Math 1431 – Spring 2003 – Test #3 – Practice

You are allowed to use your calculator. Explain all answers – answers with no explanation will receive only partial credit. Use complete sentences. Show how you used the calculator to answer the questions below.


1. Find the following probabilities:

  1. The probability of drawing either a King or a diamond in a single draw from a deck of 52 playing cards. Answer
  2. The probability of drawing a King on the first draw, replacing the card, then drawing a diamond in a second draw from a deck of 52 playing cards. Answer
  3. The probability that two people draw a King of clubs from their own deck of 52 playing cards. Answer
  4. The probability that the sum of 2 dice will be greater than 8 given that the first die is a 6. Answer
  5. The probability that a 60% free throw shooter will make exactly 6 of 8 free throws. Answer
  6. The probability that a 60% free throw shooter will make at most 6 of 8 free throws. Answer
  7. The probability that a 60% free throw shooter will make more than 6 of 8 free throws. Answer


2. The dean of students of a large community college claims that the average distance that commuting students travel to school is 32 miles. The commuting students feel otherwise. A sample of 64 students was randomly selected and yielded a mean of 33.5 miles and a standard deviation of 5 miles. Test the dean's claim at the α = 0.01 and α = 0.05 levels of significance.
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3. The mean and standard deviation for the GPA of a random sample of 100 students are 2.9 and 0.5 respectively.

  1. Find the 90%, 95% and 99% confidence intervals for the average GPA for all students in the school. Answer
  2. Find the minimum sample size needed for a margin of error of ±0.32 and an 80% confidence interval. Answer

4. Sulfur compounds cause "off-odors" in wine, so winemakers want to know the odor threshold, the lowest concentration of a compound that the human nose can detect. The odor threshold for dimethyl sulfide (DMS) in trained wine tasters is about 25 μg/l (micrograms per liter). The untrained noses of consumers may have a higher threshold, however. Here are the DMS odor thresholds for 10 untrained students:

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Assume that the standard deviation of the odor threshold for untrained noses is known to be σ = 7 μg/l.

  1. Give a 95% CI for the mean DMS odor threshold among all students. Answer
  2. Are you convinced that the mean odor threshold for students is higher than the published threshold, 25 μg/l? Carry out a significance test with a α = 0.05 significance level to justify your answer. Answer

5. A consumer group studied the service provided by fast-food restaurants in a given community. One of the things they looked at was the relationship between service and whether the server had a high school diploma or not. The information is summarized in the table below:

 Good ServicePoor ServiceTotal
HS diploma612889
No HS diploma3081111
Total91109200

  1. Find the probability of good service.
  2. Find the probability of good service given the server had a high school diploma.
  3. Find the probability of good service given the server did not have a high school diploma.

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