HOMEWORK I (12 October 2016)

1. Let's consider a random sample of 20 concentrations of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) in

milligrams per liter.

Create a stem-and-leaf plot of the data and interpret

2. The data given below pertain to a random sample of disbursements of state highway funds
(in millions of dollars), to different states.

a. Find the mean, variance, and range for these data and interpret.
b. Find lower and upper quartiles, median and interquartile range. Check for any outliers
and interpret.
c. Construct a box plot and interpret.
3. Interpret the following boxplot

4. A certain electronics company produces a particular type of vacuum tube.

It has been observed that, on the average, three tubes of 100 are defective. The company
packs the tubes in boxes of 400. What is the probability that a certain box of 400 tubes will
contain
8 defective tubes?
a.

b. At least 5 defective tubes?

c. At most one defective tube?
X = the

5. Suppose that for a given computer salesperson, the probability distribution of

number of systems sold in 1 month is given by the following table :
x
P( X =x)

0.05

0.1

0.12

0.3

0.3

0.11

0.01

0.01

a. Find the mean value of

(the mean number of systems sold).

b. Find the variance and standard deviation of X .
c. What is the probability that the number of systems sold is within 1
standard deviation of its mean value?
6. IQ examination scores for sixth-graders are normally distributed with mean value 100 and
standard deviation 14.2.
a. What is the probability a randomly chosen sixth-grader has a score greater than 130?
b. What is the probability a randomly chosen sixth-grader has a score between 90 and 115?
7. The percentage of protein in a certain brand of dog food is a normally distributed random
variable with mean 11.2% and standard deviation 0.6%. The manufacturer would like to state
on the package that the product has a protein content of at least a % and no more than b%. It
wants the statement to be true for 99% of the packages sold. Determine the values a and b.
8. The daily price in dollars per metric ton of cocoa in 2007 was normally distributed with
= $2,014 per metric ton and = $2.00. Find a price such that the probability that
the actual price will be above it is 0.80.
9. The distribution of heights of all students in a large university has a normal distribution with
a mean of 66 inches and a standard deviation of 2 inches. What is the probability that the
mean height of 26 randomly selected students from this university will be more than 70
inches?
10. It is known that a healthy human body has an average temperature of 98.6 0F, with a standard
deviation of 0.950F. Sixty healthy humans are selected at random. What is the probability that
their temperatures average at least 99.1 0F?