FINAL EXAMINATION

NOVEMBER 2019 SEMESTER

COURSE : ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS IV

COURSE CODE : KFS2213
DURATION : 3 HOURS
FACULTY : ENGINEERING AND LIFE SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT : ENGINEERING
PROGRAMME : BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING (HONS) CIVIL
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING (HONS)
ELECTRICAL
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING (HONS)
MECHANICAL
LECTURER : MDM. NORLIANA MUSLIM

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

This question paper consists of four (4) questions.

Answer all questions.

All answers must be written in answer booklet provided.

The answer for each question must start on a new page.

Formulae and table are provided at the end of question paper.

Candidates are allowed to use calculator.

Candidates are NOT ALLOWED to bring any unauthorized items into the exam
hall except with the permission of your invigilator.

Do Not Open the Question Paper Until Instructed

This Question Paper Consists of Seven (7) Printed Pages

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QUESTION 1

a) Consider the data of Table 1.1 which specifies the “life” of 40 similar car
batteries recorded to the nearest tenth of a year. The batteries are guaranteed to
last 3 years.
Table 1.1
2.2 4.1 3.5 4.5 3.2 3.7 3.0 2.6
3.4 1.6 3.1 3.3 3.8 3.1 4.7 3.7
2.5 4.3 3.4 3.6 2.9 3.3 3.9 3.1
3.3 3.1 3.7 4.4 3.2 4.1 1.9 3.4
4.7 3.8 3.4 2.6 3.9 3.0 4.2 3.5

(i) Represent the above data in the stem and leaf.

[3 marks]

(ii) Determine the mean, mode, median and variance for the raw data.
[11 marks]

b) A psychologist administered a test of manual dexterity to 25 third-grade students.

The times, in minutes, required to complete the test are given in Table 1.2.

Table 1.2
4 8 8 9 8
5 9 9 10 11
7 7 8 7 8
4 8 7 5 7
6 5 10 8 9

(i) Construct a frequency distribution for the data in Table 1.2 containing
class, class boundaries, frequency, cumulative frequency and midpoint.
[8 marks]

(ii) Sketch the histogram using cumulative frequency.

[3 marks]

[Total : 25 marks]

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QUESTION 2

a) It is common in many industrial areas to use a filling machine to fill boxes full of
product. This occurs in the food industry as well as other areas in which the
product is used in the home, for example, detergent. These machines are not
perfect, and indeed they may A, fill to specification, B, underfill, and C, overfill.
Generally, the practice of underfilling is that which one hopes to avoid. Let
P(B)= 0.001 while P(A) = 0.990.

(i) Represent the above situation in a Venn Diagram and find P(C).
[3 marks]

(iii) Determine the probability that the machine does not underfill.
[2 marks]

(iii) Calculate the probability that the machine either overfills or underfills.
[3 marks]

b) Hospital administrators in large cities anguish about traffic in emergency rooms.

At a hospital in a large city, the staff on hand cannot accommodate the patient
traffic if there are more than 10 emergency cases in a given hour. The historical
data suggest that, on the average, 5 emergencies arrive per hour. Calculate the
following:

(i) The probability that in a given hour the staff cannot accommodate the
patient traffic.
[5 marks]

(ii) The probability that no emergency arrives during a 3-hour shift.

[3 marks]

c) A prominent physician claims that 70% of those with lung cancer are chain
smokers. If his assertion is correct, then

(i) Determine the probability that of 10 such patients recently admitted to a

hospital, fewer than half are chain smokers.
[5 marks]

(iii) Evaluate the probability that of 6 such patients recently admitted to a

hospital, fewer than half are chain smokers.
[4 marks]

[Total : 25 marks]

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QUESTION 3

a) A soft-drink machine is regulated so that it discharges an average of 200

milliliters per cup. If the amount of drink is normally distributed with a standard
deviation equal to 15 milliliters, then conduct the following:

(i) Determine fraction of the cups that contain more than 224 milliliters.
[4 marks]

(ii) Evaluate the probability that a cup contains between 191 and 209
milliliters.
[4 marks]

(iii) Below what value do we get the smallest 25% of the drinks?
[5 marks]

b) The Edison Electric Institute has published figures on the number of kilowatt
hours used annually by various home appliances. It is claimed that a vacuum
cleaner uses an average of 46 kilowatt hours per year. A random sample of 12
homes included in a planned study indicates that vacuum cleaners use an average
of 42 kilowatt hours per year with a standard deviation of 11.9 kilowatt hours.
Assume the population of kilowatt hours to be normal.

(i) By using p-value approach, does this suggest at the 0.05 level of
significance that vacuum cleaners use, on average, less than 46 kilowatt
hours annually?
[7 marks]

(ii) Determine the sample size that would be necessary to detect a true mean
of 52 with a probability of at least 0.1.
[5 marks]

[Total : 25 marks]

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QUESTION 4

a) A study was made on the amount of converted sugar in a certain process at

various temperatures. The data were coded and recorded as follows:

Table 4.1
Converted sugar 8.1 7.8 8.5 9.8 9.5 8.9 8.6 10.2 9.3 9.2 10.5
Temperature 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 2.0

(i) From Table 4.1, estimate the linear regression line.

[14 marks]

(ii) Determine the mean amount of converted sugar produced when the coded
temperature is 1.75.
[2 marks]

(iii) Plot the scatter graph for data in Table 4.1.

[3 marks]

b) Drinking water is treated with seven concentrations of a chemical to improve

taste and reduce odor. The taste and odor resulting from the seven treatments
could not be measured quantitatively, but consumers could express their opinions
by ranking them. The consumer ranking produced the following data, where rank
1 is the most acceptable and rank 7 is the least acceptable.

Table 4.2
Water
A B C D E F G
sample
Taste
and odor 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
ranking
Chemical
added 0.9 2.8 1.7 2.9 3.5 3.3 4.7
(mg/L)

(i) Evaluate the Spearman coefficient for the data in Table 4.2 and interpret
its value.
[6 marks]

[Total : 25 marks]

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FORMULAE LIST

Mean: x =
x
n
n Binomial distribution: P( x) =   p x q n-x

x=
 fx  x
 y e −
f Poisson distribution: P( y ) =
Median: y!
n  Normal distribution:
 2 − Fm−1  z=
x−
Lm +   Cm 
 fm

  x−
z=
 D1  
Mode: L +   n
 D + D C
 1 2
Probability Rules:
Standard deviation: P( A or B ) = P( A) + P(B) − P( A and B )
P( A and B ) = P( A)P(B | A)
( )
2
 x−x
s= ; = P(B )P( A | B )
n -1
P( A and B ) = P( A)P(B )
( fx) 2
P( A and B )
  fx  − P( A | B ) =
2

s=
  f P (B )
 f −1
Pearson correlation:
x y
 (x y ) −
Confidence interval: i i

 p(1 − p )  r=
i i
n
p  z   ;

  (xi2 ) − ( xi )   ( yi2 ) − ( yi ) 
2 n   2
 2

x− p ;  n  n 
z=  
p(1 − p )
n Spearman correlation:
Regression Line: 6 d 2
 = 1−
y = ax + b (
n n2 −1 )
x y
 (x y ) −i
n
i
i i

a= ;b = y − a x
( xi )2
 xi − n
2

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