Tutorial 6

1. Farm workers are employed on a contract-to-contract basis. The contract lengths follow a
normal distribution with a mean of 25 weeks and a variance of 36. If a random sample of
60 farm workers is taken.
a) what is the probability that the average length of their contracts is less than 27 weeks?
b) what is the probability that their average length of their contracts differs from the true
average weeks by at most 15.

2. Sixty percent of Stat111 students passed Test 3. Suppose a random sample of 45 Stat111
students is selected.
a) What is the probability that more than 65% of them passed Test 3?
b) What is the probability that the sample proportion that passed Test 3 differs from the
population proportion that passed by more than 0.1?

3. It has been found that 35% of patients attending a clinic suffer from some form of chronic
illness. A clinic administrator randomly selects the files of 60 of its patients.
a) What is the probability that less than 40% of the files are for patients with chronic
illnesses?
b) What is the probability that more than 80% of the files are for patients who do not have
chronic illnesses?

Questions 4 to 7: Finding t-values.

4. Suppose random variable Y follows a t-distribution with 16 df. What Excel command can
be used to find k where 𝑃(𝑌 > 𝑘) = 0.1?
5. Suppose random variable X follows a t-distribution with 40 df. Find 𝑐 where
𝑃(0 < 𝑋 < 𝑐) = 0.45
6. Suppose random variable X follows a t-distribution with 40 df. Find c where
𝑃(𝑐 < 𝑋 < 0) = 0.45
7. What Excel command/formula can be used to find the t-value such that the area under the
𝑡10 curve to its right is 0.975

Questions 8 to 11: Finding probabilities for the t-distribution.

8. Find 𝑃(𝑋 < 2.262) where X follow a t-distribution with 9 df.

9. Find 𝑃(𝑋 > −2.262) where X follow a t-distribution with 9 df.
10. Find 𝑃(𝑋 < −1.325) where X follow a t-distribution with 20 df.
11. : What Excel command/formula can be used to find 𝑃(2.179 < 𝑌 < 3.055) where Y
follows a t-distribution with 12 df?
Questions 12 to 14: Finding Chi-squared values.

12. Suppose Y follows a Chi-squared distribution with 8 df. Find the value of k such that
𝑃(𝑌 < 𝑘) = 0.95

13. Suppose Y follows a Chi-squared distribution with 8 df. What Excel command/formula can
be used to find the value of k such that the area under the (probability distribution) curve of
Y to the right of k is 0.99?

14. suppose X follows a Chi-squared distribution with 50 df. Find the value c such that the
area under the (probability distribution curve) to the left of c is 0.1.

Questions 12 to 14: Finding probabilities for the Chi-square distribution.

15. Find P(Y<4.168) where Y follows a Chi-square distribution with 9 df.

16. Find 𝑃(5.229 < 𝑌 < 27.488) where Y follows a Chi-square distribution with 15 df.

17. What Excel command/formula can be used to find

𝑃(13.844 < 𝑌 < 𝑌 < 35.563) where Y follows a Chi-square distribution with 26 df.

Extra Questions

1) The total cholesterol levels for women aged 55 to 64 years follow a normal distribution
with 𝜇 = 223 milligrams per decilitre and 𝜎 = 43.8 milligrams per decilitre.
a) If a random sample of 30 women (aged 55 to 64 years) is taken, what is the
probability that the average total cholesterol level is greater than 260
milligrams per decilitre?
b) If a random sample of 25 women (aged 55 to 64 years) is taken, what is the
probability that the mean of the sample differs from the actual mean by 20
milligrams per decilitre?

2) The length of Atlantic croaker fish is normally distributed with mean of 10 inches and a
standard deviation of 2 inches.
a) If a sample of 25 fish is taken, what is the probability that the average length of
the fish is greater than 12 inches?
b) If a sample of 100 fish is taken, what is the probability that the average length of
the fish is greater than 12 inches?
c) How does increasing the sample size affect the probability that the average
length of the fish is greater than 12 inches?
3) During the last week of the semester, students at a certain university spend on the
average 4,2 hours using the computer terminals with a standard deviation of 1,8 hours.
For a random sample of sample of 36 students at the university, find the probability
that the average time spent during the last week of the semester
 a) Is at least 4,8 hours;
b) Is between 4,1 and 4,5 hours
c) Differs from the actual mean time by no more than 1 hour.

4) Find values for the following:

a) 𝑡12;0.99
b) 𝑡12;0.01
c) 𝑡36;0.985
d) 𝑡50;0.985
e) 𝑡23;005

5) Suppose you have the probability curves for a 𝑡12 distribution, a 𝑡25 distribution and a
𝑡36 distribution
a) Which will be the most peaked (i.e. the tallest)?
b) Which will have the thickest tails?
6)
a) How are the 𝑡 and the 𝜒 2 distributions similar?
b) How do the curves of the 𝜒 2 distribution differ from those of the 𝑡 and the
normal distributions?
c) As the 𝑑𝑓 increases, the probability distribution function of the 𝜒 2 distribution
will become more/less symmetrical. (choice either more or less).
7)
a) How does the F distribution differ from t and normal distributions?
b) The F distribution is positively/negatively skewed, (Choose either positively or
negatively)

8) Find values for

2
a) 𝜒19;0.05
2
b) 𝜒19;0.95
c) 𝑃(0.4844 < 𝜒 2 < 9.49)
d) 𝑃(𝜒 2 > 1.0636)
9) Find
a) 𝐹6,20;0.975
b) 𝐹3,15;0.99
c) The value of 𝑓 such that 5% of the area below the curve is to the right of it and
the numerator degrees of freedom is 7 and the denominator degrees of
freedom is 22
d) 𝐹10,18;0.025
e) 𝐹3,6;0.01
f) The value of 𝑓 such that 1% of the area below the curve is to the right of it and
the numerator degrees of freedom is 8 and the denominator degrees of
freedom is 25