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Suppose that one De Anza College employee is randomly selected.

Find P (the employee is an Administrator)

  • 278/34
  • 304/616
  • 34/616
  • 80/616

C

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Find P (the employee is Faculty AND American Indian)

  • 382/616
  • 3/616
  • 3/4
  • 3/278

B

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Find P (employee is Staff OR Hispanic)

  • 384/616
  • 80/616
  • 304/616
  • 354/616

D

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Find P (employee is an Administrator GIVEN the employee is Black)

  • 40/616
  • 5/34
  • 5/616
  • 5/40

D

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Being an Administrator and an American Indian are

  • mutually exclusive events
  • independent events
  • mutually exclusive and independent events
  • neither mutually exclusive nor independent events

A

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P(X$gt; 4 or X<2) is best described by which of the following graphs?

  • This is a curve with the area between 2 and 4 shaded in.
  • This is a graph with the area between -6 and 2  and the area between 4 and 6 shaded in.
  • This is a curve with area between -6 and 2 shaded in.
  • This is a curve with the area between 4 and 6 shaded in.

B

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Questions 29 - 32 refer to the following: When a customer calls the "Help Line" at ABC Computer Software Co., the amount of time that a customer must wait "on hold" until somebody answers the line and helps the customer follows an exponential distribution with mean of 7.5 minutes.

What is the probability that a customer waits more than 10 minutes to receive help?

  • 0.2636
  • 0.75
  • 0.7364
  • 0

A

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What is the 40th percentile of wait times for customers calling the help line?

  • 6.87 minutes
  • 3.83 minutes
  • 0.68 minutes
  • 0.122 minutes

B

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The customer wait time that is 1 standard deviation above the mean is:

  • 2.17 minutes
  • 7.5 minutes
  • 9.67 minutes
  • 15 minutes

D

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The probability that a customer calling the help line waits exactly 6 minutes for help:

  • 0
  • 0.45
  • 0.55
  • 0.8

A

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Questions 33 – 35 refer to the following: ABC Delivery Service offers next day delivery of packages weighing between 2 and 20 pounds in a certain city. The have found that the weights of the packages they deliver are uniformly distributed between 2 and 20 pounds.

What is the probability that a package weighs between 10 and 15 pounds?

  • 0.2778
  • 0.5556
  • 0.2500
  • 0.8333

A

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Given that a package weighs less than 10 pounds, what is the probability that it weighs less than 5 pounds?

  • 0.1667
  • 0.6250
  • 0.3750
  • 0.5000

C

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35% of packages weigh less than how many pounds?

  • 7.8 pounds
  • 8.3 pounds
  • 11.7 pounds
  • 13.7 pounds

B

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Suppose that the probability that an adult in California will watch a Giant’s World Series game is 65%. Each person is considered independent. Of interest, is the number of adults in California we must survey until we find one who will watch a Giant’s World Series game. What is the probability that you must ask 2 or 3 people? (This is a geometric problem. If you did not cover the geometric distribution, then skip this problem.)

  • 0.6500
  • 0.3071
  • 0.2275
  • 0.0796

B

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Questions 37– 39 refer to the following: The amount of time De Anza students work per week is approximately normally distributed with mean of 18.17 hours and a standard deviation of 12.92 hours.

The median is:

  • Not enough information
  • 12.92
  • 2.0
  • 18.17

D

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The 90th percentile for the amount of time De Anza students work per week is:

  • 1.61
  • 18.17
  • 90
  • 34.7

D

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Which of the following is NOT TRUE about the normal distribution?

  • the mean, median and mode are equal
  • the curve is skewed to the right
  • the curve never touches the x-axis
  • the area under the curve is one.

B

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We use the z-score to:

  • compare normal distributions with different averages and standard deviations
  • drive statistics students nuts
  • compare exponential distributions with the same average
  • compare uniform distributions with different minimum and maximum numbers

A

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Source:  OpenStax, Collaborative statistics: supplemental course materials. OpenStax CNX. Oct 01, 2008 Download for free at http://legacy.cnx.org/content/col10586/1.2
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