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Review Questions 1 of 11 http://online.morainevalley.edu/websupported/jsukta/mth139/review.htm Try the following review problems, courtesy of Professors D. White-Durkin and J. Sukta 1. Below is a bar graph of class representing a seminar containing seven students who are either freshman, sophomores, juniors, or seniors. In the bar graph the bar for the juniors has been omitted. The number of students in the seminar who are juniors is: A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) Cannot be determined from the information given. Use the following to answer questions 2-3: In a statistics class with 136 students, the professor records how much money each student has in his or her possession during the first class of the semester. The histogram below shows the data 2. The percentage of students with under $10.00 in their possession is closest to A) 35% B) 50% C) 60% D) 70%. E) None of These 3. The histogram A) is skewed right. B) is skewed left C) is symmetric. D) None of These 11/13/2005 10:27 PM Review Questions 2 of 11 http://online.morainevalley.edu/websupported/jsukta/mth139/review.htm Use the following information for problem 4 - 6. A sample was taken of the salaries of 20 employees of a large company. The following are the salaries (in thousands of dollars) for this year. For convenience, the data are ordered. 28 31 34 35 37 41 42 42 42 47 49 51 52 52 60 61 67 72 75 77 4. The mean salary for this year is A) 47.25 B) 48 C) 48.5 D) 49.75 E) None of These 5. The median salary for this year is A) 47.25 B) 48 C) 48.5 D) 49.75. E) None of These 6. The third quartile for the salaries for this year is A) 34 B) 39 C) 48 D) 60.5. E) None of These 7. The household income in a certain community is normally distributed with a mean of $42,000 and a standard deviation of $5,000. The proportion of households with incomes exceeding $38,000 is A) 0.7881 B) 0.2119 C) 0.7119 D) 0.2881 E) None of These 8. Birth weights at a local hospital have a normal distribution with a mean of 110 oz. and a standard deviation of 15 oz. The proportion of infants with birth weights between 125 oz. and 140 oz. is A) 0.819 B) 0.636 C) 0.477 D) 0.136 E) None of These 9. The scores on a university examination are normally distributed with a mean of 62 and a standard deviation of 11. If the bottom 5% of students will fail the course, what is the lowest mark that a student can have and still be awarded passing grade? A) 62 B) 57 C) 44 D) 40 E) None of These 10. The time to complete a standardized exam is approximately normal with a mean of 70 minutes and a standard deviation of 10 minutes. Suppose the students are given one hour to complete the exam. The proportion of students who don't complete the exam is A) 0.500 B) 0.159 C) 0.341 D) 0.841. E) None of These 11. A researcher wishes to determine whether the rate of water flow (in liters per second) over an experimental soil bed can be used to predict the amount of soil washed away (in kilograms). In this study, the explanatory variable is A) amount of eroded soil. B) Rate of water flow. C) size of soil bed. D) depth of soil bed. E) None of These Use the following to answer question 12. 11/13/2005 10:27 PM Review Questions 3 of 11 http://online.morainevalley.edu/websupported/jsukta/mth139/review.htm 12. The scatterplot suggests A) There is a positive association between height and volume. B) There is an outlier in the plot. C) Both a and b. D) Neither a nor b. E) None of These 13. The coefficient of correlation measures A) Whether there is a relation between two variables. B) Whether or not a scatterplot shows an interesting pattern. C) Whether a cause and effect relation exists between two variables. D) The strength of a straight line relation between two variables. E) None of These 14. Consider the following scatterplot. A plausible value for the coefficient of correlation between weight and MPG is A) +0.2 B) -0.9 C) +0.7 D) -1.0. E) None of These Use the following to answer question 15: Consider the following scatter diagram of amounts of CO (carbon monoxide) and NOX (nitrogen oxide) in grams per mile driven in the exhausts of cars. The least squares regression line has been drawn in the plot. 11/13/2005 10:27 PM Review Questions 4 of 11 http://online.morainevalley.edu/websupported/jsukta/mth139/review.htm 15. Based on the scatter diagram, the least squares line would predict that a car that emits 10 grams of CO per mile driven would emit how many grams of NOX per mile driven? A) 10.0 B) 1.7 C) 2.2 D) 1.1 E) None of These 16. The correlation between the age and height of children is found to be about r = 0.7. Suppose we use the age x of a child to predict the height y of the child. We conclude A) The least squares regression line of y on x would have a slope of 0.7. B) The fraction of the variation in heights explained by the least squares regression line of y on x is 0.49. C) About 70% of the time, age will accurately predict height. D) Height is generally 70% of a child's age. E) None of These 17. A study of elementary school children, ages 6 to 11, finds a high positive correlation between shoe size x and score y on a test of reading comprehension. The observed correlation is most likely due to A) The effect of a lurking variable, such as age. B) A mistake, since the correlation must be negative. C) Cause and effect (larger shoe size causes higher reading comprehension). D) "Reverse" cause and effect (higher reading comprehension causes larger shoe size). E) None of These 18. I toss a penny and observe whether it lands heads up or tails up. Suppose the penny is fair, i.e., the probability of heads is 1/2 and the probability of tails is 1/2. This means A) every occurrence of a head must be balanced by a tail in one of the next two or three tosses. B) if I flip the coin many many times the proportion of heads will be approximately 1/2, and this proportion will tend to get closer and closer to 1/2 as the number of tosses increases. C) regardless of the number of flips, half will be heads and half tails. D) all of the above. E) None of These Use the following to answer questions 19 - 21: If you draw an M&M candy at random from a bag of the candies, the candy you draw will have one of six colors. The probability of drawing each color depends on the proportion of each color among all candies made. Assume the table below gives the probability that a randomly chosen M&M has each color. Color Probability Brown Red Yellow Green Orange Tan 0.3 0.3 ? 0.1 0.1 0.1 11/13/2005 10:27 PM Review Questions 5 of 11 http://online.morainevalley.edu/websupported/jsukta/mth139/review.htm 19. The probability of drawing a yellow candy is A) 0.1 B) 0.2 C) 0.3 D) impossible to determine from the information given. E) None of These 20. The probability that I do not draw a red candy is A) 0.1 B) 0.3 C) 0.7 D) 0.9 E) None of These 21. The probability that I draw either a brown or a green candy is A) 0.1 B) 0.3 C) 0.4 D) 0.7 E) None of These Use the following to answer questions 22 - 23: Let X be the outcome of rolling a carefully made six-sided die. Assuming the die is fair, the probability distribution for X is as follows. Value of x 1 2 3 4 5 6 Probability 1/6 1/6 1/6 1/6 1/6 1/6 22. The probability of rolling a value greater than three is A) 1/6 B) 1/3 C) 1/2 D) 2/3 E) None of These 23. P(x < 2) has value: A) 1/6 B) 1/3 C) 1/2 D) 2/3 E) None of These 24. A phone-in poll conducted by a newspaper reported that 73% of those who called in liked business tycoon Donald Trump. The unknown true percentage of American citizens who like Donald Trump is a A) statistic. B) sample. C) parameter. D) population. E) None of These 25. The weight of reports produced in a certain department has a normal distribution with mean 60g and standard deviation 12g. The probability that the next report will weigh less than 45g is A) 0.1056 B) 0.3944 C) 0.1042 D) 0.0418 E) None of These Use the following to answer question 26: A factory produces plate glass with a mean thickness of 4 mm and a standard deviation of 1.1 mm. A simple random sample of 100 sheets of glass is to be measured, and the sample mean thickness of the 100 sheets, , is to be computed. 26. The probability that the average thickness, , of the 100 sheets of glass is less than 4.1 mm is A) 0.8186. B) 0.3183. C) 0.1814. D) 0.6817. E) None of These 27. The distribution of actual weights of 8-oz. chocolate bars produced by a certain machine is normal with mean 8.1 ounces and standard deviation 0.1 ounces. If a sample of five of these chocolate bars is selected, the probability that their average weight is less than 8 oz. is A) 0.0125. B) 0.1853. C) 0.4871. D) 0.9873. E) None of These 28. The central limit theorem says that when a simple sample of size n is drawn from any population with mean and standard deviation , then when n is sufficiently large 11/13/2005 10:27 PM Review Questions 6 of 11 http://online.morainevalley.edu/websupported/jsukta/mth139/review.htm /n. A) the standard deviation of the sample mean is B) the distribution of the population is exactly normal. C) the distribution of the sample mean is approximately normal. D) the distribution of the sample mean is exactly normal. E) None of These 29. The law of large numbers states that, as the number of observations drawn at random from a population with finite mean m increases, the mean J of the observed values A) gets larger and larger. B) gets smaller and smaller. C) gets closer and closer to the population mean m. D) fluctuates steadily between one standard deviation above and one standard deviation below the mean. E) None of These Use the following to answer question 30: Let the random variable, x, represent the profit made on a randomly selected day by a certain store. Assume x is normal with a mean of $360 and standard deviation $50. 30. The value of P(x > $400) is A) 0.2881. B) 0.8450. C) 0.7881. D) 0.2119. E) None of These 31. In a large population of adults, the mean IQ is 112 with a standard deviation of 20. Suppose 200 adults are randomly selected for a market research campaign. The probability that the sample mean IQ is greater than 110 is A) 0.079. B) 0.421. C) 0.921. D) 0.579. E) None of These 32. An automobile insurer has found that repair claims have a mean of $920 and a standard deviation of $870. Suppose that the next 100 claims can be regarded as a random sample from the long-run claims process. The probability that the average, , of the 100 claims is larger than $1000 is A) 0.9200. B) 0.8212. C) 0.0800. D) 0.1788. E) None of These 33. An automobile insurer has found that repair claims have a mean of $920 and a standard deviation of $870. Suppose that the next 100 claims can be regarded as a random sample from the long-run claims process. The mean and standard deviation of the next 100 claims is A) mean = $920 and standard deviation = $87. B) mean = $920 and standard deviation = $8.70. C) mean = $92 and standard deviation = $87. D) mean = $92 and standard deviation = $870. E) None of These 34. Event A has probability 0.4. Event B has probability 0.5. If A and B are disjoint, then the probability that both events occur is A) 0.0. B) 0.1. C) 0.2. D) 0.9. E) None of These 35. Suppose we roll a red die and a green die. Let A be the event that the number of spots showing on the red die is three or less and B be the event that the number of spots showing on the green die is more than three. The events A and B are A) disjoint. B) conditional. C) independent. D) reciprocals. E) None of These 11/13/2005 10:27 PM Review Questions 7 of 11 http://online.morainevalley.edu/websupported/jsukta/mth139/review.htm 36. In a certain town, 50% of the households own a cellular phone, 40% own a pager, and 20% own both a cellular phone and a pager. The proportion of households that own neither a cellular phone nor a pager is A) 10%. B) 30%. C) 70%. D) 90%. E) None of These 37. There are twenty multiple-choice questions on an exam, each having responses a, b, c, or d. Each question is worth five points and only one option per question is correct. Suppose the student guesses the answer to each question, and the guesses from question to question are independent. The probability that the student gets no questions correct is closest to A) 0.0032. B) 0.0243. C) 0.2373. D) 0.3277. E) None of These 38. You measure the weights of a random sample of twenty-five male runners. The sample mean is = 60 kilograms (kg). Suppose that the mean weights of male runners follow a normal distribution with unknown mean and standard deviation s = 5 kg. You compute a 95% confidence interval for . The 95% confidence interval for is A) 57.936 to 62.064 B) 59.216 to 60.784 C) 58.04 to 61.96 D) 50.2 to 69.8 E) None of These 39. You measure the weights of a random sample of twenty-five male runners. The sample mean is = 60 kilograms (kg). Suppose that the mean weights of male runners follow a normal distribution with unknown mean and standard deviation = 5 kg. You compute a 95% confidence interval for . The 95% confidence interval for is A) 57.936 to 62.064 B) 59.216 to 60.784 C) 58.04 to 61.96 D) 50.2 to 69.8 E) None of These 40. To assess the accuracy of a laboratory scale, a standard weight that is known to weigh 1 gram is repeatedly weighed a total of n times and the mean of the weights is computed. Suppose the scale readings are normally distributed with unknown mean and standard deviation s = 0.01 g. How large should n be so that a 95% confidence interval for m has a margin of error of ± 0.0001? A) 100 B) 196 C) 10000 D) 38416 E) None of These 41. Suppose we are testing the null hypothesis H0: m = 50 and the alternative Ha: m 50 for a normal population with s = 6. A random sample of nine observations are drawn from the population and we find the sample mean of these observations is = 53. The P-value is A) 0.0668. B) 0.086 C) 0.1336. D) 0.1720. E) None of These 42. Is the mean height for all adult American males between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one now over 6 feet? Given that the population of all adult American males between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one has mean height of m feet and standard deviation s feet, which of the following null and alternative hypotheses would one test to answer this question? A) H0: m < 6 vs. Ha: m > 6 B) H0: m > 6 vs. Ha: m < 6 C) H0: m = 6 vs. Ha: m 6. D) H0: m > 6 vs. Ha: m < 6 E) None of These 11/13/2005 10:27 PM Review Questions 8 of 11 http://online.morainevalley.edu/websupported/jsukta/mth139/review.htm 43. In a statistical test of hypotheses, we say the data are statistically significant at level if A) = 0.05. B) is small. C) the P-value is less than . D) the P-value is larger than . E) None of These Use the following to answer questions 44 - 45 An SRS of 100 postal employees found that the average time these employees had worked for the postal service was = 7 years with standard deviation s = 2 years. Assume the distribution of the time the population of employees have worked for the postal service is approximately normal with mean =7.5 years. Are these data evidence that has changed ? At a 0.01 level of significance, 44. The decision is A) Fail to Reject H0 and the claim is supported B) Fail to Reject H0 and the data does not support the claim. C) Reject H0 and the claim is supported D) Reject H0 and the data does not support the claim. E) None of These 45. A 95% confidence interval for the mean time the population of postal service employees have spent with the postal service is A) 6.608 to 7.392. B) 7.108 to 7.892 C) 6.6032 to 7.3968 D) 7.1032 to 7.8968. E) None of These 46. The water diet requires one to drink two cups of water every half hour from when one gets up until one goes to bed, but otherwise allows one to eat whatever one likes and still lose weight. Four adult volunteers agree to test the diet. They are weighed prior to beginning the diet and after six weeks on the diet. The weights (in pounds) are Person 1 2 3 4 Weight before the diet 180 125 240 150 Weight after six weeks 170 130 215 152 For the population of all adults, assume that the weight loss after six weeks on the diet (weight before beginning the diet - weight after six weeks on the diet) is normally distributed. Based on these data we conclude that A) we would not reject H0 at significance level 0.10. B) we would reject H0 at significance level 0.10, but not at 0.05. C) we would reject H0 at significance level 0.05, but not at 0.01. D) we would reject H0 at significance level 0.01. E) None of These 47. Which of the following is an example of a matched pairs design? A) A teacher compares the pre-test and post-test scores of students. B) A teacher compares the scores of students using a computer based method of instruction with the scores of other students using a traditional method of instruction. C) A teacher compares the scores of students in her class on a standardized test with the national average score. D) A teacher calculates the average of scores of students on a pair of tests and wishes to see if this average is larger than 80%. 11/13/2005 10:27 PM Review Questions 9 of 11 http://online.morainevalley.edu/websupported/jsukta/mth139/review.htm E) None of These Use the following information for problems 48 - 49. Researchers compared two groups of competitive rowers—a group of skilled rowers and a group of novices. The researchers measured the angular velocity of each subject's right knee, which describes the rate at which the knee joint opens as the legs push the body back on the sliding seat. The sample sizes, the sample means, and the sample standard deviations for the two groups are given below. Group n Mean Standard deviation Skilled 16 4.2 0.6 Novice 16 3.7 0.8 48. The researchers wished to test the the claim that the mean knee velocity for skilled rowers is larger than for novice rowers. Should the data be pooled? Use a 0.01 level of significance. A) Fail to Reject H0 and do not pool the data B) Fail to Reject H0 and pool the data. C) Reject H0 and pool the data D) Reject H0 and do not pool the data. E) None of These 49. Use a 0.01 level of significance to test the claim that the mean knee velocity for skilled rowers is larger than for novice rowers. A) Fail to Reject H0 and the claim is supported B) Fail to Reject H0 and the data does not support the claim. C) Reject H0 and the claim is supported D) Reject H0 and the data does not support the claim. E) None of These Use the following to answer questions 50 - 51: A researcher wished to test the effect of the addition of extra calcium to yogurt on the "tastiness" of yogurt. A collection of 200 adult volunteers was randomly divided into two groups of 100 subjects each. Group 1 tasted yogurt containing the extra calcium. Group 2 tasted yogurt from the same batch as group 1 but without the added calcium. Both groups rated the flavor on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being "very unpleasant" and 10 being "very pleasant." The mean rating for group 1 was 1 = 6.5 with a standard deviation s1 = 1.5. The mean rating for group 2 was 2 = 7.0 with a standard deviation s2 = 2.0. Assume the two groups are independent. Let 1 and 2 represent the mean ratings we would observe for the entire population represented by the volunteers if all members of this population tasted, respectively, the yogurt with and without the added calcium. 50. A 90% confidence interval for 1 2 is A) 0.9112 to 0.0888 B) 0.0888 to 0.9112 C) 0.7814 to 0.2186 D) 0.2186 to 0.7814 E) None of These 51. At a 0.05 level of significance, test that claim that the yogurt with Calcium tastes the same as the yogurt without Calcium. A) Fail to Reject H0 and the claim is supported B) Fail to Reject H0 and the data does not support the claim. C) Reject H0 and the claim is supported D) Reject H0 and the data does not support the claim. 11/13/2005 10:27 PM Review Questions 10 of 11 http://online.morainevalley.edu/websupported/jsukta/mth139/review.htm E) None of These 52. A noted psychic was tested for ESP. The psychic was presented with 200 cards face down and asked to determine if the card was one of five symbols: a star, cross, circle, square, or three wavy lines. The psychic was correct in fifty cases. Let p represent the probability that the psychic correctly identifies the symbol on the card in a random trial. Assume the 200 trials can be treated as an SRS from the population of all guesses the psychic would make in his lifetime. Suppose you wished to see if there is evidence that the psychic is doing better than just guessing (p = 0.20). At the 0.02 level of significance. A) Fail to Reject H0 and the claim is supported B) Fail to Reject H0 and the data does not support the claim. C) Reject H0 and the claim is supported D) Reject H0 and the data does not support the claim. E) None of These 53. How large a sample n would you need to estimate p with margin of error 0.01 with 95% confidence? Use the guess p = 0.20 as the value for p. A) n = 32 B) n = 49 C) n = 6147 D) n = 9604 E) None of These 54. How large a sample n would you need to estimate p with margin of error 0.01 with 95% confidence? No information is given about p. A) n = 32 B) n = 49 C) n = 6147 D) n = 9604 E) None of These Use the following to answer questions 55 - 56: An SRS of 100 flights of a large airline (call this airline 1) showed that 64 were on time. An SRS of 100 flights of another large airline (call this airline 2) showed that 80 were on time. Let p1 and p2 be the proportion of all flights that are on time for these two airlines. 55. A 95% confidence interval for the difference p1 p2 is A) 0.2825 to 0.0375 B) 0.0375 to 0.2825 C) None of these 56. Is there evidence of a difference in the on-time rate for the two airlines? At the 0.05 level of significance. A) Fail to Reject H0 and the claim is supported B) Fail to Reject H0 and the data does not support the claim. C) Reject H0 and the claim is supported D) Reject H0 and the data does not support the claim. E) None of These Answer Key -- 139 review 1. C 2. B 3. A 10. D 11. B 12. C 19. A 20. C 21. C 28. C 29. C 30. D 37. A 38. A 39. C 46. A 47. A 48. B 55. A 56. C 4. D 13. D 22. C 31. C 40. D 49. B 5. B 14. B 23. B 32. D 41. B 50. A 6. D 15. D 24. C 33.A 42. A 51. D 7. A 16. B 25. A 34. A 43. C 52. B 8. D 17. A 26. A 35. C 44. B 53. C 9. C 18. B 27. A 36. B 45. A 54. D Return to the Home Page 11/13/2005 10:27 PM Review Questions 11 of 11 http://online.morainevalley.edu/websupported/jsukta/mth139/review.htm Copyright © 2003 Charlotte and Joseph Sukta. 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