• Q : Probability of selecting a finance or accounting major....
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    a) What is the probability of selecting a female student? b) What is the probability of selecting a finance or accounting major?

  • Q : Interviewing applicants for server positions....
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    Berdines Chicken Factory has several retail stores. When interviewing applicants for server positions, the owner would like to include information on the amount of tip a server can expect to earn p

  • Q : Probability related to defective electric toothbrushes....
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    Three defective electric toothbrushes were accidentally shipped to a drugstore by Cleanbrush Products along with 17 non-defective ones.

  • Q : By what grade students taking the test scored higher....
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    A set of final examination grades in a calculus course was found to be normally distributed with a mean of 70 and a standard deviation of 10. Only 1% of the students taking the test scored higher

  • Q : What is the probability of passing at least one....
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    A student is taking two courses, history and math.  The probability the student will pass the history course is .60, and the probability of passing the math course is .70.  The probability

  • Q : Confidence interval for the true proportion of printers....
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    A random sample of 70 printers discovered that 30 of them were being used in small businesses. Find the 95 % confidence interval for the true proportion of printers that are used in small business

  • Q : Probability related to mutually exclusive events....
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    The events X and Y are mutually exclusive. Suppose P(X) = .05 and P(Y) = .02. What is the probability of either X or Y occurring?  What is the probability that neither X nor Y will happen?

  • Q : Probability problem based on a sample of licensed drivers....
    Basic Statistics :

    Question: A sample of 2000 licensed drivers revealed the following number of speeding violations.

  • Q : Popcorn kernel to pop....
    Basic Statistics :

    Suppose the amount of time it takes a popcorn kernel to pop is normally distributed with a mean of 150 seconds and a standard deviation of 15 seconds. If a popcorn kernel is randomly selected, what

  • Q : Basic concepts of probability....
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    The events X and Y are mutually exclusive. Suppose P(X) = .05 and P(Y) = .02. What is the probability of either X or Y occurring?  What is the probability that neither X nor Y will happen?

  • Q : Find mean-probability that no one will be killed by lighting....
    Basic Statistics :

    Assume that the rate holds true today and is constant throughout the years, find the mean and the probability that no one in the us will be killed by lighting today.

  • Q : Find expected number of changeovers....
    Basic Statistics :

    Consider n independent flips of a coin having probability p of landing on heads. Say that a changeover occurs whenever an outcome diers from the one preceding it. For instance, if n = 5 and the out

  • Q : Construct confidence interval for the population mean....
    Basic Statistics :

    Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population mean, based on the following sample size of n=5. 1,2,3,4, and 25. Then change the number 25 to 5 and recalculate the confidence interval.

  • Q : Total degrees of freedom....
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    In a one way ANOVA, the degrees of freedom for the rows is 6, for the columns it is 10, and for error it is 8. How many total degrees of freedom are there in this construction?

  • Q : Estimate average tread life in miles for entire population....
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    The average tread wear was found to be 50,000 miles with a standard deviation of 3,500 miles. What is the best estimate of the average tread life in miles for the entire population of these tires

  • Q : List the sample points....
    Basic Statistics :

    Let three fair coins be tossed. Let A= ( all heads of all tails), B= ( at least two heads), and C= ( at most two tails). List the sample points in A,B,C respectively.

  • Q : How many different ways are there to select three students....
    Basic Statistics :

    They will be president, vice president, and, secretary. How many different ways are there to select these three students.

  • Q : Estimating true population value....
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    Suppose a population has mean µ = 100 and the population standard deviation s = 25. Also, suppose a random sample of size n = 36 is selected and the sample mean (X-bar) = 90. Does this sample

  • Q : Determining the concepts of population and sample....
    Basic Statistics :

    Define the terms parameter and statistic, Be sure that the concepts of population and sample are included in the definition.

  • Q : Standard deviation around arithmetic mean....
    Basic Statistics :

    According to the empirical rule, if the data form a "bell-shaped" normal distribution, ________ percent of the observation will be contained within 1 (one) standard deviation around the arithmetic m

  • Q : Find probability that x deviates from mean by at least four....
    Basic Statistics :

    Suppose Xis a random variable with mean -5 and variance 2. What can you say about the probability that X deviates from its mean by at least 4?

  • Q : Measurements on a ratio scale....
    Basic Statistics :

    Four scales of measurement were introduced in the chapter: nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio. What additional information is obtained from measurements on a ratio scale compared to measurements

  • Q : Problem related to evaluation model....
    Basic Statistics :

    Suppose the evaluation model showed that for a particular restaurant the resource mix necessary to produce a given output mix was 90% of what another restaurant was using to produce that same mix of

  • Q : How often have to toss a coin to find probability of heads....
    Basic Statistics :

    How often do you have to toss a coin to determine P(heads) within .1 of its true value with probability at least .9?

  • Q : Find the z-score corresponding to a score....
    Basic Statistics :

    Find the z-score corresponding to a score of X = 100 for each of the following distributions. Make sure to indicate the direction (sign) of the z-scores.

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