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PAUL’S UNIVERSITY

Course BIO-STATISTICS II
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Total marks. 30
Assignment 2 Fall 2014
Question 1 10 Marks
A population of 500 children has a mean 1Q Score of 100 and a standard deviation of 20
points. If a random sample of 30 children is selected, what is the probability that the
mean 1Q of the group exceeds 110?

Solution:

As
N = 500
  100
  20

We have to find P ( x  110) =?

So,
 
 x   110  100 
P ( x  110)  P   
  20 
 
 n 30 
 
 10 
 PZ  
 20 
 
 30 
 P  Z  2.74 
P  Z  2.74   P(0  Z  )  P(0  Z  2.74)
 0.500  0.4969
 0.0031

Question 2 10 Marks
A certain change in a process for manufacturing of component parts is being considered.
Samples are taken using both the existing and the new procedures so as to determine if
the new process results in an improvement. If 75 of 1500 items from the existing
procedures are found to be defective and 80 of 2000 items from the new procedures were
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found to be defective, find a 90% confidence interval for the true difference in the
fraction of defectives between existing and the new process.

Solution:
100(1   )%  90%
100(1   )  90
1    0.90
  1  0.90
  0.10
 0.10
  0.05
2 2

As ,
x1  75 x2  80
n2  1500 n2  2000
P1  0.05 P2  0.04
q1  1  P1 q2  1  P2
 1  0.05 q2  1  0.04
 0.95  0.96
90% confidence in equal for ( P1  P2 ) is
Pq Pq
( P1  P2 )Z  1 1
 2 2
z n1 n2
0.05  0.95 0.04  0.96
 (0.05  0.04) 1.645 
1500 2000
 0.011.645 0.00003167  0.0000192
 0.011.645  0.007132
 0.010.01173
 (0.00173  P1  P2  0.02173)

Question 3 10 Marks
The owner of a shopping mall wants to estimate the mean length of time shoppers spend
in the mall. He wants the estimate to be within 5 minutes of the true mean time, with a
98% level of confidence. The estimate of the standard deviation of the length of time
spent in the mall is 20 minutes. How large a sample is needed?

Solution:
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100(1   )%  98%
(1   )  0.98
  1  0.98
  0.02
 0.02
  0.01
2 2
By using area table Z   2.33
2
The error in estimating  will be less than e.
So
e  5 min
  20 min
so,
2
 Z   
n 2 
 e 
 
2
 2.33  20 
n 
 5 
n  86.86
n  87