Some example questions for the 533 Final Exam... Good Luck!

1. Some Hints for Preparing for the
Math 533 Final Exam
Professor Brent Heard

2. Math 533 Final Exam Prep
• Hypothesis Tests

3. Math 533 Final Exam Prep
• Sample Question on Hypothesis Testing
– Pepito’s Pizza Work is putting pizzas out by delivery as fast as they
can. Pepito’s claims they can deliver pizzas within their delivery area
in less than 29 minutes. You are given the following data from a
sample.
Sample size: 120 Deliveries
Population standard deviation: 1.4
Sample mean: 28.3
Formulate a hypothesis test to evaluate the claim.

4. Math 533 Final Exam Prep
• Sample Question on Hypothesis Testing
– Pepito’s Pizza Work is putting pizzas out by delivery as fast as they
can. Pepito’s claims they can deliver pizzas within their delivery area
in less than 29 minutes. You are given the following data from a
sample.
Sample size: 120 Deliveries
Population standard deviation: 1.4
Sample mean: 28.3
Formulate a hypothesis test to evaluate the claim.
– Answer: Ho: µ ≥ 29, Ha : µ < 29
– (In this case, the claim was Ha)
– Remember Ho always contains equality (It will either be =, ≤ or ≥)
– Ha will be either ≠, < or >

5. Math 533 Final Exam Prep
• Sample Question on Binomial Distribution
– Assume that a study was done finding that 70 percent of males in Georgia are
football fans. If a researcher asks 8 Georgia Males if they are fans, the
following binomial distribution would be applicable. What is the probability
that at least 5 will be football fans?
n p
8 0.7
x P( x) Cumulative
0 0.0001 0.0001
1 0.0012 0.0013
2 0.0100 0.0113
3 0.0467 0.0580
4 0.1361 0.1941
5 0.2541 0.4482
6 0.2965 0.7447
7 0.1977 0.9424
8 0.0576 1.0000

6. Math 533 Final Exam Prep
• Sample Question on Binomial Distribution
– Assume that a study was done finding that 70 percent of males in Georgia are
football fans. If a researcher asks 8 Georgia Males if they are fans, the
following binomial distribution would be applicable. What is the probability
that at least 5 will be football fans?
n p “At least 5” is the probability that 5, 6,
8 0.7
7 or 8 will be fans. Simply add those
x P( x) Cumulative probabilities.
0 0.0001 0.0001
1 0.0012 0.0013 0.2541
2 0.0100 0.0113 0.2965
3 0.0467 0.0580 0.1977
4 0.1361 0.1941 0.0576 My total is 0.8059
5 0.2541 0.4482 or about 81% which
6 0.2965 0.7447 is the probability of
7 0.1977 0.9424 0.8059
at least 5 being
8 0.0576 1.0000
football fans.

7. Math 533 Final Exam Prep
• Analysis Example
– 9 members of the local college baseball team had the following number for extra base hits for
the year. Using the Minitab output given, determine:
A. Mean
B. Standard Deviation
C. Range
D. Median
E. The range of the data that would contain 68% of the results .
Raw Data
7
9
4
24
15
17
15
6
29
– Minitab Follows

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Descriptive Statistics: Extra Base Hits
Variable N N* Mean SE Mean StDev Minimum Q1 Median Q3
Extra Base Hits 9 0 14.00 2.82 8.47 4.00 6.50 15.00 20.50
Variable Maximum
Extra Base Hits 29.00
Stem-and-Leaf Display: Extra Base Hits
Stem-and-leaf of Extra Base Hits N = 9
Leaf Unit = 1.0
The range of the data that would contain 68%
4 0 4679 of the results. (Mean – Std Dev, Mean +
(3) 1 557 Std Dev) which is (14 – 8.47, 14 + 8.47) or
2 2 49
(5.53,22.47)

9. Math 533 Final Exam Prep
• Confidence interval Example
– Acme computers needs to find a new vendor for
their hard drives. They are considering using
Howie’s Hard Drives as a vendor. Acme’s
requirement is that 95% of the hard drives last
24000 hours ± 2000 hours. The following data is
from an independent source who evaluated
Howie’s. Should Acme buy from Howie’s? Explain
your answer. (Follows on next page)

10. Math 533 Final Exam Prep
• Mean = 24500
• Sample Standard Deviation 2250
• Min 21402
• Max 29463
• Margin of Error 4500
• Answer Follows

11. Math 533 Final Exam Prep
• No, Acme shouldn’t buy from Howie’s looking
at their requirements (24000 – 2000, 24000 +
2000) which is (22000, 26,000). Based on the
results given, Howie’s would yield a tolerance
of (24500 – 2*2250, 24500+2*2250) which is
(20000, 29000). This does not meet Acme’s
requirement. You could also see this by
looking at the margin of error.

12. Math 533 Final Exam Prep
• Example on Pivot/Contingency Tables
• The table below gives the number of cars of
various colors and the state tag on the car for
a parking lot in a mall close to DC.
VA MD DC Other State Total
Blue 4 8 9 3 24
Black 9 7 11 8 35
White 12 14 21 15 62
Other 37 10 29 35 111
Total 62 39 70 61 232

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• Based on the table, find the probability that a
car is from VA or MD.
• Based on the table, given that a car is from
DC, find the probability it is black.

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VA MD DC Other State Total find the probability that a car is
Blue 4 8 9 3 24 from VA or MD. Add 62 + 39 to get
Black 9 7 11 8 35 So the answer would be 91/232 or it’s
White 12 14 21 15 62 decimal form.
Other 37 10 29 35 111
Total 62 39 70 61 232
62 + 39 = 91

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VA MD DC Other State Total
Given that a car is from DC, find
Blue 4 8 9 3 24
the probability it is black.
Black 9 7 11 8 35
Given that it is from DC means we are only
White 12 14 21 15 62
dealing with the 70 cars from DC.
Other 37 10 29 35 111 There are 11 of those that are black, so the
Total 62 39 70 61 232 probability is 11/70

16. Math 533 Final Exam Prep
• Normal Distribution Example
– The number of students who use the dining hall at
an urban college on a given day is normally
distributed with a mean of 1578 students and a
standard deviation of 274 students.
– Use Minitab for these and shouldn’t have any
issues.

17. Math 533 Final Exam Prep
• Another Confidence Interval Example
– I randomly sampled 18 engineers where I work and asked
them how many projects they have worked on in the last
five years. The sample mean was 21, with a standard
deviation of 5. What is the mean number of projects of all
engineers at my research center? Why? What is the 95%
confidence interval for the population mean? You are
given the information below from Minitab.
One-Sample T
N Mean StDev SE Mean 95% CI
18 21.00 5.00 1.18 (18.51, 23.49)

18. Math 533 Final Exam Prep
• Another Confidence Interval Example
– I randomly sampled 18 engineers where I work and asked them
how many projects they have worked on in the last five years.
The sample mean was 21, with a standard deviation of 5. What
is the mean number of projects of all engineers at my research
center? Why? What is the 95% confidence interval for the
population mean? You are given the information below from
Minitab.
Answer:
21 projects would be the best estimate for the mean. I
would expect 95% of the population mean to fall between
18.51 and 23.49 projects. The t is used because of the
sample size.

19. Math 533 Final Exam Prep
• Regression Example
– I did an analysis to determine if the number of
hours studied for a final exam related to the Final
Exam grade for students. On the sheets that
follow you will see what my Minitab results were.

20. General Regression Analysis: Final Grade versus Hours of Analysis of Variance
Study
Source DF Seq SS Adj SS Adj MS F P
Regression Equation Regression 1 8090.71 8090.71 8090.71 171.274
0.000000
Final Grade = 34.2845 + 1.45508 Hours of Study Hours of Study 1 8090.71 8090.71 8090.71 171.274
0.000000
Error 22 1039.25 1039.25 47.24
Coefficients Lack-of-Fit 18 936.58 936.58 52.03 2.027 0.259215
Pure Error 4 102.67 102.67 25.67
Term Coef SE Coef T P Total 23 9129.96
Constant 34.2845 3.38091 10.1406 0.000
Hours of Study 1.4551 0.11118 13.0872 0.000
Fits and Diagnostics for Unusual Observations
Summary of Model Final
Obs Grade Fit SE Fit Residual St Resid
S = 6.87303 R-Sq = 88.62% R-Sq(adj) = 88.10% 24 19 37.1947 3.17993 -18.1947 -2.98609 R
PRESS = 1426.21 R-Sq(pred) = 84.38%
R denotes an observation with a large standardized residual.

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Predicted Values for New Observations
New Obs Fit SE Fit 95% CI 95% PI
1 48.8353 2.41382 (43.8294, 53.8413) (33.7280, 63.9426)
Values of Predictors for New Observations
Hours
of
New Obs Study
1 10

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I did an analysis to determine if the number of hours studied for a final exam related to the
Final Exam grade for students. On the sheets that follow you will see what my Minitab
results were.
Answer the following questions.
Determine the regression equation.
What conclusions are possible using the meaning of bo (intercept) and b1 (regression coefficient) in this problem?
What does the coefficient of determination (r-squared) mean?
Calculate the coefficient of correlation and explain what it means.
Does this data provide significant evidence (a=0.05) that the final exam grade is associated with the hours
studied? Find the p-value and interpret.
Determine the predicted grade for someone who spends 10 hours studying for the final exam.
What is the 95% confidence interval for the score for spending 10 hours studying on the test? What conclusion is
possible using this interval?

23. Math 533 Final Exam Prep
I did an analysis to determine if the number of hours studied for a
final exam related to the Final Exam grade for students. On the
sheets that follow you will see what my Minitab results were.
Answer the following questions.
Determine the regression equation. y= 34.2845 + 1.45508x
What conclusions are possible using the meaning of b o (intercept) and b1
(regression coefficient) in this problem? For each hour of study the final grade
is increased by about 1.5 points (1.45508). bo represents the y intercept or
34.2845 in our case. It is the score that a student could expect to get without
studying.
What does the coefficient of determination (r-squared) mean? The .886 means
that 88.6 percent of the variability of the final grade can be explained by the
number of study hours. The other 11.4% would be due to something else or
be unexplained.

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Calculate the coefficient of correlation and explain what it means. Square Root of
(0.886) is 0.942 which is r, the correlation coefficient. With a value this close to
one, we could say there is strong positive correlation.
Does this data provide significant evidence (a=0.05) that the final exam grade is
associated with the hours studied? Find the p-value and interpret. Yes, the p value
was 0. If it were above 0.05, I would have said “no.”
Determine the predicted grade for someone who spends 10 hours studying for
the final exam. 48.8353
What is the 95% confidence interval for the score for spending 10 hours studying
on the test? What conclusion is possible using this interval? (43.8294, 53.8413)
We would be 95% confident that if someone studied for 10 hours they would
score on average between those two values.