MURANG’A UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

SCHOOL OF PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCE

DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED SCIENCE

UNIVERSITY ORDINARY EXAMINATION

2017/2018 ACADEMIC YEAR

FIRST YEAR SECOND SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

AMS 101 – PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS I

DURATION: 2 HOURS

DATE: 26TH APRIL, 2018

TIME: 2.00 – 4.00 P.M.

Instructions to Candidates:

1. Answer Question 1 and Any Other Two questions.

2. Mobile phones are not allowed in the examination room.
3. You are not allowed to write on this examination question paper.

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 SECTION A – ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS IN THIS SECTION
QUESTION ONE
a) Define the following terms:
i. Statistics (1 mark)
ii. Descriptive statistics (1 mark)
iii. Inferential statistics (1 mark)
iv. Qualitative variables (1 mark)
v. Quantitative variables (1 mark)
b) Explain the following field methods of data collection
i. Census (2 marks)
ii. Sample survey (2 marks)
c) Construct an ungrouped frequency table for the data below
16 14 15 13 12 14 16 15 15 14 17 16 13 16 15 14 18 13 15 17
(4 marks)
d) The frequency distribution table below shows the number of pounds of each snack food eaten
during the super bowl. Construct a pie chart for the data
Snack Potato chips Doughnut Cookies Biscuits Popcorn
Pound (in millions) 11.2 8.2 4.3 3.8 2.5
(5 marks)
e) The maximum temperature measured to the nearest centigrade was recorded in a certain town
each day on June. The results were as follows. Draw a stem and leaf diagram with classes 50-54,
55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70-74 and 75-79
52, 62, 51, 50, 69, 58, 77, 66, 53, 57, 75, 56, 55, 67, 73, 79, 59, 68, 65, 72, 57, 51, 63, 69, 75, 65,
53, 78, 66, 55 (5 marks)
f) The grades of a student in six examinations were 84, 91, 72, 68, 91, 72. Find the
i. Arithmetic mean (1 mark)
ii. Standard deviation (3 marks)
g) The following are the counts of fish of each type that you have caught before
Fish Type Tilapia Cat fish Blue gill
No of times caught 13 17 10

Find the probability that the next fish you catch will be a
i. Tilapia (1 mark)

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 ii. Cat fish (1 mark)
iii. Blue gill (1 mark)

SECTION B – ANSWER ANY TWO QUESTIONS IN THIS SECTION

QUESTION TWO
a) These data represent the record high temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit (F) for each of the 50
states. Construct a grouped frequency distribution for the data (2 marks)
112 100 127 120 134 118 105 110 109 112 110 118 117 116 118 122
114 114 105 109 107 112 114 115 118 122 106 110 116 108 110 121
113 120 119 111 104 111 120 113 120 117 105 110 118 112 114 114
b) Use the table in (a) above to compute
i. Mean (3 marks)
ii. Median (2 marks)
c) Construct a histogram, frequency polygon and a cumulative frequency curve (ogive) for the data
below:
Class 100-104 105-109 110-114 115-119 120-124 125-129 130-134
Frequency 2 8 18 13 7 1 1
(8 marks)
d) The number of stories in two selected samples in two selected samples of tall buildings in
Nairobi and Eldoret is shown. Construct a back-to—back stem and leaf plot and compare the
distributions (5 marks)
Nairobi Eldoret
55 70 44 36 40 63 40 44 30 61 40 38 32 30 58 40 40 25
34 38 60 47 52 32 32 50 26 30 50 38 36 54 40 36 30 30
53 32 28 31 52 32 34 32 29 53 39 36 34 33 39 32

QUESTION THREE
a) Find the mean, median, mode and standard deviation for the following frequency distribution
Class 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39
Frequency 5 12 32 40 16 9 6
(15 marks)
b) Find the variance hence standard deviation for the data below:
3, 6, 9, 10, 7, 12, 13, 15, 6, 5, 13 (5 marks)

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QUESTION FOUR
a) Calculate the coefficient of skewness ∝3 and the coefficient of kurtosis ∝4 for the data below:
5, 6, 7, 6, 9, 4, 5 (6 marks)
b) A study was conducted to find whether there is nay relationship between the weight and blood
pressure of an individual. The following set of data was arrived at from a clinical study.
Determine the pearson product moment correlation coefficient for this set of data
Weight 78 86 72 82 80 86 84 89 68 71
Blood Pressure 140 160 134 144 180 176 174 178 128 132
(10 marks)
c) Suppose that of all individual buying a certain digital camera 60% include an optional memory
card in their purchase, 40% include a set of batteries and 30% include both a card and batteries.
Consider randomly selecting a buyer and Let A = {memory card purchased} and B = {battery
purchased}; Find
i. P(A/B) (2 marks)
ii. P(B/A) (2 marks)

QUESTION FIVE
a) The data below was obtained from student records. Calculate the rank correlation coefficient R
for the data.
Subject 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
X 8.3 8.6 9.2 9.8 8.0 7.8 9.4 9.0 7.2 8.6
Y 2300 2250 2380 2400 2000 2100 2360 2350 2000 2260
(9 marks)
b) Scores made by students in a probability and statistics class in the mid-term and final
examination are given below.
i. Develop a regression equation which may be used to predict final examination scores from
the mid-term score
Student 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Mid-term scores 98 66 100 96 88 45 76 60 74 82
Final exam scores 90 74 98 88 80 62 78 74 86 80

(8 marks)
ii. Represent the above data in a graph and draw a regression line on the same plot (3 marks)

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