MURANG’A UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

SCHOOL OF PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCES

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND ACTUARIAL SCIENCE

UNIVERSITY ORDINARY EXAMINATION

2018/2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

SECOND SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR, B/Ed Science, B/Ed Arts, BSc.
M&Cs, BSc. M&E, BSc.Act.Sc., BIT, BSc.S.E and BSc. CS

AMS 101 – PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS 1

DURATION: 2 HOURS

DATE: 26/4/2019
TIME: 2.00pm-4.00pm

Instructions to candidates:

1. Answer question One and Any Other Two questions

2. Mobile phones are not allowed in the examination room.
3. You are not allowed to write on this examination question paper.

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 SECTION A: ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS IN THIS SECTION

QUESTION ONE (30 MARKS)

a) Differentiate between the following terms:

i) Population and sample 2marks

ii) A statistic and a parameter 2marks

iii) Independent events and mutually exclusive events 2marks

b) Differentiate between primary sources and secondary sources of data giving an example each
case. 4marks

c) The time taken by 50 students to finish a race was recorded to the nearest seconds as shown
below:

681 690 536 740 406 734 417 701 418 454
640 604 520 604 570 547 551 581 657 680
540 529 600 424 527 731 555 684 654 427
650 440 458 650 518 597 614 553 529 554
552 710 538 580 595 538 494 530 651 597

i) Construct grouped frequency distribution table for this data using class intervals of
400-449, 450-499,------- 2marks
ii) Using the frequency distribution obtained in (i), plot a histogram and a frequency
polygon for the data on the same chart. 4marks

d) The data below shows the amount of wages paid to the workers in a certain factory per day.

Wages per day (US Dollars) 3-7 8-12 13-17 18-22 23-27 28-32 33-37

No. of workers 4 10 20 36 16 12 2

Calculate :

i) Median 3marks
ii) Mean 2marks
iii) Variance 3marks

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e) In a factory machine A produces 30% of the output, machine B 25% of the output and C the
remaining 45%. 1% of the output of machine A is defective, 1.2% of B’s and 2% of C’s. In a
day’s run the three machines produce 10,000 items. An item drawn at random from a day’s
output is defective. What is the probability that it was produced by:

(i) machine A 2marks

(ii) machine B 2marks

(iii) machine C 2marks

SECTION B – ANSWER ANY TWO QUESTIONS IN THIS SECTION

QUESTION TWO (20 MARKS)

a) The hardness of synthetic viper (Y) produced is thought to be linearly related to the amount
(X) of a certain chemical supplement added to the raw materials while manufacturing it. The raw
materials were added various quantities of chemical supplement and the hardness of the synthetic
viper produced were measured for some time.
The results were as shown below.

X 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0

Y 29 40 46 42 52 44 69

i) Obtain a simple regression line of Y on X 10marks

ii) Using the results in (i), predict the amount of chemical supplement added to the raw materials
given the hardness of synthetic viper was 27. 2marks

d) Evaluate Pearson’s correlation coefficient for the following data and interpret the results.

8marks

X 1 3 4 6 8 9 11 14

Y 1 2 4 4 5 7 8 9

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QUESTION THREE (20 MARKS)

a) The table below shows the distribution of height to the nearest cm of 40 students.

HEIGHT 145-149 150-154 155-159 160-164 165-169 170-174 175-179

(cm)

frequency 2 5 16 9 5 2 1

Calculate:

i) Median Height 3marks

ii) Semi interquartile range 4marks
iii) 80th percentile 3marks
iv) 7th decile 3marks

b) The following table shows the number of casual workers, mean and standard deviations of
daily wages in Kshs. paid to the casual workers by three road construction firms.

Name of firm No. of employees Mean Standard deviation

Wang 100 850 15

Xui 180 600 25

Jong 120 900 27

Obtain the overall mean daily earnings and variance for all casual workers in the three
companies 7marks

QUESTION FOUR (20 MARKS)

a) Define the term probability

b) A husband and a wife appeared for an interview for two vacancies in the same office. The
probability of the husband being selected is 1/7 while that of the wife is 1/5.

a) What is the probability of both being taken 2marks

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 b) What is the probability that only one of them will be taken? 2marks
c) What is the probability that none of them will be selected? 2marks
d) Given that the lady has been selected, what is the probability of the man being selected?

2marks

e) The following data shows the score of students in a statistical test.

90-94 95-99 100-104 105-109 110-114 115-119 120-124 125-129

Score
8 10 13 7 4 3 3 2
f

Use an assumed mean of 107 to obtain

i) Mean score 4marks

ii) Mean deviation 3marks
iii) Standard deviation 3marks