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Business Week surveyed MBA alumni 10 years after graduation (Business Week, September 22, 2003)
Can demographic information be helpful in predicting sales at sporting goods stores? The data at left are monthly sales totals from a random sample
The average time it takes to complete a test is first-year statistics is 46.2 minutes. the standard deviation is 8 minutes
Hallux abducto valgus (HAV) (deformation of the big toe that often requires surgery). Doctors used x-rays to measure the angle (in degrees)
How well a material conducts heat matters when designating houses, for example. Conductivity is measured in terms of watts of heat power transmitted
Our decisions depend on how the options are presented to us. Here's an experiment that illustrates this phenomenon.
A Company surveys 32 randomly selected employees and ask the number spent working at home after hours during a week. The results as shown below:
A study was carried out by JT Co. Regarding the stopping distance of a 1300 kilogram car under perfect weather conditions at various driving speeds
In a recent survey, 161 of 493 employees responded that they typically took work with them on vacation and 95 responded that there are unwritten
The data shown below represents the total fat, in grams per serving, for a sample of 20 chicken sandwiches from fast-food chains. Complete parts (a) through (d)
A scientist wants to estimate the proportion of plants with berries growing in a particular region. They want to be within 6% of the true proportion
Temperature measurements are recorded at 40 randomly selected different locations for a particular city. A sample mean of 20 degrees Celsius is obtained
Calculate and interpret the confidence interval. Please show your manual calculation or the software output.
Amazon.com claims that its textbook prices are cheaper than those offered by the local college bookstore
A confidence interval for the population mean tells us which values of mean are plausible (those inside the interval) and which values are not plausible
A recent poll (fictitious) reports that President Obama's "approval rating" is 52% and a statement says, "This poll has an error rate of 3%."
AluminiCorp is a major producer of aluminum cans that produces 40 billion aluminum cans every year. You work as a quality control officer for AluminiCorp
How heavy a load (pounds) is needed to pull apart pieces of Douglas fir 4 in long and 1.5 inches square? Here are the data from students doing a laboratory
Consider a normal population with µ = 25 and s = 8.0.
A class survey in a large class for first year college students asked, "About how many minutes do you study on a typical weeknight?"
A mayoral election race is tightly contested. In a random sample of 1,100 likely voters, 572 said they were planning to vote for the current mayor.
Assuming these observations are drawn from a normally distributed probability space, we know that about 68% of values drawn from a normal distribution
A study of 35 golfers showed that their average score on a particular course was 92. The standard deviation of the population is 5.
The employee benefits manager of a small private university would like to estimate the proportion of full-time employees who prefer adopting the first
According to an investigative reporter (Jim Drinkard - Legislators want to Ground 'Fact-finding' Trips, USA Today, January 2006), members of Congress