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SBST1303: ELEMENTARY STATISTICS

ASSIGNMENT (40%)

January 2018

Date assigned: 22nd February 2018

Due date: 19th March 2018

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INSTRUCTIONS

1. This assignment is worth 40% of your final course grade.

2. Plagiarism in any form is prohibited. Plagiarized materials will not be accepted and no marks

would be awarded for the work. It is essential to cite your sources using APA style of referencing

to avoid plagiarism.

3. Before submitting the assignment re-read the assignment details and check that you have

addressed all the points that have been mentioned.

4. Use formal English.

5. Format with double spacing and set font size to 12. Use “Times New Roman”.

The hard copy of the assignment has to be submitted to FES box in the student desk before 1800 hrs. and

the soft copy has to be submitted to moodle before 0000 hrs. Both the hard copy and the soft copy of

the assignment are to be submitted in order for marks to be awarded for the assignment.

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Question1

a) The following data show the length (in inches) of fish caught in one day in a river:

10.1 10.4 10.5 10.9 11.1

11.2 11.2 11.5 11.7 11.9

12.1 12.1 12.2 12.2 12.3

12.4 12.5 12.6 12.8 12.9

13.2 13.4 13.5 13.6 13.7

14.3 14.5 14.8 15.2 15.5

i. Carefully construct, draw and label a histogram of these data.

ii. Find the mean, the median and the modal group.

iii. Comment on the data given the shape of the histogram and the measures you have
calculated.

iv. Name two other types of graphical displays that would be suitable to represent the data.
[15 marks]

b) The summary statistic for 2 independent datasets from a population with a normal
distribution are as follows:

Sample size Sample mean Sample standard

deviation

𝑥 data 21 5.6 2.5

𝑦 data 16 7.0 3.5

Compute the mean and variance of the combined dataset. [5 marks]

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Question 2

a) A population is normally distributed with a population mean of 138 and a population

standard deviation of 21.

i. State the distribution of the sample mean for a simple random samples of
size 𝑛 = 25.

ii. Given a simple random sample of size 𝑛 = 25, determine the probability that the
sample mean will be less than 128.
[5 marks]

b) You are told that a 95% confidence interval for a population proportion is
(0.3775, 0.6225). What was the sample proportion that lead to this confidence interval?
Also, what was the size of the sample used? [5 marks]

c) A company has a security system comprising four electronic devices (A, B, C and D) which
operate independently. Each device has a probability of 0.1 of failure. The four electronic
devices are arranged such that the whole system operates if at least one of A or B functions
and at least one of C or D functions.

Find the probability that the whole system functions properly. [5 marks]

d) A sample of 8 values is taken from a normal distribution with mean  . The sample mean
is 13.42 and true variance  2 is 0.9. Give the formula and calculate a 90% confidence
interval for  and explain the interpretation of the interval. [5 marks]