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What are the input and output transactions (excluding reports) that the system must process.
Consider a standard deck of 52 cards which is shuffled so the cards are randomly ordered in the deck. Five cards are drawn from the top of the deck and the type of card occurring in each draw record
The director of an advertising agency is concerned with the effectiveness of a television commercial.
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In terms of the mean and standard deviation: What does it mean to say that a particular value of x has a standard score of +2.9?
What is the probability of tossing a coin 5 times and getting all heads?
An Electrical Distribution System consists of 3 subsystems in parallel with the following individual subsystem reliabilities: A = .94 B = .90 C = .86. Determine the overall system reliability of the
A researcher is testing a possible carcinogen on mice. He chooses 8 mice at random from a batch of 13 mice. Unknown to him, 6 of the mice already have cancers.
In the game of blackjack, determine the odds of dealing yourself a blackjack (Ace + face-card or ten) from a standard, single deck of cards. Assume no one else is playing. Show how you arrived at yo
In a group of 135 high school students, 57 went to college. More precisely, 30 of those who went to college were women, out of 50 women high school students. What fraction of men students went to c
A government agency has specialists who analyze the frequencies of letters of the alphabet in an attempt to decipher intercepted messages. In Standard English text, a particular letter is used at
The average cost of a one bedroom apartment in a town is $550 per month. What is the probability of randomly selecting a sample of 50 one bedroom apartments in this town and getting a sample mean of
Assume that a procedure yields a binomial distribution with n trials and the probability of success for one trial is p. Use the given values of n to find the mean and standard deviation.
A potato chip manufacturer samples 13 bags of potato chips off the assembly line and weighs their contents. If the sample mean is 14.2 oz. and the sample standard deviation is 0.60 oz., find the 95%
In a region, 70% of the population have brown eyes. If 10 people are randomly selected, find the probability that at least 8 of them have brown eyes. Is it unusual to randomly select 10 people an
The standard deviation of the population is 0.7 ounces. Which of the following is the 99% confidence interval for the mean weight per brown gerbils?
In a community with a population of 10,000 people, the prevalence of a certain disease is 5%. A screening test for this disease with a sensitivity of 95% and specificity of 80% is implemented on the
Assume that a procedure yields a binomial distribution with a trial repeated n times. Use a binomial probabilities table to find the probability of x success given the probability p of success on a
In a state's Pick 3 lottery game, you pay $1.28 to select the sequence of three digits, such as 222. If you select the same sequence of three digits that are drawn, you win and collect $420.17. C
According to a survey of the top employers in a major city in the Midwest, a worker spends a average 413 minutes a day on the job
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Heights of women have a bell-shaped distribution with a mean of 163cm and a standard deviation of 5cm. Using Chebyshev's theorem, what do we know about the percentage of women with heights that ar
In a randomized trial, who should be blinded to which treatment group the patient is assigned?
Heights of men on a baseball team have a bell-shaped distribution with a mean of 177cm and a standard deviation of 5cm. Using the empirical rule, what is the approximate percentage of the men betwe