Supplemental Instruction Handouts

Statistics Review
Chapters 2 through 8
1. A sample consisted of the following data: 24, a) b) c) d) e) f) g) h) 2. 32, 23, 24, 31, 26, 29

What is the range? What is the mean? What is the standard deviation? What is the variance? What is the mean deviation? What is the coefficient of variation? What is the mode? What is the median? A survey was taken to determine how much homework RRC students do per week. A random sample yielded the following results. Hours 0 up to 2 2 up to 4 4 up to 6 6 up to 8 8 up to 10 10 up to 12 Number of Students 4 10 20 35 20 1

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What is the mid point of the first class? What is the class interval? What is the arithmetic mean? (Rounded to 2 decimals) What is the standard deviation? (Rounded to 3 decimals) What is the variance? (Rounded to 3 decimals) What is the relative frequency of the 4th class? What is the cumulative frequency of the 3rd class?

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In the contingency table below, 400 individuals are classified according to whether or not they were vaccinated against the influenza virus and whether or not the virus attacked them. Vaccinated Attacked Not Attacked 60 190 Not vaccinated 85 65

If a person is chosen at random, what is the probability that: a) b) c) d) e) 4. The person was vaccinated? The person was attacked? The person was not vaccinated and attacked? The person was vaccinated or not attacked? The person was vaccinated given the person was attacked? If the mean salary of the employees in a certain company is $43,300 with a standard deviation of $2,500. According to the Empirical Rule, how much money does 95% of the employees at this company make? There are 52 cards in a standard deck consisting of 13 different cards in each of 4 suits. The suits are: Hearts and Diamonds, which are red, and Spades and Clubs, which are black. a) b) What is the probability of drawing 2 black jacks in a row if the first is replaced before the second draw? What is the probability of drawing 3 Hearts in a row if there is no replacement of a card once drawn? 25% of Greene Co. employees smoke and 40% of the employees are female. The same percentage of female employees smoke as male employees. (IE: gender and smoking are independent) a) b) 7. If an employee is chosen at random what is the probability that the employee is both female and a smoker? What is the probability that the above employee is either a female or a smoker? You have just started work. You have 4 jackets, 3 pair of pants, 3 shirts and 2 ties. How many different outfits can you make from your closet? A father with 8 children takes 3 at a time to the zoo as often as he can without taking the same 3 children together more than once. How often will he have to go to the zoo? How many ways can the letters A, B, C, and D be arranged in groups of 4 in a specific order?

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Using the following probability distribution: X 2 4 6 8 a) b) c) What is the mean? What is the standard deviation? What is the variance? Suppose that 40% of the tubes produced by a machine are defective. If six tubes are inspected at random, what is the probability that: a) b) c) d) e) Three tubes are defective? At least two tubes are defective? At most four tubes are defective? More than four tubes are defective? Less than three tubes are defective? Textbook authors and publishers work very hard to minimize errors in a text. However, some errors are unavoidable. Mr. J. A. Carmen, statistics editor, reports that the mean number of errors per chapter is 0.8. What is the probability that there are less than 2 errors in a particular chapter? The weekly incomes of a large group of middle managers are normally distributed with a mean of $800 and a standard deviation of $45. a) b) c) d) e) f) g) What is the probability of finding a middle manager with a weekly income of between $840 and $900? What is the percent of middle managers that earn more than $905? What is the percent of middle managers that earn less than $905? What is the probability of finding a middle manager with a weekly income of between $750 and $850? What is the probability of finding a middle manager with a weekly income of between $700 and $790? Above what income would the top 10% of the managers earn? Below what income would the lowest 10% of the managers earn? P(X) .50 .30 .15 .05

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Based on previous experience 2% of the valve seats for a certain type of butterfly valve are known to be defectives as they come off the production line. We are going to select 1000 valves for inspection. a) b) c) What is the mean? What is the standard deviation? What is the probability of having less than 12 defective valve seats?

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When a skier took ten runs on the downhill course, the mean time was found to be 12.3 minutes with a standard deviation of 1.2 minutes. Develop a 90% confidence interval for the population mean. Al Fisher is the owner of Als Marathon gas station. Al would like to estimate the mean number of gallons of gasoline sold to his customers. From his records he selects a sample of 80 sales and finds that the mean number of gallons sold is 8.6. The population standard deviation is 2.3 gallons. a) b) Develop a 95% confidence interval for the population mean. Develop a 95% confidence interval for the population mean when the gas station has a customer base of 400 people. Al Fisher is also interested in determining the mean number of gallons of gasoline purchased by his customers. He is also interested in the proportion of women who pump their own gasoline. He surveyed 50 women and found that 40 indicated they pump their own gasoline. a) b) c) Calculate the sample proportion of women who pump their own gasoline. Develop a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of women who pump their own gasoline. Develop a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of women who pump their own gasoline when the gas station has a customer base of 180 women. Suppose the breaking strength of cables (in pounds) is known to have a normal distribution with a standard deviation of 6 pounds. Find how large a sample must be taken so as to be 90 percent confident that the sample mean breaking strength will not differ from the true mean breaking strength by more than 0.75 pounds. A coffee company wants to estimate the true proportion in the Canadian population that drinks its brand. How many individuals should be surveyed to be 99 percent confident of having the true proportion of people drinking the brand estimated to within 0.018?

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