Mathematics S Paper 2 STPM 2011

1. Some summary statistics about the annual expenditure, in RM, of a sample of recreational golfers on golf activities are shown in the table below. Minimum Maximum Mean Median 200.00 15500.00 6285.67 3500.00 (a) Comment on the shape of the distribution of expenditure. Give a reason for your answer .[2 marks] (b) State, with a reason, the appropriate measure of central tendency to describe the expenditure of the golfers. [2 marks] There are eight male and four female architects in a consultant company. Three architects are randomly chosen to be posted to Johor Bahru, Kuala Lumpur and Miri. Find the probability that (a) three male architects are posted to the three cities, [2 marks] (b) one male architect is posted to Kuala Lumpur, one female architect is posted to Johor Bahru and one female architect is posted to Miri. [2 marks] A discrete random variable X has probability distribution function
1 x 3 p( x ) ! k 0 x ! 1,2,3,4, x ! 5,6 otherwise

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(a) Determine the value of the constant k. (b) State the mode, and calculate the mean of X . 4.

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The sale values (output quantity multiplied by price) for four types of product of a company at current price and 1998 price are as follows: Type of product A B C D Total Sale value at current price (RM million) 1998 1999 2010 50 120 175 10 30 24 40 40 50 20 50 90 120 240 339 Sale value at 1998 price (RM million) 2009 2010 100 125 25 20 20 20 40 60 185 225

Calculate (a) the Laspeyres quantity index for the year 2010 by using 1998 as the base year, (b) the Laspeyres quantity index for the year 2010 by using 2009 as the base year, (c) the percentage change in the output quantity of the company from 2009 to 2010. 5.

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In a preliminary sample of 40 postgraduate students in a university, 32 students are satisfied with the services at the main library of the university. (a) Determine the smallest sample size needed to estimate the population proportion with an error not exceeding 0.05 at the 90% confidence level. State any assumption made. [5 marks] (b) State the effect on the sample size i). if the error is larger than 0.05 with the confidence level unchanged. [1 marks] ii. if the confidence level is higher than 90% with the error unchanged. [1 marks] A sample of 14 pairs of observations of variables x and y is summarised as follows: x = 43, x2 = 157.42, y = 572, y2 = 23530, xy = 1697.80. The equation of the regression line of y on x is y = a + bx. (a) Determine the values of a and b. (b) Calculate the coefficient of determination and interpret your answer.

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An opinion poll on a certain political party is conducted on 1000 voters, of whom 600 are males. It is found that 250 voters are in favour of the party. It is also found that 450 male voters are not in favour of the party. (a) Construct a two-way classification table based on the above information. [2 marks] (b) Find the probability that a randomly chosen voter is in favour of the party if the voter is a female. [1 marks] (c) Find the probability that a randomly chosen voter is a male or not in favour of the party. [2 marks] (d) Determine whether the events a voter is a male and a voter is in favour of the party are independent. [3 marks]

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Experience shows that 40% of the throws of a bowler result in strikes. (a) Find the probability that, out of ten throws made by the bowler, at least two throws result in strikes. [4 marks] (b) Find the probability that at most five throws need to be made by the bowler so that four throws result in strikes. [5 marks] The networks of the activities on nodes of a project is shown below.

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(a) (b) (c) (d)

Determine the values of r and s. [4 marks] State the critical path, and determine the time required to complete the project. [3 marks] Calculate the total floats for activities A and J . [2 marks] If the duration of activity J is extended to four weeks, determine whether the project will be delayed. [2 marks]

10. The age of women in country A suffering from kidney problems is found to be normally distributed with mean 40 years and standard deviation 5 years. (a) Find the probability that 10 randomly selected women who suffer from kidney problems have the mean age less than 42 years. [3 marks] (b) Find the probability that four randomly selected women who suffer from kidney problems have a total age of more than 145 years. [3 marks] (c) The ages of eight randomly selected women from country B who suffer from kidney problems are as follows: 52, 68, 22, 35, 30, 56, 39, 48. Assuming that the ages of the women who suffer from kidney problems are normally distributed, determine the 95% confidence interval for the mean age of the women. Hence, conclude whether the mean age differs from that of country A, and explain your answer. [6 marks] 11. A food company produces a cereal from several ingredients. The cereal is enriched with vitamins A and B which are provided by two of the ingredients, oats and rice. A 1 g of oats contributes 0.32 mg of vitamin A and 0.08 mg of vitamin B, whereas 1 g of rice contributes 0.24 mg of vitamin A and 0.12 mg of vitamin B. Each box of cereal produced has to meet the minimum requirements of 19.20 mg of vitamin A and 7.20 mg of vitamin B. The cost of 1 kg of oats is RM5 and the cost of 1 kg of rice is RM4. The company wants to determine how many grams of oats and rice are to be included in each box of cereal in order to minimise cost. (a) Formulate a linear programming model for the problem to minimise the cost. [5 marks] (b) Using a graphical method, determine how many grams of oats and rice are included in each box of cereal to minimise cost, and find this minimum cost. [8 marks]

12. The lengths (in minutes) of 200 telephone calls made by customers to a pizza customer call centre in a particular day is shown in the table below. Length of call (minutes) Number of calls 7 0.0 - 3.0 19 3.0 - 4.5 34 4.5 - 6.0 67 6.0 - 7.5 38 7.5 - 9.0 18 9.0 - 10.5 13 10.5 - 12.0 12.0 - 15.0 4 (a) Construct a histogram to display the data. Comment on the shape of the distribution obtained. [4 marks] (b) Use your histogram to estimate the mode and the median. [5 marks] (c) Calculate the mean of the length of calls made by the customers. [2 marks] (d) Determine the percentage of calls whose lengths are at least 10 minutes. [3 marks]