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Topic: Probability Theory Review Questions & Exercises No. 7, Pg. 88: Daniel 9th Edition

This document contains three probability questions from a textbook: 1) The first question provides data on 1000 nursing school applicants classified by exam score and high school quality. It calculates various probabilities related to the data, such as the probability of a low exam score or graduating from a superior high school. 2) The second question concerns a nursing aptitude test with a normal distribution. It calculates probabilities like the proportion scoring below 200 or the probability of scoring 650 or higher. 3) The third question uses data from a study to calculate the probability that the mean BMI of 45 randomly selected older women will be greater than 25.

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Topic: Probability Theory Review Questions & Exercises No. 7, Pg. 88: Daniel 9th Edition

This document contains three probability questions from a textbook: 1) The first question provides data on 1000 nursing school applicants classified by exam score and high school quality. It calculates various probabilities related to the data, such as the probability of a low exam score or graduating from a superior high school. 2) The second question concerns a nursing aptitude test with a normal distribution. It calculates probabilities like the proportion scoring below 200 or the probability of scoring 650 or higher. 3) The third question uses data from a study to calculate the probability that the mean BMI of 45 randomly selected older women will be greater than 25.

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Topic: Probability Theory

Review Questions & Exercises No. 7, pg. 88: Daniel 9th edition.

7. The following table shows 1000 nursing school applicants classified according to scores
made on a college entrance examination and the quality of the high school from which they
graduated, as rated by a group of educators:

Quality of High Schools


Score Poor Average Superior
(P) (A) (S) Total
Low (L) 105 60 55 220
Medium (M) 70 175 145 390
High (H) 25 65 300 390
Total 200 300 500 1000

(a) Calculate the probability that an applicant picked at random from this group:

1. Made a low score on the examination.


P(L) = 220/1000
= 0.22

2. Graduated from a superior high school.


P(S) = 500/1000
= 0.5
3. Made a low score on the examination and graduated from a superior high
school.
P(L∩S) = P(S)P(L│S)
= (220/1000) x (55/220)
= 0.055
4. Made a low score on the examination given that he or she graduated from a
superior high school.
P(L│S) = P(L∩S) / P(S)
= (55/1000) / (500/1000)
= 0.11

5. Made a high score or graduated from a superior high school.


P (H U S) = P(H) + P(S) – P(H∩S)
= (390/1000) + (500/1000) – (300/1000)
= 0.59

(b) Calculate the following:

1. P(A) = 300/1000
= 0.3000

2. P(H) = 390/1000
= 0.3900

3. P(M) = 390/1000
= 0.3900

4. P(A‌/ H) = P(A ∩ ‌H) / P(H)


= (65/1000) / (390/1000)
= 0.1667

5. P(M ∩ P) = 70/1000
= 0.0700

6. P(H / S) = P(H ∩ S) / P(S)


= (300/1000) / (500/1000)
= 0.6000

Topic: Probability Distribution


Review Questions & Exercises No. 23, pg. 132: Daniel 9th edition.
23. Scores made on a certain aptitude test by nursing students are approximately normally
distributed with mean of 500 and a variance of 10,000.

μ = 500

σ2 = 10 000, σ = 100

Z=X–μ

(a) What proportion of those taking the test score below 200?

P (X < 200)

P (X < 200) = P (z < (200 – 500)/100)

= P (z < -3.00)

= 0.0013

(b) A person is about to take the test. What is the probability that he or she will make more a
score of 650 or more?

P (X ≥ 650)

P (X ≥ 650) = P (z ≥ (650 – 500)/100)

= P (z ≥ 1.50)

= 1 – P (z ≤ 1.50)

= 1 – 0.9332

= 0.0668

(c) What proportion of scores fall between 350 and 675?


P (350 < X < 675)

P (350 < X < 675) = P ( (350 – 500)/100 < z < (675 – 500)/100)

= P (-1.5 < z < 1.75)

= P (z < 1.75) – P (z < -1.50)

= 0.9599 – 0.0668

= 0.8931

Topic: Sampling Distribution


Review Questions & Exercises No. 11, pg. 159: Daniel 9th edition.
15. Janssen et al. (A – 10) studied Americans ages 60 and over. They estimated the mean
body mass index of women over age 60 with normal skeletal muscle to be 23.1 with a
standard deviation of 3.7. Using these values as the population mean and standard deviation
for women over age 60 with normal skeletal muscle index, find the probability that 45
randomly selected women in this age range with normal skeletal muscle index will have a
mean BMI greater than 25.

μ=23 . 1
σ =3. 7
n=45

25−23 . 1
P ( x̄ >25 ) =P z >
( 3 .7
√ 45 )
=P ( z >3 . 44 )
=1−P ( z ≤3. 44 )
=1−0 . 9997
=0 .0003

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