Practice Questions for COMM5011 Final Exam ( Statistics Section) 1.

Assume that the noise level reading, measured 1 metre from the motor, produced by Buffalo brand lawnmowers while cutting grass is normally distributed with a mean of 90 decibels and standard deviation of 5 decibels. Fifty Buffalo mowers are put through rigorous testing by a consumer safety organisation. What is the probability that the mean noise level they produce is more than 92 decibels? 2. The probability that orders at a drive through fast food outlet are correctly filled within two minutes is 0.85. Assuming that the time taken for one order does not affect later ones, what is the probability that fewer than 8 of the orders taken from the next 12 cars that arrive are filled within the two minutes anticipated for each order? 3. A market researcher has interviewed 10 customers at a new shopping centre this afternoon. She has asked questions about their purchases and has recorded the amounts that they have spent in specialty stores during the day. What is the standard deviation of this sample of customer expenditures if amounts were: $75, $60.95, $45.60, $0, $29.50, $47.85, $427, $62.50, $31.90, $83.15 4. If the variable X N (75.2, 28.6) then between what two values, equidistant from the mean would we find 73% of X values situated? 5. Dominics Pizza offers a home delivery service to customers who are within 5 Km of the restaurant. On a recent Friday night the distance and time taken for delivery for 10 orders were recorded and a regression analysis run. The output is shown below.
SUMMARY OUTPUT Regression Statistics Multiple R 0.746778514 R Square 0.557678149 Adjusted R Square 0.502387918 Standard Error 2.183627612 Observations 10 ANOVA df Regression Residual Total 1 8 9

Significance SS MS F F 48.0941636 48.09416 10.08637758 0.013077827 38.1458364 4.76823 86.24 Standard Error t Stat P-value Lower 95% 1.727895157 6.753664 0.00014451 7.685089785 0.740148965 3.175906 0.013077827 0.643856808

Intercept Distance Km

Coefficients 11.66962316 2.350643382

Upper 95% 15.65415654 4.057429957

(a) Write down the sample regression equation using Y to represent delivery time and X to represent distance. ( b) How can you interpret the intercept and slope in this equation, relating them to pizza delivery? (c) What is the estimated delivery time to a customer who is 4.6 Km form the restaurant? (d) Comment on the fit of the line to the data recorded. (e) What other variables might be useful to add to this model? 6.A major fine art auction house LuxeArt claims to make 9% of Australian fine art auction sales. A company which carries out econometric analysis of world fine art auctions wants to test this hypothesis against the alternative that the percentage is less than 9%. Looking at the 672 lots sold by auction, it has found that for the latest month LuxeArt has sold 7.738% of them. (i) Carry out the test described above using a 1% level of significance and a critical value approach. Show all steps. What decision should you make about LuxeArts claim? (ii) Repeat the test assuming that only 349 lots have been sold by auction but the percentage sold by LuxeArt is the same. 7. A company which packages frozen food needs to make sure that the average weight of packs of chicken portions is 480 grams with a standard deviation of 5 grams. The company has employed some new staff recently and wishes to check if the packing process is still delivering product which satisfies the above specification. The company takes a sample of 75 packets of chicken portions and finds an average weight of 482.5 grams. (a) What is the probability of finding a mean of 482.5 grams or more in the sample if production is running to specification? (b) What is the probability of finding a sample mean of between 478 and 481 grams if the production is running to specification? (c) Assuming the mean content of packs has changed since the new staff were employed but the dispersion of weights is unchanged, find a 99% confidence interval for the new population mean. 8. Critically evaluate the following graph from a UNESCO report (http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002156/215644e.pdf) and answer these questions. (a) Describe the purpose of this graph and discuss how well it fulfils its purpose. (b)Why is Cambodia highest on the right hand side but only fifth highest on the left? (c)Why does New Zealand only appear on the right?