BENG2143 Engineering Statistics Tutorial 2

BENG2143 Engineering Statistics
Tutorial 2
1) Given a standard normal distribution, find the area under the curve lies
a) To the left of 𝑧 = −1.39;
b) To the right of 𝑧 = 1.96;
c) Between 𝑧 = −2.16 and 𝑧 = −0.65;
d) To the left of 𝑧 = 1.43;
e) To the right of 𝑧 = −0.89.
f) Between 𝑧 = −0.48 and 𝑧 = 1.74.
(Ans: 0.0823; 0.0250; 0.2424; 0.9236; 0.8133; 0.6435)
2) Given a standard normal distribution, find the value of k such that

a) 𝑃 (𝑍 > 𝑘) = 0.3622;
b) 𝑃 (𝑍 < 𝑘) = 0.1131;
c) 𝑃 (0 < 𝑍 < 𝑘) = 0.4838;
d) 𝑃 (−𝑘 < 𝑍 < 𝑘 ) = 0.9500.
(Ans: 0.35; -1.21; 2.14; 1.96)
3) Given a normally distributed variable X with 𝜇 = 30 and 𝜎 = 6, find

a) The normal curve area to the right of 𝑥 = 17;
b) The normal curve area to the left of 𝑥 = 22;
c) The normal curve area between 𝑥 = 32 and 𝑥 = 41;
d) The value of 𝑥 that has 80% of the normal curve area to the left;
e) The two values of 𝑥 that contain the middle 75% of the normal curve area.
(Ans: 0.9850; 0.0918; 0.3371; 35.04; ±23.1)
4) In a photographic process, the time to process 8 × 10 prints from a memory card may
be looked upon as a random variable having the normal distribution with a mean of
10.28 seconds and a standard deviation of 0.12 seconds. Find the probability that it
will take
a) Anywhere from 10.00 to 10.50 seconds to process one of the prints;
b) At least 10.20 seconds to process one of the prints;
c) At most 10.35 seconds to process one of the prints.
(Ans: 0.9568; 0.7476; 0.7201)
5) A lawyer commutes daily from his suburban home to his midtown office. The average
time for a one-way trip is 24 minutes, with a standard deviation of 3.8 minutes.
Assume the distribution of trip times to be normally distributed.
a) What is the probability that a trip will take at least ½ hour?
b) If the office opens at 9.00 A.M. and the lawyer leaves his house at 8.45 A.M.
daily, what percentage of the time is he late for work?
c) If he leaves his house at 8.35 A.M. and coffee is served at the office from 8.50
A.M. until 9.00 A.M., what is the probability that he misses coffee?
d) Find the length of time above which we find the slowest 15% of the trips.
e) Find the probability that 2 of the next 3 trips will take at least ½ hour.
(Ans: 0.0571; 99.11%; 0.3974; 27.95; 0.0092)
6) A study discussed the purity of oxygen from a certain supplier. Assume that the mean
was 99.61 with a standard deviation of 0.08. Assume that the distribution of purity
was approximately normal.
a) What percentage of the purity values would you expect to be between 99.5 and
99.7?
b) What purity value would you expect to exceed for exactly 5% of the
population?
(Ans: 78.52%; 99.4784)
7) The average life of a certain type of small motor is 10 years with a standard deviation
of 2 years. The manufacturer replaces free motors that fail while under guarantee. If
she is willing to replace only 3% of the motors that fail, how long a guarantee should
be offered? Assume that the lifetime of a motor follows a normal distribution.
(Ans: 6.24 year)
8) Specifications of a certain job call for washers with an inside diameter of 0.300 ±
0.005 inch. If the inside diameters of the washers supplied by a given manufacturer
may be looked upon as a random variable having the normal distribution with 𝜇 =
0.302 inch and 𝜎 = 0.003 inch, what percentage of these washers will meet
specification?
(Ans: 83.15%)
9) A coin is tossed 400 times. Use the normal curve approximation to find the
probability of obtaining
a) Between 185 and 210 heads inclusive;
b) Exactly 205 heads;
c) Fewer than 176 or more than 227 heads.
(Ans: 0.7925; 0.0352; 0.0101)
10) Researches claim that approximately 75% of people believe “tranquilizers work very
well to make a person more calm and relaxed.” Of the next 80 people interviewed,
what is the probability that
a) At least 50 are of this opinion?
b) At most 56 are of this opinion?
(Ans: 0.9966; 0.1841)

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2) Given a standard normal distribution, find the value of k such that

3) Given a normally distributed variable X with 𝜇 = 30 and 𝜎 = 6, find

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