Elementary Statistics

Assignment 4 Question Paper

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Full marks: 30 marks "

Show your calculations. Correct your answer to 4 decimal places when applicable.

Question 1 (10 marks)

…
It is known that the width of plastics folders produced by a machine is normally distributed with mean
of 20 cm and standard deviation of 0.15 cm.

(a) Find the 80th percentile of the width of plastics folders.

(b) For 18 randomly selected plastics folders, what is the probability that exactly 10 of them with
⼀
width greater than 20 cm?

Question 2 (20 marks)

A College wants to conduct a survey in order to find out the study pattern of its students. The
population mean time (hours) of study per week is unknown with the population standard deviation
is given to be 9 hours. It is assumed that the time of study is normally distributed. A random sample
of 8 students is selected and their time of study (hours) per week are:

⑩⑩②⑤③⑤⑧
10, 18, 50,
—
—
— 45, —
32, 25, 48, 20

(a) Find the median, first and third quartiles of the sample.

(b) What is the skewness of the data. State your reason.

(c) Give a point estimate of the population mean time (hours) of study per week.

(d) Construct a 95% confidence interval estimate for the population mean time of study of the
College students.

(e) It is targeted to have the point estimate to be within ±5 hours of the population mean time of
study of the College students at 95% confidence level. How large should be the sample size?
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