Chapter 7: Q. 2.5 (page 438)
Suppose we roll a fair die four times. What is the probability that a 6 occurs on exactly one of the rolls?
Short Answer
The probability that a 6 occurs on exactly one of the rolls is.
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Chapter 7: Q. 2.5 (page 438)
Suppose we roll a fair die four times. What is the probability that a 6 occurs on exactly one of the rolls?
The probability that a 6 occurs on exactly one of the rolls is.
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Tall girls? To see if the claim made in Exercise is true at their high school, an Ap Statistics class chooses an SRS of twenty -year-old females at the school and measures their heights. In their sample, the mean height is inches. Does this provide convincing evidence that -year-old females at this school are taller than inches, on average?
a. What is the evidence that the average height of all -year-old females at this school is greater than inches, on average?
b. Provide two explanations for the evidence described in part (a).
We used technology to simulate choosing SRSs of size from a population of three hundred -year-old females whose heights follow a Normal distribution with mean localid="1654113150676" inches and standard deviation inches. The dotplot shows the sample mean height for each of the simulated samples.
c. There is one dot on the graph at . Explain what this value represents.
d. Would it be surprising to get a sample mean of or larger in an SRS of size when inches and inches? Justify your answer.
e. Based on your previous answers, is there convincing evidence that the average height of all -year-old females at this school is greater than inches? Explain your reasoning.

Making auto parts A grinding machine in an auto parts plant prepares axles with a target diameter millimeters (mm). The machine has some variability, so the standard deviation of the diameters is . The machine operator inspects a random sample of 4 axles each hour for quality control purposes and records the sample mean diameter . Assume the machine is working properly.
a. Identify the mean of the sampling distribution of .
b. Calculate and interpret the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of .
On one episode of his show, a radio show host encouraged his listeners to visit his website and vote in a poll about proposed tax increases. Of the 4821 people who vote, 4277 are against the proposed increases. To which of the following populations should the results of this poll be generalized?
a. All people who have ever listened to this show
b. All people who listened to this episode of the show
c. All people who visited the show host's website
d. All people who voted in the poll
e. All people who voted against the proposed increases
You work for an advertising agency that is preparing a new television commercial to appeal to women. You have been asked to design an experiment to compare the effectiveness of three versions of the commercial. Each subject will be shown one of the three versions and then asked to reveal her attitude toward the product. You think there may be large differences in the responses of women who are employed and those who are not. Because of these differences, you should use
a. a block design, but not a matched pairs design.
b. a completely randomized design.
c. a matched pairs design.
d. a simple random sample.
e. a stratified random sample.
Lightning strikes The number of lightning strikes on a square kilometer of open ground in a year has mean 6 and standard deviation 2.4. The National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) uses automatic sensors to watch for lightning in 1-square-kilometer plots of land. Find the probability that the total number of lightning strikes in a random sample of 50 square-kilometer plots of land is less than .
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