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Chapter 6: Q. 8. (page 367)
Skee Ball Refer to Exercise 4. Find the mean of X. Interpret this value.
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Time and motion A time-and-motion study measures the time required for an assembly-line worker to perform a repetitive task. The data show that the time required to bring a part from a bin to its position on an automobile chassis varies from car to car according to a Normal distribution with mean seconds and standard deviation seconds. The time required to attach the part to the chassis follows a Normal distribution with mean seconds and standard deviation seconds. The study finds that the times required for the two steps are independent. A part that takes a long time to position, for example, does not take more or less time to attach than other parts.
(a) Find the mean and standard deviation of the time required for the entire operation of positioning and attaching the part.
(b) Management鈥檚 goal is for the entire process to take less than seconds. Find the probability that this goal will be met. Show your work
Benford鈥檚 law Exercise 9 described how the first digits of numbers in legitimate records often follow a model known as Benford鈥檚 law. Call the first digit of a randomly chosen legitimate record X for short. The probability distribution for X is shown here (note that a first digit can鈥檛 be 0). From Exercise 9, . Find the standard deviation of X. Interpret this value.
Geometric or not? Determine whether each of the following scenarios describes a geometric setting. If so, define an appropriate geometric random variable.
a. Shuffle a standard deck of playing cards well. Then turn over one card at a time from the top of the deck until you get an ace.
b. Billy likes to play cornhole in his free time. On any toss, he has about a chance of getting a bag into the hole. As a challenge one day, Billy decides to keep tossing bags until he gets one in the hole.
Geometric or not? Determine whether each of the following scenarios describes a geometric setting. If so, define an appropriate geometric random variable.
a. A popular brand of cereal puts a card bearing the image of 1 of 5 famous NASCAR drivers in each box. There is a chance that any particular driver's card ends up in any box of cereal. Buy boxes of the cereal until you have all 5 drivers' cards.
b. In a game of 4-Spot Keno, Lola picks 4 numbers from 1 to 80 . The casino randomly selects 20 winning numbers from 1 to 80 . Lola wins money if she picks 2 or more of the winning numbers. The probability that this happens is \(0.259\). Lola decides to keep playing games of 4-Spot Keno until she wins some money.
Get on the boat! Refer to Exercise 3. Find the mean of Y. Interpret this value.
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