Section A [45 marks]

Answer all questions in this section.

1.

The following table shows the speeds of 100 cars that pass a highway during a certain
time period.
Speed (km/h)
Number of cars
(a)
(b)

2.

55 59

60 64

65 69

70 74

75 79

80 84

30

34

19

Calculate the mean and standard deviation for this distribution.

[5 marks]
Construct a cumulative frequency curve.
[2 marks]
Hence, estimate graphically
(i)
The number of cars with speed less than 76 km/h.
[1 mark]
(ii)
The value of v if the speed of 25% of the cars is at least v km/h. [1 mark]

The table below displayed the response of a sample of 300 students whether they have
ever visited Sarawak Cultural Village.
Response

(a)

(b)
(c)

Yes

No

Boy

90

120

Girl

40

50

If a student is chosen randomly, find the probability that the student

(i)
has visited Sarawak Cultural Village.
[1 mark]
(ii)
has visited Sarawak Cultural Village, given that the student is a boy.
[3 marks]
Are the events of ever visited Sarawak Cultural Village and girl students mutually
exclusive?
[2 marks]
Are the events of boy student and never visit Sarawak Cultural Village
independent?
[2 marks]

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3.

X is a random continuous variable with a probability density function, f defined as

1 12 x

f (x ) = 4 e , 0 x < k
0,
otherwise

(a)
(b)

Find the value of k.

Obtain the cumulative distribution function F (x) for X.

[2 marks]
[3 marks]

(c)

Find E (X ) .

[3 marks]

4.

A survey shows that 120 out of 500 university students subscribe e-newspaper.
(a)
Obtain a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of students who subscribe enewspaper.
[4 marks]
(b)
Determine the smallest sample size required so that the estimated error does not
exceed 0.04 at the 90% confidence level.
[4 marks]

5.

The mass of bottles of tomato sauce produce by a machine in a factory in Kuching has a
normal distribution with a standard deviation of 2.5 g. 12 bottles of tomato sauce are
selected in random and the masses of the bottles are:

451.7

451.9

452.1

450.5

452.3

451.8

450.6

451.6

450.8

451.3

451.8

452.2

If the filled bottle is supposed to have mass of 450 g, determine whether the machine is
producing overweight bottles of tomato sauce at the 5% significance level,
[5 marks]
6.

In the garden pea, yellow cotyledon color is dominant to green, and inflated pod shape is
dominant to the constricted form. Considering both of these traits jointly in self-fertilized
dihybrids, the progeny appeared in the following numbers:
Yellow & Inflated

Green & Inflated

Yellow &
Constricted

Green &
Constricted

556

193

184

61

According to the Gregor Mendels theoretical results, the expected figures are in the ratio
9:3:3:1.
Assume that the theory is correct, calculate the value of 2 for these data. Test at the 5%
significance level whether the theory is contradicted.
[7 marks]

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Section B [15 marks]

Answer one question only in this section.
7.

A box contains 20 mangoes, each of which has probability 0.08 of being rotten.
(a)
Suggest a suitable distribution to model the number of rotten magoes.
[1 mark]
Let X represents the number of rotten mangoes.
(b)
Copy and complete the following probability distribution.
x

P(X = x)

0.1887

0.1414

0.0523

0.145
[3 marks]

(c)

Estimate, giving your answer to 3 decimal places, the probability that a

consignment of 10000 mangoes contains
(i)
At most 750 rotten mangoes,
(ii)
Between 750 and 850 (inclusive) rotten mangoes.
[5 marks]

A random sample of 1000 boxes was checked and the following table summarise the
number of rotten mangoes in each box.
Number of rotten
mangoes

Number of boxes

194

344

266

137

46

10

(d)

8.

Use the chi-squared test at the 5% level of significance to determine whether the
observed results are consistent with those expected under the model specified in
(a).
[6 marks]

A milk powder is packed into packets of two sizes. The distribution of the mass in each
small packet may be regarded as normal distribution with mean 1003 g and standard
deviation 5 g. Mean while, in each large packet is another independent normal variable
with mean 2008 g and standard deviation 9 g.
(a)
The random variable Y is defined as the difference of mass of one randomly
chosen large packet and the total mass of two randomly chosen small packets.
Find E(Y) and Var (Y).
[3 marks]
(b)
A random sample of 150 observations of Y was chosen with a sample mean 2.3.
Calculate a symmetric 90% confidence interval of the population mean. [3 marks]
(c)
The value of p is given as P(Y > 0). Find the value of p. In (b), it is found that 90
observations of Y exceeds zero. Using a hypothesis test at 5% significant level,
determine whether the value of p has changed.
[9 marks]

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