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Review: statistics

Review: statistics

1

Lior and Gal ran in two different races.
In Lior’s race the mean time is 50 minutes, and the standard deviation 4 minutes; Lior finished in 44 minutes.
In Gal’s race the mean time is 62 minutes, and the standard deviation 5 minutes; Gal finished in 55 minutes.

a

Work out the standard score of Lior’s time.

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    b

    Work out the standard score of Gal’s time.

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      c

      Which of the two did better compared with their own race? Explain.

      2

      The marks in an entrance exam are normally distributed, with mean 520 and standard deviation 80.
      6,000 candidates sat the exam.

      a

      About how many candidates scored more than 600?

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        b

        Only 1,200 candidates are accepted. From which mark are they accepted?

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          3

          The time it takes to assemble a piece of furniture is normally distributed.
          10.56% of the customers assemble it in less than 30 minutes.
          2.28% of the customers need more than 56 minutes.
          What are the mean and the standard deviation? Call the mean m\displaystyle m and the standard deviation s\displaystyle s.

            4

            Two machines in a factory fill bottles.
            60% of the bottles are filled by machine A; the volume in them is normally distributed, with mean 500 ml and standard deviation 4 ml.
            40% are filled by machine B, with mean 502 ml and standard deviation 5 ml.
            A bottle with less than 495 ml is rejected.

            a

            Work out the probability that a bottle from machine A is rejected, and the probability that a bottle from machine B is rejected, and complete the tree.

            b

            A bottle is chosen at random. What is the probability that it is rejected?

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              5
              x\displaystyle x12345
              y\displaystyle y35476
              a

              Work out the correlation coefficient.

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                b

                Find the equation of the regression line predicting y\displaystyle y from x\displaystyle x, and write it on the board.

                c

                What is the predicted y\displaystyle y when x=3.5\displaystyle {x}={3.5}?

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                  6

                  In the table of question 5, every value of y\displaystyle y is multiplied by 2 and then 1 is added.
                  What is the new correlation coefficient? What is the slope of the new regression line? Explain.

                  r\displaystyle r

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                    The slope

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