MTH3003

Semester 1, Session 2018/2019

MTH3003
SECOND SEMESTER SESSION 2016/17
TUTORIAL 4

1. Find these probabilities for the standard normal random variable 𝑧:

(a) 𝑃(𝑧 < 2.33)
(b) 𝑃(𝑧 < 1.645)
(c) 𝑃(𝑧 > 1.96)
(d) 𝑃(−2.58 < 𝑧 < 2.58)

2. Find a 𝑧 such that:

(a) 𝑃(𝑧 > 𝑧 ) = 0.025
(b) 𝑃(−𝑧 < 𝑧 < 𝑧 ) = 0.8262

3. A normal random variable 𝑥 has mean 𝜇 = 10 and standard deviation 𝜎 = 2. Find the
probabilities of these 𝑥-values:
(a) 𝑥 > 13.5
(b) 𝑥 < 8.2
(c) 9.4 < 𝑥 < 10.6

4. A normal random variable 𝑥 has an unknown mean and standard deviation. The
probability that 𝑥 exceeds 4 is 0.9772, and the probability that 𝑥 exceeds 5 is 0.9332.
Find 𝜇 and 𝜎.

5. Suppose that the amount of money spent at shopping centers between 4 and 6PM on
Sundays has a normal distribution with a mean of $85 and standard deviation of $10. A
shopper is randomly selected on a Sunday between 4 to 6PM and asked about his
spending pattern.
(a) What is the probability that he has spent more than $90 at the mall?
(b) What is the probability that he has spent between $90 and $100 at the mall?
(c) If two shoppers are randomly selected, what is the probability that both shoppers
have spent more than $100 at the mall?

 6. Let 𝑥 be a binomial random variable with 𝑛 = 25 and 𝑝 = 0.3.
(a) Is the normal approximation appropriate for this binomial random variable?
(b) Find the mean and standard deviation for 𝑥
(c) Use the normal approximation to find 𝑃(6 ≤ 𝑥 ≤ 9)

7. In a certain population, 15% of the people have Rh-negative blood. A blood bank serving this
population receives 92 blood donors on a particular day.
(a) What is the probability that 10 or fewer are Rh-negative?
(b) What is the probability that 15 to 20 (inclusive) of the donors are Rh-negative?
(c) What is the probability that more than 80 of the donors are Rh-positive?

8. The daily sales total (excepting Saturday) at a small restaurant has a probability
distribution that is approximately normal, with a mean 𝜇 equal to $1230 per day and a
standard deviation 𝜎 equal to $120.
(a) What is the probability that the sales will exceed $1400 for a given day?
(b) The restaurant must have at least $1000 in sales per day to break even. What is
the probability that on a given day the restaurant will not break even?

9. A soft drink machine can be regulated to discharge an average of 𝜇 ounces per cup. If the ounces
of fill are normally distributed, with standard deviation equal to 0.3 ounce, give the setting for
𝜇 so that 8-ounce cups will overflow only 1% of the time.

10.It is known that 30% of all calls coming into a telephone exchange are long-distance calls. If 200
calls come into the exchange, what is the probability that at least 50 will be long-distance calls?

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