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    Statistics - Probability Consumer Tastes

    1) A record store owner wants to determine consumer tastes. She decides to observe customers in her store on a particular day and record the number of minutes the each spends in the Alternative Music and Rap sections of the store. She came up with the following data: Alternative Music Rap Mean = x = 25 Mean = 20 St

    Mean, Standard Deviation & Probability Distribution

    Find the mean, standard deviation and probability distribution for the given problems. 1. The average profit per unit for Product A is $5.32, Product B is $7.98, and Product C is $9.69. If the percentages of each sold are 36, 29, and 35 respectively, what is the weighted mean profit per unit? 2. A fleet of cabs fo

    Probability and Expected Value

    Find the expected profit in the given question. The Wilhelms Cola Company plans to market a new pineapple-flavored cola this summer. The decision is whether to package the cola in returnable or in no-return bottles. Currently, the state legislature is considering eliminating no-return bottles. Tybo Wilhelms, president of Wilh

    Probability of Guessing Correctly

    1. A committee consists of five Chicanos, two Asians, three African Americans, and two Caucasions. a) A subcommittee of four is chosen at random. What is the probability that all the ethnic groups are represented on the subcommittee? b) Answer the question for part (a) if a subcommittee of five is chosen. 2. The game of Ma

    Probability Distinct Size

    There are 5 pairs of shoes with distinct size. Now choose any 4 from it randomly, find the probability that they form at least a pair.

    Statistics - polling

    1. On February 8, 2002, the Gallup Organization released the results of a poll concerning American attitudes toward the 19th Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. The poll results were based on telephone interviews with a randomly selected national sample of 1011 adults, 18 years and older, conducted February 4 - 6, 2002.

    Statistics: normally and binomially distributed random variables

    1) A videotape store has an average weekly gross of $1,158 with a standard deviation of $120. Assuming this to be a normally distributed random variable, calculate the following: a. Probability the weekly gross will exceed $1,261. b. Proportion of weeks the weekly gross is less than $1,080. c. Probability the weekly gross is

    Statistics problem

    1) A survey revealed that 21.5% of the households had no checking account, 66.9% had regular checking accounts, and 11.6% had NOW accounts. Of those households with no checking account 40% had savings accounts. Of the households with regular checking accounts 71.6% had a savings account. Of the households with NOW accounts 7

    Hamburger Probability of Incidents of People Becoming Ill

    Because of a recent incident in which a number of people became ill after eating undercooked hamburger meat, intensive interest has centered around the cooking time for hamburger patties. In the past, the cooking time at a local fast food firm has been found to be uniformly distributed between 4 and 5 minutes. a) A TV report

    Finding a probability given Binomial and Poisson distributions

    1.The Census Bureau reports that 55% of all 3-to-5-year-old children attended preschool programs at least a portion of the day. If 18 children are chosen at random, what is the probability that fewer than six children attend such a program? 2. Experimenters in ecology found that the average density of zooplankton in a pond w

    working with probability distributions.

    702) On any given day the number of leasable square feet of office space available in a small city is a normally distributed random variable within mean of 850,000 square feet and a standard deviation of 25,000 square feet. The number of leasable square feet available in another city is normally distributed with a mean of

    Probability distribution

    702) On any given day the number of leasable square feet of office space available in a small city is a normally distributed random variable witha mean of 850,000 square feet and a standard deviation of 25,000 square feet. The number of leasable square feet available in another city is normally distributed with a mean of

    Statistics and Probability

    A retail grocer has decided to market organic "health food" and will purchase a new line of products from each of two suppliers. Unknown to the grocer, the two suppliers are in financial distress. Past experience has shown that, for firms with similar credit histories, the probability that bankruptcy will be initiated one year

    List the simple events in the sample for this experiment.

    Please help me with the following problem: The city of a particular community consists of five elected residents of the community, two of whom are land developers. The city mayor plans to elect two members at random from the council to study and make recommendations on land use rezoning requests. The composition of this su

    Probability of a Brother Knocking Down Their Bottle

    In a game at a fraternity party, there are 10 bottles to knock down. Five fraternity brothers line up to shoot the bottles down, each a perfect shot. Each brother selects one bottle at random and shoots. Find the e-value of your distribution of the number of bottles knocked down. Each brother is a perfect shot so the probabi

    Distributions

    A rare disease has just broken out. Doctor Johnson is trying to help, but while treating patients he might expose himself to the disease. He takes many precautions, but he doesn't know how much he's been exposed. Let the number x represent Doctor Johnson's exposure level. He doesn't know it for sure, but he assigns a uniform

    Finding the probability that the roots of a quadratic exist.

    You assign uniform distributions to a, b, and c (each between 0 and 1). What is your probability that all the roots of the following equation are real? So, if you used the quadratic formula to solve the equation and you got the square root of a negative number as a root then the roots would not be real. ax^2 + bx + c = 0

    E-Value of a Distribution: Coin Flips

    Bill flips a coin that can land heads or tails, and you assign equal probabilities to each, with all flips mutually irrelevant. Bill will flip the coin until he sees a consecutive sequence of tails, tails, tails. What is the e-value of your distribution of the number of flips until this happens? For example, if Bill flips HHT

    Probability of Rolling of the Die

    A person rolls a pair of six-sided dice, which are equally likely to come up any number from 1 to 6. If the person rolls a seven he gets $0. If he rolls any other number, he can choose either to win that amount or play the game again from the start. This person believes that the best strategy is to keep rolling until he gets a "

    Probability in the given situation given x-bar and sample size.

    Your troop's past cookie sales went sour last year. Parents had to bail you and your troop member out of the hole. For next year the troop wants to know from your customers the planned cookie orders are likely to be for the next year. You get x-bar = $160,000 s = $80,000 and n = 1000. What is the probability that the r

    Statistic - Number of ways to select an object

    3) Furnish 2 offices each with a desk, chair, and file cabinet and 2 bookcases. At a local store there are 6 models of desks, 8 models of chairs 4 models of file cabinets and 10 models of bookcases. How many choices do you have if you want to select two desks, two chairs, two file cabinets and four bookcases if you don't want t

    Distributions Discrete Probability Distribution

    1. Find the value of (a) in the following discrete probability distribution: X -2 0 2 P(x): a 0.35 0.25 2. A binomial distribution is based on n=25 and p=0.1. Find the probability that x =1. 3 A production process produces parts with weights that are normally distributed with a mean of 1.75 ounces and a standard devi

    Probability calculation using Normal Distribution

    Mean=76, standard deviation=12; Subject Q had a score of 70. a. What proportion of the population scored below Q? b. If you changed the mean to 100 and the standard deviation to 10, what would Q's score be?