Review chapter7
1.The monthly electrical utility bills of all customers for the Far East Power and
Light Company are known to be distributed as a normal distribution with mean
equal to $87.00 a month and standard deviation of $36.00. If a statistical sample of
n = 100 customers is selected at random, what is the probability that the mean bill
for those sampled will exceed $75.00?
2. The amount of time required for an oil and filter change on an automobile is
normally distributed with a mean of 45 minutes and a standard deviation of 10
minutes. A random sample of 16 cars is selected. What is the probability that the
sample mean is between 45 and 52 minutes?
3.The amount of time required for an oil and filter change on an automobile is
normally distributed with a mean of 28 minutes and a standard deviation of 5
minutes. A random sample of 16 cars is selected. What is the probability that the
sample mean is greater than 29 minutes?
4.The amount of bleach a machine pours into bottles has a mean of 36 oz. with a
standard deviation of 0.55 oz. Suppose we take a random sample of 56 bottles
filled by this machine. So, 75% of the sample means will be less than what value?
Let P(Z > 0.674) = 0.25 and P(Z < 1.02) = 0.654.
Select one:
a. 36.05
b. 35.95
c. 34.18
d. 37.22
5.The weights of the fish in a certain lake are normally distributed with a mean of
15lbs. and a standard deviation of 6lbs. If a sample of 5 fish is taken from the lake,
find the probability their means weights are between 12.6 lbs. and 18.6 lbs.
6.One year, professional sports players salaries averaged $1.5 million with a
standard deviation of $0.9 million. Suppose a sample of 100 major league players
was taken. Find the approximate probability that the average salary of the 100
players not exceeded $1.4 million.
7.To dertermine the difference, if any, between two brands of radial tires, 12 tires
of each brand are tested. Assum that the life times of both brands of tires come
from the same normal distribution N(12500,33002). Compute
8.To dertermine the difference, if any, between two brands of radial tires, 16 tires
of first brand (X) and 25 tiers of second brand (Y) are tested. Assume that the life
times of both brands of tires come from the same normal distribution
N(90000,25000). What is the distribution of the difference of the sample mean
?
9.The time for a worker to assemble a component is normally distributed with
mean 15 minutes and variance 4. Denote the mean assembly times of 16 day-shift
workers and 9 night-shift workers by and , respectively. Assume that the
assembly times of the workers are mutually independent. The distribution of
is
a)normal with mean 0 and standard deviation 5/6.
b)normal with mean 1 and standard deviation 4/6.
c)normal with mean 2 and standard deviation 5/6.
10.If the true proportion of voters who support Proposition A is p=0.4 . What is
the probability that a sample of size 200 yields a sample proportion between 0.4
and 0.45?
11.Two different box-filling machines are used to fill cereal boxes on an assembly
line. The critical measurement influenced by these machines is the weight of the
product in the boxes. Engineers are quite certain that the variance of the weight of
product is 1 ounce. Both of two means are same. Experiments are conducted using
both machines with sample sizes of 36 each. Engineers are surprised that the two
sample averages for the filling machines are so different. Find the probability that
the difference of two sample means is greater than 0.2
