Stat 151 Practice Midterm 1

LAST NAME: ___________________ FIRST NAME: ___________________________

STUDENT ID: ___________________ STAT 151 SECTION: ______________________

Instructions:
1) The exam is closed book.
2) No communications with other students are allowed.
3) Choose only the best answer for each question.
4) It has 30 multiple choice questions (each worth 1 mark).
5) Personal items must be placed aside prior to the start of the exam.
6) All portable electronic devices must be turned off, including cell phones, pagers, etc.
7) On the scantron sheet, please ensure you use ONLY PENCIL and capital letters to put your first
name, last name, CCID and student ID# into each rectangular box. In the section where it says
“bubble in your CCID below,” you must also rewrite your CCID in the vertical blocks (located on
the left side of the scantron) begin in the top box and print only one letter or number per box,
then in the row that extends beside each box, blacken the circle containing the same letter and/or
number as the box. If your CCID is less than 8 letters long, then fill out your CCID in the vertical
blocks from the top, and leave the boxes you do not need blank.
8) Put all answers on the scantron by shading the letter A, B, C, D, or E corresponding to your chosen
answer. Make sure your answers are clearly marked by pencil. Otherwise, no marks will be given.
9) No credit will be given for anything written in the examination booklet. If you change an answer
on the scantron, be sure that you erase your first mark completely; then blacken the circle of the
answer choice you prefer. Your score will be based on the number of questions you answer
correctly. No credit will be given for omitted answers; no credit will be lost for wrong answers.
10) You must mark all your answers on the answer sheet during the allotted time. No additional time
will be allowed at the end of the session for this purpose.
11) You must return your scantron, exam booklet, the tables, and the formula sheet to the instructor
when you finish the exam.
12) Copying questions or answers of this exam to take from the exam room is prohibited.
13) You are permitted to use a non-programmable calculator and the formula sheet provided. Any
other calculators (only to be returned at the end of the examination) and, as such, you will be
required to do the exam without a calculator.
14) If you finish the exam before the last 10 minutes of the exam period, please raise your hand and
your instructor or your proctor will come pick up your exam from you.
15) All students should remain seated during the last 10 minutes of the exam period, and please
remain seated until your instructor has finished collecting all exam materials from all students
after the exam is over.
16) Total marks of this exam: 30
17) You have 1 hour 30 minutes to work on this exam.

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1. A football league tests players for performance enhancing drugs. Officials put all players together and
test 53 randomly chosen players. What kind of sample is this?
A) Simple random sample
B) Stratified random sample
C) Cluster random sample
D) Convenience sample
E) Systematic random sample

2. A recent study examined the dental records of patients at a particular dental clinic and found that the
incidence of cavities was twice as high among people who drink juice than among people who do not
drink juice.
A) This is an observational study and causal inferences can be obtained from this study.
B) This is an observational study and causal inferences cannot be obtained from this study.
C) This is an experiment and causal inferences can be obtained from this study.
D) This is an experiment and causal inferences cannot be obtained from this study.
E) This is neither an observational study nor an experiment.

3. A health food store owner wants to know if eating natural foods is a contributing factor to healthier
teeth. The owner selected a random sample of 50 customers between 65 - 70 years old, 25 of whom
ate natural foods daily throughout their lives and 25 of whom did not eat natural foods daily
throughout their lives. The researchers measured the condition of each participant’s teeth. Which of
the following is TRUE?
A) This is an example of a prospective study.
B) This is an example of a randomized experiment.
C) The researchers used systematic random sampling.
D) This is an example of a retrospective study.
E) The researchers used cluster random sampling.

4. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A) An example of a parameter is s2.
B) An example of a statistic is µ.
C) Age can be considered as both a continuous and discrete variable.
D) The process of using statistical methods to draw conclusions about a population is called
descriptive statistics.
E) A histogram can be used to display the distribution of the type of transportation for students.

5. A sample was taken of the verbal GRE scores of 20 applicants to graduate school at a large midwestern
university. Below are the scores. For convenience, the data are ordered.
280 310 340 350 370 410 420 420 420 470
490 510 520 520 600 610 670 720 750 770
The first quartile for the applicant scores is
A) 340
B) 390
C) 410
D) 480
E) 605

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6. The charging times of a particular laptop from 0% to 100% power are normally distributed with a
mean of 120 minutes with a standard deviation of 3 minutes. Based on the Empirical Rule,
approximately what percentage of charging times of this laptop from 0% to 100% are more than 126
minutes?
A) 97.5%.
B) 95%.
C) 5%.
D) 2.5%.
E) 0.15%.

7. An insurance company only sells 4 types of insurance: life insurance, car insurance, home insurance,
and travel insurance. Company data shows 45% of the insurance company’s customers purchased life
insurance, 55% purchased car insurance, and 50% purchased home insurance. Additionally, 25%
purchased both life and car insurance, 15% purchased both life and home insurance, 25% purchased
both car and home insurance, and 10% purchased life, car and home insurance. What percent of
customers are purchasing only travel insurance?
A) 5%
B) 25%
C) 30%
D) 35%
E) 50%

8. You are given the following graph.

What is TRUE about this graph?

A) The mean is larger than the median and the sum of deviations from the mean is negative.
B) The mean is larger than the median and the sum of deviations from the mean is zero.
C) The mean is less than the median and the sum of deviations from the mean is negative.
D) The mean is less than the median and the sum of deviations from the mean is zero.
E) The mean and the median will be roughly the same and it is impossible to determine what the
sum of deviations from the mean will be.

9. Birthweights at a local hospital have a normal distribution with a mean of 110 oz. and a standard
deviation of 15 oz. What is the proportion of infants with birthweights above 125 oz.?
A) 0.5000
B) 0.1587
C) 0.3409
D) 0.8413
E) 0.2500

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10. The time to complete a standardized exam is approximately normal with a mean of 70 minutes and a
standard deviation of 10 minutes. How much time should be given to complete the exam so that 80%
of the students will complete the exam in the time given?
A) 84.0 minutes
B) 78.4 minutes
C) 92.8 minutes
D) 79.8 minutes
E) 87.5 minutes

11. A random variable, Y, has a mean of 50 and a variance of 25. What is the variance of 2Y+3?
A) 10
B) 53
C) 100
D) 25
E) 103
12. In a certain lottery, you have a 70% chance of winning $5, a 25% chance of winning $10, and a 5%
chance of winning $100. What is the expected value for your winnings?
A) 38
B) 33
C) 11
D) 50
E) 75

13. In a city, 66% of the citizens play computer games, 44% of the citizens who play computer games like
comics, and 16% of the citizens who do not play computer games like comics. What is the probability
that a citizen selected at random likes comics?
A) 0.054
B) 0.286
C) 0.345
D) 0.600
E) 0.655

14. Referring to the previous question, if a citizen who does not like comics is selected, what is the
probability that this citizen does not play computer games?
A) 0.286
B) 0.353
C) 0.436
D) 0.567
E) 0.109

15. Stacy is taking an English class and a History class. Consider the following events:
E = {get an A in English}
H = {get an A in History}
Assume P(E) = 0.56, P(H) = 0.38, and P(E and H) = 0.29.
What is the probability that Stacy gets at least one A in her two classes?
A) 0.29
B) 0.65
C) 0.85
D) 0.94
E) 0.18
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16. The table shows whether students in an introductory statistics class like dogs and/or cats.
Like Dogs
Yes No Total
Like Cats Yes 194 21 215
No 70 50 120
Total 264 71 335
What is the conditional distribution of the students liking dogs when they like cats?
A) Yes: 194/215, No: 21/215
B) Yes: 215/335, No: 264/335
C) Yes: 194/335, No: 21/335
D) Yes: 194/264, No: 70/264
E) Yes: 194/335, No: 70/335

17. Refer to the previous question, do “liking dogs” and “liking cats” appear to be independent? Give the
correct reasoning.
A) No, because they are not disjoint.
B) No, because the probability of liking dogs depends on liking cats.
C) No, because the probability of liking dogs does not depend on liking cats.
D) Yes, because they are not disjoint.
E) Yes, because the probability of liking dogs depends on liking cats.

18. A consumer reports article about 116 HDTVs lists each set’s manufacturer (10 of them), cost (in $),
screen size (25”, 45”, and 60”), type (LCD or plasma), and overall performance score (0-100). Identify
the “who”.
A) HDTV
B) Manufacturer
C) Screen size
D) Type
E) Performance score

19. Suppose that the true proportion of people who have heard of the Summit Series of 1972 is a dismally
low 0.09. If a random sample consisted of 300 people, what is the probability of the sample
proportion being less than 0.11?
A) 0.0200
B) 0.1131
C) 0.5080
D) 0.8869
E) 1.2105

20. The year is 1936 and Indiana Jones is trapped in a villain’s death trap. His life randomly flashes before
his eyes and he realizes he’s been in death traps before. In fact, his amazingly good memory suggests
the mean time he spends in death traps is 19.84 minutes with a standard deviation of 1.3 minutes.
From 40 random death traps, what is the probability the sample mean is greater than 20?
A) 0.2216
B) 0.2177
C) 0.4522
D) 0.7823
E) 0.5478

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21. Referring to the previous question, suppose “time spent in death traps” is normally distributed. If
Doctor Jones considers a new random sample of 10 death traps, then what can be said about the
sampling distribution for the corresponding sample mean?
A) It is normal with a standard deviation of 0.411.
B) It may not be normal because the Central Limit Theorem requires n to exceed 30.
C) It is normal with a standard deviation of 1.3.
D) It may not be normal with a standard deviation of 0.411.
E) It may not be normal with a standard deviation of 1.3.

22. Last year, the price of each share of Stock A (YA) had a mean of $70 with a variance of $5, and the price
of each share of Stock B (YB) had a mean of $75 with a variance of $10. If an investor invested in 100
shares of Stock A and 150 shares of Stock B on a particular day last year, the total price (P) can be
calculated using P = 100YA + 150YB. Assume YA and YB are independent. What is the standard deviation
of P?
A) 44.72
B) 524.4
C) 697.9
D) 2000
E) 275000

23. An urn contains 10 red chips, 6 black chips, and 2 blue chips. You are to randomly select 2 chips
without replacement. You win the game if both chips are black. What is the probability that you win?
A) 0.111
B) 0.667
C) 0.098
D) 0.333
E) 0.227

24. Suppose that a Normal model described student scores in a history class. Parker has a standardized
score (z-score) of +2.5. What does this mean for Parker?
A) Parker is 2.5 points above average for the class.
B) Parker is 2.5 standard deviations above average for the class.
C) Parker has a standard deviation of 2.5.
D) Parker has a score that is 2.5 times the average for the class.
E) None of the above.

25. Which statement(s) about bias is (are) true?

I. Bias results from random variation and will always be present.
II. Bias results from samples that do not represent the population.
III. Bias is usually reduced when sample size is larger.
A) I only
B) II only
C) III only
D) I and III only
E) II and III only

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26. A biased coin is twice as likely to turn up tails as heads. The coin is tossed twice. Let X be the number of
heads obtained. Which of the following is the probability distribution of X?
A) x 0 1 2
P(X = x) 1/9 4/9 4/9

B) x 0 1 2
P(X = x) 1/9 5/9 3/9

C) x 0 1 2
P(X = x) 4/9 4/9 1/9

D) x 0 1 2
P(X = x) 4/9 2/9 3/9

E) x 0 1 2
P(X = x) 1/3 1/3 1/3

27. John drives to work on weekdays. Suppose his driving time to work follows a continuous uniform
distribution between 20 and 30 minutes. What is the probability that it will take John between 23 and
25 minutes to drive to work on a randomly selected day?
A) 0.200
B) 0.218
C) 0.312
D) 0.177
E) 0.072

28. A 1998 census recorded that 20% of families in Old Montreal lived below the poverty level. Assuming the
20% figure is still correct today, and a random sample of 35 families is selected from this community.
Which of the following statements is TRUE about the sampling distribution of the sample proportion of
families who live below the poverty level in the community?
A) It should not be approximated using a normal distribution, but has a mean of 0.20 and a standard
deviation of 0.0046.
B) It should not be approximated using a normal distribution, but has a mean of 0.20 and a standard
deviation of 0.0676.
C) It can safely be approximated using a normal distribution with a mean of 0.20 and a standard
deviation of 0.0046.
D) It is normally distributed with a mean of 0.20 and a standard deviation of 0.0676.
E) It can safely be approximated using a normal distribution with a mean of 0.20 and a standard
deviation of 0.0338.

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The following question refers to the boxplot output that was discussed in the Lab 1 Instructions.
29. The following is the boxplot on systolic blood pressure by sex at birth:

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A) The ends of the whiskers identify outliers.
B) The median would be a better measure of the center than the mean for these data.
C) The mean would be a better measure of the center than the median for these data.
D) The female group has an IQR of 75, and the male group has an IQR of 45.
E) The mean is around 130 for each group.

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The following question refers to the normal Q-Q plot that was discussed in the Lab 2 Instructions.

30. The output for the Q-Q Plot for one of the random samples is shown below:

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A) All the points on this Q-Q plot do not all touch the straight line, which implies the data must be
skewed with outliers.
B) This Q-Q plot shows the points are reasonably close to a straight line, which implies the data in
this sample are not normal.
C) This Q-Q plot shows the points are reasonably close to a straight line, which implies the data in
this sample are fairly linear.
D) This Q-Q plot shows the points are somewhat close to a straight line, which implies the data in this
sample are somewhat normal.
E) We must use a boxplot or histogram to check for normality instead of the Q-Q plot.

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