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What is the probability that the flight departs with empty seats? What are the mean and (d) standard deviation of the number of passengers who show up?
Traffic engineers install 9 street lights with new bulbs. The probability that a bulb will fail within 50040 hours of operation is 0.23. Assume that each of the bulbs fails independently.
The metal body for a spark plug is made by a combination of cold extrusion and machining. The occurrence of surface cracking following the extrusion process has been shown by Pareto diagrams to be
Messages arrive to a computer server according to a Poisson distribution with a mean rate of 10 per hour. Round your answers to four decimal places (e.g. 98.7654).
Discuss the issues a decision maker should consider when determining the significance level to use in a hypothesis test.
Discuss why the sampling distribution will be less variable than the population distribution. Give a short example to illustrate your answer.
Compute the probability that the sum of dots on three dice is 5.
A newspaper company received 14 entries in a contest. The probability of receiving a newspaper subscription order with an entry form is 0.50
A retailer sold 50 vacuum cleaners at $90 and 35 vacuum cleaners at $140. Find the weighted mean price of a vacuum cleaner sold by the retailer.
The risk of hepatoma among alcoholics without cirrhosis of the liver is 24%. Suppose we observe seven alcoholics without cirrhosis. What is the probability that exactly one of these seven people hav
A bag contains 10 red marbles, 5 yellow marbles, and 7 green marbles. If one marble is randomly picked from the bag, what is the probability that this marble is not green?
On a given hunting trip, the probability that a lion will find suitable prey is .80. If it finds the prey, the probability that it will catch it is .1. What then, is the probability that on a given
A large group of people is to be checked for two common symptoms of a certain disease. It is thought that 20% of the people possess symptom A alone, 30% possess symptom B alone, 10% possess both sym
A recent report in USA today indicated a typical family of four spends $490 per month on food. Assume the distribution of food expenditures for a family of four follows the normal distribution, with
A researcher wants to test the association between number of speeding tickets issued and type of car model. A 4 x 5 contingency table was developed and the Chi-square value computed was 15.42. At th
Construct the 98% confidence interval for the proportion of all New York State union members who favor the Republican candidate.
Obtain a sample size that will ensure a margin of error of at most 0.09 for a 90% confidence interval. In previous years, the proportion has been 0.27.
Summary statistics are given for independent simple random samples from two populations. Use the pooled t-test to conduct the required hypothesis test. x1=39.04, s1=18.82, n1=51, x2=49.92, s2=18.97
Use a table of t-values to estimate the P-value for the specified one-mean t-test. Two tailed test, n =26, t= -1.179
If Dana-Farber faculty or staff worker goes in for a TB test, what is the chance of him/her getting a postive test result? What is the positive predictive value of the test?
Find the t-value with n = 30 having area 0.05 to its right.
The monthly earnings of a group of business students are normally distributed with a standard deviation of $594. A researcher wishes to estimate the mean monthly earnings of business students. Find
What is the conditional probability of getting a red ball in the second draw given that a green ball appears in the first? What is the (unconditonal) probabilty of getting a green ball in the seond dr
A survey revealed the amount of pocket money held by each student in a sample of students. The amounts in dollars are: 5.50, 10.20, 3.15, 6.08, 4.85, 4.80, 4.70, 8.52, 7.90, 6.10, 3.50, 5.40, 7.10,
BMI in children is approximately normally distributed with a mean of 24.5 and a standard deviation of 6.2. 1) a BMI between 25 and 30 is considered overweight, what proportion of children are overwe