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The table below shows (lifetime) peptic ulcer rates (per 100 population), U, for various family incomes, x, as reported by the 1989 National Health Interview Survey.
Construct a payoff matrix for this problem. What decision should be made according to Minimax Regret Approach? What decision should be made according to Expected Value Approach?
A fair coin is tossed 8 times. What is the probability that:
The lenght of time, X, to complete a standard achievement test is approximately normally distributed with a mean of 58 minutes and a stabdard deviation of 9.5 minutes. If professor yosca wants to ti
The lenght of time, X, to complete a standard achievement test is approximately normally distributed with a mean of 58 minutes and a stabdard deviation of 9.5 minutes. If professor yosca wants to t
The lifetime of certain light bulbs has a mean of 2050 hours and a standard deviation of 405 hours. If you randomly selected 40 light bulbs, find the probability that their average lifetime is withi
A manufacturer of low-budget television sets has a historical defective rate of 10%. A. What is the probability that in a daily production run of 4 televisions, none will be defective?
A tour operator believes that the model P(x) = 40x - .25x^2 can be used to predict his profit P(x) for selling x tickets. Find the the maximum profit he can hope to achieve.
A restaurant offers a special pizza with 5 toppings. If there are 12 toppings from which to choose, how many different 5-topping pizzas are there? (Assume the order in which the toppings are chosen
Suppose we have a set of 100 (x, y) points. If we multiply all of the x's by 10, then:
Scores on an endurance test for cardiac patients are normally distributed with mean=185 and standard deviation=5. A. What is the probability a patient will score above 195? B. What is the probabilit
It is estimated that 25% of the athletes competing in a large tournament are users of an illegal drug to enhance performance. The test for this drug is 80% accurate. Determine the probability that a
A comparison between the average jail time of bank robbers and car thieves yielded the following results (in years): Estimate the lower bound confidence limit for mu1-mu2?
A lake contains 4 distinct types of fish. Suppose that each fish caught is equally likely to be any one of these types. Let Y denote the number of fish that need be caught to obtain at least one of
Let X be a Poisson random variable with mean 20. Use the Markov inequality to obtain an upper bound on p = P{ X >= 26}
Use a 0.05 level of significance. Construct a 95% confidence intervale for the probability of college students' riding bicycles.
The following data were obtained from a survey of college students. The variable X represents the number of non-assigned books read during the past six months.
An electrical firm manufactures a 100-watt light bulb, which, according to specifications written on the package, has a mean life of 900 hours with a standard deviation of 50 hours. At most, what pe
A fair die is rolled 100 times. Using central limit theorem, estimate the probability that the sum of the faces is at least 360.
Explain the differences between an observation and an inference. Relative to what "probability" means, how does this difference affect your definition of probability?
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Give two sets of four numbers that have the same mean but different median. Give two sets of four numbers that have the same median but different means. Give two sets of four numbers that have the sam
According to the IRS, the average tax refund for the 70 million personal income tax returns in 1998 was $800. Assuming a standard deviation of $220, find the probability that for a random sample of
A company believes it has a 40% chance of being successful on bidding a contract that yields a profit of $30,000. Assume it costs $5,000 in consultant fees to prepare the bid. What is the expected g
Advertisements for an instructional video claim that the techniques will improve the ability of little league pitchers to throw strikes and that, after undergoing the training, players will be able