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STPM 2020 SEM 3 – NS SPI
Section A [45 marks]
Answer all questions
1. The heights of 200 dandelions are measured, correct to the nearest centimeter. The frequency
distribution is given below.
Height (cm) 4 – 10 11 – 15 16 – 20 21 – 25 26 – 30
Frequency 22 32 78 40 28
(a) Draw a cumulative frequency curve to illustrate the data. [2]
(b) 28% of these dandelions are of height h cm or more. Estimate h. [2]
(c) Given that the estimate of the mean height of these dandelions is 18.39 cm, calculate
the standard deviation of the heights of these dandelions. [3]
2. A container contains 5 green beads, 7 red beads and 8 blue beads. Aini randomly selects beads
from the container until a green bead is selected. If Aini does not select a green bead, she will
put it back into the container and repeat the process until a green bead is obtained.
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(a) Show that the probability that the second bead selected is red is 80. [2]
(b) Find the probability that either the second bead selected is red or the fourth bead
selected is green. [5]
3. A discrete random variable X has the cumulative distribution function as follow:
0 ,𝑥 < 1
1
𝐹(𝑥) = {5 𝑛, 𝑛2 ≤ 𝑥 < (𝑛 + 1)2 , 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑛 = 1, 2, 3 𝑎𝑛𝑑 4
1 , 𝑥 ≥ 25
(a) Tabulate the probability distribution of X. [1]
(b) Show that E(|√𝑋|) = 3 [2]
(c) Find P(|2X – 3E(|√𝑋|)| < 8). [4]
4. The weight of a female student in a particular school is denoted by x kilograms. The weight
of a random sample of 130 female students are summarized by
∑ 𝑥 = 7280 and ∑(𝑥 − 56)2 = 5005
(a) Calculate unbiased estimates of the mean and variance of x. [3]
(b) Obtain a 95% confidence interval for the population mean weight of the female
students in the school. [3]
The principal claimed that the mean weight of a female student in school is 55 kg.
(c) Using the result in part (b), determine whether the principal is understating the mean
weight of a female student. [2]
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5. A test of mental ability has been constructed so that, for adults in Country B, the test score is
normally distributed with mean 100 and standard deviation 15. A doctor wishes to test whether
sufferers from a particular disease differ in mean from the general population in their
performance on this test. He chooses a random sample of 10 sufferers. Their score on the test
are
119 131 95 107 125 90 123 89 103 103
Carry out a test at the 5% significance level to test whether sufferers from the disease differ
from the general population in the way in which they perform at this test. [7]
6. The school canteen operator carries out a survey of the types of students and types of drinks
ordered by a random sample of 400 students in the school. The results of the survey is shown
in the table.
Types of drinks
Hot drinks Cold drinks
Types of Lower secondary 54 63
students Upper secondary 95 41
Sixth former 71 76
Carry out a test at the 5% significance level to examine whether there is any association
between types of students and types of drinks. [9]
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Section B [15 marks]
Answer one question only.
7. (a) Carol has 20 pairs of shoes, some of which have designer labels. She has 6 pairs of
high-heeled shoes, of which 2 pairs have designer labels. She has 4 pair of low-heeled shoes,
of which 1 pair has designer labels. The rest of her shoes are pairs of sports shoes. Carol has
8 pairs of shoes with designer labels in total.
(i) Copy and complete the table below to show the number of pairs in each category. [2]
Designer labels No designer labels Total
High-heeled shoes
Low-heeled shoes
Sports shoes
Total 20
Carol chooses 1 pair of shoes at random to wear.
(ii) Find the probability that she wears the pair of low-heeled shoes with designer labels.
[1]
(iii) Find the probability that she wears a pair of sports shoes. [1]
(iv) Find the probability that she wears a pair of high-heeled shoes, given that she wears
a pair of shoes with designer labels. [2]
(v) State with a reason whether the events ‘Carol wears a pair of shoes with designer labels’
and ‘Carol wears a pair of sports shoes’ are independent. [2]
Carol chooses 1 pair of shoes at random each day.
(vi) Find the probability that she wears a pair of shoes with designer labels on at most 4
days out of the next 7 days. [3]
(b) Daniel wishes to buy some applications (apps) for his smartphone but he only has enough
money for 5 apps in total. There are 3 train apps, 6 social network apps and 14 games apps
available. Daniel wants to have at least 1 of each type of app. Find the number of different
possible selections of 5 apps that Daniel can choose. [4]
8. (a) State three conditions which must be satisfied for a situation to be modelled by a binomial
distribution. [2]
(b) At a certain hospital, it was found that the probability that a patient did not arrive for an
appointment was 0.4. The hospital carries out some publicity in the hope that this probability
will be reduced. They wish to test whether the publicity has worked. A suitable sample of 12
appointments is selected and the number of patients who do not arrive for an appointment is
noted. This figure is used to carry out a test at the 10% significance level.
(i) State null and alternative hypotheses. [1]
(ii) Find the critical region for the test and hence, find the probability of a Type 1 error.
[6]
(iii) In fact 4 patients out of the 12 do not arrive. State the conclusion of the test, explaining
your answer. [2]
In another random sample of 150 patients, 25 of them do not arrive for an appointment.
(iv) Using this sample, find an approximate 90% confidence interval for the proportion of
patients that do not arrive for an appointment. [4]
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