The Gallup Poll interviewed 1423 randomly selected Americ

Part 1 Multiple Choice: 

The Gallup Poll interviewed 1423 randomly selected American citizens and reported that when asked which type of content bothers them most on TV, 44% identified ‘violence’.  Answer the next two questions with this information.

1.      Identify the population.

a.       1423

b.      American citizens

c.       Gallup poll

d.      44%

2.      The 44% that identified ‘violence’ as what bothered them the most from the sample of 1423 randomly selected American citizens is called

a.       a parameter

b.      a statistic

c.       Simpson’s paradox

d.      None of these above

3.      Fill in the blank:  The ________ of a variable tells us what values it takes and how often it takes these values.

a.       probability

b.      distribution

c.       population

d.      variable

4.      85% of the phone calls to Regional Airways is for reservations.  Suppose there were 100 calls to Regional Airways.  Describe the distribution of the number of calls that were for reservations out of the 100.

a.       Normal distribution with mean = 100, standard deviation = 85.

b.      Binomial distribution with n = 100, p = 0.85.

c.       Binomial distribution with mean = 100, standard deviation = 85.

d.      Uniform distribution with n = 100, p = 0.85.

The city gas mileage for 2001 vehicles has a mean µ = 21.2 miles per gallon and standard deviation σ = 5.4 MPG.  Let X be the city MPG of 2014 model year vehicles. Assume the gas mileage has an approximate Normal distribution.  Answer the next two questions.

5.      Find the probability that a vehicle chosen at random has a city MPG of 32 or higher.

a.       0.02

b.      0.9772

c.       0.0228

d.      0.108

6.      Suppose that a simple random sample of 36 vehicles were selected.  What is the probability that the sample mean MPG,, of these 36 vehicles is greater than 23 MPG?

a.       0.01

b.      0.8413

c.       0.9772

d.      0.0228

The table below shows quality ratings and the mean price from a sample of 300 restaurants located in the Los Angeles area.  Use this information to answer the next three questions.

7.      What is the percent of “Good” Quality Rating?

a.        28%

b.      26%

c.       53.8%

d.       0%

8.      What percent of the restaurants have a “Good” rating and has a meal price between $30 – 39?

a.       2.4%

b.      3%

c.       0.67%

d.      28%

9.      What percent of the restaurants have an “Excellent” rating, given that the meal price is $40 – 49?

a.       7.3%

b.      78.6%

c.       33.3%

d.      22%

Assume that 10% of people are left-handed.  We randomly select 20 people at random.  Answer the next two questions

10.  What is the probability that exactly 5 out of the 20 people are left-handed?

a.       0.25

b.      0.032

c.       0

d.      0.98875

11.  What is the expected number of left-handed people out of the 20 randomly selected?

a.       5

b.      10

c.       0.25

d.      20

Employment data at a large company reveal that 72% of the workers are married, 40% are college graduated, and that 45% are married, given that they are college graduates.  Let C be the event that a selected worker is college graduated, M be the event that a worker is married.  According to this large company P(M) = 0.72, P(C) = 0.4 and P(M|C) = 0.45.   Answer the next three questions using this information.  (Hint:  The Venn diagram might be helpful.)

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