An infestation of a certain species of caterpillar called the spruce budworm can cause extensive damage to the timberlands of the northern United States. It is known that an outbreak of this type of infestation occurs, on the average, every 30 years. Assuming that this phenomenon obeys an exponential probability law, what is
Researchers at the University of Nevada at Reno asked a sample of county commissioners to give their perception of the single most important factor in identifying study of urban countries (Professional Geographer, Feb. 2000.) In all, five factors were mentioned by the commissioners; total population, agricultural change, presenc
1. You attempt a 50 item (n = 50) true-and-false exam. You did not study for the material and your attempt to answer any item is a guess, with a 50% chance that you will get any item correct. You need a score of 30 or better to pass the exam. A. If you are truly guessing your way through the exam, what is the probability
5.2 Determine the mean, the variance, and the standard deviation of the following discrete distribution. x P( x) 0 .103 1 .118 2 .246 3 .229
Accident claims are checked for completeness by branch offices of Fortune Insurance before they are sent to a regional office for payment. Historically 80% of the claimes are complete whenthey reach the regional office. You select a random sample of 20 claimes that have arrived at the regional office. Find the probability of
Height of 10 year kid boys. We've established that heights of 10 year old boys vary according to a normal distribution with a mean= 138 centimeters and standard deviation =7 centimeters. a) What proportion of this population is less than 150 centimeters tall? b.) What proportion is less than 140 centimeters in height? c) Wh
1. Consider the following scores comprising a population of size N = 14 X F 14 1 13 2 12 4 11 3 10 2 9 2 A. What is the mean for these N = 14
5. A nationwide real estate company claims that its average time to sell a home is 57 days. Suppose it is known that the standard deviation of selling times is 12.3 days and that selling times are normally distributed. a. Assuming the company's claim is true, if one home is selected at random, what is the probability that it
1. Five percent of American truck drivers are women. Suppose 10 truck drivers are selected randomly to be interviewed about quality of work conditions. A) Is the selection of the 10 drivers a binomial experiment? Explain the reasons for your answer. B) What is the probability that two of the drivers will be women? C) What
Martin Manufacturing produces cases for personal computers and other electronic equipment. The quality control inspection procedure is to select 6 items, and if there are 0 or 1 defective cases in the group of 6, the process is said to be in control. If the number of defects is more than 1, the process is out of control. Suppose
Use of TI - 83 plus calculator is permitted given that steps are provided. 1. An MBA new-matriculates survey provided the following data for 2018 students. Applied to more than one school Yes No 23 and under 207 201 24 - 26
A builder has located a piece of property that she would like to buy and eventually build on. The land is currently zoned for four homes per acre, but she is planning to request new zoning. What she builds depends on approval of zoning requests and your analysis of this problem to advise her. With her input and your help, the de
The attached files provide a definition of the problem, especially the powerpoint slide. Given the information, I am trying to develop a linear programming model such that I maximize the number of possible bids given the limited resources of budgets and writers. Essentially, which of the 10 bids should I take on, given the
7.12 A random sample is obtained from a population with a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 12. A. For a sample of n = 4 scores, would a sample mean of M = 55 be considered an extreme value or is it a fairly typical sample mean? B. For a sample mean of n = 36, would a sample mean of M = 55 be considered an extre
Identify Probability Distributions Determine whether or not a probability distribution is given. If a probability distribution is given, find its mean and standard deviation. If a probability disbribution is not given, identify the requiremtns that are not satisfied. 10. Eye Color Groups of five babies are randomly sele
A clinical psychologist is given tapes of 20 subjects discussing their recent dreams. The psychologist is told that 10 are highanxiety individuals and 10 are low-anxiety individuals. The psychologist's task is to select the 10 high-anxiety subjects. a- Count the number of sample points for this experiment. b- Assuming tha
Discrete Probability Distribution ??? Imagine you are in a game show, where there are big money prizes that can be won. Now, let us start the money give-away! There are 4 prizes hidden on a game board with 16 spaces. One prize is worth $4000, another is worth $1500, and two are worth $1000. But, wait!!! You are also
The Republican governor of a state with no income tax is appointing a committee of five members to consider changes in the income tax law. There are 15 state representatives--seven Democrats and eight Republicans--available for appointment to the committee. Assume that the governor selects the committee of five members randomly
See attached file for the table. Carbon monoxide (CO) is a colorless, odorless, tasteless toxic gas produced by incomplete combustion in fuel-burning devices. Persons with CO poisoning often overlook the symptoms. In Ontario, a total of 981 cases of unintentional CO poisoning was reported. Each case was classified as fata
Please answer the question skipping no steps, show all symbols, equations, etc and give answer please. Q: Consider a 4 engine aircraft (2 on each wing) where the probability of an engine failure is 0.002 failures per year. Assume that the probability of 1 engine falling is independent of the behavior of the others. Determ
See attached file. 1. For a population with a mean of µ=60 and a standard deviation of ?=24, find the z-score corresponding to each of the following samples. A. M=63 for a sample of n=16 scores B. M=63 for a sample of n=36 scores C. M=63 for a sample of n=64 scores 2. A population of scores forms a normal distribution
Please answer with all equations shown, solution and skip no steps please. Q1: Let N be a random variable with a binomial distribution with parameters (n,p). Find E(N) and var(N). Q2: A component with time to failure T has failure rate function: z(t)=kt for t>0 and k>0 a) Find the probability that the component s
1. How many ways can an EMT union committee of 5 be chosen from 25 EMTs? 100 125 15,504 53,130 2. Which of the following cannot be a probability? 0 -49 0.001 14% 3. List the sample space of rolling a 6 sided die. {1, 3, 5}
A study of the time spent shopping in a supermarket for a market basket of 20 specific items showed an approximately uniform distribution between 20 minutes and 40 minutes. What is the probability that the shopping time will be a. between 25 and 30 minutes? b. less than 35 minutes? c. What are the mean and standard deviatio
Problem: A system must have a reliability of 99%. How many components are required in parallel when each component has a reliability of 65%?
Problem 1: Consider three identical items in parallel. What is the system reliability if each item has a reliability of 98%? Please explain why the exponential function is used for reliability.
4. In an article in the Journal of Management, Joseph Martocchio studied and estimated the costs of employee absences. Based on a sample of 176 blue-collar workers, Martocchio estimated that the mean amount of paid time lost during a three-month period was 1.4 days per employee with a standard deviation of 1.3 days. Martocchio a
The service life of an incandescent light bulbs used domestically was investigated. It was found that a light bulb can last up to 3 years, and the probability distribution of the number of years a light bulb was used before failure is given below: Years light bulb was used before failure (x) 0 1 2 3 P
The probability that a couple will have a child with black hair is 0.6. If this couple has 7 children what is (a) the probability that exactly 3 of these children have black hair ? (b) the probability that no more than 2 of their children have black hair ? (c) the probability that none of the children have black hair (d) wh
• "29% of men admitted they had cheated" means that total at the bottom of the column labeled 'Male cheating' becomes .29 x 203 = 59 • "compared with 18.5% of women" implies this percent of females had cheated, or the total in the 'Female cheating' column is .185 x 203 = 38 Female cheating Female not cheating Total Ma