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In Exercises 21鈥25, refer to the accompanyingtable, which describes the numbers of adults in groups of five who reported sleepwalking (based on data from 鈥淧revalence and Comorbidity of Nocturnal Wandering In the U.S. Adult General Population,鈥 by Ohayon et al., Neurology, Vol. 78, No. 20).

Use the range rule of thumb to determine whether 4 is a significantly high number of sleepwalkersin a group of 5 adults.

x

P(x)

0

0.172

1

0.363

2

0.306

3

0.129

4

0.027

5

0.002

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Four is significantly a high number of sleepwalkers in a group of 5 adults.

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01

Given information

The probability distribution for the number of adults in groups who reported sleepwalking is provided.

02

Identify the requirements for a probability distribution

Let x be the number of sleepwalkers in a group of five.

The requirements are as follows:

1)The variable x is anumerical random variable as the values are countable.

2)The sum of the probabilities is computed as:

Px=0.172+0.363+0.306+0.129+0.027+0.002=0.999

Therefore,the sum of the probabilities is approximately equal to 1 with a round of error as 0.001.

3) Each value of P(x) is between 0 and 1.

Thus, there are no requirements that are not satisfied.

03

Calculate the mean

The mean for a random variable is computed as

=xPx=00.172+10.363+20.306+...+50.002=1.481.5

Thus, the mean number of sleepwalkers is 1.5.

04

Compute the standard deviation

The standard deviation of the random variable x is computed as:

=x2Px-2

The calculations are as follows:

x2Px=020.172+120.363+220.306+...+520.002=3.23

The standard deviation is given as:

=x2Px-2=3.23-1.52=0.981.0

Thus, the standard deviation of x is 1.0.

05

Use the range rule of thumb to check whether 4 is a significantly high number of sleepwalkers in a group of 5 adults

Significant high values are the values greater than or equal to .

The calculations are computed as:

+2=1.5+21=3.5

Since 4 is greater than 3.5, this implies that it is a significantly high number of sleepwalkers in groups of five adults.

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