Chapter 4: Q173SE (page 282)
Downloading 鈥渁pps鈥 to your cell phone. According to an August 2011 survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project life project, nearly 40% of adult cell phone owners have downloaded an application (鈥渁pp鈥) to their cell phone. The next table next table gives the probability distribution for x, the number of鈥渁pps鈥 used at least once a week by cell phone owners .downloaded an 鈥渁pp鈥 to their phone. (The probabilities in the table are based on information from the Pew Internet & American Life Project survey.)
Number of apps used x | p(x) |
0 | 0.17 |
1 | 0.10 |
2 | 0.11 |
3 | 0.11 |
4 | 0.10 |
5 | 0.10 |
6 | 0.07 |
7 | 0.05 |
8 | 0.03 |
9 | 0.02 |
10 | 0.02 |
11 | 0.02 |
12 | 0.02 |
13 | 0.02 |
14 | 0.01 |
15 | 0.01 |
16 | 0.01 |
17 | 0.01 |
18 | 0.01 |
19 | 0.005 |
20 | 0.005 |
Short Answer
- the properties of a probability distribution for a discrete random variable are satisfied.
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- mean of x. is 4.655 and variance is 19.855
- an interval that will contain the value of x with a probability of at least .75.is