QUIZ #1 : Probability and Probability Distribution

Due Jun 5 at 6:30pm Points 70 Questions 35

Available Jun 5 at 4pm - Jun 5 at 8pm 4 hours Time Limit 120 Minutes

Instructions
This is a 35 Items , 70 points Quiz to be accomplished within 2 hours from 4:00PM to 6:00PM

You need to join Zoom open webcam while taking the exam 

You are allowed only 1 submission so review all you answers

Numerical answers should have 4 decimal places to be recorded

You are allowed to use calculators, Excel, Use the attached tables, and distributions sheet.

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LATEST Attempt 1 94 minutes 50 out of 70

Score for this quiz: 50 out of 70

Submitted Jun 5 at 5:36pm
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Question 1 2 / 2 pts

Course Chat 
 Which of the following random variables is NOT a discrete random
variable?

  Number of stars in the sky

  Number of rings before a person answers a call

  Number of likes in a given post

Correct!   Waiting time for a Grab Food to arrive

Question 2 0 / 2 pts

Send
If S = {x | 0 <x< 20}, M = {x | 11 <x< 19}, and N = {x | 0 <x< 5}, find M∩NC

ou Answered  ∅

orrect Answer   {11<x<19}

  {5<x<20}

  {5<x<20}

Question 3 2 / 2 pts

The probability that a vaccinated patient recovers from COVID 0.9. What
is the probability that all of the next 4 patients who have COVID survive?

  0.8100

  1.0521
Correct!   0.6561

  0.1113

Question 4 2 / 2 pts

Which of the following is NOT TRUE regarding any given probability mass
function?

Correct!   P[X<a]=P[X a]

  All probabilities must be nonnegative

  The sum of all probabilities must be equal to 1

 
The probability of either one of two possible outcomes happening is the
sum of their corresponding probabilities.

Question 5 2 / 2 pts

 p(x) = 1/6;   for x=20,30,40,50,60,70 is a probability mass function

Correct!   True

  False

Question 6 2 / 2 pts
 The table below is a probability mass function

x -2 3 5 10

P(X=x) 0.30 0.11 0.31 0.31

  True

Correct!   False

Question 7 2 / 2 pts

The function   p(x) = (0.4)x  (0.5)1-x ;  for x=0,1 is a probability distribution

  True

Correct!   False

Question 8 0 / 2 pts

In an experiment to study the relationship of hypertension and smoking

habits, the following data are collected for 180 individuals:

Nonsmokers  Moderate Smokers  Heavy Smokers

Hypertension 21 36 30

Non Hypertension 48 26 19
 If one of these individuals is selected at random, find the probability that
the person is  experiencing hypertension, given that the person is a non-
smoker

ou Answered   None of the above

orrect Answer   21/69

  30/49

  36/62

Question 9 2 / 2 pts

Given the following probability distribution function

x -1 0 1

P(X=x) 0.3 0.2 0.5

Find E[X]

  0.8

  1.0

Correct!   0.2

  None of these is E[X]

Question 10 2 / 2 pts
 Given the following probability distribution function

x -1 0 1

P(X=x) 0.3 0.2 0.5

Find E[2X+1]

Correct!   1.4

  2.0

  None of these is E[2X+1]

 0

Question 11 2 / 2 pts

Given the following probability distribution function

x -1 0 1

P(X=x) 0.3 0.2 0.5

Find Var[X]

  0.8

Correct!   0.76

  None of these is Var[X]

   0.04

Question 12 2 / 2 pts

Which of the following special distributions is NOT a Discrete probability

distribution? 

  Poisson Distribution

  Binomial Distribution

Correct!   Normal Distribution

  Hypergeometric Distribution

Question 13 2 / 2 pts

What is the probability distribution of the random variable that counts the
number of trials until the first success occurs

Correct!   Geometric Distribution

  Binomial Distribution

  Uniform distribution

  Hypergeometric Distribution
 Question 14 2 / 2 pts

What is the probability distribution of the random variable that counts the
number of occurrence of a typo error on a page, assuming that the
chance of an error is the same for all pages

Correct!   Poisson Distribution

  Binomial Distribution

  Geometric Distribution

  Negative binomial

Question 15 2 / 2 pts

What is the probability distribution with the same mean and variance?

  Normal distribution

  Uniform Distribution

  Bernoulli Distribution

Correct!   Poisson Distribution

Question 16 2 / 2 pts
 What probability distribution has a mean given by E[X] = nK/N?

  Normal Distribution

Correct!   Hypergeometric distribution

  Poisson Distribution

  Geometric Distribution

Question 17 2 / 2 pts

Which probability distribution has a bell shaped curve?

  Geometric Distribution

  Negative Binomial Distribution

Correct!   Normal Distribution

  Poisson Distribution

Question 18 2 / 2 pts

How many times on average do you have to play a game to experience

your first win, with only a 5% chance of winning at each attempt?

Correct!   20
   None of these

 5

  10

Question 19 2 / 2 pts

John sells frozen chicken drumsticks in the market in 1kg bags.

Accidently, he mixed 5 bags of old stocks with 10 bags of the new ones in
a container. What is the probability that a buyer would get 2 bags of the
old chicken drumsticks if he/she purchases 6 bags and they will be taken
from that container?

  0.6667

  None of these

Correct!   0.4196

  0.1333

Question 20 2 / 2 pts

15% of the employees in a certain government organization have a

postgraduate degree. If people are selected at random from this
population, what is the probability that the 7th person selected is the first
one that has a postgraduate degree?

  0.6561

  0.5666
   None of these

Correct!   0.0566

Question 21 2 / 2 pts

What is the expected number of Twitter users you will get from a sample
of 100 users from a pool of 1000 people, 650 of which are actual Twitter
users?

  35

  100

  None of these

Correct!   65

Question 22 0 / 2 pts

(Use your Poisson table) Historical records of managers of a fastfood

suggest that they have an average of 3 customers per hour who pay using
credit card, and that this average is the same for every hour of operation
of the fastfood. It is of interest to the managers to compute certain
probabilities given these data.

What is the probability that there will be exactly 4 customers paying with
credit card in the next hour?

  None of these

  0.6472
ou Answered   0.8153

orrect Answer   0.1681

Question 23 0 / 2 pts

(Use your Poisson table) Historical records of managers of a fastfood

suggest that they have an average of 3 customers per hour who pay using
credit card, and that this average is the same for every hour of operation
of the fastfood. It is of interest to the managers to compute certain
probabilities given these data.

What is the probability that there will be 5 customers who pay using credit
card in the next 2 hours?

ou Answered   0.4457

  0.9161

  0.1008

orrect Answer   0.1606

Question 24 0 / 2 pts

(Use your Poisson table) Historical records of managers of a fastfood

suggest that they have an average of 3 customers per hour who pay
using credit card, and that this average is the same for every hour of
operation of the fastfood. It is of interest to the managers to compute
certain probabilities given these data.

What is the probability that there will be more than 2 customers who
pay using credit card from 1 to 2PM?
   None of these

orrect Answer   0.5768

ou Answered   0.4232

  0.8009

Question 25 0 / 2 pts

(Use Binomial Table) The probability that a patient recovers from a rare
blood disease is 0.6. If 15 people are known to have contracted this
disease, what is the probability that at least 10 survive,

  None of these

  0.2173

ou Answered   0.7827

orrect Answer   0.4032

Question 26 0 / 2 pts

(Use Binomial Table) The probability that a senior patient recovers from
pnuemonia is 0.4. If 15 people are known to have contracted this disease,
what is the probability that from 3 to 8 survive (inclusive of 3 and 8)?

  0.9050

ou Answered   0.8145
   None of these

orrect Answer   0.8779

Question 27 0 / 2 pts

(Use Binomial Table) The probability that a patient recovers from an

eating  disorder is 0.4. If 10 people are known to have contracted this
disease, what is the probability that exactly 5 survive?

  None of these

ou Answered   0.8338

  0.6331

orrect Answer   0.2007

Question 28 2 / 2 pts

(Use normal distribution Table) The IQs of 600 applicants of a certain

college are normally distributed with a mean of 115 and a standard
deviation of 12. What is the probability that a randomly selected
applicant will have an IQ of 100 or less?

  None of these

  0.8749

Correct!   0.1056

  1.25
 Question 29 0 / 2 pts

(Use normal distribution Table) The IQs of 600 applicants of a certain

college are normally distributed with a mean of 115 and a standard
deviation of 12.  What is the probability that a randomly selected
applicant will have an IQ of at  least 121?

  0.5000

ou Answered   0.6915

  None of these

orrect Answer   0.3085

Question 30 2 / 2 pts

(Use normal distribution Table) The IQs of 600 applicants of a certain

college are normally distributed with a mean of 115 and a standard
deviation of 12. What is the probability that a randomly selected
applicant will have an IQ from 100 to 121?

  0.1056

  0.7734

Correct!   0.5859

  None of these
 Question 31 0 / 2 pts

(Use normal distribution Table) The IQs of 600 applicants of a certain

college are normally distributed with a mean of 115 and a standard
deviation of 12

If an applicant with an IQ of at least 100 will be accepted, how many

will be admitted?

  95

orrect Answer   536

  505

ou Answered   None on these options is correct

Question 32 2 / 2 pts

(Use normal distribution Table) The IQs of 600 applicants of a certain

college are normally distributed with a mean of 115 and a standard
deviation of 12

If the college will consider only applicants with IQ score in the top
20%, what is the cut off IQ score?

  110

Correct!   125

  105

  100
 Question 33 2 / 2 pts

A roulette wheel with numbers from 1-30 is spinned. What is the

probability that

the result shows a number less than 6.

Correct!   1/6

  1/3

  1/4

  1/5

Question 34 2 / 2 pts

A manufacturing plant uses 3000 electric light bulbs whose life spans are
normally distributed with mean 500 and standard deviation 50 hrs. After
how many hours should the light bulbs be replaced if the supervisor
wishes that no more than 10% of the bulbs to burn out between
replacement. 

  564 hrs

  1.285 hrs

  None of these

Correct!   436 hrs

Question 35 2 / 2 pts

Write something/anything you are grateful for 

Your Answer:

I am grateful for a lot of things. However, lately, I've been very thankful for
my friends who keep motivating me so that I can overcome all of the
challenges I'm currently facing and graduate with the degree I'm taking. 

Quiz Score: 50 out of 70