2013 STPM Mathematics(T) P3

Section A [45 marks]

Answer all questions in this section.

1. A set of data has a mean of 6.1, a median of 5.4 and a standard deviation of 1.2. Calculate the Pearson
coefficient of skewness, and comment on your answer. [3 marks]

2. In a woman single badminton match, the first player who wins two out of three sets wins the match. The
probability of a particular player winning a set is 0.7 if she has won the previous set. The probability of the player
winning a set is 0.4 if she has lost the previous set.
(a) Find the probability that the player wins the match given that she has lost the first set.
[2 marks]
(b) If the probability that the player wins the match is 0.64, find the probability that she wins
the first set. [6 marks]

3. The continuous random variable X has the probability density function

2
, 0 1
( ) , 1 4
0 , otherwise
k x
k
f x x
x

(a) Show that
4
7
k [3 marks]
(b) Calculate the mean and Var(X). [7 marks]

4. A population distribution has a mean of 205 and variance of 520. If 25 samples, each of size 40, are taken from
this population,
(a) calculate the probability that the sample mean is less than 200, [4 marks]
(b) determine the number of samples with mean less than 200. [2 marks]

5. A farmer claims that 95% tomatoes produced in his farm meet the food safety specifications. A random sample
of 100 tomatoes is taken from the farm and it is found that 92 tomatoes meet the food safety specifications.
Carry out a test, at the 5% significance level, whether the tomatoes from the farm meets the food safety
specifications. [7 marks]

6. The symptom of hypertension and smoking habit for 120 individuals is shown in the contingency table below.
Smoking habit


Symptom of
hypertension
Heavy
smokers
Moderate
smokers
Non-
smokers
Presence 22 25 15
Absence 16 18 24
Using a chi-squared test, at the 5% significance level, determine whether the symptom of
hypertension is independent of smoking habit. [11 marks]






Section B [15 marks]
Answer any one question in this section.

7. Studies conducted in the past show that the mean number of serious accidents in a certain factory is one per
year. The factory wishes to find the probability of the number of serious accidents occurring on a yearly basis for
the purpose of revising the insurance premium of its employees. The factory is required to increase the
insurance premium if the probability of having less than two serious accident-free years out of five years is more
than 0.35.
(a) Define the relevant random variable, and identify its distribution. [3 marks]
(b) Find the probability that
(i) there is no serious accident occurring in the next one year, [2 marks]
(ii) there are at least three serious accidents occurring in the next two years, [4 marks]
(iii) there are less than two accident-free years occurring out of five years. [5 marks]
(c) Based on the result in (b)(iii), state whether the factory is required to increase the
insurance premium or not. [1 mark]

8. The manufacturer of a closed-circuit television (CCTV) claims that the proportion of households installed with
CCTV for security purposes in a city is 0.15. A random sample of 250 households is taken from the city.
(a) Assuming that the claim of the manufacturer is true, calculate the probability that the
sample proportion is within 0.05 of the population proportion. [5 marks]
(b) If 30 households from the random sample install CCTV, construct a 95% confidence
interval for the proportion of households with CCTV.
[5 marks]
(c) If the number of persons, y, per household for the 30 households from the random
sample is summarised by
30
1
130
i
i
y

and
30
2
1
967
i
i
y

, construct a 95% confidence interval

for the average size of households with CCTV. [5 marks]