Page 1 of 18

NAME (PRINT):
Last/Surname First /Given Name
STUDENT #: SIGNATURE:
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MISSISSAUGA
DECEMBER 2011 FINAL EXAMINATION
STA220H5F
The Practice of Statistics I
Olga Fraser
Duration - 3 hours
Aids: Non-Programmable Calculators; 8-1/2 x 11" aid sheet, both sides
STATISTICAL TABLES ARE PROVIDED ON PAGES 13 - 18
The University of Toronto Mississauga and you, as a student, share a commitment to
academic integrity. You are reminded that you may be charged with an academic offence
for possessing any unauthorized aids during the writing of an exam, including but not
limited to any electronic devices with storage, such as cell phones, pagers, personal digital
assistants (PDAs), iPods, and MP3 players. Unauthorized calculators and notes are also
not permitted. Do not have any of these items in your possession in the area of your desk.
Please turn the electronics off and put all unauthorized aids with your belongings at the
front of the room before the examination begins. If any of these items are kept with you
during the writing of your exam, you may be charged with an academic offence. A typical
penalty may cause you to fail the course.
Please note, you CANNOT petition to re-write an examination once the exam has begun.
Qn. # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total
Value 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 100
Mark
Page 2 of 18
STA220H5F NAME________________________________
[10 marks]
1. If the statement is true under all conditions circle T otherwise circle F.
a. A bar graph is used to describe a quantitative variable. T F
b. In a relative frequency histogram 0.5 of the area is above
the mean. T F
0
c. : = : T F
d. The hypergeometric random variable is continuous. T F
e. P(A c B) = P(A) + P(B) T F
f. We reject Ho if the p-value is less than ". T F
g. The mean of the chis-quare distribution equals its degrees
of freedom. T F
h. A large width is a good feature in a confidence interval. T F
i. Chebyshevs theorem holds for mound shaped distributions. T F
j. In a Confidence Interval for p SE is maximum when p^ = 0.5 T F
[10 marks]
2. A. According to researchers 30% of women have been a victim of
domestic abuse.
i. 5 WOMEN ARE RANDOMLY SELECTED from a very
large population. What is the probability that exactly 2 women
have been abused?
_______
ii. What is the probability that at most 1 of the 5 has been
abused?
_______
STA220H5F NAME_________________________________
Page 3 of 18
iii. If 150 women are randomly selected from this population, what is
the probability that at least 50 have been abused?
_______
iv. Show how you check to see if the normal approximation can be used
in part iii. above.
B. The random variable x has the following probability distribution:
x p(x)
1 0.5
2 0.4
3 0.1
i. Find E(x)
_______
ii. Find the standard deviation.
_______
iii. Find the mode.
_______
STA220H5F NAME_________________________________
Page 4 of 18
iv. Find the lower quartile.
_______
[10 marks]
3. A new running shoe has been developed and is being tested. Eight randomly
selected adults were asked to run a mile with their regular running shoes one day
and with the new type of shoes on a different day. Their running times in seconds
appear below.
Runner 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Regular shoe 321 307 397 269 285 364 295 302
New type shoe 318 299 401 260 285 363 289 295
A. Test at " = 0.05 if the running times are lower with the new type of shoes.
B. Find the p-value of the test.
________
C. Test at " = .05 to see if the variance in the times for the new shoes is less
than 25 seconds.
STA220H5F NAME_________________________________
Page 5 of 18
[10 marks]
4. The following are times in minutes of rats running through a maze.
1.97 0.60 1.15 2.02 1.74 2.75 1.06 1.71 2.47 0.23 1.65
0.99 0.87 1.23 1.85 1.10 2.22 0.73 2.11 1.44 2.89 0.33
A. Give the stem and leaf display of the data.
B. Find the median.
_______
C.
This is a boxplot of
blood glucose levels of
patients in a large
diabetes clinic.
i. Describe the shape of the data.
_________________________________
ii. The range of the data is
_______
iii. An estimate of the standard deviation is
_______
STA220H5F NAME_________________________________
Page 6 of 18
iv. The median is
_______
v. The second largest number in the data set is
_______
[10 marks]
5. In a study to investigate the effect of marriage on their careers, in a random sample
of 750 male managers 642 were married and of 250 female managers 110 were
married.
A. Test the hypothesis at " = 0.01 that there are more married male mangers
than female ones.
B. Use " = .01 to test the hypothesis that 40% of the female managers are
married.
STA220H5F NAME_________________________________
Page 7 of 18
C. Using a 95% confidence interval how large a sample is required to estimate
within 5% the proportion of female managers who have children.
_______
[10 marks]
6. In a random sample of 32 humerus bones the length-to-width ratio has a mean of
9.0 and standard deviation of 0.95.
A. Test at " = 0.05 whether the population mean ratio for all bones differs
from 8.5.
B. Find the p-value and show how to use it to make the conclusion of the test.
_______
C. Compute the 95% confidence interval for the mean.
_______ _______
STA220H5F NAME_________________________________
Page 8 of 18
D. Show how to use the confidence interval in part C. to make the conclusion
for the test in part A.
[10 marks]
7. The random variable x has a uniform distribution with c = 2 and d = 10.
A. What is the mean of x?
_______
B. What is the standard deviation of x?
_______
C. Find P(x < 8)
_______
D. If random samples of size 36 are selected from this uniform distribution
what is the mean of the sampling distribution of 0?
_______
E. If random samples of size 36 are selected from this uniform distribution
what is the standard error of the sampling distribution of 0?
_______
STA220H5F NAME_________________________________
Page 9 of 18
F. If a random sample of size 36 is selected from this uniform distribution and
its mean is computed what is the probability that this mean is less than 5?
_______
G. State with symbols to show that the sample variance is an unbiased
estimator of the population variance.
[10 marks]
8. A. A random sample of 49 observations is obtained and the standard deviation
is 15. The researcher will test at " = 0.05 that the mean of the population is
equal to 50 versus the alternative that it does not equal 50. If the true mean
of the population is 48 what is the probability of a type II error?
_______
STA220H5F NAME_________________________________
Page 10 of 18
B. The following is the cumulative probability distribution of the binomial
random variable x with n = 35 and p = 0.25
x cumulative x
0 0.00317
1 0.02431
2 0.09126
3 0.22516
4 0.41484
5 0.61717
6 0.78578
7 0.89819
8 0.95907
9 0.98614
10 0.99606
11 0.99906
12 0.99982
13 0.99997
14 1.00000
15 1.00000
i. P(x = 8) =
_______
ii. P(x # 7) =
_______
iii. P(x $ 5) =
_______
C. The random variable x has a normal distribution with : = 10 and F = 4.
i. Find P( 8 < z < 13)
_______
o o
ii. Find x so that P(x > x ) = 0.9222
_______
STA220H5F NAME_________________________________
Page 11 of 18
[10 marks]
9. A researcher is studying the difference in the pulse rates of smokers and nonsmokers.
Assume pulse rates are normally distributed. The data follows:
Nonsmokers Smokers
n = 14 n = 16
0 = 78 0 = 80
s = 8 s = 23
2 2
A. Test if the variances are equal at " = 0.05
B. Test if the means are equal at " = 0.05.
C. State the assumptions of the test in B.
STA220H5F NAME_________________________________
Page 12 of 18
[10 marks]
10. A. A portion of a random numbers table is given below.
42494 78770 69002 39336 79180 97526 43092 04098
59037 33300 26695 62247 69927 76123 50842 43834
We need to select a random sample of 6 students from a university with
9850 students. These students are numbered from 1 to 9150. Starting with
the first number in the table and going across the row show the numbers of
the students who would be selected.
B. If the population of a village is 78 and 4 people are randomly selected how
many different samples of size 4 are possible?
____________
C. What is the probability that any particular one of these samples from the
village is selected?
_______
D. i. Two events A and B are independent. P(A) = 0.2 and P(B) = 0.6
Find P(A 1 B)
_______
ii. Are A and B mutually exclusive? Show why.
_______
iii. Find P(A | B )
c
_______
THE MARKS ON THIS EXAM ADD UP TO 100