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SEMESTER 3 STPM 2022

MATHEMATICS (T)
PAPER 3

One and a half hours (Satu setengah jam)

Nama Sekolah

Instruction to candidates:
Answer all questions in Part A and answer any one question in Part B.
Answers may be written in either English or Malay.
All necessary working should be shown clearly.
Non-exact numerical answers may be given correct to three significant figures, or one
decimal place in the case of angles in degrees, unless a different level of accuracy is
specified in the question.
Mathematical tables, a list of mathematical formulae and graph paper are provided.

Arahan kepada calon:

Jawab semua soalan pada bahagian A dan jawab mana-mana satu soalan pada
bahagian B.
Jawapan boleh ditulis dalam bahasa Inggeris atau bahasa Melayu.
Semua kerja yang perlu hendaklah ditunjukkan dengan jelas.
Jawapan berangka tak tepat boleh diberikan betul hingga tiga angka bererti, atau satu
tempat perpuluhan dalam kes sudut dalam darjah, kecuali aras kejituan yang lain
ditentukan dalam soalan.
Sifir matematik, senarai rumus matematik, dan kertas graf dibekalkan.

This question paper consists of 7 printed pages.

Kertas soalan ini terdiri daripada 7 halaman bercetak.

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Section A (45 marks)

Answer all questions in this section

1. The following cumulative frequency table shows the distribution for the mass of 75
parcels received at a post office in a day.

Mass (kg) Cumulative frequency

< 1.5 0
< 2.5 5
< 3.5 15
< 4.5 29
<5.5 49
< 6.5 67
< 7.5 75
Find the Pearson’s coefficient of skewness and interpret your answer. [8]

2.
A pencil case contains 3 orange pens and 5 green pens.
An orange box contains 4 red pen refills and 3 blue pen refills.
A green box contains 6 red refills and 4 blue refills.
One pen is taken at random from the pencil case. If the pen is orange, two refills are
taken from the orange box, at random and without replacement.
If the pen is green, two refills are taken from the green box, at random and without
replacement. Events G and H are defined as follows:
G: A green pen is taken from the pencil case.
H: One red refill and one blue refill are obtained.
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(a) Find P(G ∩ H), and hence show that P(G | H) = . [5]
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(b) All the pens and refills are now placed in a single container and four objects are
taken at random, each object being replaced before the next one is taken. Find the
probability that one object of each color is obtained. [2]

3. X is a random variable with a probability density function f defined as

{
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f ( x )= k x ,0 ≤ x< 2
0 , otherwise

(a) Determine the value of k. [2]

(a) (b) 175
Find the value of h if P ( X > h )= . [3]
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(c) Calculate P ¿ . [3]

4. The manufacturer of Insect Clear claims that it kills 95 % of all cockroaches that were
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sprayed. When a random sample of 300 cockroaches were sprayed, a total of 282
cockroaches were killed.
(a) Construct a 90 % confidence interval for the population proportion of
cockroaches killed when they were sprayed. State whether there is sufficient
evidence to conclude that the manufacturer’s claim is overstated.
[5]
(b) If indeed p is closed to 95 %, find the least sample size so that a 90 % confidence
interval for this proportion p will have a width less than 0.1. [2]

5. A perfume factory wishes to ensure that an average of 16 ml of perfume is used to fill

each bottle. In order to analyses the accuracy of the bottling process, he takes a random
sample of 50 bottles. The mean weight and the standard deviation of the sample are
15.8 ml and 0.8 ml respectively.

(a) State the null and the alternative hypotheses for the test. [1]
(b) Use the critical value approach to test the accuracy of the bottling process at a
significance level of 5%. [5]
(c) Based on the result obtained in (b), make a recommendation to the bottling
process.
[1]

6. It is suggested that the response time, X minutes, to an emergency request for the
attendance of an ambulance, at an incident within 3 miles of an ambulance station, can
be modelled by the following probability density function.

{
2
x
, 0≤ x <3
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f ( x )= 1
( 5−x ) , 3 ≤ x ≤5
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0, otherwise

To investigate this suggestion, the value of X was recorded for a sample of 324
requests, with the following results.

x 0-1 1-2 2-3 3-4 4-5 >5

Frequency 4 49 129 112 30 0

Use a chi-squared goodness of fit test and the 5% level of significance to investigate
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whether X can be modelled by the probability density function given above. [8]

Section B (15 marks)

Answer any one questions in this section

7. (a) In a certain game, there is only the possibility of winning or losing for every trial.
If the probability of winning is 0.4, by using a suitable approximation, find the
probability of winning between 40 and 50 times after 100 trials. [6]
(b) Studies conducted in the past show that the mean number of serious accidents in
a certain factory is one per year. The factory wishes to find the probability of the
number of serious accidents occurring on a yearly basis for the purpose of
revising the insurance premium of its employees. The factory is required to
increase the insurance premium if the probability of having less than two serious
accident-free years out of 5 years is more than 0.35.
(i) Define the relevant random variable and identify its distribution. [2]
(ii) Find the probability that there is no serious accident occurring in the next one
year. [2]
(iii) Find the probability that there are less than two accident-free years occurring
out of 5 years. [4]
(iv) Based on result in (b)(iii), state whether the factory is required to increase the
insurance premium or not. [1]

8. The manager of a private bank claims that each employee in the firm works for an
average of 8 hours per day. However, from the staff feedback, this figure is an
underestimation. The manager attempts to verify this information by surveying 88
randomly chosen employees. Let the time spent by an employee in the office in a day
be x hours, the sample data for the 88 workers are summarized by
∑ x = 735.68, ∑ x 2 = 6636.5
(a) Calculate unbiased estimates of the mean and variance of the time spent by each
employee in the office in a day.
[5]
(b) Test at the 5% significance level whether the manager’s claim of 8 hours is an
underestimation of the mean number of hours spent by each employee in the office
in a day.
[5]

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(c) The manager now decides to find the range of values of μ0 , the average number of
hours spent by each employee in a day in which, at the 5% significance level, the
null hypothesis is not rejected. Using the same sample data given above, calculate
the range of values of μ0 .
[5]

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