Name: _______________________________________ Stat 215 – Summer 2019

Midterm #1

For the following section, match the letter of the definition to the corresponding term.

1. _____ Trial A. The entire collection of objects or people

that one desires to study

2. _____ Event B. Two or more events are said to be this when

the occurrence of one event precludes the
occurrence of the other event.
3. _____ Mutually Exclusive
C. Variables whose values are non-numeric

4. _____ Descriptive Statistics D. Use analytic methods and theory of

probability to draw conclusions or make
decisions
5. _____ Inferential Statistics
E. An action that results in one of several
6. _____ Statistics possible outcomes

F. The science of collecting, organizing, and

7. _____ Population analyzing data for the purpose of estimating
and making inferences

8. _____ Numeric Variables G. Use graphical displays and numeric

summarizations to represent data

9. _____ Categorical Variables H. An arrangement of the n elements of the set

I. A set of outcomes with something in

10. _____ Permutation common

J. Variables whose values represent quantities

For questions 11 – 24, answer each question to the best of your abilities. Round answers to the nearest ten-
thousandths and show all work.
11. What is the 68-95-99.7 Rule?

12. Sketch a Normal Probability Plot (QQ Plot) with data that generally follows the Normal Distribution.
13. Use the following dataset to find the following statistics.

x: -13, -11, 85, 45, 100, 36, -50, 97, 60, 38

A. Find the sample mean.

B. Find the sample variance

C. Find the sample standard deviation (use a different method than you used for variance).

D. Give an interpretation of your calculated standard deviation.

E. Find the skewness

F. Given an interpretation of the skewness

G. Create a boxplot

H. Does the boxplot look skewed?

14. The diameter of a newly minted coin (in mm) is a random variable with probability density function

3
(𝑥 − 12)(14 − 𝑥) 12 < 𝑥 ≤ 14
𝑓(𝑥) = {4 }
0 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑤𝑖𝑠𝑒

A. What is the probability that the diameter is less than 12.8?

B. What is the probability that the diameter is greater than 13.5?

C. Find the mean diameter

D. Find the standard deviation of the diameters

E. Find the cumulative distribution function of the diameter

F. The specification for the diameter is 12.8 to 13.1 mm. What is the probability that the specification is
met?
15. A patient arrives at MedExpress with a low-grade fever and a sore throat. The physician decides that the
patient has either a viral infection, bacterial infection or both. Based on the patient’s pain score and
fever, the doctor determines that there is a probability of 0.62 that the patient has a bacterial infection
and a probability of 0.47 that the patient has a viral infection. What is the probability that the patient has
both infections?

16. If two fair die are rolled, what is the probability that the difference between the two numbers that appear
will be less than 3?

17. Suppose that 55 people are divided in a random manner into three groups in such a way that one group
contains 10 people, the second group contains 20 people, and the third group contains 25 people. What
is the probability that two particular people will be in the same group?

18. CNN decided to collect information about the coming election. With a random sample of 150 voters, 84
indicated that they preferred candidate A. What is the 99% Confidence Interval of the true proportion of
voters in favor of candidate A? Please state your interpretation of the confidence interval in the context
of the problem.
19. Suppose that the probability that a certain machine will breakdown on any given day is 0.04, and let X
denote the number of breakdowns that occur over the course of a year. (Assume it is not a leap year)
A. What is the expected number of breakdowns?

B. What is the variance?

C. What is the probability that the machine will have between 10 to 15 breakdowns a year?

D. Suppose a visiting technician wants to report on the effectiveness of the machine. Unfortunately, the
technician can only observe the machine for a week. What is the probability that the machine will
breakdown at least once during the technician’s visit?

20. In a lengthy manuscript, it is discovered that only 13.5 percent of the pages contain no typing errors. It is
assumed that the number of errors per page is a random variable with a Poisson distribution.
a. What is the mean number of errors per page?

b. What is the percentage of pages that have exactly one error?

21. Let the waiting time, in days, between traffic violations at a certain intersection follow the exponential
distribution with mean 7. Let X be the waiting time until the next traffic violation.
A. What is the probability that the waiting time will be greater than two weeks?

B. Would it be unusual for there to be less than two days between accidents? Justify your answer.

22. Suppose the weight of males ages 20-39 are normally distributed with a mean 196.9 lbs. and a standard
deviation 25 lbs.
A. What weight is considered the 20th percentile?

B. What is the percentile of someone who weighs 165 lbs.?

C. What is the proportion of males who weigh between 200 and 225 lbs.?

D. Suppose 45 males were selected at random and weighed, what is the proportion of males above 205?
23. A triathlon consists of swimming, cycling, and running. In a research study involving 155 randomly
selected triathletes, maximum heart rate (in beats per minute) was recorded while the athletes performed
each of the three events. Assume that the heart rate distribution for each event is approximately normally
distributed. The results were:
𝑥̅ 𝑠
Swimming 188 7.2
Biking 186 8.5
Running 194 7.8

a. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the true mean heart rate of the triathletes for swimming.
Interpret your interval in the context of the problem.

b. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the true mean heart rate of the triathletes for cycling.
Interpret your interval in the context of the problem.

c. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the true mean heart rate of the triathletes for running.
Interpret your interval in the context of the problem.

d. Do the intervals in Parts a-c overlap? Based on the above intervals, do you think there is
evidence that the mean maximum heart rate is higher for running than for the other two events?
Explain.

e. Find a 99% upper confidence bound for the mean heart rate for running. Interpret your interval in
the context of the problem.
24. A couple arrives at their favorite restaurant every Thursday night. The waiting time, in minutes, for the
couple to be seated at a table is uniformly distributed on the interval (0, 25).
a. What is the mean waiting time?

b. What is the standard deviation of the waiting times?

c. What is the probability that the waiting time is between 5 and 10 minutes?

25. Let X and Y be independent random variables with 𝜇𝑥 = 9.3 and 𝜇𝑦 = 7.1 and standard deviations 𝜎𝑥 =
0.2 and 𝜎𝑦 = 0.6. Use this information to find the mean and standard deviations of the following:

A. 5X

B. 3Y

C. Y – X

D. X + 4Y