MAT107 Statistics Exam II - Professor Paul Felker

MAT107 Name:
Statistics Exam II
Prof: Felker
1. In the Massachusetts Pick Four lottery game, you win the jackpot by
selecting 4 different whole numbers from 1 to 39 and getting the same four
numbers (in any order) that are later drawn.
a) What is the probability of winning a jackpot in this game?
b) What is the probability of winning a jackpot in this game (if the order of
the numbers selected matters.)?
2. Male Color Blindness – When conducting research on color blindness in
males, a researcher forms random groups with five males in each group.
The random variable 𝑥 is the number of males in the group who have a
form of color blindness (based on data from the National Institutes of
Health).
𝑥 𝑃(𝑥)
0 0.659
1 0.287
2 0.050
3 0.004
4 0.001
5 0.000
a) Determine whether a probability distribution is given. If a probability

distribution is not given, identify the requirements that are not satisfied.
b) Find the mean and standard deviation of the given distribution.

3. City of Quincy Raffle - A City of Quincy raffle offers one $800 prize, two
$400 prizes and seven $100 prizes. Two thousand tickets are sold at $50
each. Find the expectation (from the perspective of the player) if a person
buys one ticket.
4. Making Chocolates – At the Sterling Chocolate Factory, a particular machine
on the chocolates assembly line fails to insert the correct cream filling
approximately 1.2% of the time. Chocolates without the correct filling
cannot be processed into boxes of chocolates for shipping.
a) Find the mean and standard deviation for the number of incorrectly
filled chocolates per 10,000 made on the assembly line.
b) In a particular batch of 10,000 chocolates, would 400 incorrectly filled

chocolates be unusually low or unusually high?
5. Slot Machine Jackpots – At Foxwoods Casino, the probability of winning the
slot machine jackpot if 5 quarters are placed in the machine before you pull
the handle is 1⁄82,456, 732.
If you placed this 5-quarter bet each week for 30 years, you would play this
slot machine 1560 times.
a) Find the mean and standard deviation for the number of jackpots a
person would win if they played this bet every week for 30 years.
b) Would it be unusual for someone to win this jackpot at least once if they
placed this 5-quarter bet each week for 30 years?
6. Too Young to Tat – Based on a Harris poll, among adults who regret getting
tattoos, 20% say that they were too young when they got their tattoos.
Assume that five adults who regret getting tattoos are randomly selected,
and find the indicated probability.
a) Find the probability that exactly one of the selected adults say that they
were too young to get tattoos.
b) Find the probability that two or more of the selected adults say that
they were too young to get tattoos.
7. Atlantic Hurricanes - Assume the Poisson distribution applies and assume
that the mean number of Atlantic hurricanes in the United States is 6.3 per
year. Find the indicated probabilities.
a) Find the probability that in a year, there will be 5 hurricanes.
b) In a 60-year period, how many years are expected to have 5 hurricanes?

8. In a recent year, Professor Felker wrote 192 checks. Find the probability
that on a randomly selected day, he wrote at least one check. (Hint: Use the
Poisson distribution)
9. IT Manager’s Salaries - The average salary for an IT Manager in the Boston
area is $110,000. If the average salaries are normally distributed with a
standard deviation of $10,000, find the following probabilities.
a) That a randomly selected IT Manager in Boston makes more than

$125,000.
b) That a randomly selected IT Manager in Boston makes less than

$90,000.
10. College Costs – The mean undergraduate cost for tuition, fees, room and
board for four-year institutions was $32,698 for the year. Suppose that
𝜎 = $3400 and that 36 four-year institutions are randomly selected. Find
the probability that the sample mean cost for these 36 schools is
a) Less than $30,000.
b) Greater than $34,000
c) Between $30,000 and $34,000

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a) What is the probability of winning a jackpot in this game?

a) Determine whether a probability distribution is given. If a probability

b) Find the mean and standard deviation of the given distribution.

b) In a particular batch of 10,000 chocolates, would 400 incorrectly filled

a) Find the probability that in a year, there will be 5 hurricanes.

b) In a 60-year period, how many years are expected to have 5 hurricanes?

a) That a randomly selected IT Manager in Boston makes more than

b) That a randomly selected IT Manager in Boston makes less than

a) Less than $30,000.

b) Greater than $34,000

c) Between $30,000 and $34,000

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