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Consider the function given below: f(x) = kx4 0 < x < 2.76 What must be the value k so that f(x) is a valid probability density function? Give your answer to four decimal places.
An accounting firm is auditing the shipping orders for the past year for billing errors. It chooses a random sample of 64 shipping orders. What is the probability that the sample mean weight will be
A certain car model has a mean gas mileage of 29 miles per gallon (mpg) with a standard deviation of 5 mpg. A pizza delivery company buys 38 of these cars. What is the probability that the average
As reported by a source for statistics, the mean serum high density of females 20-29 years old is 53. If serum cholestrol is distributed normally with a standard deviation of 13.4, answer the follow
Use a scatterplot and the linear correlation coefficient r to determine whether there is a correlation between the two variables. Use a=0.05.
Listed below are systolic blood pressure measurements (in mm Hg) obtained from the same woman. Find the regression equation, letting the right arm blood pressure be the predictor (x) variable. Find
The FDA tests the tobaccos in two different types of cigars for nicotine content (in mg) and obtained following results. Construct the 95% confidence interval for the difference between mean nicotin
The blood pressure measurements of a single patient were taken by twelve different medical students and the results are listed below. A Find the value of the linear correlation coefficient r
In a particular occupation, a random sample of 210 men found that 65 smoked. In a random sample of 240 women, 87 smoke. Is there enough evidence to conclude males and females in this occupation have
Find the 98% confident interval for the difference between the proportions of Minnesota and Wisconsin residents with home internet access. Give a verbal interpretation of the interval.
When using the weighted moving average forcasting method, the sum of all the weights used must add to what number?
In an experiment to study the effect of a particular drug on the number of errors in the maze-learning behavior of rats, the following MINTAB results were obtained for a 2 sample unequal variance t-
A market research survey is available for no cost. Using a decision tree analysis, it is found that the expected value with the survey is $65,000. The expected value with no survey is $62,000 and th
A study was conducted to determine whether persons in suburban district II have a lower mean income than those in district I. Random samples were taken in each district with the following results (i
The sum of the ranks for the day students was determined to be 184.5. Compute the test statistic Z. Use a = 0.05 and test to determine if there is a significant difference in the populations of the sc
Information about a regression analysis includes an intercept of 59.99 and a negative slope of 1.49. Make a prediction of y based on an x value of 20.
An apprentice's decision making philosophy is to always be very optimistic with company funds as promotions for an apprentice only occur if they take risks. Given that he has no probabilities to dir
The mean balance that college students owe on their credit cards is $896 with a standard deviation of $104. If all possible random samples of size 169 are taken from this population, determine: The
What is the probability of Type I error? (Round your answer to 4 decimal places.) What is the probability of Type II error? (Round your answer to 3 decimal places.)
In random samples of 900 men and 400 women it is found the 99 men and 36 women suffer from kidney stones. Is there statistical evidence that the proportion of male kidney stone sufferers is greater
In a random sample of 400 Minnesota residents 330 have home internet access whereas in a random sample of 900 Wisconsin residents 820 have internet access at home. Find the 98% confident interval fo
A machine produces marbles of 3 different colors, aqua, black, and canary with the corresponding probabilities: PA , PB , PC . Get n marbles from this machine. Find the probability of each event.