AP Stat

Bootleg Take Home Quiz #5

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Cum Ch 1-9
Use the following information to answer #1-4. Respond as a decimal.
1) Researchers are interested in the relationship between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. Suppose and adult
male is randomly selected from a particular population. Assume that the following table shows some probabilities
involving the compound event that the individual does or does not smoke and the person is or is not diagnosed with
cancer.
Event
Probability
Smokes and gets cancer
.05
Smokes and does not get cancer
.20
Does not smoke and gets cancer
.03
Does not smoke and does not get cancer
.72
Suppose further that the probability that the randomly selected individual is a smoker is .25.
1.
2.
3.
4.

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probability
probability
probability
probability

that
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individual
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gets cancer, given that he is a smoker.

does not get cancer, given that he is a smoker.
gets cancer, given that he does not smoke.
does not get cancer, given that he does not smoke.

5. Experience has shown that a certain lie detector will show a positive reading (indicates a lie) 10% of the time
when a person is telling the truth and 95% of the time when a person is lying. Suppose that a random sample of 5
suspects is subjected to a lie detector test regarding a recent one-person crime. Then the probability of observing
no positive reading if all suspects plead innocent and are telling the truth is
A.

0.409

B. 0.735 C. 0.00001

D. 0.591 E. 0.99999

6. In a particular game, a fair die is tossed. If the number of spots showing is either 4 or 5, you win $1; if number of
spots showing is 6, you win $4; and if the number of spots showing is 1, 2, or 3, you win nothing. You play the game
twice. What is the probability that you win $4 both times?
A. 1/6

B. 1/3

C. 1/36 D.

E. 1/12

7. The Graduate Record Examinations are widely used to help predict the performance of applicants to graduate
schools. The range of possible scores on a GRE is 200 to 900. The psychology department at a university finds that
the scores of its applicants on the quantitative GRE are approximately Normal with mean = 544 and standard
deviation = 103. What minimum score (nearest whole point) would a student need in order to score in the top 10%
of those taking the test?
Use the following information to answer #8-10. The probabilities that a randomly selected customer purchases
1,2,3,4, or 5 items are a convenience store are .32, .12, .23, .18, and .15, respectively.
8. Find the standard deviation of X. Round to Hundredths.

9. Suppose two customers, A and B, are selected at random. Find the mean of the differences in the number of
items purchased by A and B. That is find Mu(a-b). Round to the nearest integer.

10. Suppose two customers, A and B, are selected at random. Find the standard deviation of the differences in the
number of items purchased by A and B. That is find sigma(a-b). Round to nearest hundredth

11. Suppose that 50% of the population approves of the job the governor is doing, and that 20 individuals are drawn
at random from the population. What is the probability that exactly 8 will support the governor? Round to
thousandths.

12. Suppose that 50% of the population approves of the job the governor is doing, and that 20 individuals are drawn
at random from the population. What is the probability that 11 or fewer will support the governor? Round to
thousandths.
13. Which of the following are the three most common measures of central location?
a.
c.

Mean, median and mode

b.
Average, variance and standard deviation
Mode, sample mean, and sample variance
d.
Mean, median, and average

14. A magazine printed a survey in its monthly issue and asked readers to fill it out and send it
in. Over 1000 readers did so. This type of sample is called
a. a cluster sample.
b. a voluntary sample.
c. a stratified sample. d. a simple random sample.
15. . Which one of these statistics is unaffected by outliers?
a. Mean
b. Interquartile range
c. Standard deviation d. Range
This scenario applies to questions #16 to 18: A randomized experiment was done by randomly assigning each
participant either to walk for half an hour three times a week or to sit quietly reading a book for half an hour three
times a week. At the end of a year the change in participants blood pressure over the year was measured, and the
change was compared for the two groups.
16. This is a randomized experiment rather than an observational study because:
a. Blood pressure was measured at the beginning and end of the study.
b. The two groups were compared at the end of the study.
c. The participants were randomly assigned to either walk or read, rather than choosing their own activity.
d. A random sample of participants was used.
17171717. The two treatments in this study were:
a. Walking for half an hour three times a week and reading a book for half an hour three times a week.
b. Having blood pressure measured at the beginning of the study and having blood pressure measured at the end of
the study.
c. Walking or reading a book for half an hour three times a week and having blood pressure measured.
d. Walking or reading a book for half an hour three times a week and doing nothing.
18. If a statistically significant difference in blood pressure change at the end of a year for the two activities was
found, then:
a. It cannot be concluded that the difference in activity caused a difference in the change in blood pressure because
in the course of a year there are lots of possible confounding variables.
b. Whether or not the difference was caused by the difference in activity depends on what else the participants did
during the year.
c. It cannot be concluded that the difference in activity caused a difference in the change in blood pressure because
it might be the opposite, that people with high blood pressure were more likely to read a book than to walk.
d. It can be concluded that the difference in activity caused a difference in the change in
blood pressure because of the way the study was done.
19. . Which of the following would indicate that a dataset is not bell-shaped?
a. The range is equal to 5 standard deviations. b. The range is larger than the interquartile range.
c. The mean is much smaller than the median. d. There are no outliers.
20. What is the effect of an outlier on the value of a correlation coefficient?
a. An outlier will always decrease a correlation coefficient.
b. An outlier will always increase a correlation coefficient.
c. An outlier might either decrease or increase a correlation coefficient, depending on where it is in relation to the
other points.
d. An outlier will have no effect on a correlation coefficient.
Scores on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (a standard IQ test) are approximately normally distributed within
age groups. For the 20-34 age group, the mean is 110 and the standard deviation is 25. For the 60-64 age groups,

the mean is 90 and the standard deviation is 25. Sarah is 29 and her mother, Ann, is 62. Sarah scores 135 on the
Wechsler test, while Ann scores 120.
21. Who has the better score, relative to her age group?
A. Ann
B. Sarah
C. Both scores were equal relative to their group
information given
22. What score represents the 50th percentile in Sarahs age group? (whole #)

D. Cant determine from