STA 100 Fall 2024 (a) two will have the disease?

Homework 3 - Due 7:00 PM Thursday, Oct 17th onto (b) none will have the disease?
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(c) at least one will neither have the disease nor be a
carrier?
Book Homework (d) the first child with the disease will the be 3rd child?

1. The number of moles on a persons face can be consid- 5. You must use properties of linear combinations of random
ered a discrete random variable, and assume it has the variables to solve these problems.
following distribution: 2
(a) Let X be a random variable where µX = 3, σX = 9.
Number Moles (Y ) 0 1 2 3 Find the mean and the variance of Y , where
P (Y = y) 0.72 0.16 0.09 0.03 Y = −2 + 4X
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(b) Let X be a random variable where µX = 0, σX =
1/4. Find the mean and the variance of Y , where
(a) What is the probability that someone has more than Y = −10 − 3X
1 mole?
(b) What is the probability that someone has between 0 6. Answer the questions with TRUE or FALSE and explain
and 2 moles (inclusive)? your answers as well.
(c) Find the expected number of moles someone has. (a) If we have 5 binomial trials, and Y =# of successes in
(d) Find the variance of the number of moles someone the 5 trials, Y can take on only values {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}.
has. (b) If a random variable Y only takes on values
{0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4}, it is a discrete random variable.
2. Assume that a multiple choice quiz has 10 questions, each
with five choices. Assume a student must select only one (c) The probability of the intersection of two events
answer for each of the 10 questions. Assume further each could be higher than the probability of the union of
question is independent, that every choice is equally likely two events.
to be selected, and that there is one correct answer. 7. For a standard normal random variable (i.e, for a Z ∼
(a) What are the values of n and p? N (µ = 0, σ = 1) find the following:
(b) Find the probability that a student answers all ques- (a) P (Z < 1.2)
tions correctly.
(b) P (Z > −2.3)
(c) Find the probability that a student gets at least 2
(c) P (−1 < Z < 0.31)
questions correct.
(d) The 97.5th percentile of Z
(d) What grade should the professor expect the class to
get on average for this quiz? 8. Assume that heart rate (in beats per minute, or bpm)
before an exam for STA 100 students is distributed nor-
3. Hospital records show that for patients suffering from a
mal, with a mean of 95 bpm and a standard deviation of
certain disease, 15% die from it (regardless of the pa-
18.5 bpm. Assume all students in the following problem
tient). Assume patients are independent, and that 8 pa-
are selected from this population.
tients are observed.
(a) Find the probability that a randomly selected stu-
(a) What is the probability that exactly 4 patients re-
dents heart rate is above 110.
cover?
(b) What is the probability that between 1 and 3 patients (b) What is the probability that a randomly selected stu-
die (inclusive)? dent has a heart rate between 90 and 120?
(c) What is the expected number of patients who die out (c) What is the first quartile of heartrates for randomly
of the 8? selected students?
(d) What is the the standard deviation of the number of (d) What is the third quartile of heartrates for randomly
patients who die out of the 8? selected students?
(e) What is the probability that at least 3 patients die? (e) What is the 8th percentile for heart rates among ran-
domly selected students?
4. Sickle cell anemia is a genetic blood disorder where red (f) If we know a randomly selected students heart rate
blood cells lose their flexibility and assume an abnormal, is over 100 (it is given), what is the probability that
rigid, “sickle” shape, which results in a risk of various it is under 125?
complications. If both parents are carriers of the disease,
then a child has a 25% chance of having the disease, 9. Mensa is an organization that allows people to join only
50% chance of being a carrier, and 25% chance of neither if their Stanford-Binet IQs are in the top 2% of the pop-
having the disease nor being a carrier. If two parents ulation. Assume the population mean of Stanford-Binet
who are carriers of the disease have 3 children, what is IQs is 100, and the standard deviation is 15, and that
the probability that the population is normally distributed.

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 (a) What is the lowest Stanford-Binet IQ you could have
and still be eligible to join Mensa?
(b) What is 99th percentile for the Stanford-Binet IQ
scores?
(c) What is the probability that a randomly selected per-
sons Stanford-Binet IQ is between 85 and 115?
(d) What is the probability that two randomly selected
people both have Stanford-Binet IQs which qualify
them for Mensa?
(e) Find the lower and upper cutoffs for the boxplot-
method of finding outliers for the IQ.
10. The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is a standard-
ized test commonly taken by grad- uate school applicants
in the United States. The total score is comprised of
three components: Quantitative Reasoning, Verbal Rea-
soning, and Analytical Writing. The first two compo-
nents are scored from 130-170. The mean score for Ver-
bal Reasoning section for all test takers was 151 with
a standard deviation of 7, and the mean score for the
Quantitative Reasoning was 153 with a standard devia-
tion of 7.67. Suppose that both distributions are nearly
normal.
(a) A student scores 160 on the Verbal Reasoning sec-
tion and 157 on the Quantitative Reasoning section.
Relative to the scores of other students, which sec-
tion did the student perform better on?
(b) Calculate the student’s percentile scores for the two
sections. What percent of test takers performed bet-
ter on the Verbal Reasoning section?
(c) Compute the score of a student who scored in the
80th percentile on the Quantitative Reasoning sec-
tion.
(d) Compute the score of a student who scored worse
than 70% of the test takers on the Verbal Reasoning
section.