UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE

EBCS 1514 & EFBC 2514

DEPARTMENT: MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS AND ACTUARIAL SCIENCE

Assessor: Dr. L. da Silva Moderator: Mrs. E.

Girmay
Test 1 15 March
2024
Time : 2 hours Total :
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SECTION A [ 21 x 2 = 42 ]
INSTRUCTIONS:
 The following 21 questions are multiple choice questions and must be answered
on the optical form provided.
 USE A DARK PENCIL to complete the optical form.

1. For each of the following indicate the variable of interest would be qualitative:
1) Whether you are a South African citizen
2) Your marital status
3) Number of cars in a parking lot
4) Amount of time you spend per week on your homework
5) Lily’s travel time from her apartment to the UFS
6) Heidi’s favourite brand of tennis balls.

Which one of the following statements is incorrect in relation to statements above?

a) (1) and (2) only
b) (2) and (6) only
c) (3); (4) and (5) only*
d) (4) and (5) only
e) (1); (2) and (6)
f) None of the above

2. Consider the following random variable and indicate the data type:

The number of minutes it takes to read a page

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a) Nominal
b) Ordinal
c) Discrete*
d) Continuous
e) None of the above

3. Consider the following random variable and indicate the data type:

The position a student finishes a race.

a) Nominal
b) Ordinal*
c) Discrete
d) Continuous
e) None of the above

4. Given a population of 2250, select a systematic sample of 20 with a starting point

of 29. What is the value of the third sample observation?
a) 29
b) 255*
c) 142
d) 112.5
e) 368
f) none of the above

5. The table below represent the marks obtained by mathematics students in a test.
The data is in ascending order and none of the students obtained the same
marks.
STUDENT ALBERTINA BRENDA CARLOS DONALD ELSIE FRANCINAH GEORGE
MARKS A B 65 C 73 D 82

Suppose the range is 35, the median is 69, the difference between the third quartile
and the median is 9 and the difference between the median and the first quartile is
10. What is the value of A?
a) 47*
b) 69
c) 73
d) 9
e) 59
f) 78
g) None of the above

6. The table below represent the marks obtained by mathematics students in a test.
The data is in ascending order and none of the students obtained the same
marks.
STUDENT ALBERTINA BRENDA CARLOS DONALD ELSIE FRANCINAH GEORGE
MARKS A B 65 C 73 D 82
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 Suppose the range is 35, the median is 69, the difference between the third
quartile and the median is 9 and the difference between the median and the first
quartile is 10. What is the value of B?

a) 47
b) 69
c) 73
d) 9
e) 59*
f) 78
g) None of the above

7. The table below represent the marks obtained by mathematics students in a test.
The data is in ascending order and none of the students obtained the same
marks.
STUDENT ALBERTINA BRENDA CARLOS DONALD ELSIE FRANCINAH GEORGE
MARKS A B 65 C 73 D 82

Suppose the range is 35, the median is 69, the difference between the third
quartile and the median is 9 and the difference between the median and the first
quartile is 10. What is the value of D?

a) 47
b) 69
c) 73
d) 9
e) 59
f) 78*
g) none of the above

8. A survey was conducted of citizens over 60 years of age who cannot afford a
medical aid. The ages of 15 senior citizens were as follows:
61 76 66 81 92 68 73 85
62 74 90 63 81 87 64

What is the mean age of senior citizens?

a) 74.8667*
b) 73.5
c) 65.5
d) 81.5
e) 75
f) none of the above

9. A survey was conducted of citizens over 60 years of age who cannot afford a
medical aid. The ages of 15 senior citizens were as follows:
61 76 66 81 92 68 73 85
62 74 90 63 81 87 64

What is the position of the third quartile for this data set?
a) 74.8667
b) 85

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c) 64
d) 12*
e) 74
f) none of the above

10. A survey was conducted of citizens over 60 years of age who cannot afford a
medical aid. The ages of 15 senior citizens were as follows:
61 76 66 81 92 68 73 85
62 74 90 63 81 87 64

What is the standard deviation?

a) 10.6762*
b) 42.9150
c) 8.75
d) 6.5510
e) 113.9810
f) none of the above

11. A survey was conducted of citizens over 60 years of age who cannot afford a
medical aid. The ages of 15 senior citizens were as follows:
61 76 66 81 92 68 73 85
62 74 90 63 81 87 64

What is the coefficient of variation?

a) 6.5510
b) 42.9150
c) 14.2603*
d) 10.6762
e) 113.9810
f) none of the above

12. A survey was conducted of citizens over 60 years of age who cannot afford a
medical aid. The ages of 15 senior citizens were as follows:
61 76 66 81 92 68 73 85
62 74 90 63 81 87 64

What percentage of the senior citizens sampled are younger than 81 years of age.
a) 73%
b) 60%*
c) 65.5%
d) 26.7%
e) 40%
f) none of the above

13. A container has 13 marbles of which 2 are blue, 6 are white, and 5 are black. If two
marbles are selected at random one after the other with replacement, what is the
probability that both marbles will be white?

a) -0.1512
b) 0.2130*
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c) 0.1296
d) 0.1923
e) 1.0065
f) -0.1373
g) None of the above

14. A container has 13 marbles of which 2 are blue, 6 are white, and 5 are black. If two
marbles are selected at random one after the other without replacement, what is the
probability that at least one marble will be blue?

a) -0.1512
b) 0.1538
c) 0.1282
d) 0.0196
e) 0.7051
f) 0.2949*
g) None of the above

15. The following table represents gas well completions during 1986 in North and
South America:
Dry (A) Not Dry (B) Total
North America (C) ?? 31 45
South America (D) 15 ?? ??
Total 29 ?? 70

Determine: P(A and C)

a) 0.4143
b) 0.2*
c) 0.5857
d) 0.80
e) 1.0571
f) none of the above

16. The following table represents gas well completions during 1986 in North and
South America:
Dry (A) Not Dry (B) Total
North America (C) ?? 31 45
South America (D) 15 ?? ??
Total 29 ?? 70

Determine: P(D | B)
a) 0.575
b) 0.425
c) 0.6939
d) 0.46
e) 0.2439*
f) none of the above

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17. The following table represents gas well completions during 1986 in North and
South America:
Dry (A) Not Dry (B) Total
North America (C) ?? 31 45
South America (D) 15 ?? ??
Total 29 ?? 70

Determine: P(B or D)
(a) 0.3571
(b) 1.0
(c) 0
(d) 0.80*
(e) 0.9429
(f) none of the above

18. The following table represents gas well completions during 1986 in North and
South America:
Dry (A) Not Dry (B) Total
North America (C) ?? 31 45
South America (D) 15 ?? ??
Total 29 ?? 70

Determine: P(D)
(a) 0.3571*
(b) 1.0
(c) 0
(d) 0.80
(e) 0.9429
(f) none of the above

19. The following table represents gas well completions during 1986 in North and
South America:
Dry (A) Not Dry (B) Total
North America (C) ?? 31 45
South America (D) 15 ?? ??
Total 29 ?? 70

Determine: P(B | C) if events C and B are independent.

(a) 0.5857*
(b) 0.8
(c) 0.9429
(d) 0.2
(e) 0.6889
(f) none of the above

20. The following table represents gas well completions during 1986 in North and
South America:
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 Dry (A) Not Dry (B) Total
North America (C) ?? 31 45
South America (D) 15 ?? ??
Total 29 ?? 70

Determine: P(D | A) if events D and A are mutually exclusive.

(a) 0.098
(b) 0*
(c) 0.902
(d) 0.8
(e) 0.6429
(f) none of the above

21. In a negatively skewed distribution, the :

(a) mean is greater than the median and the median is smaller than the mode.
(b) mean is smaller than the median and the median is smaller than the mode.*
(c) mean is smaller than the median and the median is greater than the mode.
(d) mean is greater than the median and the median is greater than the mode.
(e) None of the above

SECTION B [ 24 ]

Answer this section in the answer book provided.

QUESTION 1 [ 18 ]

The following table gives the frequency distribution of the daily commuting time (in
minutes) from home to work for the employees of a certain company:

Daily commuting time Number of Cumulative number of

(in minutes) employees employees

[ 0 -10 ) 4

[ 10 – 20 ) 9

[ 20 – 30 ) ? 19

[ 30 – 40 ) ? 23

[ 40 – 50 ) 2

Determine:

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1.1 The average commuting time (in minutes) from home to work for the employees
of this company.
(3)

1.2 The third percentile of the commuting time (in minutes) from home to work for the
employees of this company. (3)

1.3 The variance of the commuting time (in minutes) from home to work for the
employees of this company. (3)

1.4 What is the range for this distribution?

(1)

1.5 Give the relative frequency for the interval [ 20 – 30 ) (2)

1.6 Determine the mode graphically (2)

1.7 What distribution does this dataset have? (2)

1.8 Draw a frequency polygon of above dataset. (2)

MEMO

Daily commuting xi Number of Cumulative number

time (in minutes) employees of employees

[ 0 -10 ) 5 4 4

[ 10 – 20 ) 15 9 13

[ 20 – 30 ) 25 6 19

[ 30 – 40 ) 35 4 23

[ 40 – 50 ) 45 2 25
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1.1 x= 25 √ = 21.4 √
√
(¿ 535 ¿ )

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1.2 = 0.75 use interval (0 – 10)
100
( 25 )
→

P3 = 0 + ( 10−0 ) (0.75− 0) √
√
= 1.875 √
4

1.3 s2 = 1 ( 14825 - 1 (535)2 ) √

√
= 140.6667 √
24 25

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1.4 50 – 0 = 50 √

1.5 6 = 0.24 √
√
25

1.6 Mo = 16 (see graph) √

√

1.7 21.4 > 19.4444 > 16 Positive skew distribution

→ √
√

1.8 see graph √

√

Mo =16 √
√
Frequency (fi)

QUESTION 2 [7]

The marks of students in EFBC 2514 are normally distributed with a mean of 52 and
a standard deviation of 5. Use the empirical rule, and answer the following ques-
tions:

2.1 What is the estimated percentage of the marks of students that will score be-
tween 47 and 62?
(2)
34% + 95% / 2 = 81.5% √
Intervals
√

QUESTION 2 [6]

The marks of students in EFBC 2514 are normally distributed with a mean of 55 and
a variance of 25. Use the empirical rule, and answer the following questions:

2.1 What is the estimated percentage of the marks of students that will score be-
tween 50 and 55?
(2)

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34% √
√

2.2 What is the estimated percentage of the marks of students that will score be-
tween 65 and 70?
(2)
99.7 / 2% - 95% / 2 = 2.35% √
√

2.3 What is the estimated percentage of the marks of students that will score less
than 45? (2)

50% - 95% / 2 √ = 2.5% √

√

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