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At the .05 significance level, can we conclude that college students watch fewer DVDs a month than high school students? Compute the value of the test statistic:
Consider a function F( x) = 3 x^ 2 + cx + 1 , ? 1 < x < 2 and 0 otherwise. Is there a value of c that will make the function a valid pdf?
Discuss the requirements of a linear programming (LP) model. Provide an example of an LP model and define each variable used. What are the key steps that need to be considered when formulating an LP
What is the average tardiness (job lateness) for the sequence using the FCFS rule?
Name two ways to increase the statistical power of an experiment. Explain how each increases the probability of detecting a real effect of the independent variable.
Assume that, as a newspaper reporter, you must graph data showing that increased smoking causes an increased risk of lung cancer. Given that people might be helped and lives might be saved by creati
Suppose the equation of the regression line for the debt per capita for the years 1990-2001 is computed to be debt per capita = -2,231,226 + 1128 x(year) and R2 = 98.8%
A previous analysis of paper boxes showed that the standard deviation of their lengths is 15 millimeters. A packer wishes to find the 99% confidence interval for the average length of a box.
A health researcher read that a 200-pound male can burn an average of 524 calories per hour playing tennis. 37 males were randomly selected and the mean number of calories burned per hour playing sq
According the the U.S. Department of Education, full-time graduate students receive an average salary of $12,800. The dean of graduate studies at a large state university in PA claims that his gradu
A rental car company claims the mean time to rent a car on their website is 60 seconds with a standard deviation of 30 seconds. A random sample of 36 customers attempted to rent a car on the website
Identify the appropriate hypothesis for analyzing this data including the conditions for using this test. Complete the four steps of hypothesis testing necessary to determine whether this group diff
In a Gallop poll of 1012 randomly selected adults, 9% said that cloning of humans should be allowed. We are going to use a .05 significance level to test the claim that less than 10% of all adults s
We know that the average life of a light bulb is 10,000 hours. There are 12 lightbulbs in a classroom. In order for a class to be held in the room,9 or more lightbulbs must be working. Each light b
What is the probability of a randomly selected credit card holder has a credit card balance less than $2,500? Use the standard normal table for this, using the population mean and standard deviation
A survey found that people who took coldeeze at the onset of a cold suffered on average 42 hours. What proportion of the reprsentative sample (with a mean of 63 hours and standard deviation of 20 su
Construct a confidence interval of the population proportion at the given level of confidence. x=105, n=150, 95% confidence
Assume there is a rope with the length of 10 feet, Alexa will cut it anywhere along the rope's length with equal probability. Let X be the distance from the starting point to the cutting point.
At the .01 significance level, is there a difference in the mean number of times men and women send a Twitter message in a day? What is the value of the test statistic for this hypothesis test?Answe
How does the horsepower and weight affect the mileage of family Sedan ? Data from a sample of 20 2010 family sedans were collected and organized and stored in Auto 2010 :
An instructor for a stat class of 250 students decided that she was going to curve the exam grades if the average is lower than 80. After grading 50 exams, she observed that the average is 77. She k
In a very large population, the distribution of annual income is skewed, with a long right tail. We take a simple random sample of n people from this population and record the n incomes. We expect a
A company wished to model the number of minutes required to unload shipments of drums of chemicals at its warehouse as a function of the number of drums and the total shipment weight in hundreds of
Formulate a linear programming model to determine the optima areas in square yards for each of the three crops. Solve three iterations of the simplex method for this model.
A newspaper selected a simple random sample of 1,600 readers. They asked whether the paper should increase its coverage of local news and 40% said yes. What is the 95% confidence interval for the pr