• Q : Distribution of measurements for widget....
    Basic Statistics :

    The Comfort Widget Company makes several different sized widgets. The smallest widget the company manufactures has a mean diameter of 2.35 inches with a standard deviation of .25 inches. The distr

  • Q : Consistency of electronic copies of signatures....
    Basic Statistics :

    A company wants to check the consistency of electronic copies of signatures for consumer credit purchases. A sample of 49 electronic signatures are available from the same customer.

  • Q : Percentile for the amount of time....
    Basic Statistics :

    Let X denote the amount of time in hours a book on two-hour reserve is actually checked out, and suppose the cdf is

  • Q : Probability that the rate of return for the investment....
    Basic Statistics :

    The rate of return for na investment can be described by a normal distribution with mean 47% and standard deviation 3%. What is the probability that the rate of return for the investment exceeds 53%

  • Q : Handeling seven calls....
    Basic Statistics :

    A new phone answering system for a company is capable of handeling seven calls every 10 minutes. Prior to installing the new system, company analyst determined that the incoming calls to the system

  • Q : Nominees for three vacancies....
    Basic Statistics :

    Among nine nominees for three vacancies on a city council are five men and four women. In how many ways can these vacancies be filled

  • Q : Business statistics course wasdrawn....
    Basic Statistics :

    A random sample of 12 second-year university students enrolled in a business statistics course wasdrawn. At the course's completion, each student was asked how many hours he or she spent doinghomewo

  • Q : Assisted reproductive technology....
    Basic Statistics :

    A study found that 41% of assisted reproductive technology (ART) cycles resulted in pregnancies. Twenty-six precent of the ART pregnancies resulted in multiple births.

  • Q : Expected revenue from the next vehicle....
    Basic Statistics :

    Suppose 40% of the vehicles passing through a toll booth are trucks and the rest are cars. A truck pays a $5 toll whereas a car pays $3. Find the expected revenue from the next vehicle that passes thr

  • Q : Proportion of lightbulbs....
    Basic Statistics :

    A Bright Idea. A company produces lightbulbs whose life follows the N(1500; 300) distribution, i.e. the lifetimes of lightbulbs have a normal distribution with a mean of 1500 hours and a standard de

  • Q : Grocert store for a brand of cereal....
    Basic Statistics :

    Weekly demand at a grocert store for a brand of cereal is normally distributed according to X ~ N (800 boxes, 75^2 boxes)

  • Q : Probability for the normal distirbution....
    Basic Statistics :

    For each of the following, find the probability for the given normal distirbution:

  • Q : Population standard deviation of gmat scores....
    Basic Statistics :

    A random sample of 35 GMAT scores for applicants to an MBA program has a mean score of 479. The researcher is interested in finding evidence at the .05 level that the mean score of applicants to the

  • Q : Proportion of all american teenagers....
    Basic Statistics :

    The proportion of all American teenagers who have a television in their bedrooms. The proportion of these 2032 teenagers who have a television in their bedrooms

  • Q : Estimate the average age of the residents....
    Basic Statistics :

    Suppose that you want to estimate the average age of the residents in your community. Is this number a parameter or a statistic? Explain.

  • Q : Probability of not detecting the impurity....
    Basic Statistics :

    The probability of not detecting the impurity if it is absent is .90. The prior probabilities of the impurity being present and being absent are .40 and .60, respectively. Three separate experiments

  • Q : Mean of sixty-seven days and standard deviation....
    Basic Statistics :

    Suppose the incubation period for land turtle eggs is normally distributed with a mean of sixty-seven days and standard deviation of 7.4 days:

  • Q : Probability of success....
    Basic Statistics :

    Ten trials are conducted in a Bernoulli process in which the probability of success in a given trial is 0.3. If x = number of successes, find:

  • Q : Time lost between test....
    Basic Statistics :

    A patient receiving a yearly physical examination and must have 16 checks or tests performed. The sequence in which the tests are conducted is important because the time lost between test will vary

  • Q : Disclose personal information....
    Basic Statistics :

    Website visitors are often loath to disclose personal information when making a purchase on the Internet. Despite safeguards in place, nearly 60% of all consumers who make purchases on the Internet

  • Q : Department of an automotive dealership....
    Basic Statistics :

    The auto parts department of an automotive dealership sends out an average of 8 special orders daily. The number of special orders is assumed to follow a Poisson distribution.

  • Q : Nationwide proportion of no-money-down loans....
    Basic Statistics :

    Calculate the probability that at least 12 in a sample of 20 first-time buyers would take out no-money-down loans if San Francisco's proportion is the same as the nationwide proportion of no-money-d

  • Q : Null hypothesis and the measure of effect size....
    Basic Statistics :

    If the sample variance is s2 = 64, then conduct a hypothesis test to evaluate the significance of the treatment effect and calculate r2 to measure the size of the treatment effect. Use a two-tailed

  • Q : Evaluate the effect of a treatment....
    Basic Statistics :

    A researcher selects a sample from a population with m = 30 and uses the sample to evaluate the effect of a treatment. After treatment, the sample has a mean of M = 32 and a variance of s2= 6. Which

  • Q : Measures of central tendency....
    Basic Statistics :

    You are collecting data, asking participants about their religious background. Choices include: Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Atheist, Agnostic, Pagan, and Other. Which measures of cen

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