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A survey from Teenage Research Unlimited found that 30% of teenage consumers receive their spending money from part-time jobs. If five teenagers are selected at random, find the probability that at
1) You are sending out 60 invitations to a party.each person can bring a guest if they wish. Suppose it's equal probable that the invitee does not show up,shows up alone, or with a guest. (A) What
Slot machines have three drums with the same number of positions on each drum. Each position contains a symbol. When you pull the lever on the machine, the drums spin.
What is the expected number of guests that might turn up at your party, and its standard deviation? What ishe probability the number of guests is between 70 and 80?
College students average 8.6 hours of sleep per night with a standard deviation of 35 minutes. If the amount of sleep is normally distributed, what proportion of college students sleep for more than
Suppose that the lengths of the slots are normally distributed with a mean of 1002.5 mm and a standard deviation of .4 mm. What proportion of the time wil lfour randomly selected components be able
Suppose that you are trying to estimate average IQ and its standard deviation. You know that IQs are distributed normally, and so you choose 6 random people and test their IQs. You obtain the values
How is the t-test for correlated groups and the t-test for single samples similar and dissimilar?
Let X1 and X2 be observations of a random sample size of n=2 from a distribution with p.m.f. F(x)= x/6, x=1,2,3. Then find the p.m.f. of Y= X1+ X2. Determine the mean and the variance of the sum in
In the past the standard deviation of weights of certain 32.0-oz packages filled by a machine was 0.25 oz. A random sample of 20 packages showed a standard deviation of 0.35 oz. Is the apparent incr
Suppose we obtained data on vein size after application of a nitroglycerin ointment in a sample of 50 patients. The mean vein size is found to be 7.8mm with an SD of 2.1.
A division within a transportation company is responsible for performing maintenance on the fleet of trucks used by the company. Trucks in need of repair arrive to the maintenance division according
Assuming this to be a simple random sample of U.S. adults, construct and interpret the 95% and 99% confidence intervals for the proportion of U.S. adults who consider lounging at the beach to be the
The average age of Amtrak passenger train cars is 19.4 years. If the distribution of ages is normal and 24% of the cars are olderthan 21.1 years, find the standard deviation.
A homogenous transition probability matrix is given below. Find the steady state probabilities of state.
For the following, decide whether the Binomial or Hypergeometric distribution is the most appropriate model. Give a brief description of your reasoning.
A toll bridge charges $1.00 for passenger cars and $2.50 for other vehicles. Suppose that during daytime hours, 60% of all vehicles are passenger cars. If 1000 vehicles cross the bridge that afterno
A company has 1,250 employees, and you want to take a simple random sample of n = 60 employees. Explain how you would go about selecting this sample by using the table of random numbers. Are there n
The average flight from point A to point B takes 100 minutes with a standard deviation of 10 minutes.
Members of the Senate took a battery of tests to assess their abilities. In the Talking As If You Are Saying Something Test, the average score was 40 with a standard deviation of 5.
Let X have an exponential distribution with mean sigma.
The quality-control inspector of a production plant will reject a batch of syringes if two or more defective syringes are found in a random sample of eight syringes taken from the batch. Suppose th
According to data from the Environmental Protection Agency, the average daily water consumption for a household of four people in the United States is approximately at least 243 gallons. Suppose a s
A factory produces fuses, which are packaged in boxes of 25. Eight fuses are selected at random from each box for inspection. The box is rejected if at least one of these eight fuses is defective. W
For a normal distribution, find the z-score that cuts off the bottom 63.66% of all the z-scores. Round to 2 decimal places after the decimal point.