Quantitative Foundation for Engineering Managers

PRE – COURSE QUIZ

 

Formula Sheet With the Z- table

 

1. You are dealt a king from a standard deck of cards. What is the probability that the next card you are dealt will be a jack? (Both cards come from the same 52 card deck with 4 each of aces, kings, queens, jacks and the numbers 2-10.)

a. 4/52
b. 3/52
c. 4/51
d. 3/51


2. A bag of marbles contains 24 marbles: 5 red marbles, 6 white marbles, 8 yellow marbles and 5 green marbles. What is the probability of drawing a green marble and then a yellow one (without putting the green one back)?

a. 5/24 + 6/24
b. 5/24 + 6/23
c. 5/24 x 6/24
d. 5/24 x 6/23


3. A warehouse ships a package for an order. The probability that the order was correctly packaged is 85%. The probability that the package will be delivered on or before the specified delivery date is 67%. What is the probability that the patient receives a correct package within the specified delivery time?

a. 57%
b. 52%
c. 67%
d. 76%


4. The time to assemble a product follows a normal distribution with an average of 28 minutes and standard deviation of 2.0 minutes. The proportion of time that the assembly takes longer than 30 minutes to assemble is

a. 0.8413
b. 0.1587
c. 0.2048
d. 0.3271


5. Which of the following is not true of the binomial distribution?

a. The outcome of each trial can only be success or failure
b. The probability of a success is constant.
c. The probability of drawing a club from a standard deck of cards can be determined with the binomial distribution
d. Probabilities associated with successive flips of a coin can be analyzed with the binomial distribution.


6. Customer arrival rates follow a Poisson distribution. Customers arrive at a store at an average of 8 per hour. What is the probability that exactly 10 customers will arrive in an hour?

a. 0.099
b. 0.200
c. 0.156
d. 0.123


7. At a popular restaurant, during the dinner hours, the average time to wait for a table is 25 minutes. Assuming an exponential distribution what is the probability of being seated in less than 15 minutes after you arrive?

a. 50.0%
b. 45.1%
c. 28.2%
d. 57.3%


8. A sample of size 16 is taken from a process and the mean and standard deviation of the sample observations are calculated a 10.50 and 1.23 respectively. To determine the 95% confidence interval for the mean, which distribution should be used?

a. Normal distribution
b. t distribution
c. F distribution
d. Chi-squared distribution


9. Two machines are being considered for processing a critical component. Samples were taken from both machines:
                        Sample size            Sample mean            Sample standard deviation
Machine A             21                             0.99                                       0.34
Machine B             25                             1.03                                       0.45


A hypothesis test will be used to test the hypothesis that the variance of Machine B is greater than the mean of A with 95% confidence.

The type of test which would be used to test the hypothesis is

a. 2 sample t test
b. 2 sample Z test
c. F test
d. Chi squared test for proportions


10. A simple linear regression was performed on a set of data and resulted in the equation y=-2x+30. The associated correlation coefficient, was determined to be r= -0.87. Which of the following is true of this analysis?

a. A calculation error has occurred as the correlation coefficient cannot be negative.
b. The r value is negative because as the x variable increases, the y variable also increases.
c. The relationship between variables x and y would be considered rather strong.
d. None of the above.

 

 

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