Homework Assignment (10%)

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Q#1 The value of Young’s module (GPa) was determined fore cast plates consisting of certain intermetallic
substrates resulting in the following sample observations:
116.4 115.9 114.6 115.2 115.8
Calculate the following:
a) Mean
b) Median
c) Mode
d) Standard deviation
e) P75
f) Range
g) Midrange
Q#2 Grip is applied to produce normal surface forces that compress the object being gripped. The following
data is on grip strength (N) for a sample of 42 individuals:
16 18 18 26 33 41 54 56 66 68 87 91 95
98 106 109 111 118 127 127 135 145 147 149 151 168
172 183 189 190 200 210 220 229 230 233 238 244 259
294 329 403
a) Construct a boxplot based on the five number summary.
b) Outliers? Why?

Q#3 Consider the experiment of flipping a balanced coin three times independently.
Let X= Number of heads – Number of tails.
Find the following:
a) Distribution probability
b) Mean
c) Standard deviation
d) P ( 0 < x ≤ 2 )
Q#4 The data represent the marks of 25 student in the final exam:

19 25 37 42 39
47 35 12 22 20
33 30 40 26 36
26 28 36 32 48
37 15 31 26 38

a) Construct a grouped frequency distribution for the data using 5 classes?

b) Construct a histogram, stem and leaf plot for the data ?
Q#5 When circuit boards used in the manufacture of compact disc players are tested, the long-run
percentages of defectives is 5%. Let X=the number of defective boards in a random sample of size
n=25.
a) Determine 𝑃𝑃(𝑋𝑋 ≤ 2)
b) Determine 𝑃𝑃(𝑋𝑋 ≥ 5)
c) Determine 𝑃𝑃(1 ≤ 𝑋𝑋 ≤ 4)
d) Calculate the expected value and standard deviation of X.

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Q#6 In a recent survey of 750 people, 600 people claimed to watch football. Construct a 95% confidence
interval for the population proportion of people who watch football.
Q#7 Suppose that p=P(male birth)=0.5. A couple wishes to have exactly two female children in their family.
They will have children until this condition is fulfilled.
a) What is the probability that the family has four children?
b) What is the probability that the family has at most four children?
Q#8 The EEI has published figures on the number of kilowatts used annually. It is claimed that a vacuum
cleaner uses and average of 46 kilowatts hours per day. If a random sample of 12 homes, the average
usage of 42 kilowatt per hour, and has standard deviation of 11.9 kilowatts per hour, does this suggest at
the 0.05 significance that the vacuum cleaners, on average, use less than 46 kilowatt hours ? Assume
normal distribution.

Q#9 Heights of men are normally distributed with a mean of 75 in and a standard deviation of 3.5 in.

a) Find the probability of randomly selecting a man with a height of less than 72 in.
b) Find the probability of randomly selecting a man with a height of greater than 74 in.
c) Find the probability of randomly selecting a man with a height that is between 71 in. and 77 in.
d) Find the height separating the bottom 90% from the top 10%.
e) Find the height separating the bottom 5% from the top 95%.
f) Find the probability that if a group of 16 men are selected, their average height will be less than
72 in.
g) Find the probability that if a group of 16 men are selected, their average height will be greater
than 74 in.
h) h. Find the probability that if a group of 16 men are selected, their average height will be
between 71 in. and 77 in.
Q#10 The superintendent of a golf course believes that the mean score for professional golfers on his course is
above 72. He randomly samples the scores of 40 professional golfers from the last tournament. Here are
the scores.
69 67 69 71 75 78 70 71 72 74 72 76 69 76 70 77 78 79 72 71
75 75 75 78 71 64 71 68 72 71 73 72 73 71 71 75 72 72 78 75
Construct a 95% confidence interval for the mean score for all professional golfers on this course.
(note: ∑ 𝑥𝑥𝑖𝑖 =2908, ∑ 𝑥𝑥 2 =211,850)

Q#11 A journal article reports that a sample of size 5 was used as a basis for calculating at 95% CI for the true
average natural frequency (Hz) of delaminated beams of a certain type. The resulting interval was
(229.764, 233.504). Assume the population is normal. You decide that a confidence level of 99% would
be more appropriate than a 95% level used. What are the limits of the 99% interval?
Q#12 Find the required sample size needed to make a 99% confidence interval for the population proportion if
the margin of error can be no more than 5%.
a) Assume you may use 𝑝𝑝̂ =.40
b) Assume you have no information about 𝑝𝑝̂
Q#13 The Carolina Tobacco Company advertises that its best selling cigarette contain at most 40 mg of
nicotine, but Consumer Advocate magazine conducts tests of 10 randomly selected cigarettes and find
that 𝑥𝑥̅ = 43.3 𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚 𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 𝑠𝑠 = 3.8𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚. Other evidence suggests that the distribution of nicotine content is a
normal distribution. With a significance level of ∝ = 0.01 in testing the company’s claim that the mean
nicotine content is at most 40mg.

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