CIV2037F Additional Questions

1. As a coach, you randomly assigned your players to two teams. Team A trained the old
fashioned way. Team B is using computer-assisted training. The numbers in the columns
below are the minutes needed to run around the track once.

Team A Team B
11 1
7 3
6 4
12 3
12 6
8 4
18 3
12 4

a) Construct a H
1
and H
0
hypothesis for this data.
b) Compute a t-test with 95% confidence for the data above.
c) Which training method would you recommend? (draw from the results of your t-test
and conclude on your hypothesis)


2. X is a normally distributed variable with mean = 30 and standard deviation = 4. Find

a) P(x < 40)

b) P(x > 21)

c) P(30 < x < 35)

3. A genetics engineer was attempting to cross a tiger and a cheetah. She predicted a
phenotypic outcome of the traits she was observing to be in the following ratio:

4 stripes only
3 spots only
9 both stripes and spots

When the cross was performed and she counted the individuals she found 50 with stripes
only, 41 with spots only and 85 with both. According to the Chi-square test, did she get
the predicted outcome with 95% confidence?


4. As a merchant, you are interested in how well your coupons work. You randomly
assigned your customers to two groups. Half receive 10% off their next purchase, and
half receive a free movie ticket. Which is the better promotion? Below is the number of
people per day. Use a 99% confidence.

10%-Off Free-Movie
2 11
3 8
4 17
4 19
4 3
5 12
6 8
6 8

5. A radar unit is used to measure speeds of cars on a motorway. The speeds are normally
distributed with a mean of 90 km/h and a standard deviation of 10 km/h. What is the
probability that a car picked at random is travelling at more than 100 km/h?

6. What is the probability of finding 12 errors in a 200-page book if the printers have an
error rate of 0.075 errors per page? Assume that a Poisson Distribution may be used to
model the occurrence of errors. Use the formula provided below.
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k
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k p
k

7. For a certain type of computers, the length of time between charges of the battery is
normally distributed with a mean of 50 hours and a standard deviation of 15 hours. John
owns one of these computers and wants to know the probability that the length of time
will be between 50 and 70 hours.

8. Suppose X has a Poisson distribution with a mean of 2. Determine the following
probabilities

a) P(X = 0)
b) P(1 X < 3)
c) P(X 2)
d) P(X > 2)

9. Entry to a certain University is determined by a national test. The scores on this test are
normally distributed with a mean of 500 and a standard deviation of 100. Tom wants to
be admitted to this university and he knows that he must score better than at least 70% of
the students who took the test. Tom takes the test and scores 585. Will he be admitted to
this university?


10. A poker-dealing machine is supposed to deal cards at random, as if from an infinite deck.
In a test, you counted 1600 cards, and observed the following:

Spades 404
Hearts 420
Diamonds 400
Clubs 376

Could it be that the suits are equally likely? Or are these discrepancies too much to be
random with 99% confidence?
11. The length of similar components produced by a company is approximated by a normal
distribution model with a mean of 5 cm and a standard deviation of 0.02 cm. If a
component is chosen at random

a) What is the probability that the length of this component is between 4.98 and 5.02 cm?

b) What is the probability that the length of this component is between 4.96 and 5.04 cm?

12. A pump fails, on the average, once in every 500 hours of operation

a) Find the probability that the pump has more than one failure during a 500-hour period.
b) What is the probability of exactly 3 failures in 2000 hours of operation?