What is a expected value of the number of employees


Discuss the below:

Q1. Linda owns a small business. Use the probability distribution below, where X represents the number of employees who call in sick on a given day.

Number of Employees Sick

0

1

2

3

4

P(X = x)

0.05

0.45

 

0.15

0.1

a. P(X = 2) is

b. The expected value (Mean) of the number of employees calling in sick on any given day is c.The standard deviation for the random variable X is

Q2.  According to the Information Please Almanac, 6% of the human population is blood type O-negative. A simple random sample of size 4 is obtained, and the number of people X with blood type O-negative is recorded.

a. The probability that exactly 3 out of 4 have blood type O-negative is

b. The expected value (Mean) is

c. The standard deviation is

Q3. The number of chocolate chips in an 18-ounce bag of Chips Ahoy! Chocolate chip cookies are approximately normally distributed with a mean of 1262 chips and standard deviation 118 chips.

a. The probability that a randomly selected 18-ounce bag of Chips Ahoy! Cookies contains between 1000 and 1400 chocolate chips is

b.The probability that a randomly selected 18-ounce bag of Chips Ahoy! Cookies contains fewer than 1000 chocolate chips is

c. The proportion that 18-ounce bags of Chip Ahoy! Cookies contain more than 1400 chocolate chips is

d. How many chocolate chips does an 18-ounce bag of Chips Ahoy! Chocolate chip cookies need to place in the top 3% of the distribution? 

e. What is the percentile rank of an 18-ounce bag of Chip Ahoy! Cookies that contains 1475 chocolate chips? 

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