MCFC Sample Test 3

1. The number of accidents recorded yearly in a certain district for eight

consecutive years are 95, 80, 83, x, 93, 83, 96 and (x + 14). If the sample mean
is 90, find the value of x and the median.
Ans: 88; median = 90.5

2. The following table shows the heights of 50 students.

Height (cm) Number of students
145 149 1
150 154 2
155 159 16
160 164 19
165 169 5
170 174 6
175 179 1
(i) Calculate the mean height of the grouped data. Ans: 161.7
(ii) Calculate the standard deviation of the grouped data. Ans: 5.951
(iii) By using the formula method, calculate
(A) median of the grouped data Ans: 161.079
(B) first quartile of the grouped data Ans: 157.4688

3. Suppose the following data is given,

1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 6, 5, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 7
(i) Present the data above using simple frequency distribution.
(ii) From the table in (i), find
(A) Mean Ans: 2.767
(B) standard deviation Ans: 1.476
(C) median Ans: 2

4. A shop sells one brand of monitor. The lifetime in months of monitors is

normally distributed with mean 30 and standard deviation 5. The warranty
period of the monitor is 2 years.
(i) If one monitor of that brand is selected randomly, find the probability
that the monitor
(A) has a lifetime exceeding 25 months Ans: 0.8413
(B) has a lifetime between 27 and 35 months. Ans: 0.567
(ii) If 1500 monitors of that brand are selected randomly, what is the
expected number of monitors that have a lifetime less than 3 years?
Round your answer to the nearest integer. Ans: 885

5. The mean and the standard deviation for the quality point averages of a
random sample of 36 college seniors are calculated to be 2.6 and 0.3
respectively, assumed the point is normally distributed.
(i) Find the 95% confidence interval for the mean quality point of the
entire senior class. Ans: (2.502, 2.698)
(ii) What is the smallest sample size required if we want to be 95%
confident that the estimate of mean is off by less than 0.01. Ans: 3458
6. In a study on 123 patients living in Saudi Arabia of age 15 or more who were
admitted for diabetic ketoacidosis, the mean blood glucose level was 26.2

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mmol/l. Suppose that the blood glucose levels for such patients have a normal
distribution with a standard deviation of 3.3 mmol/l. Find a 90% confidence
interval for the mean blood glucose level of such diabetic ketoacidosis
patients. Ans: 25.7105, 26.6895

7. (i) The number of accidents per week at an intersection varies with mean
2.2 and standard deviation 1.4. Find the probability of sample mean
over the course of 52 weeks is greater than 2? How many weeks
needs to be taken to provide a 0.05 probability that the sample mean
will be less than 2? Ans: 0.1515; 133

(ii) As a part of a quality control program at a factory, random samples

of 6-ounce tomato juice are periodically taken, and the contents of the
cans carefully measured. When the measuring process is working
properly, the 6-ounce cans are filled with an average of 6.04 ounces of
tomato juices. The standard deviation of the ounces of fill is 0.02.
When the manufacturing process is working properly, find the
probability that the mean ounces of tomato juices is less than 6.03
ounces, if a random sample of 35 cans is selected? Ans: 0.0015

8. The population standard deviation for the age of APU students is 15 years.
(a) A random sample of 100 is taken. What is the standard error of mean if the
population size is 5000? Ans: 1.4851
(b) If we want to be 95% confident that the sample mean age is within 2 years
of the true population mean age, how many randomly selected students
must be surveyed? Ans: 217

9. A study was conducted to study the age characteristics of women having

breast lump. A sample of 20 women gave a mean of 37 years with a standard
deviation of 10 years. Assume that the ages of women having breast lumps are
normally distributed, construct a 95% confidence interval for the mean age of
women having breast lumps. Ans: 32.3199, 41.6801

10. Construct null and alternative hypothesis for the following situation, then state
whether the test is left, right or two-tailed test.
(a) a random sample of 100 recorded deaths in Malaysia during the past
year showed an average of 71.8 years. Assuming a population standard
deviation of 8.9 years, does this seem to indicate that the mean life
span today is greater than 70 years? H0: 70; H1: >70
(b) A manufacturer of sports equipment has developed a new synthetic
fishing line. From the previous record, the mean breaking strength was
8 kg. The manufacturer claims that with this new fishing line, the
breaking strength of the fishing line can be reduced. To test the
hypothesis, a random sample of 50 lines is tested and found to have a
mean breaking strength of 7.8kg and standard deviation of 0.5kg.
H0: 8; H1: <8

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