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Suppose that a random sample of 350 current customers results in 195 customers with a response of 9 or 10 representing customer delight, find a 95 % confidence interval for the true proportion of al
In answering the following questions assume you are randomly sampling without replacement. What is the probability your first three bottles selected are Pepsi's?
Based in your answers to part b, and c how convinced are you that the new 30 gallons trash bag is the strongest such bag on the market?
In July 29 2002, the gallup organization issue of the Journal News (H Ohio) Lynn Elber of the Associated Press reported on a study conducted y the Kaiser Family Foundation regarding parents use of t
find a 95 % confidence interval for the true proportion of all current B of A customers who would respond with a 9 or 10. Are we 95 % confident that this proportion exceeds .48 the historical propor
The constraint for a given resource is given by the following equation: 2X1 + 3X2 ≤ 20. If X1 = 5 and X2 = 3, how many units of this resource are unused?
An electrical firm manufactures electric light bulbs that have a length of life which is normally distributed with mean and standard deviation equal to 500 and 50 hours, respectively. Find the proba
Flights arriving at the airport spend anywhere from 50 to 130 minutes in security before unloading passengers. If the unloading times follow the uniform probability distribution, find the average un
Does this sample indicate that the insurance company should change its premiums because life expectancy has increased? Test an appropriate hypothesis and state your conclusion.
The chance of selling any one property is independent of selling another property. Compute the probability of selling at least 4 properties in one week.
The daily catch of a small turn-fishing fleet from ocean foods company has averaged 130 tons over the last few years, with a standard deviation of 42 tons. The probability that during a sample of fo
Treat the students in this class as random samples of 10-year-old boys and girls. Use random variables to calculate the probability that the mean height.
Suppose a shipment of 410 components contains 70 defective and 340 non-defective computer components. What are the mean and variance of this discrete random variable?
A study has shown that the probability distribution of x, the number of customers in line (including the one being served, if any) at a checkout counter in a department store.
An existing drug (Drug A) is well studied against Disease X. Drug A has a mean cure rate against Disease X of 40%. A new drug (Drug B) is in trials. The drug manufacturer hopes to show statistically
This equation was estimated using mortgage and interest rate data taken from the 5 years. In that time researchers observed interest rates between 4.25 and 9.75 percent. A marketing person wanted to
The researcher found that Abraham Lincoln's educational score did not correlate highly with the expected variable. What is wrong?
What is the mean time between calls to the dispatcher? What is the probability that less than 3 minutes will elapse between a pair of successive calls?
Determine the values on the 3-sided die so that the outcome probabilities for rolling the two dice described above match exactly the outcome probablities for rolling two standard (6-sided) dice.
We are interested in estimating the mean life of a new product. How large a sample do we need to take in order to estimate the mean to within 1/10 of a standard deviation with 90% confidence?
Assume the population consists of 400 services. Determine the standard error of the mean
The mean at 12.8 ounces but adjust the standard deviation so that only 2% of the bags weigh less than 12 ounces, how small must that standard deviation be?
A manufacturer claims that his television will have an average lifetime of at least five years. The standard deviation is seven months. 81 televisions are selected at random, and their average lifet
To determine whether or not they have a certain disease, 150 people are to have their blood tested. However, rather than testing each individual separately.