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A biologist wishes to estimate the effect t of an antibiotic on the growth of a particular bacterium by examining the mean amount of bacteria present per plate of culture when a fixed amount of the
According to a recent survey, about 33% of Americans polled said that they would likely purchase reusable cloth bags for groceries to reduce plastic waste. Suppose 45 shoppers are interviewed a loca
A certain typing agency employs two typists. The average number of errors per article is 1.5 when typed by the first typist and 2.4 when typed by the second. If your article is equally likely to be
The mean number of patients admitted per day to the emergency room of a small hospital is 3. If, on any given day, there are only 2 beds available for new patients,
A statistics professor finds that when she schedules an office hour for student help, an average of 3.7 students arrive. Find the probability that in a randomly selected office hour, the number of s
The average cost of tuition, room and board at small private liberal arts colleges is reported to be $8,500 per term, but a financial administrator believes that the average cost is higher. A study
A man claims to have extrasensory perception. As a test, a fair coin is flipped 26 times, and the man is asked to predict the outcome in advance. He gets 20 out of 26 correct. What is the probabilit
Suppose that 30% of a group of people have hazel eyes. Assume that passengers boarding the plane form a randomly chosen group. What is the probability that passenger 17 is the 3th one having hazel eye
The following probabilities for grades in management science have been determined based on past records:
After the exam, the professor wishes to determine if there is a difference in the level of difficulty of the two versions by determining if there is a significant difference in the mean scores. Assu
Compute the present value of a five-year, 6% & 10% coupon bond with a face value of $1000. What happens when the interest rate goes down to 8%? we have two 5 years bonds,
A recent study reported that the prevalence of hyperlipidemia (defined as total cholesterol over 200) is 30% in children 2- 6 years of age. If 12 children are analyzed,
How many dollars in sales would the company need to do in year 10 to have an average of $1,004,342? I got this one wrong on the test. would someone explain how to do it? The answer is 1,013,374 but
Assume that the mean hourly cost to operate a commercial airplane follows the normal distribution with a mean of $2,225 per hour and a standard deviation of $250. What is the operating cost for the
A random sample of size n=100 is taken from a population with a mean u =80 and standard deviation =14. Calculate the standard deviation for the sampling distribution of the sample mean.
At a certain university, the average attendance at basketball games has been 3100 spectators per game. Due to the dismal showing of the team this year, the attendance for the first 13 games has been
At a certain university, the average attendance at basketball games has been 3200 spectators per game. The attendance for the first 15 games has been 2700 spectators per game with a standard deviati
The average speed of greyhound dogs is about 18.5 meters per second. A particular greyhound breeder claims that her dogs are faster than the average greyhound.
Find the equation of the regression line for these data. What is the value of the standard error of the estimate?
A laboratory sampled and tested 16 chicken eggs and found that the mean cholesterol was 230 mg. with a standard deviation was 20 mg. If cholesterol is normally distributed, Find a 96% confidence int
The following data represent the amount of sugar consumed (in lbs.) in a household during five randomly selected weeks. Sugar consumption for the household is normally distributed.
A sample of 9 quiz scores had a mean of 15.2 and a sample standard deviation of s = 3.3. If it is known that the quiz scores are approximately normal, find a 95% confidence interval for the mean in
Age at onset of dementia was determined for a sample of adults between the ages of 60 and 75. For 15 subjects, M = 67.2 and s = 3.06. Use this information to answer the following:
The central limit theorem says that when a simple sample of size n is drawn from any population with mean ? and standard deviation ?, then when n is sufficiently large
Scores on the Critical Reading part of the SAT exam in a recent year were roughly Normal with mean 501 and standard deviation 112. You choose an SRS of 100 students and average their SAT Critical Re