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BSc. ENGINEERING/SECOND SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS: 2023/2024
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES
SENG 302: STATISTICS FOR ENGINEERS (3 CREDITS)
INSTRUCTIONS
THIS PAPER CONSISTS OF TWO SECTIONS: A AND B. ANSWER ALL
QUESTIONS IN SECTION A BY UNDERLINING OR CIRCLING YOUR CHOICE
OF ANSWER ON THE QUESTION PAPER. ANSWER Q1 AND ONE OTHER
QUESTION FROM SECTION B
SECTION B SHOULD BE ANSWERED IN THE ANSWER BOOKLET
ATTACH SECTION A TO THE ANSWER BOOKLET
YOU MAY DO ALL ROUGH WORKS IN THE ANSWER BOOKLET
COMPLEX FORMULAE AND TABLES ARE PROVIDED IN THE APPENDIX
TIME ALLOWED: THREE (3) HOURS
SECTION A [60 MARKS]
Circle or underline your choice of answer on the question paper.
Refer to the appendix for formulas needed in this section
Each question in this section carries 3 marks.
1. A doctor has a choice of seven small but different bandages, six medium but different
bandages, and five large but different bandages. She chooses five bandages, and her
choice includes at least one of each size. How many different selections could she have
made?
A. 180
B. 3885
C. 2170
D. 6055
2. Uche, Eli, and Ellis play darts. The independent probabilities that Uche, Eli, and Ellis hit
a bull's eye are 0.62, 0.17, and 0.68 respectively. Find the probability that only one of
them hits a bull's eye to 3 s.f.
A. 0.717
B. 0.072
C. 0.400
D. 0.101
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PREAMBLE: Accrotime is a manufacturer of quartz crystal watches. Accrotime
researchers have shown that the watches have an average life of 28 months before
certain electronic components deteriorate, causing the watch to become unreliable.
The standard deviation of watch lifetimes is 5 months, and the distribution of lifetimes
is normal. Use the information given to answer questions 3 and 4.
3. If Accrotime guarantees a full refund on any defective watch for 2 years after purchase,
what percentage of total production should the company expect to replace?
A. 78.81 %
B. 28.81 %
C. 50.01 %
D. 21.20 %
4. If Accrotime does not want to make refunds on more than 12 % of the watches it makes,
how long should the guarantee period be (to the nearest month)?
A. 34 months
B. 33 months
C. 22 months
D. 88 months
5. A binomial distribution has an expectation of 2.5 and a variance of 1.875. find the values
of n and p respectively.
A. 25 and 10
B. 10 and 2.5
C. 100 and 0.25
D. 10 and 0.25
6. Assume the results of a test are normally distributed with a mean of 43 and a standard
deviation of σ. Find σ if the probability of getting a score above 48 is 0.2.
A. 0.52
B. 0.84
C. 5.95
D. 1.36
7. A bag contains 20 balls of which x are black, 2x are white and 8 are red. A ball is
selected at random from the bag. What is the probability that it is not black?
A. 0.4
B. 0.2
C. 0.6
D. 0.8
8. In a swimming club of 50 young people, 15 do crawl and backstroke, 24 do crawl and
butterfly, while 19 do butterfly and backstroke. 30 do crawl, 30 do backstroke, and 33 do
butterfly. There is 1 member who does crawl only, 6 members who do backstroke only
and none does butterfly only. Find the probability that a member picked at random does
none of the three strokes.
A. 0.5
B. 0.9
C. 0.1
D. 0.8
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9. Given that X and Y are independent events and that P(X) = 0.5, P(Y) = c, P (X∪ Y ¿= 0.8,
find the value of c if events X and Y are also mutually inclusive.
1
A.
3
2
B.
5
4
C.
5
3
D.
5
5 1
10. Two independent events A and B are such that P (A) = , P (A ∩ B ¿ = , find P (B).
12 8
9
A.
100
7
B.
10
3
C.
10
10
D.
15
PREAMBLE: The random variable D is given by the SUM of the numbers shown
when two fair 4-sided dice are thrown. Use the information to answer questions 11
– 12.
11. Find E(D).
A. 72/16
B. 80/16
C. 84/16
D. 96/16
12. Find Var (D).
A. 40/16
B. 80/16
C. 32/16
D. none of the above
PREAMBLE: A philosophy student has 12 books with either Plato, or Socrates or
Aristotle or Herodotus in the title: 5 with Plato, 4 with Socrates, 2 with Aristotle,
and 1 with Herodotus. She arranges these 12 books at random on a shelf. Use this
preamble to answer questions 13 and 14.
13. How many different arrangements are possible if the books with each philosopher in the
title must all be together?
A. 8709120
B. 138240
C. 34560
D. 6912
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14. How many different arrangements are possible if the other titles can be arranged anyhow
except the books with Socrates in the title.
A. 8709120
B. 241920
C. 138240
D. 34560
15. A committee consists of 12 members. A minimum quorum at meetings of this committee
consists of 8 members. In how many ways can a quorum occur?
A. 495 ways
B. 794 ways
C. 795 ways
D. none of the above
16. In an experiment involving the tossing of a coin, heads appear once out of every three
tosses. If the experiment is repeated, what is the probability of the event that heads
appear exactly twice during the first five tosses?
A. 0.329
B. 0.343
C. 0.667
D. 0.984
17. You took an English achievement test and the scores ranged from 1 to 100 and your raw
score is 95. Does this necessarily mean that your score is at the 95th percentile?
A. Yes, this means your score is at the 95th percentile mark.
B. No, your score will be at the 94th percentile mark.
C. No, the determination of your percentile has to do with the number of scores at or
below yours.
D. No, your score will be at the 5th percentile.
18. If there are 4 Czech tennis players, 4 U.S. players, and 3 Russian players at the U.S.
Open Tennis Championship, how many ways could they be arranged?
A. 11! ways
B. 3456
C. 11,550
D. none of the above
19. The number of traffic accidents per week in a small city has a Poisson distribution with
mean equal to 3. What is the probability that exactly 2 accidents occur in 2 weeks?
A. 36 e-6
B. 4.5 e-3
C. 18 e-6
D. 9 e-3
20. A radio supply house has 200 transistor radios, of which 3 are improperly soldered and
197 are properly soldered. The supply house randomly draws 4 radios without
replacement and sends them to a customer. What is the probability that the supply house
sends 2 improperly soldered radios to its customer?
A. 0.999101
B. 0.058200
C. 0.000895
D. none of the above
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