Student’s Name: Subject Group: Mathematics DP Year: 2

Revision Set 5 – Statistics and Probability

1a. [1 mark]
The Malthouse Charity Run is a 5 kilometre race. The time taken for each runner to
complete the race was recorded. The data was found to be normally distributed with a
mean time of 28 minutes and a standard deviation of 5 minutes.
A runner who completed the race is chosen at random.
Write down the probability that the runner completed the race in more than 28 minutes.
1b. [2 marks]
Calculate the probability that the runner completed the race in less than 26 minutes.
1c. [3 marks]
It is known that 20 % of the runners took more than 28 minutes and less than k minutes
to complete the race.

Find the value of k .

2a. [2 marks]
Galois Airways has flights from Hong Kong International Airport to different
destinations. The following table shows the distance, x kilometres, between Hong Kong and
the different destinations and the corresponding airfare, y , in Hong Kong dollars (HKD).

The Pearson’s product–moment correlation coefficient for this data is 0.948 , correct to
three significant figures.
Use your graphic display calculator to find the equation of the regression line y on x .
2b. [2 marks]
The distance from Hong Kong to Tokyo is 2900  km.
Use your regression equation to estimate the cost of a flight from Hong Kong to Tokyo with
Galois Airways.
2c. [2 marks]
Explain why it is valid to use the regression equation to estimate the airfare between Hong
Kong and Tokyo.

3a. [2 marks]
Sungwon plays a game where she rolls a fair 6 -sided die and spins a fair spinner with 4  
equal sectors. During each turn in the game, the die is rolled once and the spinner is
spun once. The score for each turn is the sum of the two results. For example, 1 on the die
and 2 on the spinner would receive a score of 3.

The following diagram represents the sample space.

Find the probability that Sungwon’s score on her first turn is greater than 4 .
3b. [2 marks]
Sungwon takes a second turn.
Find the probability that Sungwon scores greater than 4 on both of her first two turns.
3c. [2 marks]
Sungwon will play the game for 11 turns.
Find the expected number of times the score on a turn is greater than 4 .
4a. [1 mark]
Casanova restaurant offers a set menu where a customer chooses one of the following
meals: pasta, fish or shrimp.
The manager surveyed 150 customers and recorded the customer’s age and chosen meal.
The data is shown in the following table.

A χ 2 test was performed at the 10 % significance level. The critical value for this test is 4.605
. State H 0, the null hypothesis for this test.
4b. Write down the number of degrees of freedom.
4c. Show that the expected number of children who chose shrimp is 31, correct to
two significant figures.
4d. Write down the χ 2 statistic.
4e. the p-value.
4f. State the conclusion for this test. Give a reason for your answer.
4g. A customer is selected at random. Calculate the probability that the customer is an
adult.
4h. Calculate the probability that the customer is an adult or that the customer chose
shrimp.
4i. Given that the customer is a child, calculate the probability that they chose pasta or fish.
5a. [2 marks]
Consider the following graphs of normal distributions.
In the following table, write down the letter of the corresponding graph next to the given
mean and standard deviation.

5b. [2 marks]
At an airport, the weights of suitcases (in kg) were measured. The weights are normally
distributed with a mean of 20 kg and standard deviation of 3.5 kg.
Find the probability that a suitcase weighs less than 15 kg.
5c. [2 marks]
Any suitcase that weighs more than k  kg is identified as excess baggage.
19.6 % of the suitcases at this airport are identified as excess baggage.
Find the value of k .
6a. [2 marks]
The diagram shows a circular horizontal board divided into six equal sectors. The sectors
are labelled white (W), yellow (Y) and blue (B).

A pointer is pinned to the centre of the board. The pointer is to

be spun and when it stops the colour of the sector on which the
pointer stops is recorded. The pointer is equally likely to stop
on any of the six sectors.
Eva will spin the pointer twice. The following tree diagram
shows all the possible outcomes.

Find the probability that both spins are yellow.

6b. [3 marks]
Find the probability that at least one of the spins is
yellow.
6c. [1 mark]
Write down the probability that the second spin is
yellow, given that the first spin is blue.

7a. [2 marks]
A florist sells bouquets of roses. The florist recorded, in Table 1, the number of roses in
each bouquet sold to customers.
Table 1

The roses can be arranged into bouquets of size small, medium or large. The data from
Table 1 has been organized into a cumulative frequency table, Table 2.
Table 2

Complete the cumulative frequency table.

7b. [2 marks]
Write down the probability that a bouquet of roses sold is not small.
7c. A customer buys a large bouquet. Find the probability that there are 12 roses in this
bouquet.

8a. The random variable X is the number of emails Katherine receives during a day. X
satisfies a Poisson distribution with a mean of 30. Find the probability that on a particular
day she will receive less than 20 emails.
8b. Find the probability that on a particular day she will receive more than 55 emails.
8c. Find the probability that she will receive 200 emails or less in a 7 day week.
Y Po ( 210 )
P ( Y ≤ 200 )=0.258

The number of emails, R, that Jane receives during the day satisfies Poisson distribution
with mean 20.
8d. Find the probability that on a particular day the total number of emails received by
both Jane and Katherine together is 50 or less.
9. It is known that the IQs of “Grandmasters” chess players are normally distributed with a
population mean of μ.
A sample of the IQs of ten grandmasters were tested at the tournament. The sample mean x
was 115 and the sample standard deviation sn was 4.
a. Find the 90% confidence interval for μ, giving your answer to one decimal place.
b. State with a reason which distribution should have been used.
10. The time t, that competitors take to complete a 10000 m race is normally distributed
with mean μ=50minutes and standard deviation σ =5 minutes.
a. Sketch a diagram to represent this information with the numbers 50 and 5 indicated on
it.
b. Find the probability that a random competitor takes between 45 and 55 minutes.
c. Find the probability that a random competitor takes less than 40 minutes to complete the
race.
d. The fastest 75% competitors receive a medal. Find the time that the race has to be
completed under in order for a competitor to receive a medal.
e. Given a competitor received a medal, find the probability that they completed the race in
less than 40 minutes.
f. If 10000 competitors ran the race, estimate(to the nearest minute) how many
competitors completed the race in less than 33 minutes.
11. Eleven students took a Math exam. Let h represent the number of hours that each
student spent revising, and let s represent the score(out of 100) they obtained.
The data for each student is shown in the following table:

a. Identify any outliers in the value of h . Justify your answer.

b. Calculate the Pearsons product moment correlation coefficient r , for this data.
c. Write down the equation of the line of best fit of s on h.
d. Hence estimate the score, to the nearest integer, of a twelfth student who spent 5.5
hours studying.
e. Rank the students from 1-11 according to the number of hours they spent revising.
Rank 1 should represent the most hours spent revising. In a similar way rank the
students according to the test score they obtained. Rank 1 should represent the
highest test score. Complete the table given below for each student’s ranking
 f. Calculate the Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient rs for this data.
g. Explain why r s > r .

13. Anna cycles to her new school. She records the times taken for the first ten days with
the following results (in minutes).
12.4 13.7 12.5 13.4 13.8 12.3 14.0 12.8 12.6 13.5
Assume that these times are a random sample from the N ( μ , σ 2 ) distribution.

(a) Determine unbiased estimates for μ and σ 2.

(b) Calculate a 95 % confidence interval for μ.
(c)     Before Anna calculated the confidence interval she thought that the value of μ would
be 12.5. In order to check this, she sets up the null hypothesis H 0 : μ=12.5 .
(i)     Use the above data to calculate the value of an appropriate test statistic. Find the
corresponding p-value using a two-tailed test.
(ii)     Interpret your p-value at the 1 % level of significance, justifying your conclusion.
14. [13 marks]
The mean weight of a certain breed of bird is believed to be 2.5 kg. In order to test this
belief, it is planned to determine the weights x 1 , x 2 , x 3 ,… , x 16 (in kg) of sixteen of these
birds and then to calculate the sample mean x . You may assume that these weights are a
random sample from a normal distribution with standard deviation 0.1 kg.
(a)     State suitable hypotheses for a two-tailed test.
(b)     Find the critical region for x having a significance level of 5 %.
(c)     Given that the mean weight of birds of this breed is actually 2.6 kg, find the
probability of making a Type II error.