• Q : Probability that a binomial random variable....
    Basic Statistics :

    what is the probability that a binomial random variable, X, having parameters n = 500 and p = 0.025, takes a value greater than 2? what is the probability that X exceeds 4 if it is known that X exce

  • Q : Expected number who actually buy a piece of art....
    Basic Statistics :

    An artist sells her works at the East Lansing Art Festival. Suppose that 5% of those who stop by her booth will buy a piece of art, and that those who stop by arrive in random order and make buying

  • Q : Proportion of the area under a normal curve....
    Basic Statistics :

    Approximately what proportion of the area under a normal curve with mean ? and standard deviation ? falls to the right of ?+2??

  • Q : Standard deviations from the mean....
    Basic Statistics :

    How many standard deviations from the mean would a car going under the speed limit be?

  • Q : Standard deviations of the random variable....
    Basic Statistics :

    Find the standard deviations of the random variable. options: A) 6 B) 7 C) 10 D) 19

  • Q : Distributed according to a poisson distribution....
    Basic Statistics :

    The mean number of errors per page made by a clerk in the word processing pool of a bank is thought to be 2.8 with the number of errors distributed according to a Poisson distribution. If a page is

  • Q : Games against the same opponent....
    Basic Statistics :

    You play two games against the same opponent. The probability that you win the first game is 0.4. If you win the first game, the probability you also win the second is 0.2. If you lose the first gam

  • Q : Company expected profit on a policy....
    Basic Statistics :

    An insurance policy costs $100 and will pay policyholders $10,000 if they suffer a major injury or $3000 if they suffer a minor injury. The company estimates that each year 1 in every 2000 policy ho

  • Q : Five traffic lights....
    Basic Statistics :

    A commuter must pass through five traffic lights on her way to work and will have to stop at each one that is red. She estimates the probability model for the number of red lights she hits. X=# of R

  • Q : Markov chain with transition matrix....
    Basic Statistics :

    Consider an m state Markov chain with transition matrix pij. Note, as usual, the sum of the entries in any row add to one. The transition matrix is called doubly stochastic the transpose is also a s

  • Q : Basic model and a deluxe model....
    Basic Statistics :

    A company that manufactures video cameras produces a basic model and a deluxe model. Over the past year, 30% of the cameras sold have been of the basic model. Of those buying the basic model,

  • Q : Aircraft that disappear while in flight....
    Basic Statistics :

    Seventy-eight percent of the light aircraft that disappear while in flight in a certain country are subsequently discovered. Of the aircraft that are discovered, 65% have an emergency locator, where

  • Q : Attitudes toward school change with age....
    Basic Statistics :

    An educational psychologist is interested in determining whether attitudes toward school change with age. She randomly selects 30 seventh-graders, 30 ninth-graders, and 30 11th-graders and administe

  • Q : Results of different divisions....
    Basic Statistics :

    Assuming that the 1 in 11 billion figure is correct and that results of different divisions are independent of one another, what is the probability that at least one error occurs in one billion divi

  • Q : Successive vehicles pass or fail independently....
    Basic Statistics :

    Sixty percent of all vehicles examined at a certain emissions inspection station pass the inspection. Assuming that successive vehicles pass or fail independently of one another, calculate the follo

  • Q : Oil exploration company....
    Basic Statistics :

    An oil exploration company currently has two active projects, one in Asia and the other in Europe. Let A be the event that the Asian project is successful and B be the event that the European projec

  • Q : Cameras sold have been of the basic model....
    Basic Statistics :

    A company that manufactures video cameras produces a basic model and a deluxe model. Over the past year, 30% of the cameras sold have been of the basic model.

  • Q : Seventy-eight percent of the light aircraft....
    Basic Statistics :

    Seventy-eight percent of the light aircraft that disappear while in flight in a certain country are subsequently discovered. Of the aircraft that are discovered, 65% have an emergency locator, where

  • Q : Proportion of males and females....
    Basic Statistics :

    This compared with 72 males in 145 "purebred" offspring of matings between members of the same species. Is the proportion of males and females different in the purebred offspring than in the hybrid

  • Q : Expected value to take insurance....
    Basic Statistics :

    What is the expected value to take insurance? What is the expected value to decline insurance? What is the probability of no accident? What is the probability of a major accident?

  • Q : Develop a payoff cost table....
    Basic Statistics :

    Develop a payoff (cost) table for this situation. What decision would Beverly make if she were optimistic? What decision would Beverly make is she were pessimistic?

  • Q : Proportion of males and females....
    Basic Statistics :

    This compared with 72 males in 145 "purebred" offspring of matings between members of the same species. Is the proportion of males and females different in the purebred offspring than in the hybrid

  • Q : Growth rate of revenue over the eight years....
    Basic Statistics :

    The chief accountant provides the CEO with a table of historical revenues. What has been the growth rate of revenue over the eight years? (Do not put your answer in a percentage. Round to 4 dec

  • Q : Samples of five men and five women....
    Basic Statistics :

    For Sam's project, he wants to determine whether men carry more change than women, at the 0.10 level of significance.To accomplish same, he obtains samples of five men and five women and collects th

  • Q : Confidence interval for the mean diameter....
    Basic Statistics :

    Doug needs to construct a 98% confidence interval for the mean diameter of 3 inch schedule 40 drain pipe. He samples 25 pipes at the local home goods store. The sample has a mean of 2.897 inch with

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