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SMK PENDING
TRIAL EXAMINATION I 2019
MALAYSIA HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATE

Instructions to candidates:

DO NOT OPEN THIS QUESTION PAPER UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO.

Answer all questions in Section A.

Answer one question only in Section B. You may answer all the questions but, only the first
answer will be marked.
Write the answers in the answer sheets provided. Begin each answer on a fresh answer sheet.
All working should be shown.
Non-exact numerical answers may be given correct to three significant figures, or one decimal
place in the case of angles in degrees, unless a different level of accuracy is specified in the question.
Answers may be written in either English or Bahasa Malaysia.

Prepared by: Checked by: Approved by:

…………………… ………………… …………………

Loo Siaw Choon Sii Ai Sian Fu Yung Yung
Subject Teacher Subject teacher 6th Form Senior Assistant

This question paper consists of 7 printed pages.

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Section A [45 marks]

Answer all questions in this section.

1. One hundred students sat for a test. The times taken by the students to complete the test are
summarized in the table below.

Time (t) Number of students

0  t  25 20
25  t  35 11
35  t  40 27
40  t  60 15
60  t  90 15
90  t  100 12

(a) Calculate the mean time taken, to one decimal place. [3 marks]
(b) Draw a histogram to display the above data. [4 marks]

2. A box contains 2 green apples and 2 red apples. Apples are taken from the box, one at a time,
without replacement. When both red apples have been taken, the process stops. The random
variable X is the number of apples which have been taken when the process stops.
1
(i) Show that P  X  3   . [2 marks]
3
(ii) Draw up the probability distribution table for X. [2 marks]

Another box contains 2 yellow peppers and 5 orange peppers. Three peppers are taken at
random from the box without replacement.
(iii) Given that at least 2 of the peppers taken from the box are orange, find the probability
that all 3 pepper are orange. [3 marks]

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3. The time in minutes taken by people to read a certain booklet is modelled by a random
variable T with the probability density function given by

 1
 , 4  t  9,
f t    2 t
 0, otherwise


(i) Find the time within which 90% of people finish reading the booklet. [3 marks]
(ii) Find E T  and Var T  . [6 marks]

4. The average lifetime of a light bulb is 3000 hours with a standard deviation of 696 hours. A
simple random sample of 36 bulbs is taken.

(a) What are the expected value, standard deviation, and shape of the sampling
distribution of x ? [3 marks]
(b) What is the probability that the average life time in the sample will be between
2670.56 and 2809.76 hours? [3 marks]
(c) How large of a sample needs to be taken to provide a 0.01 probability that the average
life time in the sample will be equal to or greater than 3219.24 hours [3 marks]

5. A magazine wants to launch an online version, but only if more than 20% of its subscribers
would subscribe to it. A random survey of 400 subscribers indicated that 90 of them would
be interested. Perform a test, at the 5% significance level, to determine whether the online
version magazine will be launch or not. [5 marks]

6. The results of a random sample of children with pain from musculoskeletal injuries treated
with acetaminophen, ibuprofen or codeine are shown in the table below.

Acetaminophen Ibuprofen Codeine

Significant improvement 58 81 61
Slight improvement 42 19 39

Perform a test at the 10% significance level, to determine whether the treatment and result are
independent. [8 marks]

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Section B [15 marks]

Answer one question only in this section.

7. The score on an IQ test obtained from a random sample of 24 participants are shown below.

46 23 69 42 41 95 40 23 39 52 20 65

88 51 22 48 37 41 25 37 38 59 59 68

(a) Display the above data in an order stemplot and state the median. [4 marks]
(b) Find the mean and standard deviation of the data. [3 marks]
(c) Draw a boxplot to represent the data. [4 marks]
(d) State whether the mean or median is more suitable as a measure of location to
represent the data. Justify your answer. [2 marks]
(e) Calculate the Pearson of skewness and comment your answer. [2 marks]

8. During observations on the height of 200 students the following data were observed.

150 – 155 – 160 – 165 – 170 – 175 – 180 – 185 – 190 –

Height/cm
154 159 164 169 174 179 184 189 194
Frequency 4 6 12 30 64 52 18 10 4

(a) Test at 0.05 level to see if the height of the students could be modelled by a normal
distribution with mean 172 and standard deviation 6. [12 marks]
(b) Describe how you would modify this test if the mean and the standard deviation were
unknown. [3 marks]

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MATHEMATICAL FORMULAE

Summary statistics
For ungrouped data
 x r  x r 1  k 
 , if r    n is an integer
kth percentile =  2  100 
 xr ,  k 
 
if r    n is not an integer
  100 

 x  x  x
2 2

Standard deviation    x2
n n
For grouped data
 k  
  100 n  F 
 
kth percentile = Lk   c
 fk 
 
 

 f x  x   fx
2 2

Standard deviation    x2
f f
Probability distributions
Binomial distribution
 n
P X  x     p x 1  p  , x  0, 1, 2,..., n
n x

 x
Poisson distribution
e   x
P X  x   , x  0, 1, 2,...
x!

Chi-squared tests
Test statistic
k
Oi  Ei 
2

 
2

i 1 Ei

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