Revision questions:

1. Two hundred staff were randomly selected from a company and their salaries were
presented using two charts, as shown in the following.

(a) What is the median salary of these 200 staff?

(b) Find the range and interquartile range of the salaries.
(c) What are the cut-off salaries for the bottom 25% and top 25% earners?
(d) Is there any outlier salary? What are the values of the fences?
(e) How many staff earn between $1800 and $2000?
(f) Andrew earns $1600. At which percentile is his salary?
(g) What is the shape of the distribution of salaries?

2. A scientist planted alfalfa on several plots of land, identical except for the soil pH. The
data collected and shown below give the yields (in kilograms per acre) for each plot.
The scatterplot and correlation coefficient are also produced below.
pH Yield

4.6 479

4.8 831

5.2 739

5.4 840

5.6 809

5.8 1201

6.0 967

r = 0.78
 (a) Which is the explanatory variable and which is the response variable?
(b) Comment on the relationship between variables pH and yield.

3. Cyanosis is the condition of having bluish skin due to insufficient oxygen in the blood.
About 80% of the babies born with cyanosis recover fully. A hospital is caring for five
babies born with cyanosis. The random variable X represents the number of babies that
fully recover from cyanosis.
(a) What is the mean number of babies who fully recover from cyanosis?
(b) What is the probability that more than 3 babies fully recover from cyanosis?
(c) Is it rare that none of the babies fully recover from cyanosis?

4. Suppose that the random variable X is normally distributed with mean µ = 86 and
standard deviation σ = 5. Find P(75 < X < 95).

5. Find the desired z-scores given the following probability, P(Z < l) = 0.271.

6. The mass of a bag of cookies is normally distributed with mean 450 g and standard
deviation 15 g. Bags of cookies that have mass in the upper 7.5% are too heavy and
must be repackaged. What is the maximum allowable mass a bag of cookies can be such
that repackaging is not required?

7. The weight of male students attending a large polytechnic is approximately normally

distributed with 𝜇 = 68 kg and 𝜎 = 5 kg. If twenty male students are crowded into the
lift, what is the probability that the lift’s maximum capacity of 1400 kg would be
exceeded? Explain the meaning of the probability computed.

8. In a factory, a sample of 50 resistors are randomly selected to estimate the true mean
resistance of resistors produced by the factory. The 99% confidence interval for true
mean resistance is computed to be between 98.6  and 101.3.
(a) What is the mean resistance of the sample?
(b) What is the margin of error?
(c) What is the standard error of the sample mean resistance?