Practice Final

STAT - Fadi Hasan

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.

Solve the problem.

1) There is a relationship between smoking cigarettes and getting emphysema. Does this statement describe:
A) inferential statistics? B) descriptive statistics?

2) A sample of candies have weights that vary from 2.35 grams to 4.75 grams. Use this information to find the
upper and lower limits of the first class if you wish to construct a frequency distribution with 12 classes.

A) 2.35-2.54 B) 2.35-2.55 C) 2.35-2.65 D) 2.35-2.75

SHORT ANSWER. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question.

3) The heights (in inches) of 30 adult males are listed below. Construct a relative frequency histogram using five
classes.

70 72 71 70 69 73 69 68 70 71
67 71 70 74 69 68 71 71 71 72
69 71 68 67 73 74 70 71 69 68

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.

4) For the dot plot below, what is the maximum and what is the minimum entry?

A) max: 17; min: 12 B) max: 54; min: 15 C) max: 54; min: 12 D) max: 14; min: 12

SHORT ANSWER. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question.

5) The scores of nine members of a local community college women's golf team in two rounds of tournament play
are listed below.

Player 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Round 1 85 90 87 78 92 85 79 93 86
Round 2 90 87 85 84 86 78 77 91 82

Use a scatter plot to display the data.

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MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.

6) A student receives test scores of 62, 83, and 91. The student's final exam score is 88 and homework score is 76.
Each test is worth 20% of the final grade, the final exam is 25% of the final grade, and the homework grade is
15% of the final grade. What is the student's mean score in the class?
A) 80.6 B) 76.6 C) 90.6 D) 85.6

7) For the following data, approximate the mean miles per day.

Miles (per day) Frequency

1-2 6
3-4 26
5-6 10
7-8 15
9-10 18
A) 6 B) 5 C) 7 D) 15

8) For the following data set, approximate the sample standard deviation.

Miles (per day) Frequency

1-2 9
3-4 22
5-6 28
7-8 15
9-10 4
A) 2.1 B) 5.1 C) 2.9 D) 1.6

SHORT ANSWER. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question.

9) Test scores for a history class had a mean of 79 with a standard deviation of 4.5. Test scores for a physics class
had a mean of 69 with a standard deviation of 3.7. Suppose a student gets a 67 on the history test and a 90 on
the physics test. Calculate the z-score for each test. On which test did the student perform better?

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.

10) The cholesterol levels (in milligrams per deciliter) of 30 adults are listed below. Find D6 .

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) 200 B) 265 C) 171 D) 205

SHORT ANSWER. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question.

11) Identify the sample space of the probability experiment: tossing four coins and recording the number of heads

12) Identify the sample space of the probability experiment: rolling a single 12-sided die with sides numbered 1-12

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MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.

13) Classify the events as dependent or independent. Event A: A red candy is selected from a package with 30
colored candies and eaten. Event B: A blue candy is selected from the same package and eaten.
A) dependent B) independent

14) A multiple-choice test has five questions, each with five choices for the answer. Only one of the choices is
correct. You randomly guess the answer to each question. What is the probability that you answer the first
two questions correctly?
A) 0.04 B) 0.2 C) 0.02 D) 0.4

15) A card is drawn from a standard deck of 52 playing cards. Find the probability that the card is an ace or a king.
2 1 4 8
A) B) C) D)
13 13 13 13

16) The distribution of Master's degrees conferred by a university is listed in the table.
(assume that a student majors in only one subject)

Major Frequency
Mathematics 222
English 208
Engineering 86
Business 176
Education 222

What is the probability that a randomly selected student with a Master's degree majored in English or
Mathematics? Round your answer to three decimal places.
A) 0.470 B) 0.530 C) 0.243 D) 0.228

17) State whether the variable is discrete or continuous.

The blood pressures of a group of students the day before their final exam
A) continuous B) discrete

SHORT ANSWER. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question.

18) In a pizza takeout restaurant, the following probability distribution was obtained. The random variable x
represents the number of toppings for a large pizza. Graph the probability distribution.

x P(x)
0 0.30
1 0.40
2 0.20
3 0.06
4 0.04

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.

19) The probability that an individual is left-handed is 0.12. In a class of 85 students, what is the probability of
finding five left-handers?
A) 0.030 B) 0.059 C) 0.000 D) 0.12

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20) The probability that a tennis set will go to a tie-breaker is 16%. What is the probability that two of three sets
will go to tie-breakers?
A) 0.065 B) 0.16 C) 0.339 D) 0.0256

21) The heights of adult women are normally distributed with a mean of 61.8 inches and a standard deviation of
2.6 inches. Use the Empirical Rule to determine between what two heights 95% of adult women will fall.
A) (56.6, 67) B) (55.6, 68) C) (56.1, 67.5) D) (56.4, 67.2)

22) If the mean and the standard deviation of a continuous random variable that is normally distributed are 26
and 6, find an interval that contains 95% of the distribution.
A) (14, 38) B) (8, 44) C) (20, 32) D) (6, 46)

23) Find the z-scores for which 98% of the distribution's area lies between -z and z.
A) (-2.33, 2.33) B) (-1.645, 1.645) C) (-1.96, 1.96) D) (-0.99, 0.99)

24) For a standard normal curve, find P70 , that is, the z-score that separates the bottom 70% from the top 30%.
A) 0.53 B) 0.98 C) 0.47 D) 0.12

25) The distribution of cholesterol levels in teenage boys is approximately normal with m = 170 and s = 30 (Source:
U.S. National Center for Health Statistics). Levels above 200 warrant attention. Find the probability that a
teenage boy has a cholesterol level greater than 225.
A) 0.0336 B) 0.0606 C) 0.0718 D) 0.0012

26) An airline knows from experience that the distribution of the number of suitcases that get lost each week on a
certain route is approximately normal with m = 15.5 and s = 3.6. What is the probability that during a given
week the airline will lose less than 20 suitcases?
A) 0.8944 B) 0.3944 C) 0.1056 D) 0.4040

27) A tire company finds the lifespan for one brand of its tires is normally distributed with a mean of 48,700 miles
and a standard deviation of 5000 miles. If the manufacturer is willing to replace no more than 10% of the tires,
what should be the approximate number of miles for a warranty?
A) 42,300 B) 55,100 C) 40,475 D) 56,925

28) Assume that the heights of women are normally distributed with a mean of 62.5 inches and a standard
deviation of 2.9 inches. Find Q3 , the third quartile that separates the bottom 75% from the top 25%.
A) 64.5 B) 60.5 C) 65.8 D) 66.2

29) A coffee machine dispenses normally distributed amounts of coffee with a mean of 12 ounces and a standard
deviation of 0.2 ounce. If a sample of 9 cups is selected, find the probability that the mean of the sample will be
greater than 12.1 ounces.
A) 0.0668 B) 0.2123 C) 0.3216 D) 0.9332

30) A coffee machine dispenses normally distributed amounts of coffee with a mean of 12 ounces and a standard
deviation of 0.2 ounce. If a sample of 9 cups is selected, find the probability that the mean of the sample will be
less than 12.1 ounces.
A) 0.9332 B) 0.0668 C) 0.3216 D) 0.2123

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SHORT ANSWER. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question.

31) A certain confidence in interval is 8.35 < m < 9.85. Find the sample mean x and the error of estimate E.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.

32) A nurse at a local hospital is interested in estimating the birth weight of infants. How large a sample must she
select if she desires to be 99% confident that the true mean is within 3 ounces of the sample mean? The
standard deviation of the birth weights is known to be 8 ounces.
A) 48 B) 47 C) 7 D) 6

33) A group of 40 bowlers showed that their average score was 192 with a standard deviation of 8. Find the 95%
confidence interval of the mean score of all bowlers.
A) (189.5, 194.5) B) (186.5, 197.5) C) (188.5, 195.6) D) (187.3, 196.1)

SHORT ANSWER. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question.

34) A random sample of 700 high school seniors is given the SAT-V test. The mean score for this sample is x = 487.
What can you say about the mean score m of all high school seniors?

35) Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population mean, m. Assume the population has a normal
distribution. In a random sample of 26 computers, the mean repair cost was $160 with a standard deviation of
$34 .

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.

36) A random sample of 10 parking meters in a beach community showed the following incomes for a day. Assume
the incomes are normally distributed.

$3.60 $4.50 $2.80 $6.30 $2.60 $5.20 $6.75 $4.25 $8.00 $3.00

Find the 95% confidence interval for the true mean.

A) ($3.39, $6.01) B) ($2.11, $5.34) C) ($4.81, $6.31) D) ($1.35, $2.85)

37) Find the critical value, tc, for c = 0.90 and n = 15.
A) 1.761 B) 1.345 C) 2.145 D) 2.624

38) Construct a 90% confidence interval for the population mean, m. Assume the population has a normal
distribution. In a recent study of 22 eighth graders, the mean number of hours per week that they watched
television was 19.6 with a standard deviation of 5.8 hours.
A) (17.47, 21.73) B) (18.63, 20.89) C) (5.87, 7.98) D) (19.62, 23.12)

39) A manufacturer of golf equipment wishes to estimate the number of left-handed golfers. How large a sample is
needed in order to be 99% confident that the sample proportion will not differ from the true proportion by
more than 6%? A previous study indicates that the proportion of left-handed golfers is 10%.
A) 166 B) 136 C) 185 D) 38

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SHORT ANSWER. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question.

40) A state highway patrol official wishes to estimate the number of drivers that exceed the speed limit traveling a
certain road.
a) How large a sample is needed in order to be 90% confident that the sample proportion will not differ from
the true proportion by more than 2%?
b) Repeat part (a) assuming previous studies found that 85% of drivers on this road exceeded the speed limit.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.

41) A survey of 2490 golfers showed that 347 of them are left-handed. Find a point estimate for p, the population
proportion of golfers that are left-handed.
A) 0.139 B) 0.861 C) 0.162 D) 0.122

SHORT ANSWER. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question.

42) When 385 college students were surveyed, 160 said they own their car. Construct a 95% confidence interval for
the proportion of college students who say they own their cars.

43) The mean IQ of statistics teachers is greater than 130 . Write the null and alternative hypotheses.

44) The mean score for all NBA games during a particular season was less than 100 points per game. Write the
null and alternative hypotheses.

45) The mean IQ of statistics teachers is greater than 140 . State this claim mathematically. Write the null and
alternative hypotheses. Identify which hypothesis is the claim.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.

46) Suppose you are using a = 0.05 to test the claim that m ≠ 44 using a P-value. You are given the sample statistics
n = 35, x = 43.1, and s = 2.7. Find the P-value.
A) 0.0448 B) 0.0591 C) 0.1003 D) 0.0244

47) You wish to test the claim that m ≠ 27 at a level of significance of a = 0.05 and are given sample statistics n = 35,
x = 26.1, and s = 2.7. Compute the value of the standardized test statistic. Round your answer to two decimal
places.
A) -1.97 B) -3.12 C) -2.86 D) -1.83

48) Find the critical value for a right-tailed test with a = 0.01.
A) 2.33 B) 2.575 C) 2.055 D) 1.96

49) You wish to test the claim that m = 1030 at a level of significance of a = 0.01 and are given sample statistics
n = 35, x = 1000 and s = 82. Compute the value of the standardized test statistic. Round your answer to two
decimal places.
A) -2.16 B) -3.82 C) -4.67 D) -5.18

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SHORT ANSWER. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question.

50) A local group claims that the police issue at least 60 speeding tickets a day in their area. To prove their point,
they randomly select two weeks. Their research yields the number of tickets issued for each day. The data are
listed below. At a = 0.01, test the group's claim.

70 48 41 68 69 55 70 57 60 83
32 60 72 58

51) Use a t-test to test the claim m > 35 at a = 0.005, given the sample statistics n = 25, x = 36, and s = 3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.

52) Find the standardized test statistic t for a sample with n = 15, x = 3.1, s = 0.8, and a = 0.05 if H0 : m ≤ 2.8. Round
your answer to three decimal places.
A) 1.452 B) 1.728 C) 1.631 D) 1.312

53) Find the standardized test statistic t for a sample with n = 20, x = 12.1, s = 2.0, and a = 0.05 if Ha : m < 12.5.
Round your answer to three decimal places.
A) -0.894 B) -0.872 C) -1.265 D) -1.233

54) Determine the standardized test statistic, z, to test the claim about the population proportion p ≥ 0.700 given
n = 50 and ^
p = 0.612 . Use a = 0.10.
A) -1.36 B) -1.28 C) -2.18 D) -3.01

SHORT ANSWER. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question.

55) Construct a scatter plot for the given data. Determine whether there is a positive linear correlation, negative
linear correlation, or no linear correlation.

x -5 -3 4 1 -1 -2 0 2 3 -4
y 11 6 -6 -1 3 4 1 -4 -5 8

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.

56) The data below are the number of absences and the final grades of 9 randomly selected students from a
statistics class. Calculate the correlation coefficient, r.

Number of absences, x 0 3 6 4 9 2 15 8 5
Final Grade, y 100 88 82 84 73 94 57 78 84
A) -0.991 B) -0.888 C) -0.918 D) -0.899

57) The data below are the ages and systolic blood pressures (measured in millimeters of mercury) of 9 randomly
selected adults. Calculate the correlation coefficient, r.

Age, x 30 33 37 40 43 45 49 53 57
Pressure, y 112 116 119 127 138 141 144 146 148
A) 0.960 B) 0.998 C) 0.890 D) 0.908

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SHORT ANSWER. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question.

58) Construct a scatter plot for the given data. Determine whether there is a positive linear correlation, negative
linear correlation, or no linear correlation.

x -5 -3 4 1 -1 -2 0 2 3 -4
y 11 -6 8 -3 -2 1 5 -5 6 7

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.

59) A manager wishes to determine the relationship between the number of miles (in hundreds of miles) the
manager's sales representatives travel per month and the amount of sales (in thousands of dollars) per month.
Find the equation of the regression line for the given data.

Miles traveled, x 2 3 10 7 8 15 3 1 11
Sales, y 31 33 78 62 65 61 48 55 120

A) ^
y = 3.53x + 37.92 B) ^
y = 37.92x - 3.53 C) ^
y = 3.53x - 37.92 D) ^
y = 37.92x + 3.53

60) Use the regression equation to predict the value of y for x = 2.2. Assume that the variables x and y have a
significant correlation.

x -5 -3 4 1 -1 -2 0 2 3 -4
y 11 6 -6 -1 3 4 1 -4 -5 8

A) -3.389 B) 4.905 C) -0.217 D) 3.553

SHORT ANSWER. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question.

61) A calculus instructor is interested in finding the strength of a relationship between the final exam grades of
students enrolled in Calculus I and Calculus II at his college. The data (in percentages) are listed below.

Calculus I 88 78 62 75 95 91 83 86 98
Calculus II 81 80 55 78 90 90 81 80 100

a) Graph a scatter plot of the data.

b) Find an equation of the regression line.
c) Determine if there is a significant correlation between the data. Use a = 0.01.
d) Predict a Calculus II exam score for a student who receives an 80 in Calculus I. Is your answer a valid
prediction?

62) Find the equation of the regression line by letting Row 1 represent the x-values and Row 2 represent the
y-values. Now find the equation of the regression line letting Row 2 represent the x-values and Row 1
represent the y-values. What effect does switching the explanatory and response variables have on the
regression line?

Row 1 -5 -3 4 1 -1 -2 0 2 3 -4
Row 2 -10 -8 9 1 -2 -6 -1 3 6 -8