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Chapter 4: Q.10 (page 282)
Define the random variable
be the number of days in a week that Ellen has music training.
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Use the following information to answer the next six exercises: The Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA collected data from 203,967 incoming first-time, full-time freshmen from 270 four-year colleges and universities in the U.S. 71.3% of those students replied that, yes, they believe that same-sex couples should have the right to legal marital status. Suppose that you randomly select freshman from the study until you find one who replies 鈥測es.鈥� You are interested in the number of freshmen you must ask.
On average (渭), how many freshmen would you expect to have to ask until you found one who replies "yes?"
The maternity ward at Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in Manila in the Philippines is one of the busiest in the world with an average of 60 births per day. Let X = the number of births in an hour.
a. Find the mean and standard deviation of X.
b. Sketch a graph of the probability distribution of X.
c. What is the probability that the maternity ward will deliver three babies in one hour?
d. What is the probability that the maternity ward will deliver at most three babies in one hour?
e. What is the probability that the maternity ward will deliver more than five babies in one hour?
Construct a probability distribution table for the data.
A theater group holds a fund-raiser. It sells 100 raffle tickets for \(5 apiece. Suppose you purchase four tickets. The prize is two passes to a Broadway show, worth a total of \)150.
a. What are you interested in here?
b. In words, define the random variable X.
c. List the values that X may take on.
d. Construct a PDF.
e. If this fund-raiser is repeated often and you always purchase four tickets, what would be your expected average winnings per raffle?
Suppose that a technology task force is being formed to study technology awareness among instructors. Assume that ten people will be randomly chosen to be on the committee from a group of 28 volunteers, 20 who are technically proficient and eight who are not. We are interested in the number on the committee who are not technically proficient.
a. In words, define the random variable X.
b. List the values that X may take on.
c. Give the distribution of X. X ~ _____(_____,_____)
d. How many instructors do you expect on the committee who are not technically proficient?
e. Find the probability that at least five on the committee are not technically proficient.
f. Find the probability that at most three on the committee are not technically proficient.
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