 2) * 𝑃𝐸𝑅𝑀𝑈𝑇 (6 ; 3)
b) = 𝐶𝑂𝑀𝐵𝐼𝑁 (11 ; 5)
c) = 𝐶𝑂𝑀𝐵𝐼𝑁 (6 ; 3) × 𝐶𝑂𝑀𝐵𝐼𝑁 (5 ; 2)
d) = 𝐶𝑂𝑀𝐵𝐼𝑁 (3 ; 6) + 𝐶𝑂𝑀𝐵𝐼𝑁 (2 ; 5)
e) = 𝐶𝑂𝑀𝐵𝐼𝑁 (5 ; 2) * 𝐶𝑂𝑀𝐵𝐼𝑁 (6 ; 3)

Question 15
Let 𝐴 and 𝐵 be two events defined on the same sample space. Suppose that 𝑃(𝐴) =
0.15, 𝑃(𝐵) = 0.35 and 𝑃(𝐴 ⋃ 𝐵) = 0.50. Which one of the following statements is
true for events 𝐴 and 𝐵?
a) They are mutually exclusive but not independent.
b) They are independent but not mutually exclusive.
c) They are both independent and mutually exclusive.
d) They are neither independent nor mutually exclusive.
e) There is not enough information provided to determine if they are independent or
mutually exclusive.

Question 16
In a particular pain clinic, 10% of patients are prescribed narcotic pain killers. Out of all
the people prescribed narcotic pain killers, 8% are addicted to narcotic drugs (including
pain killers and illegal substances). Of those who are not prescribed narcotic drugs,
16% are addicted to narcotic drugs. A nurse is recording the details of a new patient
who has admitted to being addicted to narcotic drugs. What is the probability that the
new patient will be prescribed narcotic pain killers?
a) 0.152
b) 0.947
c) 0.053
d) 0.144
e) 0.008

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