Cairo University
Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence Assignment#2
Probability and Statistics – 2 2022-2023
Instructions from the Doctors:
1. This is the second assignment, the deadline for this
assignment is next on Sunday 27th
Nov 2022 @ 11:59 PM.
2. The Submission of the answers will be over the
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3. For each student, there will be only one submission,
so make sure of the answers before submit your
assignment.
4. If any student submits the form more than once, the
grade for this student will be zero.
This Assignment consists of two parts Part 1 will be
submitted in the google form as a pdf file of your
scanned answers. Part 2 is MCQ will be submitted by
filling out choices in the google form. Deadline is on
Sunday 27th of November 2022.
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Part 1: Solve the following questions and upload your
scanned detailed answers to google class as pdf file-
The first page of the pdf should contain your Name,
ID and Group
Q1: study of long-distance phone calls made from
General Electric Corporate Headquarters in Fairfield,
Connecticut, revealed the length of the calls, in minutes,
follows the normal probability distribution. The mean
length of time per call was 4.2 minutes and the standard
deviation was 0.60 minute.
a. What is the probability that calls last between 4.2 and
5 minutes?
b. What is the probability that calls last more than 5
minutes?
c. As part of her report to the president, the director of
communications would like to report the length of the
longest (in duration) 4% of the calls. What is this time?
Q2: At the downtown office of First National Bank, there are
five tellers. Last week, the tellers made the following number
of errors each: 2, 3, 5, 3, and 5.
a. How many different samples of two tellers are possible?
b. List all possible samples of size 2 and compute the mean
of each.
c. Compute the mean of the sample means and compare it
to the population mean
Part2 MCQ:
- You will submit the final answers of this part over the
google form.
- Solve the questions offline before going into the form.
- Be ready (with your answers) before proceeding to
enter the assignment answers.
- Don’t click submit unless you are sure from your
answers.
1- A normal population with size 200 has a mean of 75
and a standard deviation of 5. You select a sample of
40. Compute the probability the sample mean is greater
than 77:
1- 0.9535
2- 0.0465
3- 0.9943
4- 0.1608
2- The time it takes a car maintenance center to repair a
car follows a normal distribution with a mean of 50
minutes and a variance of 144 minutes. The center
closes at 4 pm every day. If the mechanical starts
repairing at 3 pm, what is the probability he will finish
his repair before he closes for the day?
1- 0.796
2- 0.830
3- 0.802
4- 0.785
3- If a sample of size n is taken from population with
unknown distribution with mean μ and standard
deviation σ, and the sampling distribution means is 𝜇𝑥̅ =
𝜎
𝜇 and 𝜎 = For which of the following sample sizes is
√𝑛
this valid?
1- 12
2- 35
3- 23
4- None of the above
4- An economist uses the price of a gallon of milk as a
measure of inflation. She finds that the average price is
$3.82 per gallon and the population standard deviation
is $0.33. You decide to sample 40 convenience stores,
collect their prices for a gallon of milk, and compute the
mean price for the sample.
a. What is the standard error of the mean in this
experiment?
1- 0.825
2- 0.095
3- 0.60
4- 0.052
b. What is the probability that the sample mean is
between $3.78 and $3.86?
1- 0.2236
2- 0.6863
3- 0.9099
4- 0.8326
5- Assume that the hourly cost to operate a commercial
airplane follows the normal distribution with a mean of
$2,100 per hour and a standard deviation of $250.
What is the operating cost for the lowest 3% of the
airplanes?
1- 1629.8
2- 2570.2
3- 1560.3
4- 1600.8
6- Best Electronics Inc. offers a “no hassle” returns policy.
The daily number of customers returning items follows
the normal distribution. The mean number of customers
returning items is 10.3 per day and the standard
deviation is 2.25 per day.
a. For any day, what is the probability that eight or
fewer customers returned items?
1- 0.8461
2- 0.1539
3- 1.0222
4- 0.1314
b. For any day, what is the probability that the number
of customers returning items is between 12 and 14?
1. 0.9495
2. 0.7764
3. 0.1731
4. 0.1618
7- What is the number of samples of size 5 that can be
generated from a population with 10 elements with
replacement?
1- 50
2- 9765625
3- 100000
4- 1024
8- For a variable that follows a normal distribution, if 25%
of the values are less than 20, and the standard
deviation is 3. What is the mean of the distribution?
1- 14.12
2- 25.88
3- 40.1
4- 23.56
9- A large group of students took a test in Physics and the
final grades have a mean of 70 and a standard
deviation of 10. If we can approximate the distribution of
these grades by a normal distribution, what percent of
the students who scored higher than 80?
1- 15.87%
2- 13.57%
3- 15.62%
4- 18.41%
10- If the variance of 𝑥̅ is equals 81 and the sample
size n=4, the population standard deviation is
1- 324
2- 18
3- 162
4- 36
11- A population distribution has a mean of 100 and
variance of 16. The standard deviation of the sampling
distribution with a sample of size 25 would be:
1- 0.64
2- 0.8
3- 4
4- 1.56
12- The contents of bottles of milk are Normally
distributed with a mean of 300 ml and a standard
deviation of 5 ml. What is the probability that the total
contents of a six-pack exceed 1776 ml?
1- 0.5431
2- 0.9750
3- 0.1876
4- 0.3348
13- The distribution of the number of viewers for the
American Idol television show follows a normal
distribution with a mean of 29 million and a standard
deviation of 5 million. What is the probability next
week’s show will have at least 23 million viewers?
1- 0.1151
2- 0.8849
3- 0.8819
4- 0.1539
14- The price of shares of Bank of America at the end
of trading each day for the last year followed the normal
distribution. Assume there were 240 trading days in the
year. The mean price was $42.00 per share and the
standard deviation was $2.25 per share. Estimate the
number of days in a year when the trading price
finished above $45.00.
1- 35
2- 40
3- 22
4- 50
15- 5000 students at a university spend an average of
5.5 hours per week playing organized sports. The
population’s standard deviation is 2.2 hours per week.
Based on a sample of 121 students, Healthy Lifestyles
Incorporated (HLI) would like to apply the central limit
theorem to make various estimates. What is the chance
HLI will find a sample mean between 5 and 6 hours?
1- 0.4938
2- 0.9938
3- 0.9876
4- 0.5000
