Chapter 6: Q.31 (page 357)
Better readers?() Did students have higher reading scores after participating in the chess program? Give appropriate statistical evidence to support your answer.
Short Answer
Yes, students are getting higher marks.
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Chapter 6: Q.31 (page 357)
Better readers?() Did students have higher reading scores after participating in the chess program? Give appropriate statistical evidence to support your answer.
Yes, students are getting higher marks.
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Benford鈥檚 law and fraud A not-so-clever employee decided to fake his monthly expense report. He believed that the first digits of his expense amounts should be equally likely to be any of the numbers from to . In that case, the first digit of a randomly selected expense amount would have the probability distribution shown in the histogram.

(a). Explain why the mean of the random variable Y is located at the solid red line in the figure.
(b) The first digits of randomly selected expense amounts actually follow Benford鈥檚 law (Exercise 5). What鈥檚 the expected value of the first digit? Explain how this information could be used to detect a fake expense report.
(c) What鈥檚 ? According to Benford鈥檚 law, what proportion of first digits in the employee鈥檚 expense amounts should be greater than ? How could this information be used to detect a fake expense report?
Suppose you roll a pair of fair, six-sided dice. Let = the sum of the spots showing on the up-faces.
(a) Find the probability distribution of .
(b) Make a histogram of the probability distribution. Describe what you see.
(c) Find and interpret the result.
86.in wins As a special promotion for its -ounce bottles of soda, a soft drink company printed a message on the inside of each cap. Some of the caps said, 鈥淧lease try again,鈥 while others said, 鈥淵ou鈥檙e a winner!鈥 The company advertised the promotion with the slogan 鈥inwins a prize.鈥 Suppose the company is telling the truth and that every -ounce
bottle of soda it fills has a-in-chance of being a winner. Seven friends each buy one -ounce bottle of the soda at a local convenience store. Let the number who win a prize.
(a) Explain why is a binomial random variable.
(b) Find the mean and standard deviation of . Interpret each value in context.
(c) The store clerk is surprised when three of the friends win a prize. Is this group of friends just lucky, or is the company鈥檚 -in- claim inaccurate? Compute and use the result to justify your answer.
A housing company builds houses with two-car garages. What percent of households have more cars than the garage can hold? (a)
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Suppose you roll a pair of fair, six-sided dice until you get doubles. Let the number of rolls it takes.
In the game of Monopoly, a player can get out of jail free by rolling doubles within turns. Find the probability that this happens
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