FACULTY OF COMMUNICATION, VISUAL ART AND COMPUTING

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTING

COURSE CODE FMS1323

COURSE NAME STATISTICS
LECTURER MDM. SHAHIDA BINTI ABD. LATIF

ASSIGNMENT TITLE ASSIGNMENT

SUBMISSION DATE 21ST JULY 2023

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This assignments/experiments measures the student's ability for the following outcomes
QUESTION COURSE LEARNING OUTCOME MARKS
Q1 CLO 1 /10
Q2 CLO 2 /10
Q3 CLO 3 /10
TOTAL /30
QUESTION 1

Consider the field of study chosen obtained from a random sample of 50 school
leavers around Klang Valley as shown below.

A – Architecture B – Business C – Communication

E – Engineering F – Foundation I – IT

B F I B A A F F F F
E B C I B E C C B F
C E C A E I I E B B
F E C B C I I E E B
F B F F C I E E A E

a) Construct a frequency table for the chosen field.

(4 marks)

b) Calculate the relative frequency and the percentage distribution for each
field.
(4 marks)

c) Determine the percentage of the elements in this sample belongs to field ‘I’.
(2 marks)
QUESTION 2

Consider the population all youngsters (age 18-22) in Malaysia and the following events.

F = “the youngster has a Facebook account”

T = “the youngster has a Twitter account”

The following information is the result of an extensive survey.

70% of all youngsters have a Facebook account, 40% have a Twitter account and 20%
have both.

a) Calculate the probability that a youngster has only a Facebook account.

(2 marks)
b) Calculate the probability that a youngster has a Facebook or a Twitter account.
(2 marks)
c) Calculate the probability that a youngster has a Facebook and a Twitter account.
(2 marks)
d) Calculate the probability that a youngster has no Facebook nor a Twitter account.
(2 marks)
e) Are the events F and T independent?
(2 marks)
QUESTION 3
The table below shows the price of an adult single-day movie ticket (in RM) from the
selected movies in HBO. Calculate a 90% confidence interval for the variance of the ticket
price.
48 46 53 52 39 51 49 54 49 59

(10 marks)