Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 115 views

    Quiz 3

    Uploaded by

    LEWIS WEKESA
    This document contains the questions and student responses for Quiz 3 taken by Nakyra Simpkins. There are 9 questions on the quiz covering topics like probability, normal distributions, and interpreting data in tables. The questions involve calculating probabilities, determining percentages, finding values corresponding to z-scores, and other statistical calculations.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Quiz 3

    Uploaded by

    LEWIS WEKESA
    115 views4 pages
    This document contains the questions and student responses for Quiz 3 taken by Nakyra Simpkins. There are 9 questions on the quiz covering topics like probability, normal distributions, and interpreting data in tables. The questions involve calculating probabilities, determining percentages, finding values corresponding to z-scores, and other statistical calculations.

    Original Description:

    Probability

    Original Title

    Lumen OHM 1

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    This document contains the questions and student responses for Quiz 3 taken by Nakyra Simpkins. There are 9 questions on the quiz covering topics like probability, normal distributions, and interpreting data in tables. The questions involve calculating probabilities, determining percentages, finding values corresponding to z-scores, and other statistical calculations.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    115 views4 pages

    Quiz 3

    Uploaded by

    LEWIS WEKESA
    This document contains the questions and student responses for Quiz 3 taken by Nakyra Simpkins. There are 9 questions on the quiz covering topics like probability, normal distributions, and interpreting data in tables. The questions involve calculating probabilities, determining percentages, finding values corresponding to z-scores, and other statistical calculations.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    You are on page 1of 4

    Quiz 3 Nakyra Simpkins

    Quizzes are timed (1 hour, 30 minutes).  You will have 3 attempts per problem, with a 20% penalty on the
    second attempt.  There is no "try a similar question" option on quizzes.

    Question 1 8/8 pts 2

    A bag of M&M's has 5 red, 6 green, 8 blue, and 2 yellow M&M's. What is the probability of
    randomly picking:

    (give answer as a reduced fraction)

    1) a yellow?

    2
     
    21

    2) a blue or green?

    2
     
    3

    3) an orange?

    0  

    Question 2 8/8 pts 2

    Suppose that 49% of people own dogs. If you pick two people at random, what is the
    probability that they both own a dog?

    Give your answer as a decimal (to at least 3 places) or fraction

    0.2401  

    Question 3 10/10 pts 2


    A jar contains 4 red marbles numbered 1 to 4 and 4 blue marbles numbered 1 to 4. A marble
    is drawn at random from the jar. Find the probability of the given event.

    (a) The marble is red


    Your answer is : 0.5  

    (b) The marble is odd-numbered


    Your answer is : 0.5  

    (c) The marble is red or odd-numbered


    Your answer is : 0.75  

    (d) The marble is blue or even-numbered


    Your answer is : 0.75  

    Question 4 8/8 pts 2

    Giving a test to a group of students, the grades and gender are summarized below

    A B C Total
    Male 11 19 4 34
    Female 15 17 2 34
    Total 26 36 6 68

    If one student is chosen at random,

    Find the probability that the student was male AND got a "A".
    11
     
    68

    Question 5 8/8 pts 2


    Giving a test to a group of students, the grades and gender are summarized below

    A B C Total
    Male 18 14 11 43
    Female 17 12 10 39
    Total 35 26 21 82

    If one student is chosen at random,

    Find the probability that the student was male OR got an "A".
    30
     
    41

    Question 6 8/8 pts 2

    A test was given to a group of students. The grades and gender are summarized below

    A B C Total
    Male 10 14 4 28
    Female 8 15 9 32
    Total 18 29 13 60

    If one student is chosen at random from those who took the test,

    Find the probability that the student got a 'B' GIVEN they are female.
    15
     
    32

    Question 7 20/20 pts 2


    The Acme Company manufactures widgets. The distribution of widget weights is bell-shaped.
    The widget weights have a mean of 44 ounces and a standard deviation of 4 ounces.

    Use the Standard Deviation Rule, also known as the Empirical Rule.

    Suggestion: sketch the distribution in order to answer these questions.

    a) 99.7% of the widget weights lie between 32 and

    56

    b) What percentage of the widget weights lie between 40 and 56 ounces?


    83.85 %

    c) What percentage of the widget weights lie above 36 ? 97.5 %

    Question 8 14/14 pts 2

    For a standard normal distribution, nd:

    P(z < 0.96)

    0.8315

    Question 9 16/16 pts 2

    In the country of United States of Heightlandia, the height measurements of ten-year-old


    children are approximately normally distributed with a mean of 56.8 inches, and standard
    deviation of 5.5 inches.

    A) What is the probability that a randomly chosen child has a height of less than 68.95
    inches?

    Answer= 0.986 (Round your answer to 3 decimal places.)

    B) What is the probability that a randomly chosen child has a height of more than 41 inches?

    Answer= 0.998 (Round your answer to 3 decimal places.)

    You might also like