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Sign in to the MediaLab. website (using your username and password that you received from the Program Director) and complete a 50-question test with Microbiology.   Go to ‘selected areas’ and check the Microbiology box and all boxes under this section (to EXCLUDE the Analtyic procedures for Mycology, Mycobacteriology, Parasitology, and Virology).   This exam is proctored. You must score at least 75%. You may (and should) retake the exam as many times as you can without repeating a previous exam to get that score. The instructor will pull grades from Medialab to Canvas. There is nothing to submit.

The average height for an NCAA Division 1 men’s basketball player is 77 inches. Assume this data is normally distributed with a standard deviation of 8 inches. Use this information to answer the following question.    What is the probability that a randomly selected NCAA D1 men’s basketball player is more than 73.5 inches tall? Make sure to round your answer to 2 decimal places (For example, if your answer was 0.654321 then you would type 0.65)

Eliza had a long commute to work each day and she was always worried about running late. When it came to distance, both drives were the same number of miles from her home, but one of them had a few more stoplights on her way. She wanted to find the most consistent route so she could know exactly how long it would take her to go to work each day. She decided to travel each route 32 times and recorded how long it took each time to make an informed decision. On her 32 trips using route A, she took an average of 40 minutes with a standard deviation of 5.5 minutes. On her 32 trips using route B, she took an average of 40 minutes with a standard deviation of 6.6 minutes. Assume the commute times using both routes are normally distributed.    Use this information to carry out the appropriate hypothesis test at the

A study was conducted that found 46.9% of all smartphone users in the US had an iPhone. Suppose you were to randomly sample 40 US smartphone users.   What is the probability that at least 18 of them had an iPhone? Use a binomial distribution to answer this question. Make sure to round your answer to 2 decimal places (For example, if your answer was 0.654321 then you would type 0.65)

The average height for an NCAA Division 1 men’s basketball player is 77 inches. Assume this data is normally distributed with a standard deviation of 8 inches. Use this information to answer the following question.    What is the probability that a randomly selected NCAA D1 men’s basketball player is at most 72 inches tall? Make sure to round your answer to 2 decimal places (For example, if your answer was 0.654321 then you would type 0.65)

The average height for an NCAA Division 1 men’s basketball player is 77 inches. Assume this data is normally distributed with a standard deviation of 8 inches. Use this information to answer the following question.    What is the probability that a randomly selected NCAA D1 men’s basketball player is shorter than 73 inches tall? Make sure to round your answer to 2 decimal places (For example, if your answer was 0.654321 then you would type 0.65)

Consider a town where the average age of all individuals is 34.2 years old with a standard deviation of 18.5 years. Suppose you were to randomly select 50 individuals from this town as part of a study.    What is the probability that the average age of the 50 individuals in your study would be less than 35 years old or greater than 28 years old? Make sure to round your answer to 2 decimal places. For example, if your answer was 0.654321 then you would type 0.65

A study was conducted that found 46.9% of all smartphone users in the US had an iPhone. Suppose you were to randomly sample 40 US smartphone users.   What is the probability that at most 14 of them had an iPhone? Use a binomial distribution to answer this question. Make sure to round your answer to 2 decimal places (For example, if your answer was 0.654321 then you would type 0.65)

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2019 U.S. households spent an average of $386.92 per month on food. Assume this data is normally distributed with a standard deviation of $112. Use this information to answer the following question.    What Z-score would correspond to a household that spent an average of $320 on food per month in 2019?  Make sure to round your answer to 2 decimal places. For example, if your answer was 87.654321 then you would type in 87.65. 

A study was conducted in 2018 to look at average annual salaries for individuals who lived in Wisconsin. It found that on average individuals in Wisconsin earned $56,302 per year. Assume the true standard deviation for annual salary was $8,000. Suppose you took a random sample of 50 individuals from Wisconsin in 2018 and recorded their salaries. Use this information to answer the following question.   What is the probability that the average salary for those 50 individuals in your sample would fall between $57,000 and $62,000 per year?  Make sure to round your answer to 2 decimal places. For example, if your answer was 0.654321 then you would type 0.65