AP Statistics Ch: Random Variabl or problems 1 pter 6 Practice Test Name_ Sette. Ss Per __ Date Part 1: Multiple Choice. Circle the letter corresponding to the best answer. ind 2: Patients receiving artificial knees often experience pain after surgery. The pain is measured on/a subjective scale with possible values of 1 (low) to 5 (high). Let X be the pain score for a randomly selected patient. The following table gives part of the probabllty distribution for X. 1 2 3 4 5 PX) | 04 0-2 |S ena 0. | TT 1. whats fhe probably ata randomly chosan Galen Fas & pa ve of ee or higher? (a) 0.4 ()060 (0.3 Cao") (1 ) -3)45(0.1, Ow the expected value of pain? (os) r2(o.a)13(0-8)# 46 ye (25 (15 (a02 ()35 For problems 3 and 4: A random variable Xhas a probability distribution as follows: ae A | 6 Ibrabor3bt b= | PR) [1b [2 [36 | 40 lobe! Where bis a positive constant. b= Yio or 6.1 3. The valle of the constant b is (a) 1.0 (b) 0.25 (0) 0.15 (e) 0.20 © a.the prababiity PUX-< 5.0) is equal to Pls) Ma) = 0.140. (a) 1.0 (b) 3.0 (0) 0.60 (a) 0.15 @03) _OX 5. ina gape of 4-spot Keno, the player picks 4 numbers from 1 10 80. The casino randomly selects 20 winning numt 0.003._Find ___7.Xand statements i Orr (b) Var ( ox Yphvar ¢ bers. The probability that a person wins $0 is 0.741, $1 is 0.213, $3 is 0.043, and $120 is ithe expected amount of money won. 0 (0.74) + 10-413) ¥ B.043) (b)0 ey 1 (d)0.25 (e) $25.2 a ylaol. 603) 6-sided uié Sines times The probability of getting exactly ones Cane those 8 rolls is given at aa pee Crt CHeley ahaha) atc O04 are independent random variables, and a and bare constants. Which one of the following ine? 5, cant add Standard deviations FO, +0, = Y) = Var (X) + Var (Y) ior) ee (d+ bx) =bVer 0g —p true for standard 1 deviatio a Falta) > Oy? eS a?a ata ten ote atin valaben are a oO, +6, ae co Srey" Oe og (ox) +(%)- if Y Anya, +03 , But only f Xand Yare independent. \). o,) +(o,)°, but only if X and “oreindenaor: (e) None of these. Koy QL 2. Let the random variable Xrepresent the score of @ random student on the lowa Test of Basic Sethe “(0.9154 (c) Assume that Xis Normal with mean 6,8 and standard deviation 1.6. What is PUX> 9)? (a) 0.0846 9031 (¢)0.7881 (e) 0.0969 normal co! dealer in the Sands Casi (b) Yhas a e % deck is shuffled well (© Yhas a binomial distribution with 7% after selecting a carditis repla (a) Yhas a geometric distribution with n= 20 observations and probat (e) Yhas a geometric distribution with 2 observations and probability of success p= 0. \ Las Vegas selects 20 cards from a standard deck of be the number of diamonds in the 20 cards selected. Which of the following best describes this setting? (a) Yhas a binomial distribution with n= 20 observations and probability of success p= 0.25. jomial distribution with n= 20 observations and probability of success p= 0.25, provided the 1100, 8, Mo) ev bound 2 cate Let ¥ ervations and probability of success p= 0.25, provided that ‘and the deck is shuffled well before the next card is selected. lity of success p= 0.25. 11. A set of 10 cards consists of 3 red cards and 7 black cards. The cards are shuffled thoroughly and you turn cards over, one at a time, beginning with the top card. Let Y be the number of cards you turn over Until you observe the first red card. The random variable Y has which of the following probability distributions? (a) the Normal distribution with mean 3 (b) the binomial distribution with p = 0.3 (0) the geometric distribution with probability of success 0.3, (d) the uniform distribution that takes value 1 on the interval from 0 to 3 (@)yone of the above —p yt Indep’ rt Oviaina large population of college students, 70% of the students own an iphone. If you ‘sample of 10 students from this population, the mean and standard deviation of the number the sample who have an iphone is: Linomial Yue 730 = 1.4; b) H= 70 a ()u=70=049 5. @»: (ou Or “enp = 10( (= (@)p=58;0=1.4 (0) y= 5.86 = i ape B= 1100 A 13, Which of the following is a true statement? fake a random F of students in 3 The binomial setting requires that there are only two possible outcomes for each trial, while the geometric setting permits more than two outcomes. (WIA geometric random variable takes on integer values tromfton. Pehit Xis a geometric random variable and the probability of success is 0.85, then the distribution of X will be skewed left, since 0.86 is closer to 1 than to 0. tS." (d) An important difference between binomial and geometric random variables is that th ight sku babilit iter, IS alla valves re is a fixed ‘number of trials in a binomial setting, and the number of trials varies in a geometric setting. “(el The distribution of every binomial random variable is skewed right.14. tn order for the random variable X to have a geometric distribution, which of the following conditions must X satisfy? 1 II The-number of fials is fi I Trials ire independent. a IV The probability of success has to be the same for each trial. Vall likely. Cla) andiv"> (py, V, and (Land Ii @ili Cc 15, Ifyou the nature of and V (e) land ill uy one ticket in the Provincial Lottery, then the probability that you will win a prize is 0.11. Given jotteries, the probability of winning is independent from month to month. If you buy one ticket each month for five months, what is the probability that you will win at least one prize? @ | -P(0) 1-8) (CRY pol) | - binomial pdf’ (6,.11,0) =Ounre ssPart 2: Free Response Show all your work, Indicate clearly the methods you use, because you will be graded on the corre ‘methods as well as on the accuracy and completeness of your results and explanations. 16 Let X denote the number of absences for a randomly selected student from math class in on ‘Suppose that the probability distribution of X is as follows. x 0 1 2 3 4 PO) [0.76 [0.11 [0.07 [0.03 [0.01 (a) Find and interpret the mean (expected value) of X. (0-78) 4 \(O.N) $(0.07) #3(0.03) +4(0-01) He = 0.38 On average, a student will miss O38 Tnath classes a week. (b) Find and interpret the standard deviation of X. os Oy =0.3A — ON overage, the amount of alosences ‘ in rash! class will differ from the of 0.38 by 0.82 alosences, per student is $6. That is, P = 6 - 1.5X, where P is her pay per student. Use a linear tr your results in (a) and (b) to find the mean and standard deviation for P. ‘mess of your 1e week. eo.) \sformation of (c) Suppose the Mrs. Settle's pay gets docked $1.50 for every time a student is absent we normal pay Jp= 6-1.5(0.38) = 5.43 on average Hes, Settle corns pie er .# Mrs, Seltles par Ops 1.8(.8a)= “12S on coer sis by 81.23, he amount of time it takes a student to do their calculus homework followed the Normal di mean 25 and standard deviation 5, Choose two students independently and at random frot (a) What is the expected difference in their scores? Show your work. P(A)-P(B) typ AS-AS=O (b) What is the standard deviation of the difference in their scores? Show your work. Poon [ere fron (c) Find the probability, that the difference in the two aera oR is greater than 6. Shot = 106 0,7 Be (X76) aera i. 4 ae Pace (xe-6) Your oper ‘mean tribution with this group. your work.18. A study shows that 66% of all dog owners greet their dog before they greet their spouse or children when they get home fr work. Assume that the claim is true and each arrival home is independent. (a) Ina eet of arriving home from work, what is the probability that the first time a person doesn't greet ji their dog ist is on the 5" arrival home. geemerr ied ( (ay 118) ar 5) yal (ote)*(. 34) = OM04S doesn itt 4s ce. that o person loesn't Ppite os "Sar first is es" chee night. nomi ou ext 10 (b) What is the (iy that a person greets their dog first on 4 or fewer of eee home? PK4Y b oniahe’# (10, ‘We, uni= 0.083% 3b — mon gets os tees el ae ‘hei dog A Gt a less dimestost (c) Suppose that a person goes on vacation for two weeks. When he returns, he ud a dog first only two out of ten days. Is this evidence that his rate is now less than 66%? Explain. 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