Chapter 4: Q.15 (page 283)
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Chapter 4: Q.15 (page 283)
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According to the South Carolina Department of Mental Health web site, for every 200 U.S. women, the average number who suffer from anorexia is one. Out of a randomly chosen group of 600 U.S. women determine the following.
a. In words, define the random variable X.
b. List the values that X may take on.
c. Give the distribution ofX. X ~ _____(_____,_____)
d. How many are expected to suffer from anorexia?
e. Find the probability that no one suffers from anorexia.
f. Find the probability that more than four suffer from anorexia.
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?"
Use the following information to answer the next five exercises: Suppose that a group of statistics students is divided into two groups: business majors and non-business majors. There are business majors in the group and seven non-business majors in the group. A random sample of nine students is taken. We are interested in the number of business majors in the sample.
What values does take on?
An electronics store expects to have ten returns per day on average. The manager wants to know the probability of the store getting fewer than eight returns on any given day. State the probability question mathematically.
What values does X take on?
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