STAT200 final exam 2015

Question 1 (25 points) Question 1 Unsaved

Question 1 options:

True or False.

Enter the answer to each of the of the questions with:

T for True

F for False

a. If the variance from a data set is zero, then all the observations in this data set must be identical.

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b. P(A and Ac) = 1 where Ac is the compliment of A.

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c. The mean is always equal to the median for a normal distribution.

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d. A 99% confidence interval is wider than a 95% confidence interval of the same parameter.

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e. It is easier to reject the null hypothesis if we use a smaller significance level (alpha).

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A random sample of 25 customers was chosen in MiniMart between 3:00 and 4:00 PM on a Friday afternoon. The frequency distribution below shows the distribution for checkout time (in minutes).

Checkout Time (in minutes)

Frequency

Relative Frequency

1.0 - 1.9

4

A

2.0 - 2.9

B

.4

3.0 - 3.9

C

D

4.0 - 5.9

5

E

Total

25

F

Complete the Frequency Table with the missing frequency and relative frequency numbers.

Enter answer for "A" with a 2 decimal place accuracy.

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Enter answer for "B" as an integer.

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Enter answer for "C" as an integer.

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Enter answer for "D" with a 2 decimal place accuracy.

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Enter answer for "E" with a 2 decimal place accuracy.

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Enter answer for "F" as an integer.

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A random sample of 25 customers was chosen in MiniMart between 3:00 and 4:00 PM on a Friday afternoon. The frequency distribution below shows the distribution for checkout time (in minutes).

This is the same table from the previous question.

Checkout Time (in minutes)

Frequency

Relative Frequency

1.0 - 1.9

4

2.0 - 2.9

0.4

3.0 - 3.9

4.0 - 5.9

5

Total 25 ?

What percentage of the checkout times was at least 3 minutes?

Enter answer as a percent without the percent sign to 0 decimal places.

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A random sample of 25 customers was chosen in MiniMart between 3:00 and 4:00 PM on a Friday afternoon. The frequency distribution below shows the distribution for checkout time (in minutes).

This is the same table from the previous question with the Interval column added.

Interval

Checkout Time (in minutes)

Frequency

Relative Frequency

1

1.0 - 1.9

4

?

2

2.0 - 2.9

? 0.4

3

3.0 - 3.9

?

4

4.0 - 5.9

5

?

5

Total

25

?

In what class interval must the median lie?

Enter answer with the appropriate Interval number.

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A random sample of 25 customers was chosen in MiniMart between 3:00 and 4:00 PM on a Friday afternoon. The frequency distribution below shows the distribution for checkout time (in minutes).

This is the same table from the previous question.

Checkout Time (in minutes)

Frequency

Relative Frequency

1.0 - 1.9

4

?

2.0 - 2.9

? 0.4

3.0 - 3.9

4.0 - 5.9

5

?

Total

25

?

Assume that the largest observation in this dataset is 4.8. Suppose this observation were incorrectly recorded as 8.4 instead of 4.8.

Will the mean increase, decrease or remain the same?

Enter

1 for Increase

2 for Decrease

3 for Remains the same

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Will the median increase, decrease or remain the same?

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1 for Increase

2 for Decrease

3 for Remains the same

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A 6-faced die is rolled two times. Let A be the event that the outcome of the first roll is an even number, and B be the event

that the outcome of the second roll is greater than 4.

How many outcomes are there in the sample space?

Enter answer as an Integer.

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A 6-faced die is rolled two times. Let A be the event that the outcome of the first roll is an even number, and B be the event

that the outcome of the second roll is greater than 4.

What is the probability that the outcome of the second roll is greater than 4, given that the first roll is an even number?

Enter answer as a reduced fraction or a decimal rounded to 2 decimal places.

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A 6-faced die is rolled two times. Let A be the event that the outcome of the first roll is an even number, and B be the event

that the outcome of the second roll is greater than 4.

Are A and B independent?

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Y for Yes

N for No

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The 5 number summary below shows the grade distribution of two Stat 200 quizzes.

Minimum Q1 MedianQ3 Maximum

Quiz 1 12 40 60 95 100

Quiz 2 20 35 50 90 100

Which quiz has less interquartile range in grade distribution?

a Quiz 1

b Quiz 2

c Both quizzes have the same value requested.

d It is impossible to tell using only the given information.

Answer the question by keying in the appropriate letter.

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The 5 number summary below shows the grade distribution of two Stat 200 quizzes.

Minimum Q1 MedianQ3 Maximum

Quiz 1 12 40 60 95 100

Quiz 2 20 35 50 90 100

Which quiz has the greater percentage of students with grades of 90 or over?

a Quiz 1

b Quiz 2

c Both quizzes have the same value requested.

d It is impossible to tell using only the given information.

Answer the question by keying in the appropriate letter.

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The 5 number summary below shows the grade distribution of two Stat 200 quizzes.

Minimum Q1 MedianQ3 Maximum

Quiz 1 12 40 60 95 100

Quiz 2 20 35 50 90 100

Which quiz has lthe greatest number of students with grades less than 60?

a Quiz 1

b Quiz 2

c Both quizzes have the same value requested.

d It is impossible to tell using only the given information.

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There are 1000 juniors in a college.

Among the 1000 juniors

200 students are taking STAT200

100 students are taking PSYC300

There are 80 students taking both courses.

What is the probability that a randomly selected junior is taking at least one of these two courses?

Enter answer as a 2 place decimal or a reduced fraction.

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There are 1000 juniors in a college.

Among the 1000 juniors

200 students are taking STAT200

100 students are taking PSYC300

There are 80 students taking both courses.

What is the probability that a randomly selected junior is taking PSYC300, given thathe/she is taking STAT200?

Enter answer as a 1 place decimal or a reduced fraction.

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The Stat Club is selecting three offices for the new year - a president, a vice president and a treasuer.

There are 10 qualified candidates.

How many different ways can the officers be selected?.

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Imagine you are in a game show. There are 6 prizes hidden on a game board with 10 spaces.

One prize is worth $100, another is worth $20, and four are worth $5.

You have to pay $20 to the host if your choice is not correct.

Let the random variable x be the winning.

What is your expected winning in this game?

Enter answer to 2 decimal places.

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Determine the standard deviation of x.

Round answer to 2 decimal places.

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Mimi just started her tennis class three weeks ago.

On average, she is able to return 30% of her opponent’s serves.

Assume her opponent serves 10 times.

Let X be the number of returns that Mimi gets.

As we know, the distribution of X is a binomial probability distribution.

What is the number of trials (n)?

Enter answer as an Integer.

What is the probability of success (p)?

Enter answer to 1 decimal place.

Do not enter answer as a percent.

What is the probability of failure (q)?

Enter answer to 1 decimal place.

Do not enter answer as a percent.

Answer the three questions from left to right.

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Find the probability that that she returns at least 1 of the 10 serves from her opponent.

Enter answer to 3 decimal places.

Do not enter answer as a percent.

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How many serves can she expect to return?

Enter answer with 0 decimal places. (integer)

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The heights of pecan trees are normaily distributed with a mean of 10 feet and a standard deviation of 2 feet.

What is the probability that a randomly selected pecan tree is between 10 and 12 feet tall.

Enter answer as a decimal rounded to 4 decimal places.

Do not enter answer as a percent.

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The heights of pecan trees are normaily distributed with a mean of 10 feet and a standard deviation of 2 feet.

Find the 3rd quartile of the pecan tree height distribution.

Enter answer as a decimal rounded to 2 decimal places.

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The heights of pecan trees are normaily distributed with a mean of 10 feet and a standard deviation of 2 feet.

If a random sample of of 100 pecan trees is selected, what is the standard deviation of the sample mean,

Enter answer as a 1 place decimal.

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A random sample of 225 statistic scores has a sample mean of 1500 hours.

Assume that the statistic scores have a population standard deviation of 300 hours.

Construct a 95% confidence interval estimate of the mean statistic scores.

Enter the lower and upper confidence limit numbers rounded to 0 decimal places. (as integers)

Enter the lower confidence interval number first.

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Consider the hypothesis test given by

Ho: p = 0.5

H1: p < 0.5

In a random sample of 225 subjects, the sample proportion is found to be phat = 0.53

Determine the numerical value of the test statistic. (z)

Enter answer rounded to 1 decimal place.

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Determine the p-value for this test.

Enter answer as a decimal rounded to 2 decimal points

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Is there sufficient evidence to justify the rejection of Ho at an ? = .01 level?

Enter Y for Yes there is sufficient evidence to justify the rejection of Ho at an ? = .01 level

Enter N for No there is insufficient evidence to justify the rejection of Ho at an ? = .01 level

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Consumptions of a large amount of alcohol is known to increase reaction time.

To investigate the effects of small amounts of alcohol, reaction time was recoded for five individuals before and after 2 ounces of alcohol was consumed by each.

Does the data below suggest that the consumption of 2 ounces alcohol increase mean reaction time?

.

Reaction Time (seconds)

Subject

Before the class

After the class

1

6

7

2

8

8

3

4

6

4

7

10

5

9

10

Assume we want to use a 0.10 significance level to test the claim.

Identify the null hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis.

Enter the appropriate letter for the correct answer.

a Ho: There is no difference between reaction times before and after the alcohol consumption.

H1: There is a difference between reaction times before and after the alcohol consumption.

b Ho: There is a difference between reaction times before and after the alcohol consumption.

H1: There is no difference between reaction times before and after the alcohol consumption.

c Ho: There is no difference between the test scores before and after the alcohol consumption.

H1: The test scores after alcohol consumption are greater than the test scores before the

alcohol consumption.

d Ho: There is no difference between the reaction times before and after the alcohol consumption.

H1: The reaction times after alcohol consumption are greater than the reaction times before

the alcohol consumption.

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Determine the numerical value of the test statistic.

Round answer to 2 decimal places.

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Determine the p-value.

Round answer to 3 decimal places.

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Is there sufficient evidence to support the alternate hypothesis?

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Y for Yes There is sufficient evidence to support the alternate hypothesis.

N for No There is insufficient evidence to support the alternate hypothesis.

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A Stat 200 instructor is interested in whether there is any variation in the final grades between her two classes.

Data collected from the two classes are as follows:

Section 1 n1 = 31 x1 = 75 s1 = 12

Section 2 n1 = 30 x1 = 72 s1 = 14

Her null hypothesis and alternative hypothesis are:

H0: ?1 = ?2 and Ha: ?1 < ?2

Determine the test statistic.

Round answer to 4 decimal places.

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Determine the p-value for this test.

Enter P value rounded to 3 decimal places

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Is there sufficient evidence to justify the rejection of the H0 at the ? = .01 level.

Enter Y for yes. There is sufficient evidence to justify the rejection of the H0 at the ? = .01 level.

Enter N for no. There is insufficient evidence to justify the rejection of the H0 at the ? = .01 level.

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A random sample of 4 professional athletes produced the following data where x is the number of endorsements the player

has and y is the amount of money made (in millions of dollars).

x 0 1 3 5

y 1 2 3 8

Find an equation of the least squares regression line.

Round each answer to 2 decimal place with the "constant" followed by the "slope".

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Based on the above equation, what is the predicted value of y if x = 4?

Round answer to 1 decimal place.

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The Daily News reported that the color distribution for plain M&M's was:

40% brown

20% yellow

20% orange

10% green

10% tan

Each piece of candy in a random sample of 100 plain M&m's was clasified according to color, and the results are listed below:

Use a 0.05 significance level to test the claim that the published color distribution is correct.

Color

Brown

Yellow

Orange

Green

tan

Number

42

21

12

7

18

Identify the null hypothesis by selecting the appropriate letter a or b.

a The color distribution for plain M&M 's is not in agreement with what was reported the Daily News.

b The color distribution for plain M&M 's is in agreement with what was reported in the Daily News.

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Identify the alternative hypothesis by selecting the appropriate letter c or d.

c The color distribution for plain M&M 's is not in agreement with what was reported the Daily News.

d The color distribution for plain M&M 's is in agreement with what was reported in the Daily News.

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Determine the test statistic. (What is the Chi Square value calculated from the data in the table)

Round answer to 1 decimal place.

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Determine the Pvalue for this hypothesis test

Round answer to 3 decimal places.

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Is there sufficient evidence to support the claim that the published color distribution is correct??

Enter the appropriate letter for the correct answer.

a The Ho hypothesis is rejected. The Pvalue is less than the significance level,

b The Ho hypothesis is not rejected. The Pvalue is greater than than the significance level.

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By selecting True you will have made the following promise.

I promise that I did not discuss any aspect of this exam with anyone other than my instructor. I further promise that I neither gave nor received any unauthorized assistance on this exam, and that the work presented herein is entirely my own.

Question 26 options:

True

False

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