Practice-Midterm 3

1. At the end of a school day, the Headmaster conducted a survey asking students in how many classes they had used the internet.

The data is shown in the following table.

(a) State whether the data is discrete or continuous.

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The mean number of classes in which a student used the internet is 2.

(b) Find the value of 𝑘.

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(c) It was not possible to ask every person in the school, so the Headmaster arranged the student names in alphabetical order and
then asked every 10th person on the list.

Identify the sampling technique used in the survey.

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2. Jae Hee plays a game involving a biased six-sided die.

The faces of the die are labelled −3, −1, 0, 1, 2 and 5.

The score for the game, X, is the number which lands face up after the die is rolled.

The following table shows the probability distribution for X.

(a) Find the exact value of 𝑝.

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Jae Hee plays the game once.

(b) Calculate the expected score.

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(c) Jae Hee plays the game twice and adds the two scores together.

Find the probability Jae Hee has a total score of −3.

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3.A food scientist measures the weights of 760 potatoes taken from a single field and the distribution of the weights is shown by the
cumulative frequency curve below.

(a) Find the number of potatoes in the sample with a weight of more than 200 grams.

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(b.i) Find the median weight.

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(b.ii) Find the lower quartile.

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(b.iii) Find the upper quartile.

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(c) The weight of the smallest potato in the sample is 20 grams and the weight of the largest is 400 grams.

Use the scale shown below to draw a box and whisker diagram showing the distribution of the weights of the potatoes. You may
assume there are no outliers.

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Kayla wants to measure the extent to which two judges in a gymnastics competition are in agreement. Each judge has ranked the
seven competitors, as shown in the table, where 1 is the highest ranking and 7 is the lowest.

(a) Calculate Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient for this data.

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(b) State what conclusion Kayla can make from the answer in part (a).

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5.

At Mirabooka Primary School, a survey found that 68% of students have a dog and 36% of students have a cat. 14% of students
have both a dog and a cat.

This information can be represented in the following Venn diagram, where 𝑚, 𝑛, 𝑝 and 𝑞 represent the percentage of students within
each region.

Find the value of

(a.i) 𝑚.

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(a.ii) 𝑛.

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(a.iii) 𝑝.

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(a.iv) 𝑞.

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(b) Find the percentage of students who have a dog or a cat or both.

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Find the probability that a randomly chosen student

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(c.ii) has a dog given that they do not have a cat.

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Each year, one student is chosen randomly to be the school captain of Mirabooka Primary School.

Tim is using a binomial distribution to make predictions about how many of the next 10 school captains will own a dog. He assumes
that the percentages found in the survey will remain constant for future years and that the events “being a school captain” and
“having a dog” are independent.

Use Tim’s model to find the probability that in the next 10 years

(d.i) 5 school captains have a dog.

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(d.ii) more than 3 school captains have a dog.

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(d.iii) exactly 9 school captains in succession have a dog.

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John randomly chooses 10 students from the survey.

(e) State why John should not use the binomial distribution to find the probability that 5 of these students have a dog.

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Elsie, a librarian, wants to investigate the length of time, 𝑇 minutes, that people spent in her library on a particular day.

(a) State whether the variable 𝑇 is discrete or continuous.

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Elsie’s data for 160 people who visited the library on that particular day is shown in the following table.

(b) Find the value of 𝑘.

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(c.i) Write down the modal class.

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(c.ii) Write down the mid-interval value for this class.

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(d) Use Elsie’s data to calculate an estimate of the mean time that people spent in the library.

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(e) Using the table, write down the maximum possible number of people who spent 35 minutes or less in the library on that day.

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Elsie assumes her data to be representative of future visitors to the library.

(f) Find the probability a visitor spends at least 60 minutes in the library.
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The following box and whisker diagram shows the times, in minutes, that the 160 visitors spent in the library.

(g) Write down the median time spent in the library.

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(h) Find the interquartile range.

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(i) Hence show that the longest time that a person spent in the library is not an outlier.

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Elsie believes the box and whisker diagram indicates that the times spent in the library are not normally distributed.

(j) Identify one feature of the box and whisker diagram which might support Elsie’s belief.

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7.

Karl has three brown socks and four black socks in his drawer. He takes two socks at random from the drawer.

(a) Complete the tree diagram.

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(b) Find the probability that Karl takes two socks of the same colour.

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(c) Given that Karl has two socks of the same colour find the probability that he has two brown socks.

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8.

The scores of the eight highest scoring countries in the 2019 Eurovision song contest are shown in the following table.
For this data, find

(a.i) the upper quartile.

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(a.ii) the interquartile range.

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(b) Determine if the Netherlands’ score is an outlier for this data. Justify your answer.

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Chester is investigating the relationship between the highest-scoring countries’ Eurovision score and their population size to
determine whether population size can reasonably be used to predict a country’s score.

The populations of the countries, to the nearest million, are shown in the table.

Chester finds that, for this data, the Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient is 𝑟 = 0.249.
(c) State whether it would be appropriate for Chester to use the equation of a regression line for 𝑦 on 𝑥 to predict a country’s
Eurovision score. Justify your answer.

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Chester then decides to find the Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient for this data, and creates a table of ranks.

Write down the value of:

(d.i) 𝑎.

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(d.ii) 𝑏.

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(d.iii) 𝑐.

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(e.i) Find the value of the Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient 𝑟! .

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(e.ii) Interpret the value obtained for 𝑟! .

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(f) When calculating the ranks, Chester incorrectly read the Netherlands’ score as 478. Explain why the value of the Spearman’s rank
correlation 𝑟! does not change despite this error.

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