Practice Exam 1 Multiple-Choiee A candy company produces chocolate bars thet have a mean weight of 8 ounces with a standard deviation of 0.27 ounces. Assume that the production process is independent and that the weights are approximately normally distributed. If two chocolate bars are randomly selected, what is the approximate probability that both will weigh less than 7.5 ounces? (A) 0.001 (B) 0.004 {c) 0.032 (D) 0.036 () 0.064 A large product-testing firm conducts interviews with people who come to the company offices to participate in focus groups for new products. After the participants have had a chance to view the product or participate in a taste test, an interviewer will spend time asking the participants questions. Interviews and focus groups are scheduled between noon and 8 pam. to accommodate participants who work. The interviewers have a varying number of weeks of experience at their job, and the company wants to know if there is a relationship between the number of weeks of experience and the number of interviews that can be conducted during the course of a typical interview day. If there is such a relationship, it will help the company schedule the number of participants based on which interviewers are available, Below is some computer output from a linear regression analysis of data from 10 randomly selected interviewers with anywhere from 15 to 60 weeks of work experience. An examination of the residual plot indicates no apparent pattern. Predictor Coet SE Coef T P Constant 2.1538 0.7694 eo 0.023 Weeks of Experience 0.1637 0.0205 8.00 0.000 S = 0.873067 R-Sq = 88.9% R-Sq(adj) = 87.58 ‘Which one of the following represents a 96% confidence interval for , the true slope for the regression line relating weeks of interview experience and the number of interviews conducted in one day? (A) 0.1637 £2.359(.8731) (B) 0.1637 2.398(.0205) (C) 0.1637 + 2.449(.0205) () 2.1538 2.398(.8731) (B) 2.15384 2.449(.7694)A researcher wants to determine the mean income of adults in a particular state. She decides to take a random sample of 1525 citizens with a driver's license from the registry maintained by the Department of Motor Vehicles in that state, and record their incomes. Which one of the following statements is NOT correct? (A) People who had recently moved from another state may not yet be included in the DMV registry. (B) The sample would not be representative of adults, since teenagers would be included in the sample. (©) The sample would be biased since some people without a license may be too poor to ‘own a car and others may choose to use public transportation. (D) The distribution of incomes in the sample would probably be skewed to the right (B) Taking a bigger sample from the registry would solve any problems with possible bias. As the costs of college increase, financial counselors are becoming more concemed about the debt load of students upon graduation. A survey is being planned to determine how much debt from student loans, on average, undergraduate students have accumulated by the time they graduate. How many students should researchers plan to survey in order to be within $500 of the true mean with 98% confidence? A preliminary sample indicates that the standard deviation of student loan debts is approximately $2650. a) 13 () 60 © 108 @) 153 (BE) 244 A certain candy has different color wrappers for various holidays. During holiday #1 the candy wrappers are 50% red and 50% green. During holiday #2 the wrapper colors are 30% red, 30% silver, and 40% pink. Fifty pieces of candy are randomly selected from the holiday #1 distribution and 50 pieces of candy are randomly selected from the holiday #2 distribution. Respectively, what is the expected number and standard deviation of the total number of red wrappers from both holiday distributions? (A) 40,23 ®B) —40,4.796 (©) 40,6.776 () 80, 6.776 (E) Cannot be determined from the given information,In a recent study, a random sample of 250 trees that had been planted five years ago along the Oregon coast showed a significant negative relationship between the distance from the shoreline and the height of the tree. The distance from the shoreline is (A) A block design with the distance fiom the shoreline as the block, (B) A response variable. (©) Anexplanatory variable. (D) — Aconfounding variable. (E) Random variation, A college agricultural department wants to test the yields of four different varieties of tomato plant that it has developed. It also wants to determine how the type of soil in which the tomatoes are grown — sandy or clay — and which of two fertilizers used will affect yield How many treatment groups would be required for this experiment? (A) 16 ® 12 © 8 ©) 6 ® 3 A large company is testing a new marketing strategy for increasing sales at its stores. Currently store sales average $250,000 per month. Thus the company wishes to test the following hypotheses: H, : 4. = $250,000 versus H, : 4 > $250,000, where #1= {true mean monthly sales per store. Which one of the following sample sizes and significance levels would lead to the highest power for this test? (A) n=10and @=0.01 B) 1 =20 and a = 0.05 (©) 1 =40 and & = 0.05 @) = 20and a =0.10 ©) n=40and@=0.10