1) A college statistics professor has office hours from 9:00 A.M. to 10:30 A.M. daily.

A sample
of waiting times to see the professor (in minutes) is 10, 12, 20, 15, 17, 10, 30, 28, 35, 28, 19, 27, 25,
22, 33, 37, 14, 21, 20, 23. Assuming σ = 7.84, find the 99.74% confidence interval for the population
mean.
Select one:
A. 19.5 to 35.1 minutes
B. 20.55 to 24.05 minutes
C. 18.8 to 25.8 minutes

D. 17.05 to 27.55 minutes+

2) Based on a sample of size 42, a 95% confidence interval for the mean score of all students, μ, on
an
aptitude test is from 57.1 to 64.9. Find the margin of error.
Select one:
A. 3.9
B. 1.18
C. 7.8

D. There is not enough information to find the margin of error.

3) How many different samples of size 2 can be obtained from a population of size 5?
Select one:
A. 2
B. 10
C. 1

D. 5
4) What generally happens to the sampling error as the sample size is decreased?
Select one:
A. It gets more predictable.
B. It gets less predictable
C. It gets smaller.

D. It gets larger.

5) A curve has area 0.276 to the left of 5 and area 0.627 to the right of 5. Could this curve be
a density curve for some variable?
Select one:
Yes

No
6) A southeastern college has an enrollment of 2951 female students. Records show that the
mean height of these students is 64.7 inches and that the standard deviation is 2.3 inches. The table
shows frequency and relative-frequency data for these heights. If you assume that the distribution
of heights is approximately normal, then you can use the table to estimate areas under the
associated normal curve (that is, under the normal curve that has parameters μ = 64.7 and standard
deviation = 2.3). Making this assumption, estimate the area under the associated normal curve to the
left of 61.

Select one:
A. 0.0999
B. 0.0342
C. 0.9473

D. 0.0525
7) Dave drives to work each morning at about the same time. His commute time is
normally distributed with a mean of 45 minutes and a standard deviation of 5 minutes. The
percentage of time that his commute time exceeds 55 minutes is equal to the area under the
standard normal curve that lies to the ___ of ___.

Select one:

A. right, 10

B. left, 1.1

C. right, 2

D. left, 2

8) Find the z-score for having area 0.09 to its right under the standard normal curve, that is,
find z 0.09

Select one:

A. 1.45

B. 1.26

C. 1.39

D. 1.34

9) Find the z-score for which the area under the standard normal curve to its left is 0.40

Select one:

A. -0.25

B. 0.57

C. 0.25

D. -0.57
10) Frequency data were reported for the ages of women who became mothers during one
year in a selected U.S. city. The age distribution is given in the table. Obtain a relative-frequency
histogram of these data and determine whether the ages are approximately normally
distributed.

Select one:

A. Yes. The distribution is bell-shaped

B. No. The distribution is J-shaped.

C. No. The distribution is right-skewed.

D. No. The distribution is left-skewed.

11) Use a table of areas to find the specified area under the standard normal curve.The area
that lies to the left of 1.13

Select one:
A. 0.8708

B. 0.8907

C. 0.1292

D. 0.8485

12) The lifetimes of lightbulbs of a particular type are normally distributed with a mean of 400
hours and a standard deviation of 10 hours. What percentage of the bulbs have lifetimes that
lie within 2 standard deviations to either side of the mean?

Select one:

A. 97.72%

B. 95.44%

C. 68.26%

D. 99.74%

13 )The area under the density curve that lies to the right of 15 is 0.545. What percentage of all
possible observations of the variable are at most 15?

Select one:

A. 45.5%

B. 20.5%

C. 54.5%

D. 79.5%

14) Evaluate the expression

Select one:

A. 36,000

B. 4
C. 2!

D. 79,833,600

15) Suppose that D is a random variable. Given that P(D > 2.4) = 0.35, find P(D ≤ 2.4).

Select one:

A. 0.35

B. 0

C. 0.325

D. 0.65

16) Suppose that two balanced dice are rolled. Let X denote the absolute value of the difference
of the two numbers. Use random-variable notation to represent the event that the absolute
value of the difference of the two numbers is 2

Select one:

A. {X = 2}

B. P{X = 2}

C. |X|= 2

D. {(1, 3), (2, 4), (3, 5), (4, 6), (3, 1), (4, 2), (5, 3), (6, 4)}
17) The following table displays a frequency distribution for the number of living grandparents
for students at a high school. For a randomly selected student in the school, let X denote the
number of living grandparents of the student. Obtain the probability distribution of X.
Select one:

D
18) Find the mean of the random variable. The random variable X is the number of houses sold
by a realtor in a single month at the Sendsom's Real Estate office. Its probability distribution is
given in the table. Round the answer to two decimal places when necessary.
Select one:

A. 3.5

B. 3.35

C. 3.4

D. 3.6

19) The random variable X represents the number of siblings of a student selected randomly
from a particular college. Use random variable notation to express the following statement in
shorthand.
The probability that the student has two siblings is 0.18.

Select one:

A. P(2) = 0.18

B. P(X) = 0.18

C. P(X = 2) = 0.18

D. (X = 2) = 0.18

20) True or false? For any discrete random variable, the possible values of the random variable
form a finite set of numbers.

Select one:

True

False
21) The maximum acceptable level of a certain toxic chemical in vegetables has been set at 0.5
parts per million (ppm). A consumer health group measured the level of the chemical in a
random sample of tomatoes obtained from one producer to determine whether the mean level
of the chemical in these tomatoes exceeds the recommended limit.

Select one:

A. Two-tailed

B. Left-tailed

C. Right-tailed

22) The maximum acceptable level of a certain toxic chemical in vegetables has been set at 0.9
parts per million (ppm). A consumer health group measured the level of the chemical in a
random sample of tomatoes obtained from one producer to determine whether the mean level
of the chemical in these tomatoes exceeds the recommended limit.

Select one:

D
23) A committee of three people is to be formed. The three people will be selected from a list of
five possible committee members. A simple random sample of three people is taken,
without replacement, from the group of five people. If the five people are represented by the
letters A, B, C, D, E, the possible outcomes are as follows.
ABC
ABD
ABE
ACD
ACE
ADE
BCD
BCE
BDE
CDE
Determine the probability that C and D are both included in the sample.

Select one:

A. 1/10

B. 2/5

C. 2/10

D. 3/10

24) If you flip a coin three times, the possible outcomes are HHH, HHT, HTH, HTT, THH, THT,
TTH, TTT. What is the probability that the first two tosses come up the same?

Select one:

A. 1/8

B. 3/8
C. 1/4

D. 1/2

25) In a competition, two people will be selected from four finalists to receive the first and
second prizes. The prize winners will be selected by drawing names from a hat. The names of
the four finalists are Jim, George, Helen, and Maggie. The possible outcomes can be
represented as follows.
JG JH JM GJ GH GM
HJ HG HM MJ MG MH
Here, for example, HM represents the outcome that Helen receives the first prize and
Maggie receives the second prize. List the outcomes that comprise the following event.
A = event that George wins second prize

Select one:

A. JG, HG, MG, GM

B. JG, HG

C. JG, HG, MG, GJ, GH, GM

D. JG, HG, MG
26) The following contingency table provides a joint frequency distribution for the popular votes
cast in the presidential election by region and political party. Data are in thousands, rounded to
the nearest thousand.

Suppose a person who voted in the presidential election is selected at random. Describe in
words the event P 2

Select one:

A. The person selected voted Democrat

B. The person selected was in the Midwest

C. The person selected voted Republican and was in the Midwest

D. The person selected voted Republican

27) The number of hours needed by sixth grade students to complete a research project was
recorded with the following results. 
A student is selected at random. The events A and B are defined as follows.
A = the event the student took less than 7 hours
B = the event the student took between 7 and 5 hours inclusive
Describe the event (A or B) in words.

Select one:

A. The event the student took less than 7 hours or more than 7 hours

B. The event the student took between 7 and 7 hours inclusive

C. The event the student took less than 7 hours or between 7 and 5 hours inclusive

D. The event the student took less than 7 hours and between 7 and 5 hours inclusive

28) When a quarter is tossed four times, 16 outcomes are possible.

HHHH HHHT HHTH HHTT
HTHH HTHT HTTH HTTT
THHH THHT THTH THTT
TTHH TTHT TTTH TTTT
Here, for example, HTTH represents the outcome that the first toss is heads, the next two
tosses are tails, and the fourth toss is heads. List the outcomes that comprise the following
event.
A = event the first three tosses come up the same

Select one:

A. HHH, TTT

B. HHHH, HHHT, TTTH, TTTT

C. HHHT, TTTH

D. HHHT, TTTH, HTTT, THHH

29) When a quarter is tossed four times, 16 outcomes are possible.
HHHH HHHT HHTH HHTT
HTHH HTHT HTTH HTTT
THHH THHT THTH THTT
TTHH TTHT TTTH TTTT
Here, for example, HTTH represents the outcome that the first toss is heads, the next two
tosses are tails, and the fourth toss is heads. The event A is defined as follows.
A = event the first two tosses are heads 
Describe the event (not A) in words.

Select one:

A. The event the first two tosses are tails

B. The event the last two tosses are heads

C. The event that exactly one of the first two tosses is tails

D. The event the first two tosses are not both heads

30) Which of the following could not possibly be probabilities?

A. -0.04
B. 10/7
C. 0
D. 0.20

Select one:

A. B and C

B. A and B
C. A and D

D. A and C

31) When a balanced die is rolled, the probability that the number that comes up will be a one
is 1/6. 
This means that if the die is rolled 36 times, a one will show up six times.

Select one:

True

False