MACHAKOS UNIVERSITY

University Examinations for 2020/2021

SCHOOL OF PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
SECOND YEAR FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING)
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (CIVIL ENGINEERING)
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (MECHANICAL ENGINEERING)
ECU 201: ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS VI
DATE: 16/8/2021 TIME: 8:30 – 10:30 AM

INSTRUCTIONS: Answer Question One and Any Other Two Questions

QUESTION ONE (COMPULSORY) (30 MARKS)

a) State any three methods of data collection giving example for each method.
(3 marks)
b) List the two methods of classifying data according to class-intervals. (2 marks)
c) The height of water pipes feeding and emptying tanks in a given town were considered in
a research. The data below shows what the researcher came up with at the end of the
research exercise. What are the frequencies of each class? (2 marks)

Height (in inches) 59.5-62.5 62.5-65.5 65.5-68.5 68.5-71.5 71.5-74.5

Cumulative Frequency 5 23 65 92 100

d) Let be N (2, 25) , compute P ( −8 < X < 1) . (3 marks)

e) Let be the lifetime in years of a mechanical part. Assume that has the cdf
0 x<0
FX ( x) =  −x
. What is the pdf of the distribution? (2 marks)
1 − e 0 ≤ x

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  1 ( x + 1) −1 < x < 1
f) Let have the pdf f ( x) =  2
 0 elsewhere

i. Obtain the expectation of . (2 marks)

ii. Obtain the variance of . (2 marks)
g) Three coins are tossed once. What is the sample space, S? (1 mark)
h) If every 11th item is systematically sampled to produce a sample size of 75 items,
approximately how large is the population? (1 mark)
i) Differentiate between random sampling and non-random sampling. (2 marks)
j) A die is thrown six times. What is the probability of obtaining at least one six? (In such
problems, with coins, cards and dice, it is always assumed that all elementary outcomes
are equally likely. (2 marks)
k) Determine the sample size needed to construct a 90% confidence Interval to estimate the
population mean when = 75 and the margin of error equals 12. (2 marks)
l) Suppose that has a Poisson distribution with µ = 2 .
i. What is the pmf of ? (2 marks)
ii. Variance of this distribution? (1 mark)
iii. Compute P (1 ≤ X ) (3 marks)

QUESTION TWO (20 MARKS)

a) Given below are the incomes produced by two machines A and B in millions of dollars for
the 10 years from 2000 to 2009.

Year 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Machine A 47 53 52 68 51 90 74 89 83 56
Machine B 32 47 57 43 53 63 76 64 66 56
i. Find the correlation coefficient for these variables. (6 marks)
ii. Calculate the coefficient of determination. (1 mark)
iii. Find the equation of the regression line. (3 marks)
iv. Predict the value of Machine B for a year in which the income of machine A is
$ 60 million. (1 mark)

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b) Complete the following probability distribution, and calculate its mean and standard
deviation. (6 marks)

x P(x)
0 0.28
1 0.31
2 0.19
3
4 0.07
5 0.03
6 0.01
c) Is the following a valid probability distribution? Explain? (2 marks)
x P(x)
0 0.2
1 0.3
2 1.5

d) How does sampling error occur? (1 mark)

QUESTION THREE (20 MARKS)

a) The following are scores of 50 pupils in a test

35 60 35 30 35 45 43 69 72 10
50 30 38 30 65 45 82 40 64 58
50 45 42 59 50 55 56 15 49 95
50 48 38 60 55 50 70 61 43 90
40 40 92 30 60 50 45 37 24 17
i. Starting with the class 10-20 make a frequency table for this data
(4 marks)
ii. Draw the histogram and frequency polygon for this data (8 marks)
b) Using the table below;

Class 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60

Frequency 15 13 27 29 10 3

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 i. Plot a ‘less than’ and ‘more than’ ogive curve (7 marks)
ii. Estimate the medium from the graph (1 mark)

QUESTION FOUR (20 MARKS)

a) Let be the number of heads (successes) in = 7 independent tosses of an unbiased

  7   1  x  1 7 − x
 1−
coin. The pmf of is p ( x) =   x  2   2  x = 0,1, 2,..., 7 .

0 elsewhere

Find:
i. The moment generating function of . (3 marks)
ii. The mean of . (2 marks)
iii. The variance of . (3 marks)
iv. P (0 ≤ X ≤ 1) (2 marks)
v. P ( X = 5) (1 mark)

 0 x<0

b) Let have the discontinuous cdf FX ( x) =  x 0 ≤ x < 1 . Find:
2

1 1≤ x

i. P( −1 < X ≤ 1 2) (2 marks)
ii. P ( X = 1) (1 mark)

cx 2 x = 1, 2,...,10
c) Suppose has the pmf p X ( x ) =  , obtain the value of c.
0 elsewhere

(2 marks)
d) A paint manufacturer wants to determine the average drying time of a new interior wall
paint. If for 30 tests areas of equal size, he obtained a mean drying time of 66.3 minutes
and a standard deviation of 8.4 minutes. Construct a 99% confidence interval for the true
mean. (4 marks)

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QUESTION FIVE (20 MARKS)

a) Explain any two random sampling techniques and any two non-random sampling
techniques. (8 marks)
b) An experiment was conducted to investigate the viability of equipment designed to
measure the foreign of an audio source. Three independent measurements were recorded
by this equipment, they were 4.1, 5.2 and 10.2. Estimate the variance with 99%
confidence interval. (6 marks)
c) Explain the properties of a good estimator. (6 marks)

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