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    What percent of the flights are sold out? On what percent of the flights does the airline make money? Below what number of passengers on a flight will the airline reduce the number of flight attendants?

    Landrum Airline flies the route between Chicago and Pittsburgh. The mean number of passengers per flight is 160 with a standard deviation of 20. The aircraft used for the route has 200 seats. a. What percent of the flights are sold out? b. The airline must sell 150 seats to break even on this particular flight. On what perce

    Continuous Probability Distributions: Normal Distribution

    Fast Service Truck Lines uses the Ford Super Duty F-750 exclusively. Management made a study of the maintenance costs and determined the number of miles traveled during the year followed the normal distribution. The mean of the distribution was 60,000 miles and the standard deviation 2,000 miles. a. What percent of the Ford S

    Frequency of Emails Determined Using the Poisson Distribution

    An internal study by the Technology Services department at Lahey Electronics revealed company employees receive an average of two emails per hour. Assume the arrival of these emails is approximated by the Poisson distribution. a. What is the probability Linda Lahey, company president, received exactly 1 email between 4 P.M. and

    Binomial Probability Example Problem

    1. The amounts of money requested on home loan applications at Federal Savings follow the normal distribution, with a mean of $270,000 and a standard deviation of $35,000. A loan application is received this morning. What is the probability: a. The amount requested is $270,000 or more? b. The amount requested is $300,000 or

    Probability...

    Find the probability P(z < -0.46) using the standard normal distribution. A) 0.5400 B) 0.6772 C) 0.3228 D) 0.8228

    Normal distribution ...

    WNAE, an AM station totally dedicated to deliver news, found that while the Distribution of listeners tune in the station follows the normal Distribution. Distribution of the average is 15.0 minutes and standard deviation is 3.5. What is the probability that a particular listener in tune to the station at: a)more than 20 minute

    Normal probability

    A normal population has an average of 80 and a standard deviation of 14.0. Calculate the probability of a value between 75.0 and 90.0. Calculate the probability of a value of 75.0 or less. Calculate the probability of a value between 55.0 and 70.0.

    Calculation of probability based on Z score

    A normal population has an average of 80 and a standard deviation of 14.0. Calculate the probability of a value between 75.0 and 90.0. Calculate the probability of a value of 75.0 or less. Calculate the probability of a value between 55.0 and 70.0.

    Probability Distributions for the American Intellectual Union

    Compose an email to the head of the American Intellectual Union which discusses the following: Begin your email to AIU by first providing an overview of the database, i.e. a story. Be sure to include information about how you would use the concept of probabilities to apply to profiles for hiring more satisfied individuals. Be s

    Probability Calculation Problem Based on Binomial Distribution

    According to an Internet posting, 80% of adults enjoy drinking beer. If a group of 3 adults is selected at random, find the probability that none of them enjoy drinking beer. Place your answer, rounded to three decimal places, in the blank. Simply provide the numerical value. For example, 0.123 would be a legitimate entr

    Expectated Payoff

    If a gambler rolls two dice and gets a sum of four, he wins $10; and if he gets a sum of three, he wins $25. The cost to play the game is $5. What is the expectation of this game? Place your answer, rounded to two decimal places, in the blank. However, if the expected payoff is negative be sure to use a minus sign. For ex

    Understanding Probability

    1. A Motor Company has purchased steel parts from a supplier for several years and has found that 10% of the parts must be returned because they are defective. An order of 25 parts is received. What are the mean and standard deviation of the defective parts? A) Mean = 3.5; standard deviation = 2.5 B) Mean = 2

    Probability Calculation for Poisson Distribution

    An internal study by the Technology Services department at Lahey Electronics revealed company employees receive an average of two emails per hour. Assume the arrival of these emails is approximated by the Poisson distribution. a. What is the probability Linda Lahey, company president, received exactly 1 email between 4 P.M. and

    Binomial

    56. Assume the likelihood that any flight on Northwest Airlines arrives within 15 minutes of the scheduled time is .90. We select four flights from yesterday for study. a. What is the likelihood all four of the selected flights arrived within 15 minutes of the scheduled time? b. What is the likelihood that none of the selected

    Probability concepts for Dr. Stallter

    Dr. Stallter has been teaching basic statistics for many years. She knows that 80 percent of the students will complete the assigned problems. She has also determined that among those who do their assignments, 90 percent will pass the course. Among those students who do not do their homework, 60 percent will pass. Mike Fishbaug

    A. Find the overall proportion of hits, and identify the length of the longest streak of hits and the length of the longest streak of misses. Write a paragraph commenting on your proportion of hits and your "streaks." b. Describe how the "streaks" compare for the 50-percent and 75-percent scenarios.

    A certain college's men's basketball team is quite accomplished at making free throws. According to the coach, in their most recent season the team made approximately 75 percent of free-throw attempts, and ranked 10th in the country among similar schools in successful free-throw attempts. Set up another new worksheet to simulate

    Mean Weight of Plain Candies

    Labeling of M&M Packages Q. M&M plain candies have a mean weight of 0.9147 g and a standard deviation of 0.0369 g (based on Data Set 19 in Appendix C). the M&M candies used on Data Set 19 came from a package containing 1498 candies, and the package label stated that the net weight is 1361 g. (If every package has 1498 cand

    Finding Probability of Temperature Values

    Assume the readings on the thermometers are normally distributed with a mean of 0 degress and a standard deviation of 1.00 degree. Find the indicated probability, where z is the reading in degrees. P(z > -2.575) I need to show the work and formula used. Thank you.

    Probability problems

    1) Find the probability (type answer as an integer or simplified fraction) of a couple having a baby boy when their fifth child is born, given that the first four children were all boys. Assume boys and girls equally likely. Is the result the same as the probability of getting all boys among five children? 2) When designing

    Probability calculation :Binomial distribution

    Approximately 25% of the population belongs to a health maintenance organization (HMO). Assume that for a randomly selected group of 20 adults, the number belonging to an HMO has a binomial distribution. The probability of finding exactly 5 in the 20 who belong to an HMO is.... The probability of finding at least one in th

    Mean Value of Distributed Population

    A normal distributed population has a mean of 250 pounds and a standard deviation of 10 pounds. Given n = 20, what is the probability that this sample will have a mean value between 245 and 255 pounds? A) 0.9750 B) 0.4875 C) 0.3830 D) 0.0876

    Probability: Failures, Least Amounts and Joint Probability

    1. There are five computers in an office. The probability of failure of a computer is 0.3. What is the probability that (a) there are 3 computers working, and (b) at least three computers working? 2. A computer service company is interested in the number of computers that fail. There are hundreds of computers in use in their

    Statistics Normal Distribution

    Assume that the population of heights of male college students is approximately normally distributed with a mean "m" of 68 inches and standard deviation "s" of 3.75 inches. A random sample of 16 heights is obtained: 1.) Describe the distribution of x, height of the college student. 2.) Find the proportion of male college

    Power of a Statistical Test

    The power of a statistical test is?: 1) the probability of not rejecting H o when it is false 2) the probability of rejecting H o when it is false

    Calculating Normal Approximation to Binomial Probability

    A machine cuts circular filters from large rolls of material. If 7.3% of the filters fail to meet specifications, use the normal approximation to the binomial to compute the probability that a sample of 100 of the filters will contain 5 or fewer that fail to meet specifications.

    How many different flights are possible between Toronto and Hawaii?

    The Swansons are planning to fly to Hawaii from Toronto with a stopover in Los Angeles. There are five flights they can take between Toronto and Los Angeles and ten flights between Los Angeles and Hawaii. How many different flights are possible between Toronto and Hawaii?

    A Description of Normal Probability

    The Director of Emergency Medicine at Big Mountain Medical Services is studying patient waiting time. Waiting time is defined as the time from when a patient enters the facility until seen by a physician. The study indicates the waiting time follows a normal distribution with a mean of 22 minutes and a standard deviation of 8 mi

    STATISTICS: According to a study the popular belief is 80% of adults enjoy ...

    1. According to a study the popular belief is 80% of adults enjoy drinking beer. If 3 adults were chosen at random from this study, what would the probability be that none of them enjoy drinking beer? Explain how you found your answer. 2. A family has 5 children and 1 of them is a boy...the percentage of boy is 1/5, or .020

    Standard Deviation

    The annual commissions earned by sales representatives of Machine Products Inc., a manufacturer of light machinery, follow the normal distribution. The mean yearly amount earned is $40,000 and the standard deviation is $5,000. a. What percent of the sales representatives earn more than $42,000 per year? b. What perce