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MTH002 Review Questions

1. A city in the Pacific Northwest recorded its highest temperature at 93 degrees Fahrenheit and
its lowest temperature at 12 degrees Fahrenheit for a particular year. Use this information to
find the upper and lower limits of the second class if you wish to construct a frequency
distribution with 10 classes.

A) 21-31
B) 21-30
C) 21-28
D) 21-29
E) None of the above.

2. Identify the sampling technique used. At a local community college, five mathematical classes
are randomly selected out of 20 and all of the students from each class are interviewed.

A) Systematic
B) Cluster
C) Stratified
D) Convenience
E) Random

3. The mean SAT verbal score is 490, with a standard deviation of 96. Use the Empirical Rule
to determine what percent of the scores lie between 202 and 586. (Assume the data set has a
bell-shaped distribution.)

A) 83.85%
B) 68%
C) 95%
D) 81.5%
E) None of the above.

4. Which of the following statement is true?

A) The values of the standard deviation may be zero, positive or negative, while the value of the
variance will always be positive.
B) The standard deviation is expressed in terms of the original units of measurement but the
variance is not.
C) The interquartile range is found by taking the difference between the 1st and 3rd quartiles and
dividing that value by 2.

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D) The range is found by taking the difference between the high and low values and dividing that
value by 2.
E) None of the above.

5. How many ways can five people, A, B, C, D, and E, sit in a row at a movie theatre if C must
sit to the right of but not necessarily next to B?

A) 72
B) 60
C) 48
D) 24
E) None of the above.

6. If a distribution is skewed to the left, then

A) The mean is less than the median.

B) The mean is greater than the median.
C) The mean and median are roughly the same.
D) It is unable to compare the mean and the median.
E) None of the above.

7. Grade points are assigned as follows: A = 4, B = 3, C = 2, D = 1, and F = 0. Grades are weighted

according to credit hours. If a student receives an A in a four-credit class, a D in a two-credit
class, a B in a three-credit class and a C in a one-credit class, what is the student's grade point
average?

A) 2.65
B) 2.60
C) 2.85
D) 2.90
E) None of the above.

8. To plot a boxplot (Box-and-Whisker plot)of a distribution, you must know

A) All of the individual observations.

B) The mean and the standard deviation.
C) The mode, median, mean, the smallest and the largest data values.
D) The quartiles, the smallest and the largest data values.
E) None of the above.

9. A mechanical system consists of two components. The probability that the first component
works is 0.8, and the probability that the second component works (independently of the first
component) is 0.85. Let X be the number of working components. Find P(X≥1).
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A) 0.68
B) 0.97
C) 0.29
D) 0.95
E) None of the above.

10. Assume that blood pressure readings are normally distributed with a mean of 120 and a
standard deviation of 10. A blood pressure reading of 145 or more may require medical
attention. What percent of people have a blood pressure reading greater than 145?

A) 99.91%
B) 99.38%
C) 0.09%
D) 0.62%
E) None of the above

11. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A) 𝑃(𝐴𝐵) = 𝑃(𝐴)𝑃(𝐵), if 𝐴, 𝐵 are independent.

B) 𝑃(𝐴|𝐵) = 0, if 𝐴, 𝐵 are mutually exclusive and 𝑃(𝐵) > 0.
C) 𝑃(𝐴′|𝐵) = 1 − 𝑃(𝐴), if 𝐴, 𝐵 are independent and 𝑃(𝐵) > 0.
D) 𝑃(𝐴′|𝐵) = 0, if 𝐴, 𝐵 are mutually exclusive and 𝑃(𝐵) > 0.
E) None of the above.
12. There are still 100 tickets available for the Freshman Ballroom Party at XJTLU tonight, assume
that the tickets all have different numbers printed, how many different ways can 30 students
choose their tickets (one for each)?

A) 100
B) 70
C) 100𝐶30
D) 100𝑃30
E) None of the above.

13. How many distinguishable ways are there for the letters of the word ‘Toronto’ to be arranged?

A) 840
B) 5040
C) 2520
D) 420
E) None of the above.
14. Tay-Sachs disease is a fatal, recessive genetic disorder in which harmful quantities of a fatty
waste substance accumulate in the brain, slowly progressing until death by age five. When
both parents are carriers of the Tay-Sachs mutation, the probability is 0.30 that their child will
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have Tay-Sachs disease. The probability that exactly 1 of their 4 children will have Tay-Sachs
disease is

A) 0.1029
B) 0.0756
C) 0.4116
D) 0.4483
E) None of the above.

15. Consider the following to answer the question(s) below:

Age 50 or
Younger Over Age 50 Total
Mutual
Funds 30 35 65
Stocks 45 45 90
Bonds 20 25 45
Total 95 105 200

The probability that a client is over age 50 or is holding bonds is

A) 0.125
B) 0.625
C) 0.75
D) 0.525
E) None of the above.

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16. Suppose that out of 1000 people, there will be 5 getting a certain kind of disease. A clinic test
used to detect this disease has a true positive rate of 90% (correctly predicts the positive
individual) and a false positive rate of 5% (falsely tested positive for those who do not have
the disease). What is the probability that a person found to have a positive result actually has
this disease? Assume no other information of the person’s health condition is given. Round
the answer to four decimal places.

A) 0.0796.
B) 0.0422.
C) 0.2960.
D) 0.0829.
E) None of the above.
17. The manager of a computer help desk operation in Moncton has collected enough data to
conclude that the time per call is normally distributed with a mean equal to 8 minutes and a
standard deviation of 2 minutes. The manager wants to set the time limit at a level such that it
will sound on only 10 percent of all calls (i.e., 10 percent of all calls will sound because the
call time exceeds the time limit). The time limit should be

A) 9.68
B) 10.56
C) 9.6
D) 12.3
D) None of the above.

18. A group of students were asked if they carry a credit card. The responses are listed in the
table.

Credit Card No Credit Card Total

Freshman 40 20 60
Sophomore 30 10 40
Total 70 30 100

If a student is selected at random, find the probability that he or she owns a credit card given that
the student is a sophomore.

A) 0.8
B) 0.75
C) 0.25
D) 0.40
E) None of the above.

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19. If a customer draw 2 balls without replacement from an urn containing 2 red balls and 8
white balls. The customer will win the prize if he gets two red balls. Find the probability of
the customer drawing 2 red balls?

A) 0.044
B) 0.022
C) 0.035
D) 0.029
E) None of the above.

20. Find the sample standard deviation of the heights of people listed below:

165 165 170 171 172

A) 2.528
B) 3.887
C) 3.362
D) 3.007
E) None of the above.

21. The cholesterol levels (in milligrams per deciliter) of 30 adults are listed below. Find the range
for the cholesterol level of the 30 adults.

154 156 165 165 170 171 172 180 184 185
189 189 190 192 195 198 198 200 200 200
205 205 211 215 220 220 225 238 255 265

A) 113
B) 101
C) 111
D) 121
E) None of the above.

22. The owner of a small convenience store is trying to decide whether to discontinue selling
magazines. He suspects that only 8% of the customers buy magazines and thinks that he
might be able to sell something more profitable. Before making a final decision, he keeps
track of the number of customers who buy magazines each day. On a typical day he has 280
customers in his store.

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On a typical day, what would be the standard deviation of number of customers who buy
magazines?

A) 14.35
B) 20.608
C) 4.54
D) 4.73
E) None of the above.

23. Determine which best describe the shape of the following the population:

“The age of death in developed country during peaceful time."

A) Uniform
B) Right-Skewed
C) Left-Skewed
D) Symmetric
E) None of the above.

24. What percent of the observations in a distribution lie between the first and the third quartiles?

A) 25%
B) 50%
C) 75%
D) At least 50%
E) None of the above.

25. Find the sum of the areas under the standard normal curve to the left of z = -1 and to the right
of z = 1.25.
A) 0.7357
B) 0.0531
C) 0.8944
D) 0.2643
E) None of the above.

26. The distribution of room and board expenses per year at a four-year college is normally
distributed with a mean of $5850 and standard deviation of $1125. Random samples of size
20 are drawn from this population and the mean of each sample is determined. Which of the
following mean expenses would be considered unusual?

A) $6180
B) $5180
C) $6350

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D) $5598
E) None of the above.

27. Suppose that the average number of accidents occurring weekly on a particular stretch of a
highway equals 2. Assuming a Poisson distribution, calculate the probability that there are at
least two accidents this week?

A) 1−𝑒 .
B) 1 − 2𝑒 .
C) 1−𝑒 .
D) 1 − 3𝑒
E) None of the above.

28. Find the probability that in 200 tosses of a fair six - sided die, a five will be obtained at most
50 times.

A) 0.9131
B) 0.1190
C) 0.8810
D) 0.9994
E) None of the above.

29. What happens to the mean and standard deviation of the distribution of sample means as the
size of the sample decreases?

A) The mean of the sample means stays constant and the standard error stays constant.
B) The mean of the sample means stays constant and the standard error decreases.
C) The mean of the sample means stays constant and the standard error increases.
D) Can not tell
E) None of the above.

30. Use Chebychev’s Theorem to find the lower boundary of the percentage of heights of adult
between 160 and 180 if the mean of heights is 170 and the standard deviation is 5?

A) 1/4
B) 1/9
C) 3/4
D) 8/9
E) None of the above.

32. Suppose it is known that the age of death distribution in a particular region is left-skewed,
which of the following is true?

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A) Provided that the sample size is sufficiently large, the sampling distribution for sample means
will be approximately Normal with a standard deviation equal to the population standard
deviation.
B) Provided that the sample size is sufficiently large, the sampling distribution for sample means
will be approximately Normal with a mean equal to the population mean.
C) The sampling distribution will also be left-skewed for large sample sizes.
D) The standard deviation of the sampling distribution for sample means will be proportionally
larger than the population standard deviation, depending on the size of the sample.
E) None of the above.

33. The professor keep asking Jack questions until he answers one correctly. On average, how
many questions are expected to ask until Jack gets one correct? Suppose that Jack has a constant
correct probability of 0.04 for each question.

A) 24
B) 20
C) 250
D) 25
E) None of the above.

34. Find the value of c if P(Z<c)=0.5.

A) 0.1
B) 0.6915
C) 0.3085
D) 0
E) None of the above.

35. Which of the following is not independent?

A) P(A|B)=P(A)
B) P(B|A)=P(A)
C) P(A∩B)=P(A)P(B)
D) P(B|A)=P(B)
E) None of the above.

36. The Dispenser Right Company makes a soft drink dispensing machine used in many fast food
restaurants. When the machine is running properly, the average number of fluid ounces in the cup
should be 14. Periodically the machines need to be tested to make sure that they have not gone
out of adjustment. To do this, six cups are filled by the machine and a technician carefully
measures the volume in each cup. In one such test, the following data were observed:

14.25 13.7 14.02

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14.13 13.99 14.04

The 99% confidence interval is

A) 13.72 to 14.32 ounces
B) 13.83 to 14.21 ounces
C) 13.87 to 14.71 ounces
D) 13.70 to 14.30 ounces
E) 13.81 to 14.19 ounces

37 They actually select a random sample of 450 electrical components and find that 46 of those
had to be reworked. The 99% confidence interval is
A) 0.0654 to 0.1390.
B) 0.0432 to 0.1608.
C) 0.0763 to 0.1277.
D) 0.0541 to 0.1499.
E) Cannot be determined with the given information.

38 A human resources manager wishes to estimate the proportion of employees in her large
company who have supplemental health insurance. What is the sample size she should select if
she wants 95 percent confidence and a margin of error of ± 0.01?
A) 9,604
B) 3,458
C) 6,765
D) 381
E) 4,096

39 In order to be accurate to 99% within 0.02 ounces, what sample size would be needed if the
sample standard deviation is 0.18?
A) 538
B) 23
C) 11
D) 1159
E) 440

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