Project 3 (Chapters 5 – 7)
Sections Covered: 5.2 – 5.4, 6.2 – 6.5, 7.2 – 7.4
Directions:
Number each question (questions 1a) and 1b) are considered different questions)
Type out what TI-83/84 calculator function you used and what numbers were typed in
to arrive at your answer
No credit will be given for only submitting the answers.
Please do not submit the original questions. No hand written work please.
Please BOLD only the final answer, not the entire solution
Please skip 2 lines between each question. For example question 1a) and 1b) are
considered different questions.
Name your completed project 3 file:
First Name Last Name Project 3
For example: Richard Herbst Project 3
Name the project 3 grade sheet file:
First Name Last Name Project 3 Grade Sheet
For example: Richard Herbst Project 3 Grade Sheet
Please type your full name into cell A1 of your grade sheet
Attach both of these files when you submit to blackboard.
1. A Department of Transportation report about air travel found that nationwide, 76% of
all flights are on time. Base the following questions on 125 randomly selected flights.
You may assume the only outcomes are that a flight is either late or is on time.
(For all probabilities round to tenth of a percent )
a) How many flights would you expect to be late ?
b) Calculate the standard deviation ? (round to hundredths)
c) What is the probability you will have exactly 80 flights on time ?
d) What is the probability you will have 20 or less flights that are late ?
e) What is the probability you will have more than 100 on time ?
2. Assume the cholesterol levels of adult American women are normally distributed with
a mean of 190 mg/dL and a standard deviation of 26 mg/dL.
a) What percent of adult women do you expect to have cholesterol levels of at least
200 mg/dL ? (Round to tenths)
b) What percent of adult women do you expect to have cholesterol levels between
150 and 170 mg/dL ? (Round to tenths)
c) Above what value are the top 15% of women’s cholesterol levels ?
(Round to tenths)
d) What cholesterol level would represent the 10th
percentile ? (Round to tenths)
3. The manufacturing of a ball bearing is normally distributed with a mean diameter of
22 millimeters and a standard deviation of .016 millimeters. To be acceptable the
diameter needs to be between 21.97 and 22.03 millimeters.
a. What is the probability that a randomly selected ball bearing will be acceptable ?
(Round to tenth of a percent)
b. What does the acceptable range of the diameter need to be if you wanted to accept
98% of the ball bearings ?
(Round to thousandths)
4. A tire manufacturer believes the tread life of its snow tires can be described by a
normal distribution with a mean of 32,000 miles and a standard deviation of 7000
miles. Find the probability (rounding to tenth of percent) that a randomly selected
tire will have a tread life:
a. of at least 40,000 miles
b. of 30,000 or less miles
c. that last between 30,000 and 35,000 miles
d. In planning a marketing strategy, a local tire dealer wants to offer a refund to
any customer whose tires fail to last a certain number of miles. However, the
dealer doesn’t want to take too big a financial risk with this guarantee. If the
dealer is willing to give refunds to no more than 1 out of every 50 tires sold, for
what mileage can he guarantee each tire to last ?
(Round to the nearest whole number)
e. Find the probability that 50 randomly chosen tires will have a mean tread wear
of greater than 35,000 miles ? (Round to tenth of a percent)
5. A final exam in Sociology has a mean of 72 and a standard deviation of 9.2. If 35
students are randomly selected, find the probability that that the mean of their test
scores will be greater than 76. (Round to tenth of a percent)
6. A purchasing agent at the Kelly Bread Company wants to estimate the mean daily
usage of rye flour. She takes a sample for 50 straight days and finds that the sample
mean is 180 pounds with a sample standard deviation of 38.5 pounds.
a) State the 90% confidence interval for the mean.
(Round to hundredths)
b) State the margin of error (Round to tenths)
7. A high school counselor is interested in the percentage of students who will be going
to college. She randomly picks 60 students and finds that 53 will be going to college.
Use a 95% confidence level to find the population proportion.
a) State the 95% confidence interval for population proportion.
(Round to tenth of a percent)
b) State the margin of error (Round to tenth of a percent)
8. In a preliminary study, the sample standard deviation for the duration of a particular
back pain suffered by patients was 18.0 months. How large a random sample is
needed to construct a 90% confidence interval so that an estimate can be made within
2 months of the actual duration ?
9. In preparing a report on the economy, we need to estimate the percentage of
businesses that plan to hire additional employees in the next 60 days. How many
randomly selected employers must we contact in order to create an estimate in which
we are 98% confident, with an error of 5% ?