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In 37 of the 59 years from 1950 through 2008, the S&P 500 finished higher after the first 5 days of trading. In 32 of those 37 years, the S&P 500 finished
Do you think the Poisson distribution, which assumes independent arrivals, is a good estimation of arrival rates in the following queuing systems?
A container contains 3 slips of paper numbered 1, 2, and 3 respectively. A slip is randomly selected and replaced and then another slip is randomly selected.
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For a standardized normal distribution calculate the following probabilities
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Abby, Deborah, Mei-Ling, Sam, and Roberto work in a firm's public relations office. Their employer must choose two of them to attend a conference in Paris.
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If we know that the length of time it takes a college student to find a parking spot in the library parking lot follows a normal distribution with a mean
The following table contains the probability distribution for X = the number of traffic accidents reported in a day in Corvallis, Oregon.
CNBA basketball player Steve Swoopes scores on 85% of his foul shots. If he gets eight foul shots during a game, what is the probability that he will score
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Delta Airlines quotes a flight time of 2 hrs, 5 minutes for its flights from Cincinnati to Tampa. We belive that actual flight times are uniformly distriubted
Researchers at the University of Nevada at Reno asked a sample of county commissioners to give their perception of the single most important factor
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