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During the fishing opener the weight of a walleye caught was random. The weight of a walleye is uniformly distributed from 1 to 15 pounds.
Consider a uniform density curve defined from x = 0 to x = 8. What percent of observations fall between 1 and 5?
Preliminary studies indicate that about 40% of those surveyed believe what is shown in commercials. What is the minimum number of consumers that should be sampled by the advertiser to be 99% confide
When solving for the sample size required to estimate p to within a particular margin of error, under what circumstances do we use p? = .5?
There are 136 people in the second group and this group wil be administered a placebo. After one year, 19% of the first group has a second episode and 13% of the second group has a second episode. S
Suppose that prior to conducting a coin-flipping experiment, we suspect that the coin is fair. How many times would we have to flip the coin in order to obtain a 90% confidence interval of width of
Find the 95% confidence interval for the proportion of yellow M&Ms in that bag.
Find the margin of error associated with a 99% confidence interval that estimates the proportion of them that are involved in an after school activity.
Lloyd's Cereal company packages cereal in 1 pound boxes (16 ounces). A sample of 36 boxes is selected at random from the production line every hour, and if the average weight is less than 15 ounces,
In a large population, 95% of the households have cable tv. A simple random sample of 64 households is to be contacted and the sample proportion computed. What is the mean and standard deviation of
Suppose that a random sample of size 25 is to be selected from a population with mean 41 and standard deviation 9. What is the approximate probability that X will be within 0.5 of the population me
The World Health Organization's (W.H.O.) recommended daily minimum of calories is 2600 per individual. The average number of calories ingested per capita per day for the US is approximately 2460 wit
Current research indicates that the distribution of the life expectancies of a certain protozoan is normal with a mean of 46 days and a standard deviation of 10.5 days. Find the probability that a s
A random sample of 625 12-ounce cans of fruit nectar is drawn from among all cans produced in a run. Prior experience has shown that the distribution of the contents has a mean of 12 ounces and a st
Suppose a random sample of 90 measurements is selected from a population with a mean of 35 and a variance of 300. Select the pair that is the mean and standard error of x.
A quarter back completes 34% of his passes. We want to observe this quarterback during one game to see how many pass attempts he makes before completing one pass. Determine the probability that it t
Why the Harvard Nurses' Health Study is an observational study. Discuss whether it would be probable to gather similar data by carrying out experiments in a practical and ethical way.
The percentage of all people with an SAT score above the score you calculated in (a) is, of course, 5%, but what percentage of men have an SAT score above that score? (Remember that men make up abou
A client gives you a data set of 30 observed values that represent the number of gallons of gas that 30 individual Nissan Sentra owners purchased at the gas pump last month. Your client wants to kn
Suppose that when a 7.0 earthquake hits, it will destroy each highway independently with probability p = 0:3. A town becomes isolated if it loses connections to all the other towns. Let X denote the
Effects of cocaine on children-researchers conducted a study to assess the effects that occur when children are exposed to cocaine before birth. On a measure of spatial/mathematical skill at age 4,
Stephanie Robbins is the Three Hills Power Company management analyst assigned to simulate maintenance costs. In Section 14.6 we describe the simulation of 15 generator breakdown
If you read a report that Hospital A has a higher mortality (death) rate than Hospital. B when treating heart attack patients, it's possible that the severity of the patient's condition is a confoundi
You manage a call center and are concerned that the calls coming into the center are not evenly distributed. You monitor 500 incoming support calls and obtain the following information:
Your task is to interview a representative sample of attendees to a large concert. The schedule includes 200 live concerts featuring all types of entertainers. Since neither the number of attendees