Math 120 Practice Final Exam Elementary Statistics 1. Arandom sample of 36 orders at a fast food restaurant was studied to determine the dollar amount (rounded to the nearest dollar) of the order. (Some orders included meals for more than one person.) The results were: 12 33 18 13 15, 2 23 17 9 11 5 7 NOt eos iiooitieg coer gitor iat nggueoltaeG 26 19 7 30 m% 10 8 29 28 12 4 21 a) Make a stem and leaf plot for these data. b) Make a box-and whisker plots for these data. Label the low and high values. Label the first and third quartiles and the median. c) Make a frequency table with six classes showing the class limits, class boundaries, frequencies, and cumulative frequencies. Class Limits Class Boundaries Frequency Cumulative Frequency ell d) Make a histogram with 6 classes. e) Find a point estimate for the average dollar amount spent and find a95% confidence interval for the average dollar amount of orders at this fast food restaurant. What does this confidence interval mean? (Use a complete sentence.)Practice Exam 2. Anarticle in the local paper claims that the average amount spent in a visit to a fast food restaurant is $20. Is the fast food restaurant in problem # 1 unusually cheap? (Conduct a hypothesis test to answer this question. Use a 5% level of significance.) Assume that the amount people spend is approximately normally distributed, a) Ho Hy b) Is this a right-tailed, two-tailed or left-tailed test? ©) Compute the z or t value of the sample test statistic. Show the appropriate computation. d) Find the p-value for the sample test statistic. Sketch of the appropriate curve and label the test statistic and p-value on the sketch. e) Based on your answers above, do you reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis? What do you conclude about the average cost at this restaurant? State your conclusion in nontechnical terms. 3. Ina market survey 100 randomly selected people were asked two questions. They were asked if they bought Sparkle toothpaste in the last month, and if they saw an ad for Sparkle on TV in the last month. The responses are in the accompanying table. Bought Sparkle Did not buy Sparkle | Row total Saw ad 32 33 ca Did not see ad 7 18 35 Column total 49 51 700 a) Find P(saw ad). a ___ b) Find P(bought Sparkle toothpaste given saw ad) b. ©) Find P(saw ad and bought Sparkle toothpaste). °Practice Exam 4, The probability that a truck will be going over the speed limit on I-80 between Cheyenne and Rock Springs is .75. Suppose that a random sample of § trucks is observed on this stretch of |- aerate een as probability distribution b. Find the standard deviation of this probability distribution. . What is the probability that exactly 3 of the 5 trucks are going over the speed limit? d. What is the probability that 2 or 3 of them are going over the speed limit? 5. In Manoa Valley on the island of Oahu the annual rainfall averages 43.6 inches with standard deviation 7.5 inches. a) For a given year, make a sketch and find the probability that the annual rainfall will be more than 53 inches b) Find the probability that the average rainfall over the past 5 years is more than 53 inches. 6. Atoll free computer software support line has established a target length of time for each customer help phone call. The calls are targeted to have a mean duration of 7 minutes with a standard deviation of 2 minutes. For one help technician the most recent 10 calls had the following duration. (12 points) Cal# 1.2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 4 4.8 Length 8 15 10 12°10 12 a. Make a control chart for the length of calls. Label points. b, Identify all out-of-control signals (high or low) that you find. . What is a possible interpretation of an out-of-control signal below the mean? d. What is a possible interpretation of an out-of-control signal above the mean?Practice Exam 7. Two athletes are training for the Boston Marathon. George is training on a hilly jogging loop along the Oregon coast. The local jogging club knows that for the general population of runners, the mean time to complete this loop is t = 167.4 minutes with standard deviation t= 25.9 minutes. George's time is 91.5 minutes. Fred is training on a longer, flat jogging loop in Florida. For the general population of runners it is known that the mean time to complete this loop is t = 143.1 minutes, with standard deviation t = 20.7 minutes. Fred's time is 86.2 minutes. Who do you think is in better condition? Explain using z-scores and a diagram. 8. ACPAis auditing the accounts of a large interstate banking system. Out of a random sample of 152 accounts it was found that 19 had transaction errors. Let p be the proportion of all such accounts with transaction errors. a) Find a point estimate for p. b) Find a 99% confidence interval for p. 9. Let x be a random variable that represents the weights in kilograms (kg) of healthy adult female deer (does)from Mesa Verde park. Then x has a distribution that is approximately normal with 1 = 63.0 kg and standard deviation o= 7.1 kg. A doe is considered to be malnourished if it weighs less than 54 kg. a) If the doe population is healthy, what is the probability that a single dee captured, (weighed and released) at random weighs less than 54 kg? b) What is the probability that the mean weight of a random sample of 50 does is less that 54 kg if the does are healthy? ©) It is thought that the deer in Yellowstone are larger than those in Mesa Verde. Ifa random sample of 36 does from Yellowstone has a mean weight of 64 kg, find a 95% confidence interval for the mean weight of Yellowstone does. Assume o= 7.1 kg. Show all calculations. d) Construct a hypothesis test to determine whether the Yellowstone does are, in fact, larger. Show all calculations. Use a 1% level of significancePractice Exam 10. Highlands State College is doing a study to determine if fees for course schedule changes have any effect on the number of course schedule changes that students make during the drop/add period. A random sample of student schedules showed the following data. Use a 1% level of significance to test the claim that the number of course schedule changes is independent of the fee change. [ Schedule No fee $25 fee Total No changes 125 135 260 Changes 75 65 140 l Total 200 200 400 a) Ho: Hy: b) Which sampling distribution should you use; standard normal or Student's t or X°?. Why? ©) Sketch the critical region with the critical values shown, d) Compute the value of the sample test statistic and show its location on the sketch above. (Show how you would set up the equation, but let your calculator do the work.) ) Find the p-value for the sample test statistic. f) Based on your answers above, do you reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis? State your conclusion in nontechnical terms. What conclusion do you make about course changes and fees?Practice Exam 11. Let x be the age of a licensed automobile driver. Let y be the percentage of all fatal accidents for a given age due to speeding. For example, the first data pair indicates that 36% of all fatal accidents of 17-year olds are due to speeding. (20 points) MeeeEg a eore cuar ay arisge Ore erg, Vas aoitcdoa ecuaDE aia andr ar ito a) Draw a scatter diagram for the data. Label. b) Find the point (x,y) and plot it on the graph above. Label. ©) Find the equation of the least squares line. (Use your calculator) 4) For drivers 30 years old, what is the predicted percentage of fatal accidents that are due to speeding. (Show your work below.) Plot that point on your graph and label. €) Draw the least-squares regression line on your graph ) Describe the strength of the linear relationship between x and y. Explain using r. 12. 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