Chapter 4: Q.2 (page 282)
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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?"
On average, how many batches should the baker make?
Use the following information to answer the next four exercises: Ellen has music practice three days a week. She practices
for all of the three days of the time, two days of the time, one day of the time, and no days of the time. One
week is selected at random.
Use the following information to answer the next six exercises: On average, a clothing store gets customers per day.
What is the probability that the store will have fewer than customers in the first two hours?
Find the standard deviation.

According to a recent Pew Research poll, 75% of millenials (people born between 1981 and 1995) have a profile on a social networking site. Let X = the number of millenials you ask until you find a person without a profile on a social networking site.
a. Describe the distribution of X.
b. Find the (i) mean and (ii) standard deviation of X.
c. What is the probability that you must ask ten people to find one person without a social networking site?
d. What is the probability that you must ask 20 people to find one person without a social networking site?
e. What is the probability that you must ask at most five people?
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