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    Page 1 of 1

    STAT130: INTRODUCTION
    TO STATISTICS
    TEST 2 REVISION 2024
    SEMESTER 2
    Page 2 of 2

    The following information is to be used for Questions 1, 2, and 3


    You have found that 12% of your email is spam. When an email is spam, the spam filter
    on your mail server correctly identifies the email as spam 90% of the time. When an
    email is not spam, your spam filter incorrectly identifies it as spam 8% of the time.
    Questions 1
    What is the probability that when an email is spam and identified as spam?
    a) 0.0080
    b) 0.1080
    c) 0.7862
    d) 0.0120
    e) None of the above

    Questions 2
    What is the probability that an email is identified as spam?
    a) 0.1784
    b) 0.0704
    c) 0.1754
    d) 0.9000
    e) None of the above

    Questions 3
    Suppose you have just opened an email that the filter has identified as spam. What is
    the probability that the email is indeed spam?
    a) 0.1080
    b) 0.0120
    c) 0.6054
    d) 0.0800
    e) None of the above

    Question 4
    Continue on the following page.
    Page 3 of 3

    You have bag that contains two R20 notes, two R100 notes and one R200 note. You
    select two notes from the bag without replacement. Let X be the random variable that
    gives the total amount of money drawn. The probability distribution/mass function for X
    is?

    a) x 40 120 200 220 300


    P(X=x) 1/5 1/5 1/5 1/5 1/5

    b) x 20 100 200 350


    P(X=x) 2/4 2/4 1/4 1/4

    c) x 20 100 200
    P(X=x) 2/3 2/3 1/3

    d) x 0 40 120 200 220


    P(X=x) 1/5 1/5 1/5 1/5 1/5

    e) None of the above

    The following information is to be used for Questions 5, 6, and 7


    Random variable X can take on the values 1, 2, 3 or 4. The pdf of X is given below.
    f(x) = kx
    Questions 5

    What is the value of k?


    a) 0.1
    b) 1
    c) 2
    d) 0.2
    e) 10

    Question 6

    Find the probability that X is less than 4


    a) 0.100
    b) 1
    c) 0.300
    d) 0.600
    e) None of the above
    Page 4 of 4

    Question 7

    Calculate the mean of X


    a) 4
    b) 1
    c) 3
    d) 10
    e) None of the above

    Question 8

    The cumulative distribution function of a discrete random variable X is as given below


    x 2 5 7 11 12 14
    F(x) 0.1 0.3 0.5 0.7 0.91 1.0

    The probability distribution of the random variable X is

    (a) x 2 5 7 11 12 14
    P(x) 0 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.11 0.01

    (b) x 2 5 7 11 12 14
    P(x) 0.1 0.3 0.5 0.7 0.91 1.0

    (c) x 2 5 7 11 12 14
    P(x) 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.21 0.09

    (d) x 2 5 7 11 12 14
    P(x) 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.01 0.19

    (e) x 2 5 7 11 12 14
    P(x) 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.5 0.21 0.19

    Question 9
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    Which of the following is true about the Cumulative distribution function (CDF) of any
    random variable X ?
    a) The CDF is always decreasing.
    b) The CDF ranges between 0 and 1.
    c) The CDF is always greater than 1 for large values of X.
    d) The CDF is constant for all values of X.
    e) None of the above

    Questions 10 and 11 are based on the following information:


    Suppose it is known that 30% of all vehicles parked on the UKZN Westville campus
    during the week do not have the required parking disk. A random sample of 10 cars is
    observed one Monday morning.
    Question 10
    Which of the following formulae in EXCEL will return the probability that at most nine of
    the cars in the sample do have the required disc?
    a) = BINOM.DIST(9; 10; 0,7; TRUE)
    b) = 1-BINOM.DIST(8; 10; 0,3; TRUE)
    c) = BINOMIAL.DIST(9;1 0; 0,7; FALSE)
    d) = 1-BINOMIAL.DIST(9; 10; 30; TRUE)
    e) = BINOM.DIST(9; 10; 0,7; FALSE)

    Questions 11

    The probability that, at least six of the cars in the sample do not have the required disc
    is:
    a) 0.0106

    b) 0.9894

    c) 0.9527

    d) 0.0473

    e) 0.0090

    Question 12
    Which of the following statements about the requirements, with respect to modelling an
    experiment using a Binomial distribution, is false?
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    a) The probability of success is constant from trial to trial.


    b) The outcomes of each experiment/trial are independent of each other.
    c) The outcomes of the experiments/trials may be classified as either "success" or
    "failure."
    d) The random variable of interest is continuous.
    e) The number of experiments/trials is fixed.

    Question 13

    A tank contains 10 tagged fish and 50 untagged fish. On each day, fish are selected at
    random from the tank and placed together in a separate tank for observation.
    Let 𝑋 be the number of untagged fish selected. If 7 fish are selected at random, the
    Excel function to find the probability of selecting at least six untagged fish on a given
    day will be:

    a) = HYPGEOM.DIST(6; 7; 50; 60; TRUE)


    b) = 1-HYPGEOM.DIST(5; 7; 50; 60; FALSE)
    c) = HYPGEOM.DIST(6; 7; 10; 60; TRUE)
    d) = HYPGEOM.DIST(6; 7; 50; 60; FALSE)
    e) = 1- HYPGEOM.DIST(5; 7; 50; 60; TRUE)

    Questions 14, 15, 16 and 17 are based on the following:

    In a public library books are lost at a rate of 1.5 a month.

    Question 14
    What is the probability that fewer than 6 but at least 3 books are lost over the next 2
    months?
    a) 0.2689
    b) 0.5433
    c) 0.4929
    d) 0.2157
    e) 0.1867

    Question 15
    Which Excel function would you use to find the probability in Question 15 above?

    a) =POISSON.DIST(6; 1,5 ; TRUE) - POISSON.DIST(3; 1,5; TRUE)


    b) =POISSON.DIST(5; 1,5; TRUE) - POISSON.DIST(2; 1,5; TRUE)
    c) =POISSON.DIST(5; 1,5; TRUE) - POISSON.DIST(3; 1,5; TRUE)
    d) =POISSON.DIST(5; 1,5; FALSE) - POISSON.DIST(2; 1,5; TRUE)
    e) None of the above
    Page 7 of 7

    Question 16
    What is the probability that more than 2 books are lost next month?

    a) 0.8088
    b) 0.9344
    c) 0.1912
    d) 0.0656
    e) 0.2510

    Question 17

    If each lost book costs R320 to replace, how much would you expect the library to pay
    for the replacement of books next year?
    a) R 18
    b) R 960
    c) R 480
    d) R 3840
    e) R 5760

    Question 18
    Which of the following is false?

    a) If Y~Bin(12 ;0.2), then the probability distribution of Y is positively skewed.


    b) The number of people logging into a large computer network during a 5 second
    period can be modelled by a Poisson random variable.
    c) If X~Bin(13 ;0.5) then P(X<15) = 1.
    d) The mean and standard deviation of any Poisson random variable are equal.
    e) Binomial and Poisson random variables are discrete random variables.

    Questions 19
    Consider the following curves for a normal distribution below:

    Which one of the following statements is true?


    Page 8 of 8

    a) Curve A has a larger mean than curve C


    b) Curve B has a smaller mean than curve A
    c) Curve B has a smaller variance than curve C
    d) Curve A and curve C have the same variance
    e) Curve A has a larger variance than curve B

    Question 20
    Find the value c such that the area under the standard normal curve to the right of c is
    0.45.
    a) 0.55
    b) 0.3264
    c) 0.13
    d) 0.45
    e) 0.6736

    Questions 21 and 22 are based on the following information:


    Acetaminophen is an ingredient used in many pain relievers. The amount of
    acetaminophen per tablet for a particular brand of pain reliever is normally distributed
    with a mean of 600 mg and a standard deviation of 4.7 mg.

    Question 21
    What is the probability that a randomly chosen tablet of this particular brand of pain
    reliever contains less than 596.3 mg of acetaminophen?

    a) 0.7852
    b) 0.7872
    c) 0.0148
    d) 0.0436
    e) 0.2148

    Question 22

    Which Excel function would you use to find the probability in Question 21 above?

    a) =NORM.DIST(596,3; 600; 4,7; FALSE)

    b) =1 - NORM.DIST(596;600;4,7;TRUE)
    Page 9 of 9

    c) =NORM.DIST(600;596,3;4,7;TRUE)

    d) =NORM.DIST(596,3;600;4,7;TRUE)

    e) None of the above

    Question 23

    Only 10% of tablets of this particular brand of pain reliever contain more than x mg of
    acetaminophen. Find x.

    a) 606.03
    b) 593.97
    c) 600.47
    d) 604.23
    e) 595.77

    Question 24

    To determine the value of x in question 23, we would have used the following function in
    Microsoft Excel:
    a) =NORM.S.INV(0,9;600;4,7)
    b) =1- NORM.INV(0,9;600;4,7)
    c) =NORM.INV(0,1;600;4,7)
    d) = NORM.INV(0,9;600;4,7)
    e) None of the above

    Question 25
    Which of the following statements are true about the normal distribution?
    a) All variables that have a normal distribution have a mean of 0 and variance of 1.
    b) The mean, μ, affects the shape of the normal curve.
    c) For a standard normal distribution, 95% of the data lies within 2 standard
    deviations of the mean.
    d) The variance, σ2, affects the position of the normal curve.
    e) The normal distribution is symmetric about the median.
    Page 10 of 10

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