REVISION MM2 SET 6

1 HOUR 30 MINUTES

Section A [45 marks]

Answer all questions in this section.

1. The heights of a sample of 240 female students and 240 male students were measured
and summarized in the diagrams below:

Diagram 1: Heights of female students Diagram 2: Heights of male students

Using the information in the two diagrams, compare the distribution of heights for female
and male students by referring to:
(a) the average height [2 marks]
(b) the spread of height [2 marks]
(c) the skewness of distribution [2 marks]

2. Mark maintains a website for a school. His records show that on Saturday afternoons, the
website has an average of 4 hits per minute. The records also show that 80% of hits on
Saturday afternoon come from within Malaysia. Find the probability that on a Saturday
afternoon, the website has
(a) exactly 3 hits during a particular one minute. [2 marks]
(b) exactly 3 hits and all of them come from within Malaysia. [3 marks]
3. A cafe serves sandwiches with 4 choices of bread and 4 choices of fillings. The
combinations offered, together with the number of each combination chosen by 400
customers who purchased the sandwiches are shown as below:

Type of filling
Fish Chicken Egg Cheese
Soft white 56 45 32 17
Type of Crusty white 50 25 21 14
bread Soft brown 30 24 17 9
Crusty brown 24 26 10 0
A customer is selected at random from these 400 customers. Calculate the probability that
the customer chose:

(a) A crusty white bread. [1 mark]

(b) A soft white bread with fish filling. [1 mark]
(c) A brown bread with either fish or chicken filling. [2 marks]
(d) A soft white bread, given that the customer chose chicken filling. [2 marks]
(e) Either egg or cheese filling, given that the customer chose a white bread.
[3 marks]

4. (a) The table below shows the trunk length, x meters, and the tail length, y meters, for
each of a sample of 10 male pygmy elephants in Sabah.

x 2.06 2.07 2.11 1.94 1.96 2.10 2.02 1.92 2.05 2.02
y 1.16 1.19 1.11 1.06 1.13 1.19 1.08 1.10 1.13 1.15

Calculate an appropriate measure of correlation and interpret your answer.

[5 marks]

(b) The table below shows the number of violent scene and the rank in box office of 12
films.

Film A B C D E F G H I J K L
Number of violent scene 5 8 9 8 0 7 3 2 3 6 2 4
Rank in box office 2 10.5 9 7 10.5 3 4 12 1 8 6 5

Calculate an appropriate measure of correlation and interpret your answer.

[5 marks]

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5. The sales of newspapers for a news agent in 2016 and 2017 are as below:

Type of 2016 2017

newspaper Price (RM) Sales (RM) Price (RM) Sales (RM)
Daily paper 3.95 696385 4.85 746900
Weekly paper 3.00 283500 2.95 348100
Monthly paper 5.80 255780 3.85 331100

Taking 2016 as the base year, calculate

(a) calculate the simple aggregate quantity index for the year 2017 [2 marks]
(b) calculate the weighted aggregate quantity index for the year 2017 [2 marks]
(c) State, with a reason, which of the two quantity indices above is more suitable to
measure the changes in quantity of newspaper sold. Based on your answer, comment
on the changes in quantity of newspaper sold from year 2016 to 2017. [3 marks]

6. Encik Hakim runs a night market stall every Monday, Wednesday and Friday in a town.
His earnings for the first three weeks are shown in the table below, together with moving
average.

Week Day Earnings Moving

(RM) average
Monday 323
1 Wednesda 400 368
y
Friday 381 361
Monday 302 344
2 Wednesda 349 329
y
Friday 336 315
Monday 281 312
3 Wednesda 319 m
y
Friday 294

(a) Calculate the value of the missing moving average, m. [2 marks]

(b) Plot the time series. [2 marks]
(c) Comment on Encik Hakim’s earnings. [2 marks]
(c) State, with a reason, an appropriate model for the time series. [2 marks]

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 Section B [15 marks]
Answer one question only in this section.
7. (a) The volume of shampoo in a bottle may be modelled by a normal distribution with
mean 955 millimeters and standard deviation 5 millimeters. Determine the probability that
the volume of liquid in a particular bottle is
(i) exactly 946 millimeters [1 mark]
(ii) more than 946 millimeters [2 marks]
(iii) between 946 millimeters and 960 millimeters [2 marks]
A customer buys 10 of these bottles that may be regarded as a random sample. Determine the
probability that 8 of the bottles each contains more that 946 millimeters [3 marks]
(b) A school records data about the causes of injuries suffered by students in the school
compound. The data show that injuries caused by the defects inside the classrooms occur at
an average of 6 per year, and the injuries caused by the defects outside the classrooms occur
at an average rate of 5 per year. Assuming that all injuries are random and independent, find
the probability that at this school:
(i) during a period of 4 months, no more than 2 students are threated for injuries caused
by defects inside the classrooms. [2 marks]
(ii) during a period of 2 years, at least 4 students are treated for injuries caused by defects
outside the classrooms. [2 marks]
(iii) during a period of 1 year, more that 5 students but fewer than 10 students are threated
for injuries associated with defects inside or outside the classrooms.
[3
marks]
8. The table shows the ground temperature, x ° C , at 6pm and the number of wing vibrations
per second, y, made by a particular type of insect.

x 31.4 25.0 34.1 30.7 27.1 24.3 20.6 21.8 28.9 26.9 28.6 24.6
y 19.0 16.0 19.8 18.0 17.3 15.5 14.7 15.4 18.1 16.8 17.0 16.4
(a) Plot a scatter diagram for the data. Comment on why a linear regression model is
appropriate to estimate the number of wing vibrations. [4 marks]
(b) (i) Calculate the equation of the least squares regression line in the form y = a + bx.
[4
marks]
(ii) Interpret your value for b in the context of the question. [2 marks]
(iii) Given that the wings of the insects do not vibrate at temperature below 15° C ,
explain why your value for a has no practical interpretation. [2 marks]
(c) Estimate the number of wings vibrations per second of the insects when the ground
temperature at 6pm is 23° C . [1 mark]
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(d) State, with a reason, whether the regression equation in (b)(i) may be used to estimate
the number of wings vibrations per second when the ground temperature is 37° C .
[2
marks]

ANSWERS:
7(a)
1(a) compare median
(i) 0 (ii) 0.9641
(b) compare Range or IQR
(iii) 0.8413 ; 0.0433

(c) Distribution of male is almost

symmetrical
(b) (i) 0.6767 (ii) 0.9897 (iii) 0.303
Distribution of female is negatively
skewed

2(a) 0.1954 (b) 0.1

8(b)(i) y = 6.9452 + 0.3724x

3(a) 0.275 (b) 0.14 (c) 0.26 (ii) number of wing vibration increased
by 0.3724 per second for every 1 ℃
(d) 0.375 (e) 21/65 increased in ground temperature.

(iii) Given that when x < 15, y = 0, but

4(a) 0.608 (b) 0.0227
from the equation of least squares
regression line when x = 0, y = 6.9452.

5(a) 113.69 (b) 118.24 (c) y = 15.5

(c) Weighted aggregate (d) No, because x = 37 is outside the
range of the observed values