TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MOMBASA

FACULTY OF APPLIED AND HEALTH SCIENCES

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS & PHYSICS
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATION FOR:
BCE/BSEE/BSME
AMA4203/SMA 2272: STATISTICS
END OF SEMESTER EXAMINATION
SERIES:APRIL2016
TIME:2HOURS
DATE:13May2016
Instructions to Candidates
You should have the following for this examination
-Answer Booklet, examination pass and student ID
This paper consists of Choose No questions. AttemptChoose instruction.
Do not write on the question paper.

Question ONE (30 MarkS)

(a) Define the following terms;

(i) Random experiment, (1mark)
(ii) Random variable, (1mark)
(iii) Sample space, (1mark)
(iv) Conditional probability (1mark)

(b) A manufacturer of two types of food supplements wants to determine their

efficacy in relieving the pain associated with arthritis. Efficacy data were
collected from 100 patients as summarized in the following table;

Supplement 1
High Low Total
Supplemen High 70 9 79
t2 Low 16 5 21
Total 86 14 100
Let A denote the event that supplement1 has high efficacy and B the event that
supplement 2 has high efficacy. Determine the following:

(i) P(A) (1mark)

(ii) P(B) (1mark)
(iii) P(A\B) (1mark)
(iv) P(B\A) (1mark)
 (v) P(A∩B) (1mark)
(vi) Whether the events are independent (1mark)

(c) (i) Verify that the following function is a probability distribution function (2marks)
x -1 0 1 2 3
p(x) 1/8 2/8 2/8 2/8 1/8

(ii)
Hence determine the probabilities;
P(X ≤ 3), (2marks)
P(-1< X ≤ 2) (2marks)
(d) The number of telephone calls, X, received per minute at a switchboard has the
following probability distribution
x 10 11 12 13 14 15
p(x) 0.08 0.15 0.30 0.20 0.20 0.07
Determine;

(i) The mean calls received per minute (2marks)

(ii) The variance of the number of calls received per minute (3marks)

(e) Suppose the error in a controlled laboratory experiment is a random variable X

having the density function

( ) {

(i) Verify that f(x) is a density function (2 marks)

(ii) Find E(X) (3 marks)

(iii) Find E(X2) (3 marks)

(iv) Find var(X) (1 mark)

Question TWO (20 MarkS)

Data indicating the number of candidates found cheating in last year’s KCSE examinations for

a sample of 100 schools are summarized below.

Cheating candid Numb. of schools

≥ 10 <but
10< 20 5
16
≥ 20 but < 25 10
≥ 25 but < 30 20
≥ 30 but < 35 21
≥ 35 but < 40 14
≥ 40 but < 50 10
≥ 50 but < 70 4
Total 100
 (a) Draw a histogram depicting the above data. (7 marks)

(b) Estimate the mean and median of the data. What do the data and your
statistics indicate about the distribution of the number of cheating
candidates?(6 marks)

(c) Construct a 95% confidence interval for the mean number of candidates
cheating in examinations in every school, stating any assumptions that you
make. (7 marks)

Question THREE (20 MarkS)

The continuous random variable X has probability density function given by

( )
( ) {

(a) Find k and sketch the graph of f(x) (7marks)

(b) Find ( ) and Var( ) and show that

( )
(8marks)

(c) A random sample of size 5 is taken from this distribution. Find, correct to
4 decimal places, the probability that all 5 observations exceed 1/3. (3marks)

(d) Find, correct to 4 decimal places, the variance of the mean of a random sample of
size 5 (2 marks)

Question FOUR (20 MarkS)

A sample of 10 farmed tilapia fish was caught by a scientist whose interest was in the

the relationship between their length(x) and weight(y). The data are given in the table below.

Length (x) 387 366 329 293 273 268 294 198 185 169
Weight (y) 720 680 480 330 270 220 380 108 89 68

(a) Plot the weights of the 10 tilapia fish (on the y or vertical axis) against
the corresponding lengths (on the x or horizontal axis). Does it appear
appropriate to fit a straight line to these data? (8 marks)

(b) (i) Calculate the least-squares estimates of the parameters β 0 and β1 of the

regression line y = β 0 + β1

(ii) Comment on the appropriateness of the regression line estimated

in part (i) as a model for the relationship between the weights and
lengths of the particular variety of tilapia fish. (8 marks)
 (c) Calculate and interpret the coefficient of determination. (4 marks)

Question FIVE(20 Marks)

(a) The population of male students at TUM have height, H , distributed Normally with
mean 1 6 0 c m and standard deviation 4 cm, i.e. N(l 60, 16).. Find the proportion
of the population whose heights are within one standard deviation of the
mean. Find also the proportion of the population who are more than 168 cm tall.
(5 marks)
(b) The University basket ball team (BBT) is restricted to persons who are more than
168 cm tall. and may be assumed to consist of a random sample of students
satisfying this condition.
Find; (i) the median height of members of the BBT,

(ii) the proportion of members of the BBT who are more than 1 70

cm tall. (10 marks)

(iii) Assume that the mean and standard deviation of height among

members of the BBT are 169.5 cm and 1.352 cm respectively. Find

an approximate value for the probability that the mean height of

a random sample of 25 members of the BBT is more than 170 cm

(5marks)
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