STATISTICS
3N03
TEST #2 -
2000-11-02
Instructions
Aids permitted: any
calculators and one sheet of notes (8.5" x 11", one side
only).
Questions
- Define the following terms:
random
experiment,
sample
space, random variable, expected value.
- You are manufacturing glass
plates, 2 m X 1 m in size. Flaws in the plates occur at
random at a rate of 0.05 m-2. Plates with one or more flaws will be
scrapped and melted down.
(a) What percentage of all plates will be scrapped? State any
assumptions you make.
(b) If you produced 20 plates in one hour, what is the probability
that at least 3 of them will have to be scrapped? State any
assumptions you make.
(c) If a plate is to be scrapped, what is the probability that it
has only one flaw?
- Apples from a given orchard have
a mean weight of 263 g and a standard deviation of 21 g. They are
packed 20 to a bag. What is the probability that the total weight
of a bag will be less than 5 kg? State any assumptions you make.
[Note that F(2.768) = 0.9972.]
- If a random variable
X can take values 1, 2.5, 3, 500 with
probabilities 0.1, 0.35, 0.5, 0.05, respectively, find the median,
mean, variance and standard deviation of X.