HOLY ANGEL UNIVERSITY

School of Nursing and Allied Medical Sciences

NUBIOSTAT (Biostatistics)

Assignment 5
Statistical Inference

1. What is the probability of drawing a spade from a normal, shuffled deck of 52 cards? What is
the probability of drawing five spades in a row (i.e., the probability of getting a flush in 5-card
poker)? 2 points

2. Draw a histogram that graphs the probability of drawing a spade, a club, a heart or a diamond
from a normal deck of 52 cards. Shade in the area showing the probability of drawing a red card.
6 points

3. Given a normal distribution of scores with a mean of 100 and an SD of 10, compute z scores
for the following score values: 95, 115, 80, 130. 1 point

4. Based on Figure 5.2, which shows a normal distribution of children’s heights with a mean of
60.0 and an SD of 5.0, approximately what is the probability of randomly selecting a child whose
height is less than 50 inches? (Use tabled values for the normal distribution in Table A.1.) 3
points

5. If a sampling distribution of the mean had an SEM equal to 0.0, what would this suggest about
the sample means drawn from the population--and about the scores in the population? 3 points

6. Compute the mean, the standard deviation, and the estimated standard error of the mean for
the following sample data: 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 7,7. (3points)

7. Population A and Population B both have a mean height of 70.0 inches with an SD of 6.0. A
random sample of 30 people is selected from Population A, and a random sample of 50 people is
selected from Population B. Which sample mean will probably yield a more accurate estimate of
its population mean? Why? 5 points