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STAT 200: Introduction to Statistics Final Examination, Fall 2016 OL4 Page 1 of 8

STAT 200

OL4 / US2 Sections

Final Exam

Fall 2016

The final exam will be posted at 12:01 am on December 16, and it

is due at 11:59 pm on December 18, 2016. Eastern Time is our

reference time.

This is an open-book exam. You may refer to your text and other course materials

as you work on the exam, and you may use a calculator. You must complete the

exam individually. Neither collaboration nor consultation with others is allowed.

It is a violation of the UMUC Academic Dishonesty and Plagiarism policy to use

unauthorized materials or work from others.

Answer all 20 questions. Make sure your answers are as complete as possible.

Show all of your supporting work and reasoning. Answers that come straight

from calculators, programs or software packages without any explanation will not

be accepted. If you need to use technology (for example, Excel, online or hand-

held calculators, statistical packages) to aid in your calculation, you must cite the

sources and explain how you get the results.

Record your answers and work on the separate answer sheet provided.

This exam has 100 total points; 5 points for each question.

You must include the Honor Pledge on the title page of your submitted final exam.

Exams submitted without the Honor Pledge will not be accepted.

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1. True or False. Justify for full credit.

(a) A is an event, and Ac is the complement of A, then P(A AND Ac ) = 0.

(b) If the variance of a data set is 0, then all the observations in this data set must be zero.

interval for the same parameter must contain 1

(d) When plotted on the same graph, a distribution with a mean of 40 and a standard deviation

of 10 will look more spread out than a distribution with a mean of 50 and standard

deviation of 5.

(e) In a two-tailed test, the value of a test statistic is 2. The test statistic follows a distribution

with the distribution curve shown below. If we know the shaded area is 0.03, then we have

sufficient evidence to reject the null hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance.

2. Choose the best answer. Justify for full credit.

(a) A study was conducted at a local college to analyze the average GPA of students graduated

from UMUC in 2015. 100 students graduated from UMUC in 2015 were randomly selected,

and the average GPA for the group is 3.5. The value 3.5 is a

(i) statistic

(ii) parameter

(iii) cannot be determined

(b) The hotel ratings are usually on a scale from 0 star to 5 stars. The level of this measurement is

(i) interval

(ii) nominal

(iii) ordinal

(iv) ratio

stations were randomly selected and all voters were surveyed as they left those polling stations.

This type of sampling is called:

(i) cluster

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(ii) convenience

(iii) systematic

(iv) stratified

3. Choose the best answer. Justify for full credit.

(a) A study of 10 different weight loss programs involved 500 subjects. Each of the 10 programs

had 50 subjects in it. The subjects were followed for 12 months. Weight change for each

subject was recorded. You want to test the claim that the mean weight loss is the same for the

10 programs. What statistical approach should be used?

(i) t-test

(ii) linear regression

(iii) ANOVA

(iv) confidence interval

(b) A STAT 200 instructor teaches two classes. She wants to test if the variances of the score

distribution for the two classes are different. What type of hypothesis test should she use?

(i) t-test for two independent samples

(ii) t-test for matched samples

(iii) z-test for two samples

(iv) F- test

4. A random sample of 100 students was chosen from UMUC STAT 200 classes. The frequency

distribution below shows the distribution for study time each week (in hours). (Show all work.

Just the answer, without supporting work, will receive no credit.)

Study Time (in hours) Frequency Relative Frequency

0.0 – 4.9 5

5.0 - 9.9 13

10.0 - 14.9 0.22

15.0 -19.9 42

20.0 – 24.9

Total 100

(a) Complete the frequency table with frequency and relative frequency. Express the relative

frequency to three decimal places.

(b) What percentage of the study times was at least 15 hours?

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5. The five-number summary below shows the grade distribution of a STAT 200 quiz for a

sample of 1000 students.

Answer each question based on the given information, and explain your answer in each case.

(a) What is the interquartile range in the grade distribution?

(b) Which score band has the fewest students?

(i) 20 - 60

(ii) 60 - 75

(iii) 75 - 90

(iv) Cannot be determined

6. Consider selecting one card at a time from a 52-card deck. What is the probability that the first

card is from the suit of hearts and the second card is also from the suit of hearts? (Note: There

are 13 cards from the suit of hearts in a deck of cards) (Show all work. Just the answer, without

supporting work, will receive no credit.)

(a) Assuming the card selection is without replacement.

(b) Assuming the card selection is with replacement.

7. There are 1000 students in a high school. Among the 1000 students, 150 students take AP

Statistics, and 300 students take AP French. 100 students take both AP courses. Let S be the

event that a randomly selected student takes AP Statistics, and F be the event that a randomly

selected student takes AP French. Show all work. Just the answer, without supporting work,

will receive no credit.

(a) Provide a written description of the complement event of (S OR F).

(b) What is the probability of complement event of (S OR F)?

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8. Consider rolling a fair 6-faced die twice. Let A be the event that the sum of the two rolls is at

most 6, and B be the event that the first one is an even number.

(a) What is the probability that the sum of the two rolls is at most 6 given that the first one is an

even number? Show all work. Just the answer, without supporting work, will receive no credit.

(b) Are event A and event B independent? Explain.

9. There are 6 books in the “Statistics is Fun” series. (Show all work. Just the answer, without

supporting work, will receive no credit).

(a) How many different ways can Mimi arrange the 6 books in her book shelf?

(b) Mimi plans on bringing three of the six books with her in a road trip. How many different ways

can the two books be selected?

10. Assume random variable x follows a probability distribution shown in the table below.

Determine the mean and standard deviation of x. Show all work. Just the answer, without

supporting work, will receive no credit.

x -2 -1 0 1 2

P(x) 0.1 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.3

11. Mimi joined UMUC basketball team since summer 2016. On average, she is able to score 30%

of the field goals. Assume she tries 15 field goals in a game.

(a) Let X be the number of field goals that Mimi scores in the game. As we know, the distribution

of X is a binomial probability distribution. What is the number of trials (n), probability of

successes (p) and probability of failures (q), respectively?

(b) Find the probability that Mimi scores at least 2 of the 15 field goals. (round the answer to 3

decimal places) Show all work. Just the answer, without supporting work, will receive no credit.

12. A research concludes that the number of hours of exercise per week for adults is normally

distributed with a mean of 3.5 hours and a standard deviation of 3 hours. Show all work. Just the

answer, without supporting work, will receive no credit.

(a) Find the 75th percentile for the distribution of exercise time per week. (round the answer to 2 decimal

places)

(b) What is the probability that a randomly selected adult has more than 5 hours of exercise per week?

(round the answer to 4 decimal places)

13. Assume the SAT Mathematics Level 2 test scores are normally distributed with a mean of 500

and a standard deviation of 100. Show all work. Just the answer, without supporting work, will

receive no credit.

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(a) Consider all random samples of 100 test scores. What is the standard deviation of the sample

means?

(b) What is the probability that 100 randomly selected test scores will have a mean test score that is

between 490 and 510?

14. An insurance company checks police records on 1200 randomly selected auto accidents and

notes that teenagers were at the wheel in 180 of them. Construct a 90% confidence interval

estimate of the proportion of auto accidents that involve teenage drivers. Show all work. Just the

answer, without supporting work, will receive no credit.

15. A city built a new parking garage in a business district. For a random sample of 100 days, daily

fees collected averaged $1,800, with a standard deviation of $500. Construct a 90% confidence

interval estimate of the mean daily income this parking garage generates. Show all work. Just

the answer, without supporting work, will receive no credit.

16. ABC Company claims that the proportion of its employees investing in individual investment

accounts is higher than national proportion of 50%. A survey of 100 employees in ABC

Company indicated that 58 of them have invested in an individual investment account.

Assume Mimi wants to use a 0.10 significance level to test the claim.

(a) Identify the null hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis.

(b) Determine the test statistic. Show all work; writing the correct test statistic, without supporting

work, will receive no credit.

supporting work, will receive no credit.

(d) Is there sufficient evidence to support ABC Company’s claim that the proportion of its

employees investing in individual investment accounts is higher than 50%? Explain.

17. Mimi was curious if regular excise really helps weight loss, hence she decided to perform a

hypothesis test. A random sample of 5 UMUC students was chosen. The students took a 30-

minute exercise every day for 6 months. The weight was recorded for each individual before

and after the exercise regimen. Does the data below suggest that regular exercise helps weight

loss?

Weight (pounds)

Subject Before After

1 160 120

2 170 168

3 190 175

4 165 165

5 200 190

Assume we want to use a 0.05 significance level to test the claim. (a) Identify the null hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis.

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(b) Determine the test statistic. Show all work; writing the correct test statistic, without

supporting work, will receive no credit.

(d) Is there sufficient evident to support the claim that regular exercise helps weight loss?

Justify your conclusion.

18. In a pulse rate research, a simple random sample of 120 men results in a mean of 80 beats per

minute, and a standard deviation of 11 beats per minute. Based on the sample results, the

researcher concludes that the pulse rates of men have a standard deviation greater than 10 beats

per minutes. Use a 0.10 significance level to test the researcher’s claim.

(a) Identify the null hypothesis and alternative hypothesis.

(b) Determine the test statistic. Show all work; writing the correct test statistic, without

supporting work, will receive no credit.

(d) Is there sufficient evidence to support the researcher’s claim? Explain.

19. The UMUC Daily News reported that the color distribution for plain M&M’s was: 40%

brown, 20% yellow, 20% orange, 10% green, and 10% tan. Each piece of candy in a random

sample of 100 plain M&M’s was classified according to color, and the results are listed below.

Use a 0.05 significance level to test the claim that the published color distribution is correct.

Show all work and justify your answer.

Color Brown Yellow Orange Green Tan

Number 45 21 11 8 15

(a) Identify the null hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis.

(b) Determine the test statistic. Show all work; writing the correct test statistic, without

supporting work, will receive no credit.

(d) Is there sufficient evidence to support the claim that the published color distribution is

correct? Justify your answer.

20. A STAT 200 instructor believes that the average quiz score is a good predictor of final exam

score. A random sample of 10 students produced the following data where x is the average quiz

score and y is the final exam score.

x 80 50 60 100 70 85 40 65 75 90

y 72 60 55 90 60 85 35 60 78 95

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(a) Find an equation of the least squares regression line. Show all work; writing the correct

equation, without supporting work, will receive no credit.

(b) Based on the equation from part (a), what is the predicted final exam score if the average quiz

score is 95? Show all work and justify your answer.