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Seam 315 PROB & STATS ASSI 3

Probability

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UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE

Faculty: Education
Department: Science Design and Technology
Education
Paper code and Title: Bachelor of Education Honours Science Education
and
Applications [BEdHSEA] Mathematics for Educational
Practice [BEdHSEAM Probability and Statistics
[SEAM 315]: Assignment 3

Instructions: Answer all questions

1) The Abacus media company publishes 4 magazines for the teenager between
(between 13 and 17 years of age) market. The executive editor of Abacus would like
to know whether readerhip preferances for the four magazines is independent of
gender A survey amongst 200 teenagers in stationary stores was carried out.
Randomly selected teenagers who bought at least one of the four magazines were
asked the following questions:” Which of the four magazines do you prefer to read”

Gender magazine preferance


Beat Youth Grow Live
Male 18 12 20 28
Female 38 26 34 24

Test at the 5% level of significance, whether there is an association between gender


and magazine preference. [10]

2) Independent random samples from a normal population produced the following


results

Sample 2 13 3 8 5
Sample 1 14 7 7 9 6

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Find a 95% confidence interval for μ1−μ2 . [8]

3) The diagram below gives the score of 12 students before and after attending a
statistics test

Student 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Before 65 40 63 75 62 35 80 50 70 85 75 65
After 66 44 60 76 62 40 75 50 75 87 76 70

Construct a 95% confidence interval for the difference in the two means μa −μ b . [10]

4) A chemical reaction is being investigated. While the chemical reaction reaction is


carried out at atmospheric presuure, the temperature varies from 10 C to 100 C . As a
beginning step in the optimization of this process, the relationship between
conversion of the product and temperature must be obtained. Pilot plant studies have
provided the following data (X: Temperature, Y: Yield)

X 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Y 3 5 7 10 11 14 15 17 20 21

i) Plot the data above and comment


ii) If the proposed model is Y = β0 + β 1. Use the method of least squares to estimate
β 0. [15]
5) A study is designed to test whether there is a difference in mean daily calcium intake
in adults with normal bone density, adults with osteopenia (a low bone density which
may lead to osteoporosis) and adults with osteoporosis. Adults 60 years of age with
normal bone density, osteopenia and osteoporosis are selected at random from
hospital records and invited to participate in the study Each participant’s daily
calcium intake is measured based on reported food intake and supplements. The data
are shown in the table below

Normal Bone density Osteopenia Osteoporosis


1200 1000 890
1000 1100 650

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980 700 1100
900 800 900
750 500 400
800 700 350
.
Is there a statistically significance difference in mean calcium intake in patients with normal
bone density as compared to patience with osteopenia and osteoporosis. [20]

END

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