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b. normal with mean 0 and standard deviation 5/6. - The time for a worker to assemble
a component is normally distributed with mean 15 minutes and variance 4. Denote the
mean assembly times of 16 day-shift workers and 9 night-shift workers by $
$\overline{X}$$ and $$\overline{Y}$$, respectively. Assume that the assembly times of
the workers are mutually independent. The distribution of $$\overline{X} $$- $
$\overline{Y}$$ is
a. 2.6 - Find the standard deviation for the given sample data: 2 6 2 2 1 4 4 2 4 2 3 8 4 2
2 7 7 2 3 11
c. Ordinal - Survey responses of " good, better, best". which type of data is?
c. 12.0 - Find the mean for the binomial distribution which has the stated values of n and
p. Round answer to the nearest tenth. n = 20; p = 3/5
a. 0.1587 - Assume that X has a normal distribution with the mean is μ = 15.2 and the
standard deviation is σ = 0.9. Find the probability that X is greater than 16.1.
c. There is sufficient evidence to support the claim that the mean temperature is
different from 45°F - The manufacturer of a refrigerator system for beer kegs produces
refrigerators that are supposed to maintain a true mean temperature, μ, of 45°F, ideal
for a certain type of German pilsner. The owner of the brewery does not agree with the
refrigerator manufacturer, and claims he can prove that the true mean temperature is
incorrect. Assuming that a hypothesis test of the claim has been conducted and that the
conclusion is to reject the null hypothesis, state the conclusion in nontechnical terms.
b. {red, yellow, orange} - A bag of colored candies contains 20 red, 25 yellow, and 35
orange candies. An experiment consists of randomly choosing one candy from the bag
and recording its color. What is the sample space for this experiment?
c. 0.036 - The probability is 2% that an electrical connector that is kept dry fails during
the warranty period of a portable computer. If the connector is ever wet, the probability
of a failure during the warranty period is 10%. If 80% of the connectors are kept dry and
20% are wet, what proportion of connectors fail during the warranty period?
a. 0.023 - The amount of pyridoxine (in grams) per multiple vitamin is normally
distributed with $$\mu= 110$$ grams and $$\sigma = 25$$ grams. A sample of vitamins
is to be selected. What is the probability that the sample mean will be less than 100
grams? Let $$P(Z<-2)=0.023;P(Z<-0.4)=0.421;P(Z<0.07)=0.529;P(Z<0.75)=0.673$$.
c. 2.31 - A card game is played in which the player wins if a face card is drawn (king,
queen, jack) from a deck of 52 cards. If the player plays 10 times, what is the expected
number of wins for the player?
d. a continuous random variable. - Researchers are concerned that the weight of the
average American school child is increasing implying, among other things, that
children's clothing should be manufactured and marketed in larger sizes. If $$X$$ is the
weight of school children sampled in a nationwide study, then $$X$$ is an example of
d. 1.55 - In a recent survey, 80% of the community favored building a police substation
in their neighborhood. If 15 citizens are chosen, what is the standard deviation of the
number favoring the substation?
b. 8.231 - Find the critical value or values of x2 based on the given information. H1: σ <
0.629 n = 19 α = 0.025
d. 0.1175 - A company has 2 machines that produce widgets. An older machine

produces 23% defective widgets, while the new machine produces only 8% defective
widgets. In addition, the new machine produces 3 times as many widgets as the older
machine does. What is the probability that a randomly chosen widget produced by the
company is defective?
b. (0.81, 1.83) - The grade point averages for 10 randomly selected students are listed
below. Construct a 90% confidence interval for the population standard deviation, $
$\sigma.$$ Assume the data are normally distributed. 2.0 3.2 1.8 2.9 0.9 4.0 3.3 2.9 3.6
0.8
a. χ2 ≈ 162.833 - For large numbers of degrees of freedom, the critical χ2 values can be
approximated as follows: χ2 = (z + )2, where k is the number of degrees of freedom and
z is the critical value. To find the lower critical value, the negative z-value is used, to find
the upper critical value, the positive z-value is used. Use this approximation to estimate
the critical value of χ2 in a right-tailed hypothesis test with n =125 and α = 0.01.
a. The mean is greater than the median. - Which statement is true for the scores of 1, 2,
3, 4, 5, 5, 7, 8, 9, and 10?
c. parking times of the 130 students - Parking at a large university has become a very
big problem. University administrators are interested in determining the average parking
time (e.g. the time it takes a student to find a parking spot) of its students. An
administrator inconspicuously followed 130 students and carefully recorded their
parking times. Identify the sample of interest to the university administration.
a. 1.52 - The probability that a radish seed will germinate is 0.7. A gardener plants
seeds in batches of 11. Find the standard deviation for the random variable X, the
number of seeds germinating in each batch.
d. 34 - The standard IQ test has a mean of 96 and a standard deviation of 14. We want
to be 90% certain that we are within 4 IQ points of the true mean. Determine the
required sample size.
a. 0.2627 - An archer is able to hit the bull's-eye 55% of the time. If she shoots 8 arrows,
what is the probability that she gets exactly 4 bull's-eyes? Assume each shot is
independent of the others.
a. 0.7557 - Let Z is a standard normal variable, find P(-0.73 < Z < 2.27).
c. 0.214 - The following table shows the political affiliation of voters in one city and their
positions on stronger gun control laws. Favor Oppose Republican 0.09 0.26 Democrat
0.22 0.2 Other 0.11 0.12 What is the probability that a voter who favors stronger gun
control laws is a Republican?
a. Normal - Determine whether the hypothesis test involves a sampling distribution of

means that is a normal distribution, Student t distribution, or neither. Claim: μ = 959.
Sample data: n = 25,$$\overline{x} = 951,$$ s = 25. The sample data appear to come
from a normally distributed population with σ = 28.
a. 0.89 - Suppose X is a uniform random variable over the interval [20, 90]. Find the
probability that a randomly selected observation is between 23 and 85.
d. 2.46 - Find the variance for the given probability distribution. x 0 1 2 3 4 P(x) 0.17
0.28 0.05 0.15 0.35
d. 0.33 - A machine is set to pump cleanser into a process at the rate of 5 gallons per
minute. Upon inspection, it is learned that the machine actually pumps cleanser at a
rate described by the uniform distribution over the interval 4.5 to 7.5 gallons per minute.
Find the probability that between 5.0 gallons and 6.0 gallons are pumped during a
randomly selected minute.
b. Scores 91-100 81-90 71-80 61-70 <61 Relative Frequency 11.11% 18.52% 44.44%
18.52% 7.41% - Construct the relative frequency distribution that corresponds to given
frequency distribution Scores 91-100 81-90 71-80 61-70 <61 Frequency 3 5 12 5 2
d. 0.0013 - A new phone system was installed last year to help reduce the expense of
personal calls that were being made by employees. Before the new system was
installed, the amount being spent on personal calls follows a normal distribution with an
average of $700 per month and a standard deviation of $50 per month. Refer to such
expenses as PCE's (personal call expenses). Find the probability that a randomly
selected month had a PCE that falls below $550.
c. 0.1210 - Find the probability that in 200 tosses of a fair six-sided die, a five will be
obtained at least 40 times.
a. 14.042 - Find the critical value or values of $$\chi^2$$ based on the given
information. H1: σ < 0.14 n = 23 α = 0.10
b. 0.095089 - The probabilities that a customer entering a particular bookstore buys 0,
1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 books are 0.30, 0.20, 0.20, 0.15, 0.10, and 0.05 respectively. For the
probability distribution above, find the variance. (Note: please give the answer as a real
number accurate to2 decimal places after the decimal point.)
b. There is not sufficient evidence to support the claim that the true proportion is greater
than 75 percent. - A psychologist claims that more than 75 percent of the population
suffers from professional problems due to extreme shyness. Assuming that a
hypothesis test of the claim has been conducted and that the conclusion is failure to
reject the null hypothesis, state the conclusion in nontechnical terms.
c. {2, 4, 6, 8, 10} - An experiment consists of randomly choosing a number between 1

and 10. Let E be the event that the number chosen is even. List the sample points in E.
d. 14. - When conducting a t test for the correlation coefficient in a study with 16
individuals, the degrees of freedom will be
a. 0.0436 - Suppose that $$X$$ is a negative binomial random variable with $$p = 0.2$
$ and $$r = 4$$. Determine $$P(X=20)$$.
a. 379 - Many people think that a national lobby's successful fight against gun control
legislation is reflecting the will of a minority of Americans. A previous random sample of
4000 citizens yielded 2250 who are in favor of gun control legislation. How many
citizens would need to be sampled if a 95% confidence interval was desired to estimate
the true proportion to within 5%?
d. 0.556744 - Let X represent the amount of time it takes a student to park in the library
parking lot at the university. If we know that the distribution of parking times can be
modeled using an exponential distribution with a mean of 4 minutes, find the probability
that it will take a randomly selected student between 2 and 12 minutes to park in the
library lot.
d. ($513.17, $860.33) - A local bank needs information concerning the checking account
balances of its customers. A random sample of 15 accounts was checked. The mean
balance was $686.75 with a standard deviation of $256.20. Find a 98% confidence
interval for the true mean. Assume that the account balances are normally distributed.
b. 0.343 - A basketball player has made 70% of his foul shots during the season. If he
shoots 3 foul shots in tonight's game, what is the probability that he makes all of the
shots?
c. equal to - When considering area under the standard normal curve, decide whether
the area to the left ofz =0.2is bigger than, smaller than, or equal to the area to the right
ofz = -0.2
a. 0.50 - A machine is set to pump cleanser into a process at the rate of 10 gallons per
rate described by the uniform distribution over the interval 9.5 to 11.5 gallons per
minute. What is the probability that at the time the machine is checked it is pumping
more than 10.5 gallons per minute?
d. 98 - Find the mode(s) for the given dample data 98, 25, 98, 13, 25, 29, 56, 98
a. 2.7969 - If you were constructing a 99% confidence interval of the normal population
mean based on a sample of $$n = 25$$ where the standard deviation of the sample $$s
= 0.05$$. What is the critical value? Let $
$t_{0.005,24}=2.7969;t_{0.01,24}=2.4922;z_{0.01}=2.33; z_{0.05}=2.58$$.
d. approximately 1 - One year, professional sports players salaries averaged $1.5

million with a standard deviation of $0.7 million. Suppose a sample of 100 major league
players was taken. Find the approximate probability that the average salary of the 100
players exceeded $1.1 million.
c. 1/10 - A random number generator is set top generate integer random numbers
between 1 and 10 inclusive following a uniform distribution. What is the probability of the
random number generator generating a 7?
c. 19.6 - The probability is 0.7 that a person shopping at a certain store will spend less
than $20. For random samples of 28 customers, find the mean number of shoppers who
spend less than $20.
b. 1.66 - According to a college survey, 22% of all students work full time. Find the
standard deviation for the random variable X, the number of students who work full time
in samples of size 16.
d. - Construct the cumulative frequency distribution that coressponds to the given

frequency distribution
a. 0.2503 - A multiple choice test has 10 questions each of which has 4 possible
answers, only one of which is correct. If Judy, who forgot to study for the test, guesses
on all questions, what is the probability that she will answer exactly 3 questions
correctly?
d. 0.2525 - A normal distribution has mean μ = 60 and standard deviation = 6, find the
area underthe curve to the right of 64.
b. (61.9, 64.9) - In a sample of 10 randomly selected women, it was found that their
mean height was 63.4 inches. From previous studies, it is assumed that the standard
deviation, $$\sigma,$$ is 2.4. Construct the 95% confidence interval for the population
mean.
a. descriptive statistics. - The collection and summarization of the socioeconomic and
physical characteristics of the employees of a particular firm is an example of
c. 7 - A nurse at a local hospital is interested in estimating the birth weight of infants.

How large a sample must she select if she desires to be 90% confident that the true
mean is within 4 ounces of the sample mean? The standard deviation of the birth
weights is known to be 6 ounces.
a. 0.178 - Police estimate that 25% of drivers drive without their seat belts. If they stop 6
drivers at random, find the probability that all of them are wearing their seat belts.
a. 0.4987 - LetZ is a standard normal variable, find the the probability that Z lies
between 0 and 3.01.
b. H0: μ = 14 H1: μ < 14 - A cereal company claims that the mean weight of the cereal
in its packets is at least 14 oz. Express the null hypothesis H0 and the alternative
hypothesis H1 in symbolic form.
a. 20% - A business venture can result in the following outcomes (with their
corresponding chance of occurring in parentheses) Highly Successful (10%),
Successful (25%), Break Even (25%), Disappointing (20%), and Highly Disappointing
(?). If these are the only outcomes possible for the business venture, what is the chance
that the business venture will be considered Highly Disappointing?
gun control is 62% when it is actually different than 62%. - A researcher claims that 62%
of voters favor gun control. Assume that a hypothesis test of the given claim will be
conducted. Identify the type II error for the test.
d. all custormers - An employee at the local ice cream parlor asks three customers if
they like chocolate ice cream. What is the population?
c. .9579 - A new phone system was installed last year to help reduce the expense of
installed, the amount being spent on personal calls followed a normal distribution with
an average of $900 per month and a standard deviation of $50 per month. Refer to such
expenses as PCE's (personal call expenses). Using the distribution above, what is the
probability that a randomly selected month had a PCE of between $775.00 and
$990.00?
c. 31.74% - For a standard normal distribution, find the percentage of data that are more
than 1 standard deviation away from the mean.
b. ($138, $162) - In a random sample of 60 computers, the mean repair cost was $150
with a population standard deviation of $36. Construct a 99% confidence interval for the
population mean.
d. 0.001 - Let $$\overline{X}$$ denote the sample mean of a random sample of size n1
= 16 taken from a normal distribution $$N(\mu, 36),$$ and let $$\overline{Y}$$ denote
the sample mean of a random sample of size n2 = 25 taken from a different normal
distribution $$N(\mu, 9).$$ Compute $$P(\overline{X} - \overline{Y}>5).$$
d. (19.9, 24.9) - Construct a 99% confidence interval for the population mean, μ.
Assume the population has a normal distribution. A group of 19 randomly selected
students has a mean age of 22.4 years with a standard deviation of 3.8 years.
d. 2.94 - The claim is that the proportion of drowning deaths of children attributable to
beaches is more than 0.25, and the sample statistics include n= 647 drowning deaths of
children with 30% of them attributable to beaches. Find the value of the test statistic z
using $$z=\frac{\overline{p}-p_0}{\sqrt{\frac{p_0(1-p_0)}{n}}}$$.
c. 99.7% - The systolic blood pressure of 18-year-old women is normally distributed with
a mean of 120 mmHg and a standard deviation of 12 mmHg. What percentage of 18-
year-old women have a systolic blood pressure that lies within 3 standard deviations of
the mean?
c. 0.1971 - In one region, the September energy consumption levels for single-family
homes are normally distributed with a mean of 1050 kWh and a standard deviation of
218 kWh. For a randomly selected home, find the probability that the September energy
consumption level is between 1100 kWh and 1225 kWh.
c. 4118 - A confidence interval was used to estimate the proportion of statistics students
that are female. A random sample of 72 statistics students generated the following
confidence interval: Using the information above, what size sample would be necessary
if we wanted to estimate the true proportion to within 2% using 99% reliability?
c. There is sufficient evidence to support the claim that the standard deviation is less
than 14.7. - The principal of a middle school claims that test scores of the seventh-
graders at his school vary less than the test scores of the seventh-graders at a
neighboring school, which have variation described by σ = 14.7. Assuming that a
hypothesis test of the claim has been conducted and that the conclusion is to reject the
null hypothesis, state the conclusion in nontechnical terms.
b. 0.7 - Suppose x is a uniform random variable over the interval [40, 50]. Find the
probability that a randomly selected observation exceeds 43.
a. (3.2, 26.3) - The mean replacement time for a random sample of 12 microwave ovens
is 8.6 years with a standard deviation of 2.7 years. Construct the 98% confidence
interval for the population variance, $$\sigma^2.$$ Assume the data are normally
distributed
c. 8.6 - The number of ounces of soda that a vending machine dispenses per cup is
normally distributed with a mean of 12 ounces and a standard deviation of 4 ounces.
Find the number of ounces above which 80% of the dispensed sodas will fall.
b. H0: μ = 30 H1: μ > 30 - Carter Motor Company claims that its new sedan, the Libra,
will average better than 30 miles per gallon in the city. Use μ, the true average mileage
of the Libra. Express the null hypothesis H0 and the alternative hypothesis H1 in
symbolic form.
b. The area under the standard normal curve to the left of z = 0 is negative. - Which of
the following is not true about the standard normal distribution?
b. 0.04 - It has been found that 40% of the employees who complete a sequence of
executive seminars go on to become vice presidents. Assume that 10 graduates of the
program are randomly selected, find the probability that at least two become vice
presidents. (Note: please give the answer as a real number accurate to4 decimal places
after the decimal point.)
d. 0.4013 - The volumes of soda in quart soda bottles are normally distributed with a
mean of 32.3 oz and a standard deviation of 1.2 oz. What is the probability that the
volume of soda in a randomly selected bottle will be less than 32 oz?
b. LD-LD CD-LD LP-LP LD-CD CD-CD LD-LP LP-CD - Both Fred and Ed have a bag of
candy containing a lemon drop, a cherry drop, and a lollipop. Each takes out a piece
and eats it. What are the possible pairs of candies eaten? Create the sample space of
possible outcomes.
b. 5.25, 12.5, 22.75 - Using Excel to find three quartiles for the given data below: 1, 3, 6,
10, 15, 21, 28, 36.
b. 0.1841 - If the probability of a newborn child being female is 0.5, find the probability
that in 100 births, 55 or more will be female.
d. 0.103 - Assume that a procedure yields a binomial distribution with a trial repeated n
times. Use the binomial probability formula to find the probability of x successes given
the probability p of success on a single trial. n =12, x = 5, p = 0.25
b. ($3.39, $6.01) - A random sample of 10 parking meters in a beach community

showed the following incomes for a day. Assume the incomes are normally distributed.
$3.60 $4.50 $2.80 $6.30 $2.60 $5.20 $6.75 $4.25 $8.00 $3.00 Find the 95% confidence
interval for the true mean.
c. In repeated sampling, 95% of the intervals constructed would contain the population
mean. - Suppose a 95% confidence interval for μ turns out to be (1000, 2100). Give a
definition of what it means to be "95% confident" in an inference.
d. 16 - For the sample below, find the number of observations that are within 1.5
standard deviations of the mean. 2, 3, 5, 5, 6, 3, 6, 5, 6, 9, 2, 5, 3, 5, 6, 3, 5, 6, 6, 9.
c. 0.0764 - Use the given information to find the P-value. The test statistic in a right-
tailed test is z = 1.43.
b. The width decreases. - The grade point averages for 10 randomly selected students
in a statistics class with 125 students are listed below. 2.0 3.2 1.8 2.9 0.9 4.0 3.3 2.9 3.6
0.8 What is the effect on the width of the confidence interval if the sample size is
increased to 20?
d. 0.169 - A percentage distribution is given below for the size of families in one U.S.
city. Size Percentage 2 42.8 3 21.1 4 19.2 5 11.6 6 3.3 7+ 2.0 A family is selected at
random. Find the probability that the size of the family is 4 or more. Round your result to
three decimal places.
a. The mean of the sampling distribution is always μ. - Which of the following is true
about the sampling distribution of the sample mean?
c. (628.5, 661.5) - Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population mean, μ.
Assume the population has a normal distribution. A random sample of 16 fluorescent
light bulbs has a mean life of 645 hours with a standard deviation of 31 hours.
a. Nomial - Survey responses of nationalities of survey respondents. which type of data

is?
d. 84.00% - For a standard normal distribution, find the percentage of data that are
between 3 standard deviations below the mean and 1 standard deviation above the
mean.
a. 0.0154 - Assume that a procedure yields a binomial distribution with a trial repeated n
the probability p of success on a single trial. n = 4, x = 3, p = 1/6
c. 0.0336 - Use the given information to find the P-value. The test statistic in a left-tailed
test is z = -1.83.
d. 1.23 - Assume that z scores are normally distributed with a mean of 0 and a standard
deviation of 1. If P(Z > c) = 0.1093, find c.
c. 2.36 - The accompanying table shows the probability distribution for x, the number
that shows up when a loaded die is rolled. Find the variance for the probability
distribution. x 1 2 3 4 5 6 P(x) 0.16 0.19 0.22 0.21 0.12 0.10
c. H0: μ, the average attendance at games, is equal to 67,800 H1: μ, the average
attendance at games, is greater than 67,800 - The owner of a football team claims that
the average attendance at games is over 67,800, and he is therefore justified in moving
the team to a city with a larger stadium. Express the null hypothesis H0 and the
alternative hypothesis H1 in symbolic form.
c. The error of rejecting the claim that the mean temperature equals 50°F when it really
does equal 50°F. - The manufacturer of a refrigerator system for beer kegs produces
refrigerators that are supposed to maintain a true mean temperature, μ, of 50°F, ideal
for a certain type of German pilsner. The owner of the brewery does not agree with the
refrigerator manufacturer, and claims he can prove that the true mean temperature is
incorrect. Assume that a hypothesis test of the given claim will be conducted. Identify
the type I error for the test.
a. 0.0625 - A campus program evenly enrolls undergraduate and graduate students. If a

random sample of 4 students is selected from the program to be interviewed about the
introduction of a new fast food outlet on the ground floor of the campus building, what is
the probability that all 4 students selected are undergraduate students?
a. HH HT TH TT - Flip a coin twice, create the sample space of possible outcomes.
b. 0.0892 - The number of power outages at a nuclear power plant has a Poisson
distribution with a mean of 6 outages per year. The probability that there will be exactly
3 power outages in a year is
c. 1/6 - If two balanced die are rolled, the possible outcomes can be represented as
follows. (1, 1) (2, 1) (3, 1) (4, 1) (5, 1) (6, 1) (1, 2) (2, 2) (3, 2) (4, 2) (5, 2) (6, 2) (1, 3) (2,
3) (3, 3) (4, 3) (5, 3) (6, 3) (1, 4) (2, 4) (3, 4) (4, 4) (5, 4) (6, 4) (1, 5) (2, 5) (3, 5) (4, 5) (5,
5) (6, 5) (1, 6) (2, 6) (3, 6) (4, 6) (5, 6) (6, 6) Determine the probability that the sum of
the dice is 7.
d. 0.92 - A company has 2 machines that produce widgets. An older machine produces
23% defective widgets, while the new machine produces only 8% defective widgets. In
addition, the new machine produces 3 times as many widgets as the older machine
does. Given that a widget was produced by the new machine, what is the probability it is
not defective?
c. 68% - At one college, GPAs are normally distributed with a mean of 2.6 and a
standard deviation of 0.4. What percentage of students at the college have a GPA
between 2.2 and 3?
a. when there is no linear correlation - When is the correlation coefficient zero?
d. regardless of the shape of the population. - For sample sizes greater than 40, the
sampling distribution of the mean will be approximately normally distributed
c. 20.090 - Find the critical value or values of $$\chi^2$$ based on the given
information. H1: σ > 26.1 n = 9 α = 0.01
b. 0.0314 - To determine the difference , if any, between two brands of radial tires, 12
tires of each brand are tested. Assume that the lifetimes of both brands of tires come
from the same normal distribution $$N(\mu, 3300^2).$$ Compute $
$P(\overline{X}-\overline{Y} <-2500).$$
c. 1.55 - Find the mean of thefollowing probability distribution. x 0 1 2 3 4 P(x) 0.19 0.37
0.16 0.26 0.02
c. bigger than - When considering area under the standard normal curve, decide
whether the area to the right of z = 2 is bigger than, smaller than, or equal to the area to
the right of z = 2.5.
b. 35 - Find the percentile for the data point. data set: 3 11 8 6 3 3 11 6 3 11 2 11 15 4 9

3 12 8 6 11 data point: 6
d. 1.735, 23.589 - Find the critical value or values of x2 based on the given information.
H0: σ = 8.0 n = 10 α = 0.01
Assume the population has a normal distribution. In a recent study of 22 eighth graders,
the mean number of hours per week that they watched television was 19.6 with a
standard deviation of 5.8 hours.
b. 0.47 - Let X be a random variable has the following uniform density function f(x) = 0.1
when 0< x < 10. What is the probability that the random variable X has a value greater
than 5.3?
b. Retrospective study - Jared was working on a project to look at global warming and
accessed an Internet site where he captured average global surface temperatures from
1866. Which of the four methods of data collection was he using?
b. 2.7969. - If you were constructing a 99% confidence interval of the population mean
based on a sample of n=25 where the standard deviation of the sample s = 0.05, the
critical value of t will be
a. 0.28 - Suppose that P(A B) = 0.3 and P(B) = 0.4. Determine P(A' and B).
d. 0.65 - The diameter of ball bearings produced in a manufacturing process can be

explained using a uniform distribution over the interval 4.5 to 6.5 millimeters. What is the
probability that a randomly selected ball bearing has a diameter greater than 5.2
millimeters?
d. 0.125 - Suppose that $$X$$ has the probability density function $$f(x)=1.5x^2$$ for $
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b. WW, BW - Two white mice mate. The male has both a white and a black fur-color
gene. The female has only white fur-color genes. The fur color of the offspring depends
on the pairs of fur-color genes that they receive. Assume that neither the white nor the
black gene dominates. List the possible outcomes. W = white and B = black Create the
sample space of possible outcomes.
b. 0.65 - The diameters of ball bearings produced in a manufacturing process can be

described using a uniform distribution over the interval 8.5 to 10.5 millimeters. What is
the probability that a randomly selected ball bearing has a diameter greater than 9.2
millimeters?
c. There is sufficient evidence to warrant rejection of the claim that the mean weight is
at least - A cereal company claims that the mean weight of the cereal in its packets is at
least 14 oz. Assuming that a hypothesis test of the claim has been conducted and that
the conclusion is to reject the null hypothesis, state the conclusion in nontechnical
terms.
c. HHH HHT HTH HTT THH THT TTH TTT - Flip a coin three times, create the sample
space of possible outcomes.
a. 1.60 - Find the standard deviation for the given probability distribution. x 0 1 2 3 4
P(x) 0.37 0.05 0.13 0.25 0.20
a. approximately 0 - The amount of corn chips dispensed into a 20-ounce bag by the
dispensing machine has been identified at possessing a normal distribution with a mean
of 20.5 ounces and a standard deviation of 0.2-ounce. Suppose 100 bags of chips were
randomly selected from this dispensing machine. Find the probability that the sample
mean weight of these 100 bags exceeded 20.6 ounces.
c. 0.7745 - The length of time it takes college students to find a parking spot in the
library parking lot follows a normal distribution with a mean of 4.0 minutes and a
standard deviation of 1 minute. Find the probability that a randomly selected college
student will take between 2.5 and 5.0 minutes to find a parking spot in the library lot.
b. 221 - A store manager kept track of the number of newspapers sold each week over
a seven-week period. The results are shown below: 95, 38, 221, 122, 258, 237, 233.
Find the median number of newspapers sold
most 3 percent when it is actually more than 3 percent. - A psychologist claims that
more than 3 percent of the population suffers from professional problems due to
extreme shyness. Assume that a hypothesis test of the given claim will be conducted.
Identify the type II error for the test.
a. 0.044 - According to police sources a car with a certain protection system will be
recovered 87% of the time. Find the probability that 4 of 7 stolen cars will be recovered.
d. 0.3174. - If X is a normal random variable with μ = 50 and σ = 6, then the probability
that X is not between 44 and 56 is
- An entomologist writes an article in a scientific journal which claims that fewer than 16
in ten thousand male fireflies are unable to produce light due to a genetic mutation.
Assume that a hypothesis test of the given claim will be conducted. Identify the type I
error for the test.
c. descriptive statistics. - Those methods involving the collection, presentation, and

characterization of a set of data in order to properly describe the various features of that
set of data are called
a. 0.390 - The following table shows the political affiliation of voters in one city and their
0.25 0.16 Other 0.15 0.06 What is the probability that a Democrat opposes stronger gun
control laws?
d. 46 miles - The distances traveled (in miles) to 7 different swim meets are given
below: 12, 18, 31, 46, 69, 71, 85. Find the median distance traveled.
b. Reject $$H_0$$ in favor of $$H_1$$. - We have created a 95% confidence interval

for $$\mu$$ with the result (10, 15). What decision will we make if we test $$H_0: \mu
=16$$ versus $$H_1: \mu eq 16$$ at $$\alpha= 0.05$$?
b. H0: p = 0.62 H1: p ≠ 0.62 - A researcher claims that 62% of voters favor gun
control.Express the null hypothesis H0 and the alternative hypothesis H1 in symbolic
form.
a. P(x > 7) = P(x ≥ 8) - In a binomial distribution with 10 trials, which of the following is
true?
c. 0.262 - If a random variable has the normal distribution with μ = 30 and σ = 5, find the
probability that it will take on the value between 31 and 35.
a. normal with mean 0 and standard deviation 1347.22 - To determine the difference , if
any, between two brands of radial tires, 12 tires of each brand are tested. Assume that
the lifetimes of both brands of tires come from the same normal distribution N(m,
33002). The distribution of the difference of the sample mean $$\overline{X}$$ - $
$\overline{Y}.$$
c. ±1.96 - Assume that the data has a normal distribution and the number of
observations is greater than fifty. Find the critical z value used to test a null hypothesis.
α = 0.05 for a two-tailed test.
b. 0.57 - Assume that z scores are normally distributed with a mean of 0 and a standard
deviation of 1. If P(-a < Z < a) = 0.4314, find a.
b. 8.66 - Suppose X is a uniform random variable over the interval [40, 70]. Find the
standard deviation of X.
d. 0.082085 - Let X represent the amount of time it takes a student to park in the library
that it will take a randomly selected student more than 10 minutes to park in the library
lot.
a. 1/9 - If two balanced die are rolled, the possible outcomes can be represented as
follows. (1, 1) (2, 1) (3, 1) (4, 1) (5, 1) (6, 1) (1, 2) (2, 2) (3, 2) (4, 2) (5, 2) (6, 2) (1, 3) (2,
3) (3, 3) (4, 3) (5, 3) (6, 3) (1, 4) (2, 4) (3, 4) (4, 4) (5, 4) (6, 4) (1, 5) (2, 5) (3, 5) (4, 5) (5,
the dice is 4 or 12.
a. 0.12 - According to the Center for Disease Control, 41.5% of babies born in the U.S.
in 2004 were still being breastfed at 6 months of age. If 4 children who were born in the
U.S. in 2004 are randomly selected, what is the probability that none of them were
breastfed for at least 6 months?
b. equal to - When considering area under the standard normal curve, decide whether
the area between z = -1.5 and z = 1.1 is bigger than, smaller than, or equal to the area
between z = -1.1 and z = 1.5.
c. 1.54 - A polltaker asked graduating college seniors how many times they had given
blood in the last year. The results of the survey are given below. The random variable x
represents the number of times a person gave blood and P(x) represents the probability
of selecting a graduating college who had given blood that percent of the time. What is
the standard deviation for the number of times a person gave blood based on this poll?
x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 P(x) 0.30 0.25 0.20 0.12 0.07 0.04 0.02
b. 0.25 - Let $$X$$ be uniformly distributed over [0, 1]. Calculate $$E[X^3]$$.
c. 68% - The lifetimes of light bulbs of a particular type are normally distributed with a
mean of 360 hours and a standard deviation of 5 hours. What percentage of the bulbs
have lifetimes that lie within 1 standard deviation of the mean?
a. 0.526 - The breakdown of workers in a particular state according to their political

affiliation and type of job held is shown here. Suppose a worker is selected at random
within the state and the worker's political affiliation and type of job are noted. Political
Affiliation Given the worker is a Democrat, what is the probability that the worker is in a
white collar job.
d. 0.726 - The age distribution of students at a community college is given below. Age
(years) Number of students Under 21 409 21-24 404 25-28 276 29-32 155 33-36 97 37-
40 63 Over 40 86 A student from the community college is selected at random. Find the
probability that the student is 21 years or over. Give your answer as a decimal rounded
to three decimal places.
d. 0.0166 - The lengths of human pregnancies are normally distributed with a mean of
268 days and a standard deviation of 15 days. What is the probability that a pregnancy
lasts at least 300 days?
a. 0.557 - The probability that a house in an urban area will be burglarized is 2%. If 29
houses are randomly selected, what is the probability that none of the houses will be
burglarized?
no - Given that events A and B are mutually exclusive and P(A) = 0.2 and P(B) =0.7, are
A and B independent?
d. 0.0668 - The diameters of pencils produced by a certain machine are normally

distributed with a mean of 0.30 inches and a standard deviation of 0.01 inches. What is
the probability that the diameter of a randomly selected pencil will be less than 0.285
inches?
a. mean. - Based on the scores 1, 9, 3, 6, 1, 2, 6, 2, 2, and 8, a score of 4 is the
b. 1.88 - Compute the critical value $$z_{\alpha/2}$$ that corresponds to a 94% level of
confidence.
b. independent but not disjoint. - For two events A and B, P(A) = 0.8, P(B) = 0.2, and
P(A and B) = 0.16. It follows that A and B are
a. 0.172 - A test consists of 10 true/false questions. To pass the test a student must
answer at least 7 questions correctly. If a student guesses on each question, what is the
probability that the student will pass the test?
b. 53.4 - Find the mean of the data summarized in the given frequency distribution.
Daily Low Temperature (F) Frequency 35-39 1 40-44 3 45-49 5 50-54 11 55-59 7 60-64
7 65-69 1
b. 1.33 - A machine is set to pump cleanser into a process at the rate of 10 gallons per
minute. Find the variance of the distribution.
c. NNR NNN - Friskie is having her fifth litter. The prior litters have either been three
normal pups or two normal pups and a runt. Assume the probability of either outcome is
50%. Create the sample space of possible outcomes.
b. 0.69 - According to a survey of American households, the probability that the
residents own 2 cars if annual household income is over $25,000 is 80%. Of the
households surveyed, 60% had incomes over $25,000 and 70% had 2 cars. The
probability that annual household income is over $25,000 if the residents of a household
own 2 cars is:
c. 0.12 - According to a survey of American households, the probability that the

probability that the residents of a household do not own 2 cars and have an income
over $25,000 a year is:
d. (2.2, 5.8) - Assume that the heights of men are normally distributed. A random
sample of 16 men have a mean height of 67.5 inches and a standard deviation of 3.2
inches. Construct a 99% confidence interval for the population standard deviation, $
$\sigma.$$
c. bigger than - When considering area under the standard normal curve, decide
whether the area between z = 3 andz = -3 is bigger than, smaller than, or equal to the
area betweenz =2.7 and z = 2.9.
d. 24.91 - Find the standard deviation for the binomial distribution which has the stated
values of n and p. Round your answer to the nearest hundredth. n = 2661; p = 0.63
a. Interval - Survey responses of temperatures of the ocean at various depths. which

type of data is?
c. 0.400 - Let X be a uniform random variable over the interval [1, 9] . What is the
probability that the random variable X has a value less than 6?
d. 89.6 - Find the variance for the given sample data 53 52 75 62 68 58 49 49
a. 0.029 - At a computer manufacturing company, the actual size of computer chips is

normally distributed with a mean of 1 centimeter and a standard deviation of 0.1
centimeter. A random sample of 12 computer chips is taken. What is the standard error
for the sample mean?
c. -1.2798 - Find z if the normal curve area to the right of z is 0.8997.
a. 76.4 - The heights of a group of professional basketball players are summarized in

the frequency distribution below. Find the mean height. Round your answer to one
decimal place.
c. 0.9938 - Assume that blood pressure readings are normally distributed with a mean
of 124 and a standard deviation of 6.4. If 64 people are randomly selected, find the
probability that their mean blood pressure will be less than 126.
b. 0.1038 - The probability of winning a certain lottery is 1/51949. For people who play
560 times, find the standard deviation for the random variable X, the number of wins.
b. 0.1587 - The mean diameter of marbles manufactured at a particular toy factory is

0.850 cm with a standard deviation of 0.010cm. What is the probability of selecting a
random sample of 100 marbles that has a mean diameter greater than 0.851 cm?
c. 0.6 - Suppose that a number of miles that a car can run before its battery wears out is
exponentially distributed with an average value of 10000 miles. If a person desires to
take a 5000-mile trip, what is the probability that she will be able to complete her trip
without having to replace her car battery?
b. 0.768 - The distribution of B.A. degrees conferred by a local college is listed below,
by major. Major Frequency Engineering 868 English 2073 Mathematics 2164 Chemistry
318 Physics 856 Liberal Arts 1358 Business 1676 What is the probability that a
randomly selected degree is not in Mathematics?
c. 0.6826 - Assume that X has a normal distribution with the mean is μ = 15.2 and the
standard deviation is σ = 0.9. Find the probability that X is between 14.3 and 16.1.
c. 0.2237 - LetZ is a standard normal variable, find the probability that Z lies between
-1.10 and -0.36.
c. 45.7 - According to the 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 54.3% of
males have never used marijuana. Based on this percentage, what is the expected
number of males who have used marijuana for samples of size 100?
c. 0.034 - It has been found that 40% of the employees who complete a sequence of
program are randomly selected, find the probability that from two to four become vice
Find the probability that more than 16 ounces is dispensed in a cup.
b. 6.6 - Find the mean for the binomial distribution which has the stated values of n and
p. Round answer to the nearest tenth. n = 33; p = 0.2
a. 0.6730 - The weights of the fish in a certain lake are normally distributed with a mean
of 15 lb and a standard deviation of 6. If 4 fish are randomly selected, what is the
probability that the mean weight will be between 12.6 and 18.6 lb.
d. 0.229790 - The time (in years) until the first critical-part failure for a certain car is
exponentially distributed with a mean of 3.4 years. Find the probability that the time until
the first critical-part failure is 5 years or more.
d. 0.19 - At a California college, 22% of students speak Spanish, 5% speak French, and
3% speak both languages. What is the probability that a student chosen at random from
the college speaks Spanish but not French?
c. (3.3, 15.6) - Assume that the heights of women are normally distributed. A random
sample of 20 women have a mean height of 62.5 inches and a standard deviation of 2.5
inches. Construct a 98% confidence interval for the population variance, $$\sigma^2.$$
d. - Construct the boxplot for the given data below: 3, 3, 5, 6, 4, 9, 8, 9, 6.
c. 1.67 - A die is rolled 10 times and the number of times that two shows on the up face
is counted. If this experiment is repeated many times, find the mean for the random
variable X, the number of twos thrown out of ten tosses.
c. 14.573, 43.194 - Find the critical value or values of x2 based on the given
information. H1: σ ≠ 9.3 n = 28 α = 0.05
b. 0.4772 - A population of Australian Koala bears has a mean height of 20 inches and
a standard deviation of 4 inches. You plan to choose a sample of 64 bears at random.
What is the probability of a sample mean between 20 and 21.
c. 0.212 - Assume that a researcher randomly selects 14 newborn babies and counts
the number of girls selected, X. The probabilities corresponding to the 14 possible
values of x are summarized in the given table. Answer the question using the following
table. X(girls) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 P(X) 0.000 0.001 0.006 0.022 0.061
0.122 0.183 0.209 0.183 0.122 0.061 0.022 0.006 0.001 0.000 Find the probability of
selecting 9 or more girls.
a. mean: 1.50; standard deviation: 0.87 - The random variableX represents the number
of girls in a family of three children. Assuming that boys and girls are equally likely, find
the mean and standard deviation for the random variable X.
c. 0.1587 - The amount of soda a dispensing machine pours into a 12 ounce can of
soda follows a normal distribution with a mean of 12.27 ounces and a standard
deviation of 0.18 ounce. The cans only hold 12.45 ounces of soda. Every can that has
more than 12.45 ounces of soda poured into it causes a spill and the can needs to go
through a special cleaning process before it can be sold. What is the probability a
randomly selected can will need to go through this process?
a. 0.1056 - An electrical firm manufactures a certain type of light bulb that has a mean
light of 1,800 hours and a standard deviation of 200 hours. Find the probability that a
random sample of 100 bulbs will have an average life of more than 1,825 hours.
c. H0: p = 6.3% H1: p > 6.3% - A psychologist claims that more than 6.3 percent of the
population suffers from professional problems due to extreme shyness. Use p, the true
percentage of the population that suffers from extreme shyness. Express the null
hypothesis H0 and the alternative hypothesis H1 in symbolic form.
c. 2.80 - A major videocassette rental chain is considering opening a new store in an

area that currently does not have any such stores. The chain will open if there is
evidence that more than 25% households in the area are equipped with videocassette
recorders (VCRs). It conducts a telephone poll of 300 randomly selected households in
the area and finds that 96 have VCRs. The value of the test statistic in this problem is
approximately equal to
d. The number of employees of an insurance company - Which of the following is a

discrete quantitative variable?
b. 0.992 - Suppose that the probability that a particular brand of light bulb fails before
900 hours of use is 0.2. If you purchase 3 of these bulbs, what is the probability that at
least one of them lasts 900 hours or more?
a. Yes - Determine whether the given conditions justify testing a claim about a
population mean μ. The sample size is n = 49, σ = 12.3, and the original population is
not normally distributed.
d. The amount of milk produced by a cow in one 24-hour period - Which of the following
is a continuous quantitative variable?
b. Neither - Determine whether the hypothesis test involves a sampling distribution of

Sample data: n = 24, $$\overline{x} = 101,$$ s = 15.3. The sample data appear to come
from a population with a distribution that is very far from normal, and σ is unknown.
a. 37.3 - A supermarket manager has determined that the amount of time customers
spend in the supermarket is approximately normally distributed with a mean of 45
minutes and a standard deviation of 6 minutes. Find the number of minutes, m, for
which the probability that a customer spends less than m minutes in the supermarket is
0.10.
a. 7/8 - If you flip a coin three times, the possible outcomes are HHH HHT HTH HTT
THH THT TTH TTT. What is the probability of getting at least one head?
most 60,000, when it is actually greater than 60,000. - The owner of a football team
claims that the average attendance at games is over 60,000, and he is therefore
justified in moving the team to a city with a larger stadium. Assume that a hypothesis
test of the given claim will be conducted. Identify the type II error for the test.
a. 2.5 - On a 10-question multiple choice test , each question has four possible
answers, one of which is correct. For students who guess at all answers, find the mean
for the random variable X, the number of correct answers.
d. $465.23 - An economist is interested in studying the incomes of consumers in a

particular region. The population standard deviation is known to be $1000. A random
sample of 50 individuals resulted in an average income of $15000. What is the width of
the 90% confidence interval?
b. +1.34 - Assume that the data has a normal distribution and the number of
α = 0.09 for a right-tailed test.
c. i) and iv) - Which of the following statements is false i) If X1, X2,...,Xn is a random
sample of size n,the sample standard deviation S is nota statistic. ii) The probability
distribution of a statistic is called a sampling distribution. iii) A statistic is any function of
the observations in a random sample. iv) The sampling distribution of a statistic does
not depend on the distribution of the population.
b. H0: p = 0.0011 H1: p < 0.0011 - An entomologist writes an article in a scientific

journal which claims that fewer than 11 in ten thousand male fireflies are unable to
produce light due to a genetic mutation. Use the parameter p, the true proportion of
fireflies unable to produce light. Express the null hypothesis H0 and the alternative
d. 134 - According to a CNN poll taken in February of 2008, 67% of respondents

disapproved of the overall job that President Bush was doing. Based on this poll, for
samples of size 200, what is the mean number of American adults who disapprove of
the overall job that President Bush is doing?
d. 0.59 ± 0.068 - A university dean is interested in determining the proportion of

students who receive some sort of financial aid. Rather than examine the records for all
students, the dean randomly selects 200 students and finds that 118 of them are
receiving financial aid. Use a 95% confidence interval to estimate the true proportion of
students on financial aid.
a. number of items - discrete; total time - continuous - The peak shopping time at home
improvement store is between 8-11:00 am on Saturday mornings. Management at the
home improvement store randomly selected 150 customers last Saturday morning and
decided to observe their shopping habits. They recorded the number of items that a
sapmle of the customers purchased as well as the total time the customers spent in the
store. Identify the types of variables recorded by the home improvement store.
c. 0.251 - An airline reports that it has been experiencing a 15% rate of no-shows on
advanced reservations. Among 150 advanced reservations, find the probability that
there will be fewer than 20 no-shows.
c. Random - The name of each contestant is written on a separate card, the cards are
placed in a bag, and three names are picked from the bag. Identify which of these types
of sampling is used: Stratified, systematic, cluster, random.
- A skeptical paranormal researcher claims that the proportion of Americans that have
seen a UFO, p, is less than 1 in every one thousand. Assume that a hypothesis test of
the given claim will be conducted. Identify the type II error for the test.
c. ($2910, $3330) - A random sample of 40 students has a mean annual earnings of

$3120 and a population standard deviation of $677. Construct the confidence interval
for the population mean, μ. Use a 95% confidence level.
a. n = 1537 - An economist is interested in studying the incomes of consumers in a

particular region. The normally population standard deviation is known to be $1000.
What total sample size would the economist need to use for a 95% confidence interval if
the width of the interval should not be more than $100? Let $$z_{0.025}=1.96;
z_{0.05}=1.65$$.
a. 0.254811 - The time (in years) until the first critical-part failure for a certain car is
the first critical-part failure is less than 1 year.
c. 0.1469 - A study of the amount of time it take a mechanic to rebuild the transmission
for a 1992 Chevrolet Cavalier shows that the mean is 8.4 hours and the standard
deviation is 1.8 hours. If 40 mechanics are randomly selected, find the probability that
their mean rebuild time exceeds 8.7 hours.
c. 0.8 - Suppose x is a uniform random variable over [10,90]. Find the probability that a
randomly selected observation exceeds 26.
c. (0.533; 0.647) - A university dean is interested in determining the proportion of

students who receive some sort of financial aid. Rather than examine the records for all
students, the dean randomly selects 200 students and finds that 118 of them are
receiving financial aid. Use a 90\% confidence interval to estimate the true proportion of
students who receive financial aid. Let $$z_{0.1}=1.28;z_{0.05}=1.65$$.
a. False - To determine the mean of a binomial distribution, it is necessary to know the

number of successes involved in the problem.
b. P(2< x ≤ 8) = P(2 ≤ x < 8) - Which of the following is always true for a normal
distribution?
d. 0.4306 - Find the normal-curve area between z = -1.48 and z = 0.

a. 5/9 - Brandon and Samantha each carry a bag containing a banana, a chocolate bar,
and a licorice stick. Simultaneously, they take out a single food item and consume it.
The possible pairs of food items that Brandon and Samantha consumed are as follows.
chocolate bar - chocolate bar licorice stick - chocolate bar banana - banana chocolate
bar - licorice stick licorice stick - licorice stick chocolate bar - banana banana - licorice
stick licorice stick - banana banana - chocolate bar Find the probability that at least one
chocolate bar was eaten.
a. 391/500 - A study of 1000 randomly selected flights of a major airline showed that
782 of the flights arrived on time. What is the probability of a flight arriving on time?
c. 1.96% - Assume that the weights of quarters are normally distributed with a mean of
5.67 g and a standard deviation 0.070 g. A vending machine will only accept coins
weighing between 5.48 g and 5.82 g. What percentage of legal quarters will be
rejected?
c. 12 - In a recent survey, 80% of the community favored building a police substation in

their neighborhood. If 15 citizens are chosen, what is the mean number favoring the
substation?
b. 0.0180 - The tread life of a particular brand of tire is a random variable best described
by a normal distribution with a mean of 60,000 miles and a standard deviation of 1900
miles. What is the probability a certain tire of this brand will last between 56,010 miles
and 56,580 miles?
b. 0.08 - According to a 2007 report published by the National Center on Addiction and
Substance Abuse at Columbia University, 59% of teens have family dinners five or more
times a week, 13% of teens have used marijuana and the proportion of teens who have
family dinners 5 or more times a week or use marijuana is 0.64. What is the probability
that a teen has family dinners five or more times a week and uses marijuana? Hint. Use
the addition rules.
c. 0.950 - A percentage distribution is given below for the size of families in one U.S.
random. Find the probability that the size of the family is less than 6. Round your result
to three decimal places.
b. H0: σ = 14.7 H1: σ < 14.7 - The principal of a middle school claims that test scores of
the seventh-graders at her school vary less than the test scores of seventh-graders at a
neighboring school, which have variation described by σ = 14.7. Express the null
b. binomial distribution. - To calculate the probability of obtaining three aces in eight

draws of a card with replacement from an ordinary deck, we would use the
d. {0, 1, 2} - The outcome of an experiment is the number of resulting heads when a
nickel and a dime are flipped simultaneously. What is the sample space for this
experiment?
a. False - The use of the Poisson distribution requires a value n which indicates a
definite number of independent trials.
d. statistical inference. - The process of using sample statistics to draw conclusions

about true population parameters is called
a. 0.74 - In 2006, the percent of the voting-age population that was registered to vote for
the 50 states and the District of Columbia had a mean of 65% with a standard deviation
of 7.1. Assuming that the distribution is normal, what percentage of states had between
50 and 70 percent of it's voting-age population who were registered to vote?
c. Observation study - A stock analyst compares the relationship between stock prices
and earnings per share to help him select a stock for investment. What type of the
description is?
d. 3.52 - According to a college survey, 22% of all students work full time. Find the
mean for the random variable X, the number of students who work full time in samples
of size 16.
d. 0.25 - The following table contains the probability distribution for X = the number of
traffic accidents reported in a day in Hanoi. X 0 1 2 3 4 5 P(X) 0.10 0.20 0.45 0.15 0.05
0.05 The probability of more than 2 accidents is
c. we don't reject a null hypothesis that is false. - A Type II error is committed when
b. 0.3015 - Use the given information to find the P-value. The test statistic in a right-
tailed test is z = 0.52.
d. 0.88 - According to the Center for Disease Control, in 2004, 65.7% of all adults
between the ages of 18 and 44 were considered current drinkers. Based on this
estimate, if two randomly selected adults between the ages of 18 and 44 are selected,
what is the probability that at least one is a current drinker?
c. 0.37 ± .053 - An article a Florida newspaper reported on the topics that teenagers
most want to discuss with their parents. The findings, the results of a poll, showed that
46% would like more discussion about the family's financial situation, 37% would like to
talk about school, and 30% would like to talk about religion. These and other
percentages were based on a national sampling of 549 teenagers. Estimate the
proportion of all teenagers who want more family discussions about school. Use a 99%
confidence level.
c. Statistics is used to answer questions with 100% certainty. - Which of the following is
not true of statistics?
a. (189.5, 194.5) - A group of 40 bowlers showed that their average score was 192 with
a population standard deviation of 8. Find the 95% confidence interval of the mean
score of all bowlers.
Find the probability that between 15 and 18 ounces are dispensed in a cup.
c. 0.625 - Let X be a uniform random variable over the interval [0, 8] . What is the
probability that the random variable X has a value greater than 3?
a. 150 - A confidence interval was used to estimate the proportion of statistics students
that are female. A random sample of 72 statistics students generated the following 90%
confidence interval: (0.438, 0.642). Using the information above, what total size sample
would be necessary if we wanted to estimate the true proportion to within 0.08 using
95% confidence?
a. 0.1587. - The area to the right of z = 1.0 is equal to
b. 0.0202 - Use the given information to find the P-value. The test statistic in a left-tailed
test is z = -2.05.
c. 0.1139 - Suppose that11% of people are left handed. If 6 people are selected at
random, what is the probability that exactly 2 of them are left handed?
d. 0.90 - A survey of senior citizens at a doctor's office shows that 52% take blood
pressure-lowering medication, 43% take cholesterol-lowering medication, and 5% take
both medications. What is the probability that a senior citizen takes either blood
pressure-lowering or cholesterol-lowering medication?
c. 2.28% - The diameters of bolts produced by a certain machine are normally

distributed with a mean of 0.30 inches and a standard deviation of 0.01 inches. What
percentage of bolts will have a diameter greater than 0.32 inches?
a. (1.5, 4.0) - Assume that the heights of men are normally distributed. A random
sample of 16 men have a mean height of 67.5 inches and a standard deviation of 2.2
inches. Construct a 99% confidence interval for the population standard deviation. Let $
$\chi_{0.005,15}^2=32.8;\chi_{0.995,15}^2=4.6$$.
b. 0.8708 - If Z is a standard normal variable, find the the probability that Z is less than
1.13.
d. 0.0577 - For women aged 18-24, systolic blood pressures ( in mm Hg) are normally
distributed with a mean of 114.8 and a standard deviation of 13.1. If 23 women aged 18-
24 are randomly selected, find the probability that their mean systolic blood pressures is
between 119 and 122.

probability that the residents of a household own 2 cars and have an income over
$25,000 a year is:
c. 35% - A nurse measured the blood pressure of each person who visited her clinic.
Following is a relative-frequence histogram for the systolic blood pressure readings for
those people aged between 25 and 40. The blood pressure reading were given to the
nearest whole number. Approximately what percentage of the people aged 25-40 had a
systolic blood pressure reading between 110 and 119 inclusive?
c. 0.221 - Assume that a procedure yields a binomial distribution with a trial repeated n
the probability p of success on a single trial. n = 64, x = 3, p = 0.04
a. $180.975 - Private colleges and universities rely on money contributed by individuals

and corporations for their operating expenses. Much of this money is put into a fund
called an endowment, and the college spends only the interest earned by the fund. A
recent survey of 8 private colleges in Vietnam revealed the following endowments (in
millions of dollars) 60.2, 47.0, 235.1, 490.0, 122.6, 177.5, 95.4, and 220.0. What value
will be used as the point estimate for the mean endowment of all private colleges in
Vietnam?
b. 0.09 - The number of 113 calls in Hanoi, has a Poisson distribution with a mean of 10
calls a day. The probability of seven 113 calls in a day is
c. 0.1359 - Find the normal-curve area between z = -2 and z = -1.
a. 0.8805 - Assume that z scores are normally distributed with a mean of 0 and a
standard deviation of 1. If P(0.2 < Z < a) = 0.2314, find a.
c. 0.2295 - If a random variable has the normal distribution with μ = 30 and σ = 5, find
the probability that it will take on the value between 24 and 28.
a. Both of the above. - A 99% confidence interval estimate can be interpreted to mean
that
a. 0.58 - In 2006, the General Social Survey asked 4,491 respondents how often they
attended religious services. The responses were as follows: Frequency Number of
respondents Never 1020 Less than once a year 302 Once a year 571 Several times a
year 502 Once a month 308 Two-three times a month 380 Nearly every week 240 Every
week 839 More than once a week 329 What is the probability that a randomly selected
respondent attended religious services more than once a year?
d. 1.9703 - Find z if the normal curve area between 0 and z is 0.4756.
d. 0.973 - The paired data below consist of the test scores of 6 randomly selected
students and the number of hours they studied for the test. Hours 5 10 4 6 10 9 Score 4
8 3 6 9 8 $$ Find the value of the linear correlation coefficient $$r$$.
c. 6.9 minutes - A catalog company that receives the majority of its orders by telephone
conducted a study to determine how long customers were willing to wait on hold before
ordering a product. The length of time was found to be a random variable best
approximated by an exponential distribution with a mean equal to 3 minutes. Find the
waiting time at which only 10% of the customers will continue to hold.
Assume the population has a normal distribution. A sample of 25 randomly selected
students has a mean test score of 81.5 with a standard deviation of 10.2.
d. 0.9765 - Patients arriving at an outpatient clinic follow an exponential distribution at a

rate of 15 patients per hour. What is the probability that a randomly chosen arrival to be
less than 15 minutes?
a. ($1.03, $2.74) - A student randomly selects 10 CDs at a store. The mean is $8.75
with a standard deviation of $1.50. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the
population standard deviation, $$\sigma.$$ Assume the data are normally distributed.
d. 1.45 - If $$n = 10$$ and $$p = 0.70$$, then the standard deviation of the binomial
distribution is
b. 0.9599 - A telemarketer found that there was a 1% chance of a sale from his phone
solicitations. Find the probability of getting 5 or more sales for 1000 telephone calls.
c. 4/3 - Which of the following cannot be a probability?
a. 3.96 - Find the variance of the given data. Round your answer to one more decimals
than the original data.
a. 0.67 - In 2005, the property crime rates (per 100,000 residents) for the 50 states and
the District of Columbia had a mean of 3377.2 and a standard deviation of 847.4.
Assuming the distribution of property crime rates is normal, what percentage of the
states had property crime rates between 2360 and 4055?
d. 0.279 - According to the U.S. census, in 2005 21% of homicide victims were known to
be female, 9.7% were known to be under the age of 18 and 2.8% were known to be
females under the age of 18. What is the probability that a murder victim was known to
be female or under the age of 18 based on these 2005 estimates?
c. mean: 1.59; standard deviation: 1.09 - The random variableX represents the number
of tests that a patient entering a hospital will have along with the corresponding
probabilities. Find the mean and standard deviation for the random variable X. x 0 1 2 3
4 P(x) 3/17 5/17 6/17 2/17 1/17
c. 0.5000 - Assume that X has a normal distribution with the mean is μ = 15.2 and the
b. 0.511 - A company has 2 machines that produce widgets. An older machine

produces 23% defective widgets, while the new machine produces only 8% defective
widgets. In addition, the new machine produces 3 times as many widgets as the older
machine does. Given a randomly chosen widget was tested and found to be defective,
what is the probability it was produced by the new machine?
b. 1.96% - Assume that the weights of quarters are normally distributed with a mean of
rejected?
d. 95% - The systolic blood pressure of 18-year-old women is normally distributed with a
mean of 120 mmHg and a standard deviation of 12 mmHg. What percentage of 18-
year-old women have a systolic blood pressure between 96 mmHg and 144 mmHg?
c. 0.917915 - A catalog company that receives the majority of its orders by telephone
approximated by an exponential distribution with a mean equal to 2.8 minutes. What is
the probability that a randomly selected caller is placed on hold fewer than 7 minutes?
c. 0.87 - Suppose X is a uniform random variable over [10, 70]. Find the probability that
a randomly selected observation is between 13 and 65.
Assume the population has a normal distribution. A study of 14 bowlers showed that
their average score was 192 with a standard deviation of 8.
c. 0.25 - The diameters of ball bearings produced in a manufacturing process can be

described using a uniform distribution over the interval 4.5 to 6.5 millimeters. Any ball
bearing with a diameter of over 6.25 millimeters or under 4.75 millimeters is considered
defective. What is the probability that a randomly selected ball bearing is defective?
a. -2.33 - An article in Concrete Research presented data on compressive strength $$x$

$ and intrinsic permeability $$y$$ of various concrete mixes and cures. Summary
quantities are $$n = 14,\sum y_i=572,\sum y_i^2=23,\sum x_i=43, \sum x_i^2=157.42$
$, and $$\sum x_i y_i=1697.8$$. Assume that the two variables are related according to
the simple linear regression model. Calculate the least squares estimates of the slope.
b. 0.60653 - A catalog company that receives the majority of its orders by telephone
approximated by an exponential distribution with a mean equal to 3 minutes. What
proportion of customers having to hold more than 1.5 minutes will hang up before
placing an order?
d. 0.7, if A and B are independent. - For two events A and B, P(A) = 0.4, P(B) = 0.5.
Then P(A or B) equals
students has a grade point average of 2.86 with a standard deviation of 0.78.
d. 0.0021 - Assume that the heights of men are normally distributed with a mean of 69.8
inches and a standard deviation of 2.1 inches. If 36 men are randomly selected, find the
probability that they have a mean height greater than 70.8 inches.
b. (636.9, 653.1) - A random sample of 56 fluorescent light bulbs has a mean life of 645
hours with a population standard deviation of 31 hours. Construct a 95% confidence
interval for the population mean.
b. 0.41 - A recent survey of banks revealed the following distribution for the interest rate
being charged on a home loan (based on a 30-year mortgage with a 10% down
payment). Interest rate 7.0\% 7.5\% 8.0\% 8.5\% 9.0\% Probability 0.12 0.23 0.24 0.35
0.06 $$ If a bank is selected at random from this distribution, what is the chance that the
interest rate charged on a home loan will exceed 8.0%?
d. 1842 - A local men's clothing store is being sold. The buyers are trying to estimate
the percentage of items that are outdated. They will randomly sample among its 100000
items in order to determine the proportion of merchandise that is outdated. The current
owners have never determined their outdated percentage and can not help the buyers.
Approximately how large a sample do the buyers need in order to insure that they are
99% confident that the margin of error is within 3%?
beer bash = 4/3 toga = 2 beer bash = 4 maquerade (<0.5) , have 1.0 and 0.5 - The
Kappa lata Sigma Fraternity polled its members on the weekend party theme. The vote
was as follows: six for toga, four for hayride, eight for beer bash, and two for
masquerade. Display the vote count in a Pareto chart
c. 0.172 - Assume that male and female births are equally likely and that the birth of any
child does not affect the probability of the gender of any other children. Find the
probability of at most three boys in ten births.
b. 0.98 - A salesperson knows that 20% of his presentations result in sales. Find the
probabilities that in the next 60 presentations between 14 and 18, inclusive, result in
sales. (Note: please give the answer as a real number accurate to 4 decimal places
a. smaller than - When considering area under the standard normal curve, decide
whether the area between z = -0.2 and z = 0.2 is bigger than, smaller than, or equal to
the area between z = -0.3 and z = 0.3.
d. There is sufficient evidence to support the claim that the true proportion is less than
19 in ten thousand. - An entomologist writes an article in a scientific journal which
claims that fewer than 19 in ten thousand male fireflies are unable to produce light due
to a genetic mutation. Assuming that a hypothesis test of the claim has been conducted
and that the conclusion is to reject the null hypothesis, state the conclusion in
nontechnical terms.
b. 217 - A manufacturer of golf equipment wishes to estimate the number of left-handed

golfers. How large a sample is needed in order to be 95% confident that the sample
proportion will not differ from the true proportion by more than 4%? A previous study
indicates that the proportion of left-handed golfers is 10%.
a. 0.465 - The manager of an electrical supply store measured the diameters of the rolls
of wire in the inventory. The diameters of the rolls (in m) are listed below: 0.165 0.114
0.503 0.392 0.579 0.311. Find the range of data.
b. 18.3 - Six pairs of data yield $$r = 0.444$$ and the regression equation $$\hat y=
5x+2.$$ Also, $$\overline{y}=18.3$$. What is the best predicted value of $$y$$ for $
$x=5$$?
b. 0.39 - In 2004, the infant mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) for the 50 states and the
District of Columbia had a mean of 6.98 and a standard deviation of 1.62. Assuming
that the distribution is normal, what percentage of states had an infant mortality rate
between 5 and 7 percent?
a. 1.6 - The number of monthly breakdowns of a conveyor belt at a local factory is a

random variable having the Poisson distribution with λ = 2.8. Find the probability that the
conveyor belt will function for a month without a breakdown. (Note: please give the
answer as a real number accurate to 3 decimal places after the decimal point.)
a. 0.117 - Fifty percent of the people that get mail-order catalogs order something. Find
the probability that only three of 10 people getting these catalogs will order something.
d. 461 - A private opinion poll is conducted for a politician to determine what proportion
of the population favors decriminalizing marijuana possession. How large a sample is
needed in order to be 99% confident that the sample proportion will not differ from the
true proportion by more than 6%?
c. 0.2 - Suppose a uniform random variable can be used to describe the outcome of an
experiment with the outcomes ranging from 30 to 80. What is the probability that this
experiment results in an outcome less than 40?
c. Student t - Determine whether the hypothesis test involves a sampling distribution of

Sample data: n = 15, $$\overline{x} = 103,$$ s = 15.2. The sample data appear to come
from a normally distributed population with unknown μ and
c. ±1.645 - Assume that the data has a normal distribution and the number of
α = 0.1 for a two-tailed test.
b. None of the others. - If either event A or event B must occur, then events A and B are
said to be
b. (2.71, 3.01) - A random sample of 150 students has a grade point average with a
mean of 2.86 and with a standard deviation of 0.78. Construct the confidence interval
for the population mean, $$\mu,$$ if $$\alpha = 0.02$$. Let $
$z_{0.01}=2.33;z_{0.02}=2.05;t_{0.01,149}=2.35;t_{0.02,149}=2.07$$.
c. -13.61 - A claim is made that the proportion of children who play sports is less than
0.5, and the sample statistics include n =1158 subjects with 30% saying that they play a
sport. Find the value of the test statistic z using $$z=\frac{\overline{p}-p_0}
{\sqrt{\frac{p_0(1-p_0)}{n}}}$$
c. 6 - If a psychologist observed that four 5-year-old children initiated 2, 4, 6, and 12

incidents of aggression during a play period, the mean number of aggressive incidents
for this group of four children was
b. 39.3 - Find the variance for the given data. Round your answer to one more decimals
than original data 1, 4, -5, -9, and 6
d. 0.5625 ±0 .0129 - Many people think that a national lobby's successful fight against
gun control legislation is reflecting the will of a minority of Americans. A random sample
of 4000 citizens yielded 2250 who are in favor of gun control legislation. Estimate the
true proportion of all Americans who are in favor of gun control legislation using a 90%
confidence interval.
b. 0.8 - The following table contains the probability distribution for X = the number of
retransmissions necessary to successfully transmit a 1024K data package through a
double satellite media. X 0 1 2 3 P(X) 0.35 0.35 0.25 0.05 $$ The variance for the
number of retransmissions is
c. -0.99 - Find z if the normal curve area to the left of z is 0.1611.
b. 0.2946 - Find the standard normal-curve area to the left of z = -0.54.
a. mean: 1.14; standard deviation: 1.04 - In a pizza takeout restaurant, the following
probability distribution was obtained. The random variable X represents the number of
toppings for a large pizza. Find the mean and standard deviation for the random
variable X. x 0 1 2 3 4 P(x) 0.30 0.40 0.20 0.06 0.04
c. An inference made about the population based on the sample. - Which of the
following is not an element of descriptive statistical problems?
d. 15.6 - The probability that a person has immunity to a particular disease is 0.6. Find
the mean for the random variable X, the number who have immunity in samples of size
26.
b. 3.3 and 1.4599 - A study of the checkout times of 100 customers at a supermarket
resulted in the distribution below. Find the mean and standard deviation. x(minutes) f
0.5-1.5 15 1.5-2.5 20 2.5-3.5 15 3.5-4.5 20 4.5-5.5 30
c. 0.6915 - A supermarket manager has determined that the amount of time customers
minutes and a standard deviation of 6 minutes. Find the probability that a customer
spends less than 48 minutes in the supermarket.
d. ($2803, $3437) - Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population mean, μ.
Assume the population has a normal distribution. A sample of 20 college students had
mean annual earnings of $3120 with a standard deviation of $677.
a. (2.4, 19.1) - The mean replacement time for a random sample of 12 microwave ovens
is 8.6 years with a standard deviation of 2.3 years. Construct the 98% confidence
interval for the population variance. Assume the data are normally distributed. Let $
$\chi^2_{0.01,11}=24.72;\chi^2_{0.99,11}=3.05$$.
b. Stratified - 49, 34, and 48 students are selected from the Sophomore, Junior, and
Senior classed with 496, 348, and 481 students respectively. Identify which of these
types of sampling is used: Stratified, systematic, cluster, random.
c. P(G H) - The conditional probability of event G, given the knowledge that event H has
occurred, would be written as _____.
c. H0: p = 0.002 H1: p < 0.002 - A skeptical paranormal researcher claims that the
proportion of Americans that have seen a UFO, p, is less than 2 in every one thousand.
Express the null hypothesis H0 and the alternative hypothesis H1 in symbolic form.
b. 0.25 - Suppose a uniform random variable can be used to describe the outcome of an
experiment with outcomes ranging from 40 to 80. What is the probability that this
b. Both increase the sample size and decrease the confidence level. - Suppose a 95%
confidence interval for population mean turns out to be (1000, 2100). To make more
useful inferences from the data, it is desired to reduce the width of the confidence
interval. Which of the following will result in a reduced interval width?
c. 0.4947 - The amount of time required for an oil and filter change on an automobile is
normally distributed with a mean of 45 minutes and a standard deviation of 10 minutes.
A random sample of 16 cars is selected. What is the probability that the sample mean is
between 45 and 52 minutes?
d. 1101 - A researcher wishes to estimate the number of households with two cars. How
large a sample is needed in order to be 98% confident that the sample proportion will
not differ from the true proportion by more than 3%? A previous study indicates that the
proportion of households with two cars is 24%.
d. 0.0228 - The owner of a fish market has an assistant who has determined that the
weights of catfish are normally distributed, with mean of 3.2 pounds and standard
deviation of 0.8 pound. If a sample of 64 fish yields a mean of 3.4 pounds, what is
probability of obtaining a sample mean this large or larger?
b. There is not sufficient evidence to warrant rejection of the claim that 62% of voters
favor gun control. - A researcher claims that 62% of voters favor gun control. Assuming
that a hypothesis test of the claim has been conducted and that the conclusion is failure
to reject the null hypothesis, state the conclusion in nontechnical terms.
a. 0.2478 - Find the standard normal-curve area between z = -1.3 and z = -0.4.
d. mean: 1.18; standard deviation: 1.30 - The random variable X represents the number
of credit cards that adults have along with the corresponding probabilities. Find the
mean and standard deviation. x 0 1 2 3 4 P(x) 0.49 0.05 0.32 0.07 0.07
d. 95% - The lifetimes of light bulbs of a particular type are normally distributed with a
have lifetimes that lie within 2 standard deviations of the mean?
b. be used to approximate discrete probability distributions. - In its standardized form,

the normal distribution
d. (2.71, 3.01) - A random sample of 150 students has a grade point average with a
mean of 2.86 and with a population standard deviation of 0.78. Construct the confidence
interval for the population mean, μ. Use a 98% confidence level.
b. 0.219 - After completing an inventory of three warehouses, a golf club shaft

manufacturer described its stock of 12,246 shafts with the percentages given in the
table. Suppose a shaft is selected at random from the 12,246 currently in stock, and the
warehouse number and type of shaft are observed. Type of Shaft Given that the shaft is
produced in warehouse 2, find the probability it has an extra stiff shaft.
b. 265.23 - Compute the standardized test statistic, $$\chi^2$$, to test the claim $
$\sigma^2= 34.4$$ if $$n = 12, s =28.8$$, and $$\alpha=0.05$$.
b. $$\hat y = 5.49+0.24x$$ - Two different tests are designed to measure employee

productivity and dexterity. Several employees are randomly selected and tested with
these results. Productivity,x 3 5 8 2 1 Dexterity,y 9 3 9 4 7$$ Find the equation of the
regression line.
a. 2860 - A survey of the 9225 vehicles on the campus of State University yielded the
following circle graph Find the number of hatchbacks. Round the result to the nearest
whole number .
c. 2.41% - For a standard normal distribution, find the percentage of data that are more
than 2 standard deviations below the mean or more than 3 standard deviations above
the mean.
e. - A committee of three people is to be formed. The three people will be selected from
a list of five possible committee members. A simple random sample of three people is
taken, without replacement, from the group of five people. Using the letters A, B, C, D, E
to represent the five people, list the possible samples of size three and use your list to
determine the probability that B is included in the sample. (Hint: There are 10 possible
samples.)
b. 0.1032 - The on-line access computer service industry is growing at an extraordinary

rate. Current estimates suggest that 20% of people with home-based computers have
access to on-line services. Suppose that 15 people with home-based computers were
randomly and independently sampled. What is the probability that exactly 5 of those
sampled have access to on-line services at home?
a. 0.40 - According to a survey of American households, the probability that the

probability that annual household income is over $25,000 if the residents of a household
do not own 2 cars is:
b. 0.2177 - The weekly salaries of elementary school teachers in one state are normally
distributed with a mean of $490 and a standard deviation of $45. What is the probability
that a randomly selected elementary school teacher earns more than $525 a week?
a. 6.8 and 6.5 - Find the mode(s) for the given data
c. There is not sufficient evidence to support the claim that the standard deviation is
different from 3.3 mg - A researcher claims that the amounts of acetaminophen in a
certain brand of cold tablets have a standard deviation different from the σ = 3.3 mg
claimed by the manufacturer. Assuming that a hypothesis test of the claim has been
conducted and that the conclusion is failure to reject the null hypothesis, state the
conclusion in nontechnical terms.
b. 9.3 - The number of golf balls ordered by customers of a pro shop has the following
probability distribution. x 3 6 9 12 15 P(x) 0.14 0.11 0.36 0.29 0.10 Find the mean of
thethis probability distribution.
b. There is not sufficient evidence to support the claim that the true proportion is less
than 3 in ten thousand. - The number of monthly breakdowns of a conveyor belt at a
local factory is a random variable having the Poisson distribution with λ = 2.8. Find the
probability that the conveyor belt will function for a month with one breakdown. (Note:
please give the answer as a real number accurate to2 decimal places after the decimal
point.)
a. 14 - Fred, a local mechanic, gathered the following data regarding the price, in
dollars, of an oil and filterchande at twelve competing service stations: Compute the
range of data.
c. 0.947 - In 2006, the General Social Survey asked subjects whether they favored or
opposed the death penalty for persons convicted of murder and whether they favored or
opposed a law requiring a person to obtain a permit before he or she could buy a gun.
According to the survey results, 79.6% of respondents favored the gun law, 67.8%
favored the death penalty for those convicted of murder and 52.7% were in favor of
both. What is the probability that a randomly selected respondent was in favor of either
the gun law or the death penalty for persons convicted of murder? Hint. Use the addition
rules.
d. 68% - Suppose that prices of a certain model of new homes are normally distributed
with a mean of $150,000. Find the percentage of buyers who paid between $148,800
and $151,200 if the standard deviation is $1200.
c. 60 - Suppose a uniform random variable can be used to describe the outcome of an

experiment with outcomes ranging from 50 to 70. What is the mean outcome of this
experiment?
3.3 mg when it is actually different from 3.3 mg. - A researcher claims that the amounts
of acetaminophen in a certain brand of cold tablets have a standard deviation different
from the σ = 3.3 mg claimed by the manufacturer. Assume that a hypothesis test of the
given claim will be conducted. Identify the type II error for the test.
d. 0.222 - A group of volunteers for a clinical trial consists of 81 women and 77 men. 18
of the women and 19 of the men have high blood pressure. If one of the volunteers is
selected at random find the probability that the person has high blood pressure given
that it is a woman.
a. (7.5, 16.2) - Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population standard
deviation $$\sigma$$ of a random sample of 15 men who have a mean weight of 165.2
pounds with a standard deviation of 10.3 pounds. Assume the population is normally
distributed.
b. -1.645 - Assume that the data has a normal distribution and the number of
α = 0.05 for a left-tailed test.
c. 0.9648 - The on-line access computer service industry is growing at an extraordinary

randomly and independently sampled. What is the probability that at least 1 of those
a. If A and B are disjoint, then they cannot be independent. - Which of the following is
always true?
d. - The attendace counts for this season's basketball games are listed below: 227 239
215 219 221 233 229 233 235 228 245 231 Use the data to creat a sterm plot.
d. 55.8 - The highway speeds of 100 cars are summarized in the frequency distribution
below. Find the mean speed.
c. 0.0512 - The editor of a particular women's magazine claims that the magazine is
read by 60% of the female students on a college campus. Find the probability that in a
random sample of 10 female students more than two read the magazine. (Note: please
give the answer as a real number accurate to4 decimal places after the decimal point.)
d. 0.8732 - A salesperson knows that 20% of her presentations result in sales. Find the
probabilities that in the next 60 presentations at least 9 result in sales.
b. Observation study - A T.V. show's executives raised the fee for commercials following
a report that the show received a " No.1" rating in a survey of viewers. What type of the
description is?
b. Yes - Determine whether the given conditions justify testing a claim about a
population mean μ. The sample size is n = 25,σ = 5.93, and the original population is
normally distributed.
gallon when it really is at most 23 miles per gallon. - Carter Motor Company claims that
its new sedan, the Libra, will average better than 23 miles per gallon in the city. Assume
that a hypothesis test of the given claim will be conducted. Identify the type I error for
the test.
c. 0.833 - A group of students were asked if they carry a credit card. The responses are
listed in the table. If a student is selected at random, find the probability that he or she
owns a credit card given that the student is a freshman. Round your answer to three
decimal places.
d. 0.0359 - The time for a worker to assemble a component is normally distributed with
mean 15 minutes and variance 4. Denote the mean assembly times of 16 day-shift
workers and 9 night-shift workers by $$\overline{X}$$ and $$\overline{Y}$$,
respectively. Assume that the assembly times of the workers are mutually
independent.ComputeP($$\overline{X} $$ - $$\overline{Y}$$ < -1.5) is
b. disjoint but not independent. - For two events A and B, P(A) = 0.4, P(B) = 0.3, and
P(A and B) = 0. It follows that A and B are
b. 0.0308 - In one city, the probability that a person will pass his or her driving test on
the first attempt is 0.68. 11 people are selected at random from among those taking
their driving test for the first time. What is the probability that among these 11 people,
the number passing the test is between 2 and 4 inclusive?
c. 7/10 - If $$X$$ is uniformly distributed over the interval $$[0, 10]$$. Compute the
probability that $$2 < X < 9$$.
a. 0.8413 - The tread life of a particular brand of tire is a random variable best described
miles. What is the probability a particular tire of this brand will last longer than 57,400
miles?
a. 1068 - A pollster wishes to estimate the proportion of United States voters who favor
capital punishment. How large a sample is needed in order to be 95% confident that the
sample proportion will not differ from the true proportion by more than 3%?
a. 0.59 - The probabilities that a batch of 4 computers will contain 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4

defective computers are 0.4521, 0.3970, 0.1307, 0.0191, and 0.0010, respectively. Find
the variance for the probability distribution.
a. P(A) = 0, P(B) = , P(C) = - Which of the following assignments of probabilities to the
sample points A, B, and C is valid if A, B, and C are the only sample points in the
experiment?
b. 0.0667 - Patients arriving at an outpatient clinic follow an exponential distribution with

mean 15 minutes. What is the average number of arrivals per minute?
d. 0.0064 - It has been found that 40% of the employees who complete a sequence of
program are randomly selected. Find the probability that at least three become vice
c. There is sufficient evidence to support the claim that the mean is greater than 19
miles per gallon. - Carter Motor Company claims that its new sedan, the Libra, will
average better than 19 miles per gallon in the city. Assuming that a hypothesis test of
the claim has been conducted and that the conclusion is to reject the null hypothesis,
state the conclusion in nontechnical terms.
a. Yes - Determine whether the given conditions justify testing a claim about a
population mean μ. The sample size is n = 17, σ is not known, and the original
population is normally distributed.
a. 22.362 - Find the critical value or values of $$\chi^2$$ based on the given
information. H1: σ > 3.5 n = 14 α = 0.05
d. the parking times of the entire set of students that park at the university - Parking at a
large university has become a very big problem. University administrators are interested
in determining the average parking time (e.g. the time it takes a student to find a parking
spot) of its students. An administrator inconspicuously followed 210 students and
carefully recorded their parking times. Identify the population of interest to the university
administration.
b. H0:σ = 3.3 mg H1:σ ≠ 3.3 mg - A researcher claims that the amounts of

acetaminophen in a certain brand of cold tablets have a standard deviation different
from the σ = 3.3 mg claimed by the manufacturer. Express the null hypothesis H 0 and
the alternative hypothesis H 1 in symbolic form.

probability that the residents of a household own 2 cars and have an income less than
or equal to $25,000 a year is:
a. (1.55, 3.53) - The grade point averages for 10 randomly selected high school
students are listed below. Assume the grade point averages are normally distributed.
2.0 3.2 1.8 2.9 0.9 4.0 3.3 2.9 3.6 0.8 Find a 98% confidence interval for the true mean.
d. 0.0828 - An electrical firm manufactures a certain type of light bulb that has a mean
light of 1,800 hours and a standard deviation of 200 hours. Find the probability that a
random sample of 100 bulbs will have an average life of not more than 1775 hours and
not less than 1760 hours.
b. 0.322 - A normal distribution has mean μ = 60 and standard deviation = 6, find the
area underthe curve between 58 and 63.
d. 0.903 - The age distribution of students at a community college is given below. Age
(years) Number of students Under 21 416 21-24 419 25-28 263 29-32 151 33-36 93 37-
40 59 Over 40 85 A student from the community college is selected at random. Find the
probability that the student is under 37 years old. Give your answer as a decimal
rounded to three decimal places.
a. 0.6554 - If a random variable has the normal distribution with μ = 30 and σ = 5, find
the probability that it will take on the value less than 32.
c. predictions are made about a larger set of data - Which of the following is not an
element of descriptive statistical problems?
d. 0.0401 - Assume that X has a normal distribution with the mean is μ = 60.0 and the
standard deviation is σ = 4.0. Find the probability that X is less than 53.0.
b. 0.733 - The employees of a company were surveyed on questions regarding their

educational background and marital status. Of the 600 employees, 400 had college
degrees, 100 were single, and 60 were single college graduates. The probability that an
employee of the company is single or has a college degree is
c. 0.4920 - LetZ is a standard normal variable, find theprobability that Z lies between
-2.41 and 0.
a. 0.1032 - Use the given information to find the P-value. The test statistic in a two-tailed
test is z = -1.63.
a. 1.581 - A die is rolled 18 times and the number of twos that come up is tallied. If this
experiment is repeated many times, find the standard deviation for the random variable
X, the number of twos.
b. 0.2120 - A supermarket manager has determined that the amount of time customers
minutes and a standard deviation of 6 minutes. Find the probability that a customer
spends between 39 and 43 minutes in the supermarket.
a. The error of rejecting the claim that the standard deviation is at least 14.7 when it
really is at least 14.7. - The principal of a middle school claims that test scores of the
seventh-graders at his school vary less than the test scores of seventh-graders at a
neighboring school, which have variation described by σ = 14.7. Assume that a
hypothesis test of the given claim will be conducted. Identify the type I error for the test.
d. 78.9 - Elaine gets quiz grades of 67, 64, and 87. She gets a 84 on her final exam.
Find the mean grade if the quizzes each count for 15% and her final exam exam counts
for 55% of the final grade.
b. 0.096 - A melting point test of $$n = 10$$ samples of a binder used in manufacturing
a rocket propellant resulted in $$\overline{x}=154.2^oF$$. Assume that melting point is
normally distributed with $$\sigma=1.5^oF$$. What is the P-value for the testing
problem $$H_0:\mu=155/ H_1 eq 155$$? Let $$P(Z<1.67)=0.952$$.
d. I cannot conclude that the average exceeds $3,000,000 at the 97% confidence level.
- It is desired to estimate the average total compensation of CEOs in the Service
industry. Data were randomly collected from 18 CEOs and the 97% confidence interval
was calculated to be ($2,181,260, $5,836,180). Based on the interval above, do you
believe the average total compensation of CEOs in the Service industry is more than
$3,000,000?
c. 0.2865 - Patients arriving at an outpatient clinic follow an exponential distribution at a

more than 5 minutes?
b. 41.8 minutes - The amount of time required for an oil and filter change on an
automobile is normally distributed with a mean of 45 minutes and a standard deviation
of 10 minutes. A random sample of 16 cars is selected. So, 90% of the sample means
will be greater than what value?
d. 0.67 - It has been found that 40% of the employees who complete a sequence of
program are randomly selected.Find the probability that exactly 5 become vice
c. 0.488 - A group of volunteers for a clinical trial consists of 83 women and 78 men. 21
selected at random find the probability that the person is a man given that they have
high blood pressure.
c. 0.2881 - The lengths of pregnancies are normally distributed with a mean of 264 days
and a standard deviation of 25 days. If 100 women are randomly selected, find the
probability that they have a mean pregnancy between 264 days and 266 days.
b. (21.1, 23.7) - A group of 49 randomly selected students has a mean age of 22.4
years with a population standard deviation of 3.8. Construct a 98% confidence interval
for the population mean.
d. 0.8767 - The amount of time required for an oil and filter change on an automobile is
A random sample of 16 cars is selected. What is the probability that the sample mean
will be between 39 and 48 minutes?
d. 0.0228 - The average score of all golfers for a particular course has a mean of 79 and
a standard deviation of 5. Suppose 100 golfers played the course today. Find the
probability that the average score of the 100 golfers exceeded 80.
d. 3.5 millimeters - The diameters of ball bearings produced in a manufacturing process

can be described using a uniform distribution over the interval 2.5 to 4.5 millimeters.
What is the mean diameter of ball bearings produced in this manufacturing process?
a. 0.22313 - A catalog company that receives the majority of its orders by telephone
placing an order?
d. 0.3085 - If we know that the length of time it takes a college student to find a parking
spot in the library parking lot follows a normal distribution with a mean of 3.5 minutes
and a standard deviation of 1 minute, find the probability that a randomly selected
college student will find a parking spot in the library parking lot in less than 3 minutes.
Let $$P(Z<-0.62) =0.2674;P(Z<-0.5) = 0.3085; P(Z<-0.37)=0.3551;P(Z<-0.87)=0.1915$
$.
c. There is not sufficient evidence to support the claim that the mean attendance is
greater than 727. - The owner of a football team claims that the average attendance at
games is over 727, and he is therefore justified in moving the team to a city with a larger
stadium. Assuming that a hypothesis test of the claim has been conducted and that the
conclusion is failure to reject the null hypothesis, state the conclusion in nontechnical
terms.
0.2237 - Let Z is a standard normal variable, find the probability that Z lies between
-1.10 and -0.36.
c. 43 - Find the percentile for the data point. Data set: 51 36 48 75 75 75 49 data point:
51
b. 0.0166 - Car batteries produced by company A have a mean life of 3.5 years with a
standard deviation of 0.4 years. A similar battery producted by company B has a mean
life of 3.3 years and a standard deviation of 0.3 years. What is the probability that a
random sample of 25 batteries from company A will have a mean life of at least 0.4
years more thanthe mean life of a sample of 36 batteries from company B?
2/5 - If sample points A, B, C, and D are the only possible outcomes of an experiment,
find the probability of D using the table below. Sample Point A B C D Probability 1/5 1/5
1/5
0.350 - The diameters of ball bearings produced in a manufacturing process can be

described using a uniform distribution over the interval 8.5 to 10.5 millimeters. What is
the probability that a randomly selected ball bearing has a diameter greater than 9.8
millimeters?
a. 0.4332 - A bank's loan officer rates applicants for credit. The ratings are normally
distributed with a mean of 200 and a standard deviation of 50. If an applicant is
randomly selected, find the probability of a rating that is between 200 and 275.
a. 0.018 - The Columbia Power Company experiences power failures with a mean of
0.210 per day. Use the Poisson Distribution to find the probability that there are exactly
two power failures in a particular day.
d. 0.32 - For some positive value of $$x$$, the probability that a standard normal
variable is between 0 and $$x$$ is 0.1255. What is the value of $$x$$? Let $
$P(Z>0)=0.5; P(Z<0.32) = 0.6255; P(Z<0.99)=0.8389$$.
d. Systematic - A sample consists of every 49th student from a group of 496 students.
Identify which of these types of sampling is used: Stratified, systematic, cluster, random.
c. 1 - The probability that a house in an urban area will be burglarized is 5%. If 20

houses are randomly selected, what is the mean of the number of houses burglarized?
a. 0.12 - Suppose that P(A B) = 0.6, P(A) = 0.5 and P(B) = 0.1. Find the value of P(B A).
d. 0.002 - The probability that an individual is left-handed is 0.15. In a class of 93

students, what is the probability of finding five left-handers?
sample - A _ is a portion of a population that is representative of the population from

which it is selected.
d. 0.2031 - A tennis player makes a successful first serve 59% of the time. If she serves
7 times, what is the probability that she gets exactly3 first serves in? Assume that each
serve is independent of the others.
b. 0.0069 - A study of the amount of time it take a mechanic to rebuild the transmission
for a 1992 Chevrolet Cavalier shows that the mean is 8.4 hours and the standard
deviation is 1.8 hours. If 40 mechanics are randomly selected, find the probability that
their mean rebuild time exceeds 9.1 hours.
c. Maybe. 0.60 is a believable value of the population proportion based on the

information above. - A confidence interval was used to estimate the proportion of
statistics students that are females. A random sample of 72 statistics students
generated the following 90% confidence interval: (0.438, 0.642). Based on the interval
above, is the population proportion of females equal to 0.60?
a. three selected custermers - An employee at the local ice cream parlor asks three
customers if they like chocolate ice cream. What is the sample?
c. narrower for 90% confidence than for 95% confidence. - The width of a confidence
interval estimate for a proportion will be
c. 0.8704 - A greenhouse is offering a sale on tulip bulbs because they have

inadvertently mixed pink bulbs with red bulbs. If 40% of the bulbs are pink and 60% are
red, what is the probability that at least one of the bulbs will be pink if 4 bulbs are
purchased?
b. The error of rejecting the claim that the mean weight is at least 14 oz. when it really is
at least 14 oz. - A cereal company claims that the mean weight of the cereal in its
packets is at least 14 oz. Assume that a hypothesis test of the given claim will be
conducted. Identify the type I error for the test.
c. 0.9105 - Find the probability that in 200 tosses of a fair six-sided die, a five will be
obtained at most 40 times.
b. 0.10 - The probability that house sales will increase in the next 6 months is estimated
to be 0.25. The probability that the interest rates on housing loans will go up in the same
period is estimated to be 0.74. The probability that house sales or interest rates will go
up during the next 6 months is estimated to be 0.89. The probability that both house
sales and interest rates will increase during the next 6 months is
b. 1.05 - A basketball player is asked to shot free throws in sets of four. The player
shoots 100 sets of 4 free throws. The probability distribution for making a particular
number of free throws id given below. Determine the standard deviation for this discrete
probability distribution. x 0 1 2 3 4 P(x) 0.02 0.07 0.22 0.27 0.42
d. descriptive statistics. - The collection and summarization of the socioeconomic and

a. 0.367879 - A catalog company that receives the majority of its orders by telephone
approximated by an exponential distribution with a mean equal to 2.8 minutes. What
proportion of callers is put on hold longer than 2.8 minutes?
d. (17.5, 21.7) - In a recent study of 42 eighth graders, the mean number of hours per
week that they watched television was 19.6 with a population standard deviation of 5.8
hours. Find the 98% confidence interval for the population mean.
c. 0.072 - The probability that a tennis set will go to a tie-breaker is 17%. What is the
probability that two of three sets will go to tie-breakers?
disjoint but not independent. - For two events A and B, P(A) = 0.4, P(B) = 0.3, and P(A
and B) = 0. It follows that A and B are
0.35 - According to a survey of American households, the probability that the residents
own 2 cars if annual household income is over $30,000 is 70%. Of the households
surveyed, 50% had incomes over $30,000 and 70% had 2 cars. The probability that the
residents of a household own 2 cars and have an income over $30,000 a year is:
0.97 - According to the Center for Disease Control, in 2004, 67.5% of all adults between
the ages of 18 and 44 were considered current drinkers. Based on this estimate, if three
randomly selected adults between the ages of 18 and 44 are selected, what is the
probability that at least one is a current drinker?
0.500 - Assume that male and female births are equally likely and that the birth of any
probability of at most two boys in five births.
0.036 - The probability is 2% that an electrical connector that is kept dry fails during the
warranty period of a portable computer. If the connector is ever wet, the probability of a
failure during the warranty period is 10%. If 80% of the connectors are kept dry and
An inference made about the population based on the sample. - Which of the following
is not an element of descriptive statistical problems?
P(A) = 0, P(B) = , P(C) = , P(D) = 0 - Which of the following assignments of probabilities

to the sample points A, B, C and D is valid if A, B, C, and D are the only sample points
in the experiment?
0.211 - The following table shows the political affiliation of voters in one city and their
positions on stronger gun control laws.
The number of cracks exceeding one-half inch in 10 miles of an interstate highway. -

Which of the following is a discrete quantitative variable?
Retrospective study - Jared was working on a project to look at global warming and
accessed an Internet site where he captured average global surface temperatures from
1866. Which of the four methods of data collection was he using?
0.718 - An aircraft emergency locator transmitter (ELT) is a device designed to transmit

a signal in the case of a crash. The Altigauge Manufacturing Company makes 85% of
the ELTs, the Bryant Company makes 10% of them, and the Chartair Company makes
the other 5%. The ELTs made by Altigauge have a 3% rate of defects, the Bryant ELTs
have a 5% rate of defects, and the Chartair ELTs have a 10% rate of defects. If a
randomly selected ELT is then tested and is found to be defective, find the probability
that it was made by the Altigauge Manufacturing Company.
no - Given that events C and D are independent, P(C) = 0.3, and P(D) = 0.6, are C and
D mutually exclusive?
1/10 - A random number generator is set top generate integer random numbers
between 0 and 9 inclusive following a uniform distribution. What is the probability of the
random number generator generating a 6?
1/10 - A random number generator is set top generate integer integers from 1 to 10
following a uniform distribution. What is the probability of the random number generator
generating a 7?
0.526 - The breakdown of workers in a particular state according to their political

affiliation and type of job held is shown here. Suppose a worker is selected at random
within the state and the worker's political affiliation and type of job are noted. Political
Affiliation Given the worker is a Democrat, what is the probability that the worker is in a
white collar job.
(i) - A sample of the variable x assumes the following values: 57 51 58 52 50 59 57 51

59 56 (50 53 54 50 57 51 53 55 52 54) Construct a frequency distribution for this data.
(i) x (Frequency) 50-51 (6) 52-53 (4) 54-55 (3) 56-57(4) 58-59 (3) (ii) 50-51 (30%) 52-53
(20%) 54-55 (15%) 56-57 (20%) 58-59 (15%) (iii) <= 51 (6) <= 53 (10) , <= 55 (13) , <=
57 (17) , <= 59 (20)
descriptive statistics. - The collection and summarization of the socioeconomic and

{1, 3, 5, 7, 9} - An experiment consists of randomly choosing a number between 1 and

10. Let E be the event that the number chosen is odd. List the sample points in E.
Observation study - A T.V. show's executives raised the fee for commercials following a
report that the show received a " No.1" rating in a survey of viewers. What type of the
description is?
0.4 - It was found that 60% of the workers were white, 30% were black and 10% are
other races. Given that a worker was white, the probability that the worker had claimed
bias was 30%. Given that a worker was black, the probability that the worker had
claimed bias was 40%. Given that a worker was other race, the probability that the
worker had claimed bias was 0%. If a randomly selected worker had claimed bias, what
is the probability that the worker is black?
cannot be determined - Given events A and B with probabilities P(A) = 0.75 and P(B) =
0.15, are A and B mutually exclusive?
0.4010 - The probability that a house in an urban area will be burglarized is 3%. If 30
houses are randomly selected, what is the probability that none of the houses will be
burglarized?
0.344 - After completing an inventory of three warehouses, a golf club shaft

manufacturer described its stock of 14,542 shafts with the percentages given in the
table. Suppose a shaft is selected at random from the 14,542 currently in stock, and the
warehouse number and type of shaft are observed. Type of Shaft Given that the shaft is
produced in warehouse 2, find the probability it has an stiff shaft.
0.947 - According to a survey result, 79.6% of respondents favored the gun law, 77.8%
favored the death penalty for those convicted of murder and 62.7% were in favor of
both. What is the probability that a randomly selected respondent was in favor of either
the gun law or the death penalty for persons convicted of murder? Hint. Use the addition
rules.
independent but not disjoint. - For two events A and B, P(A) = 0.8, P(B) = 0.2, and P(A
and B) = 0.16. It follows that A and B are
0.92 - A company has 2 machines that produce widgets. An older machine produces
does. Given that a widget was produced by the new machine, what is the probability it is
not defective?
positions on stronger gun control laws.
number of items - discrete; total time - continuous - The peak shopping time at home
0.931 - The New York State Health Department reports a 12% rate of the HIV virus for
the "at-risk" population. Under certain conditions, a preliminary screening test for the
HIV virus is correct 99% of the time. If someone is randomly selected from the at-risk
population, what is the probability that they have the HIV virus if it is known that they
have tested positive in the initial screening?
independent - Two events A and B are said to be _________ if P(A B) = P(A) or if P(B
A) = P(B).
1/2 - A committee of three people is to be formed. The three people will be selected
from a list of six possible committee members. A simple random sample of three people
is taken, without replacement, from the group of six people. Using the letters A, B, C, D,
E, F to represent the six people, list the possible samples of size three and use your list
to determine the probability that B is included in the sample. (Hint: There are 20
possible samples.)
0.833 - A research group asked the students if they carry a credit card. The responses
are listed in the table. If a student is randomly selected, find the probability that he or
she owns a credit card given that the student is a freshman. Round your answer to
0.60 - A bin contains 15 defective (that immediately fail when put in use), 20 partially
defective (that fail after a couple of hours of use), and 30 acceptable transistors. A
transistor is chosen at random from the bin and put into use. If it does not immediately
fail, what is the probability it is acceptable?
statistical inference. - The process of using sample statistics to draw conclusions about
true population parameters is called
{red, yellow, blue, orange} - A bag of colored candies contains 20 red, 25 yellow, 15
blue and 20 orange candies. An experiment consists of randomly choosing one candy
from the bag and recording its color. What is the sample space for this experiment?
0.460 - A group of volunteers for a clinical trial consists of 123 women and 178 men. 54
selected at random find the probability that the person is a man given that they have
high blood pressure.
worker had claimed bias was 0%. If a randomly selected worker had claimed bias, what
is the probability that the worker is white?
A) = 0.45, are A and B independent? | no - If P(A) = 0.45, P(B) = 0.25, and P(B
0.04 - Suppose that on a particular multiple choice question, 96% of the students
answered correctly. What is the probability that a randomly selected student answered
the question incorrectly?
residents of a household own 2 cars and have an income less than or equal to $20,000
a year is:
0.966 - The distribution of B.A. degrees conferred by a local college is listed below, by
major. Major
0.585 - Mr. Ômô figures that there is a 65% chance that his university will set up a
branch office in Lao Cai. If it does, he is 90% certain that she will be made director of
this new branch. What is the probability that Ômô will be a Lao Cai branch office
director?
all custormers - An employee at the local ice cream parlor asks three customers if they
like chocolate ice cream. What is the population?
HHH HHT HTH HTT THH THT TTH TTT - Flip a coin three times, create the sample
space of possible outcomes (H: Head, T: Tail).
parking times of the 130 students - Parking at a large university has become a very big
problem. University administrators are interested in determining the average parking
time (e.g. the time it takes a student to find a parking spot) of its students. An
administrator inconspicuously followed 130 students and carefully recorded their
parking times. Identify the sample of interest to the university administration.
no - Given events C and D with probabilities P(C) = 0.3, P(D) = 0.2, and P(C and D) =
0.1, are C and D independent?
4/9 - Brandon and Samantha each carry a bag containing a banana, a chocolate bar,
and a licorice stick. Simultaneously, they take out a single food item and consume it.
The possible pairs of food items that Brandon and Samantha consumed are as follows.
chocolate bar - chocolate bar licorice stick - chocolate bar banana - banana chocolate
bar - licorice stick licorice stick - licorice stick chocolate bar - banana banana - licorice
stick licorice stick - banana banana - chocolate bar Find the probability that exactly one
chocolate bar was eaten.
0.87 - The probability that a student at a certain college is male is 0.55. The probability
that a student at that college has a job off campus is 0.67. The probability that a student
at the college is male and has a job off campus is 0.35. If a student is chosen at random
from the college, what is the probability that the student is male or has an off campus
job?
0.124 - Sixty percent of the people that get mail-order catalogs order something. Find
Statistics is used to answer questions with 100% certainty. - Which of the following is
not true of statistics?
LD-LD CD-LD LP-LP LD-CD CD-CD LD-LP LP-CD - Both Nualart and Tom have a bag
of candy containing a lollipop (LP), a cherry drop (CD), and a lemon drop (LD). Each
takes out a piece and eats it. What are the possible pairs of candies eaten? Create the
sample space of possible outcomes.
The amount of milk produced by a cow in one 24-hour period - Which of the following is
a continuous quantitative variable?
0.136 - At a Texas college, 60% of the students are from the southern part of the state,
30% are from the northern part of the state, and the remaining 10% are from out-of-
state. All students must take and pass an Entry Level Math (ELM) test. 60% of the
southerners have passed the ELM, 70% of the northerners have passed the ELM, and
90% of the out-of-state have passed the ELM. If a randomly selected student has
passed the ELM, the probability the student is from out-of-state is ________.
1/6 - If two balanced die are rolled, the possible outcomes can be represented as
follows. (1, 1) (2, 1) (3, 1) (4, 1) (5, 1) (6, 1) (1, 2) (2, 2) (3, 2) (4, 2) (5, 2) (6, 2) (1, 3) (2,
3) (3, 3) (4, 3) (5, 3) (6, 3) (1, 4) (2, 4) (3, 4) (4, 4) (5, 4) (6, 4) (1, 5) (2, 5) (3, 5) (4, 5) (5,
the dice is 7.
0.318 - A group of volunteers for a clinical trial consists of 88 women and 77 men. 28 of
the women and 39 of the men have high blood pressure. If one of the volunteers is
selected at random find the probability that the person has high blood pressure given
that it is a woman.
0.15 - According to a 2007 report published by the Columbia University, 69% of teens
have family dinners five or more times a week, 11% of teens have used marijuana and
the proportion of teens who have family dinners 5 or more times a week or use
marijuana is 0.65. What is the probability that a teen has family dinners five or more
times a week and uses marijuana? Hint. Use the addition rules.
0.511 - A company has 2 machines that produce widgets. An older machine produces
does. Given a randomly chosen widget was tested and found to be defective, what is
the probability it was produced by the new machine?
predictions are made about a larger set of data - Which of the following is not an
element of descriptive statistical problems?
The number of employees of an insurance company - Which of the following is a

discrete quantitative variable?
1/2 - If you flip a coin three times, the possible outcomes are HHH HHT HTH HTT THH
THT TTH TTT. What is the probability of getting at most one head?
descriptive statistics. - Those methods involving the collection, presentation, and

characterization of a set of data in order to properly describe the various features of that
set of data are called
HH HT TH TT - Flip a coin twice, create the sample space of possible outcomes (H:
Head, T: Tail).
0.398 - In 2006, the General Social Survey asked 4,491 respondents how often they
attended religious services. The responses were as follows: Frequency
independent - If two events A and B are __________, then P(A and B) = P(A)P(B).
0.8840 - A greenhouse is offering a sale on tulip bulbs because they have inadvertently
mixed pink bulbs with red bulbs. If 35% of the bulbs are pink and 65% are red, what is
the probability that at least one of the bulbs will be pink if 5 bulbs are purchased?
0.7, if A and B are independent. - For two events A and B, P(A) = 0.4, P(B) = 0.5. Then
P(A or B) equals
0.22 - At a Ohio college, 25% of students speak Spanish, 5% speak French, and 3%
speak both languages. What is the probability that a student chosen at random from the
college speaks Spanish but not French?
0.15 - Assume that P(C) = 0.5 and P(D) = 0.3. If C and D are independent, find P(C and
D).
0.28 - Ms. Anne figures that there is a 40% chance that her company will set up a
branch office in Ohio. If it does, she is 70% certain that she will be made manager of
this new operation. What is the probability that Anne will be a Ohio branch office
manager?
0.0096 - Sixty-five percent of men consider themselves knowledgeable football fans. If

15 men are randomly selected, find the probability that exactly five of them will consider
themselves knowledgeable fans.
0.310 - According to the U.S. census, in 2005 25% of homicide victims were known to
0.1296 - Forty percent of babies born in the U.S. in 2004 were still being breastfed at 6
months of age. If 4 children who were born in the U.S. in 2004 are randomly selected,
what is the probability that none of them were breastfed for at least 6 months?
0.065 - The probability is 5% that an electrical connector that is kept dry fails during the
warranty period of a portable computer. If the connector is ever wet, the probability of a
failure during the warranty period is 20%. If 90% of the connectors are kept dry and
The volume of gasoline that is lost to evaporation during the filling of a gas tank. - Which
of the following is a continuous quantitative variable?
surveyed, 62% had incomes over $25,500 and 44% had 3 cars. The probability that
annual household income is over $25,500 if the residents of a household own 3 cars is:
0.072 - Assume that P(E) = 0.15 and P(F) = 0.48. If E and F are independent, find P(E
and F).
{0, 1, 2} - The outcome of an experiment is the number of resulting heads when a nickel
and a dime are flipped simultaneously. What is the sample space for this experiment?
0.804 - In Orange County, 51% of the adults are males. One adult is randomly selected
for a survey involving credit card usage. It is later learned that the selected survey
subject was smoking a cigar. Also, 7.5% of males smoke cigars, whereas 1.9% of
females smoke cigars. Use this additional information to find the probability that the
selected subject is a male.
no - Given that events A and B are mutually exclusive and P(A) = 0.5 and P(B) =0.7, are
A and B independent?
residents of a household do not own 2 cars and have an income over $35,000 a year is:
surveyed, 62% had incomes over $25,500 and 84% had 3 cars. The probability that
annual household income is over $25,500 if the residents of a household own 3 cars is:
0.72 - If P(A) = 0.72, P(B) = 0.11, and A and B are independent, find P(A B).
0.029 - Assume that a researcher randomly selects 14 newborn babies and counts the
number of girls selected, X. The probabilities corresponding to the 14 possible values of
X are summarized in the given table. Answer the question using the following table.
X(girls)
0.14 - Assume that P(A) = 0.7 and P(B) = 0.2. If A and B are independent, find P(A and
B).
0.756 - In a study of pleas and prison sentences, it is found that 35% of the subjects
studied were sent to prison. Among those sent to prison, 30% chose to plead guilty.
Among those not sent to prison, 50% chose to plead guilty. If a study subject is
randomly selected and it is then found that the subject entered a guilty plea, find the
probability that this person was not sent to prison.
WW, BW - Two white sheep mate. The male has both a white and a black fur-color
gene. The female has only white fur-color genes. The fur color of the offspring depends
on the pairs of fur-color genes that they receive. Assume that neither the white nor the
black gene dominates. List the possible outcomes. W = white and B = black.
the parking times of the entire set of students that park at the university - Parking at a
large university has become a very big problem. University administrators are interested
in determining the average parking time (e.g. the time it takes a student to find a parking
spot) of its students. An administrator inconspicuously followed 210 students and
carefully recorded their parking times. Identify the population of interest to the university
administration.
three selected custermers - An employee at the local ice cream parlor asks three
customers if they like chocolate ice cream. What is the sample?
If A and B are disjoint, then they cannot be independent. - Which of the following is
always true?
0.057 - The probability that a tennis set will go to a tie-breaker is 15%. What is the
1/9 - If two balanced die are rolled, the possible outcomes can be represented as
follows. (1, 1) (2, 1) (3, 1) (4, 1) (5, 1) (6, 1) (1, 2) (2, 2) (3, 2) (4, 2) (5, 2) (6, 2) (1, 3) (2,
3) (3, 3) (4, 3) (5, 3) (6, 3) (1, 4) (2, 4) (3, 4) (4, 4) (5, 4) (6, 4) (1, 5) (2, 5) (3, 5) (4, 5) (5,
the dice is 4 or 12.
yes - Given events A and B with probabilities P(A) = 0.5,P(B) = 0.4, and P(A and B) =
0.2, are A and B independent?
0.96 - A survey of senior citizens at a doctor's office shows that 65% take blood
pressure-lowering medication, 38% take cholesterol-lowering medication, and 7% take
both medications. What is the probability that a senior citizen takes either blood
pressure-lowering or cholesterol-lowering medication?
NNR NNN - Hahn is having his sixth litter. The prior litters have either been three
normal pups or two normal pups and a runt. Assume the probability of either outcome is
50%. Create the sample space of possible outcomes (Normal: N, Runt: R).
0.973 - Suppose that the probability that a particular brand of light bulb fails before 1000
hours of use is 0.3. If you purchase 3 of these bulbs, what is the probability that at least
one of them lasts 1000 hours or more?
55 - Suppose a uniform random variable can be used to describe the outcome of an

experiment with outcomes ranging from 50 to 60. What is the mean outcome of this
experiment?
9. - If the standard deviation for a Poisson distribution is known to be 3, the expected

value of that Poison distribution is:
P(2< x ≤ 8) = P(2 ≤ x < 8) - Which of the following is always true for a normal
distribution?
None of the other choices is correct - Product codes of 6, 7, 8 or 9 letters are equally
likely. Which of the following statements are true? (i) Standard deviation of the number
of letters in one code is 1.25. (ii) The probability of the event that the code has at least 7
letters is 0.5
0.0154 - Assume that a procedure yields a binomial distribution with a trial repeated 4
times. Use the binomial probability formula to find the probability of 3 successes given
the probability 1/6 of success on a single trial.
0.0137 - According to police sources a car with a certain protection system will be
recovered 78% of the time. Find the probability that 3 of 8 stolen cars will be recovered.
2.67% - Assume that the weights of quarters are normally distributed with a mean of
rejected?
0.6826 - Assume that X has a normal distribution with the mean is μ = 15.2 and the
standard deviation is σ = 0.9. Find the probability that X is between 14.3 and 16.1.
0.15 - The cumulative distribution function of a random variable X is given by What is

the value of the probability density function at x = 1?
0.8647 - Patients arriving at an outpatient clinic follow an exponential distribution at a
less than 8 minutes?
3.16 - The probability that a radish seed will germinate is 0.26. A gardener plants seeds
in batches of 52. Find the standard deviation for the random variable X, the number of
seeds germinating in each batch.
1.55 -
1.6875 - A machine is set to pump cleanser into a process at the rate of 10 gallons per
rate described by the uniform distribution over the interval 9 to 13.5 gallons per minute.
Find the variance of the distribution.
0.0183 - The manager of a movie theater has determined that the distribution of
customers arriving at the concession stand is Poisson distributed with a standard
deviation equal to 2 people per 10 minutes. If the servers can accommodate 3
customers in a 10-minute period, what is the probability that the servers will be idle for
an entire ten minute period?
62,533 miles - The tread life of a particular brand of tire is a random variable best
described by a normal distribution with a mean of 65,000 miles and a standard deviation
of 1500 miles. What warranty should the company use if they want 95% of the tires to
outlast the warranty?
0.25 - Let the random variable X have a discrete uniform distribution on the integers 12,
13, ..., 19. Find the value of P(X > 17).
0.0869 - A multiple choice test has 22 questions each of which has 4 possible answers,
only one of which is correct. If Judy, who forgot to study for the test, guesses on all
questions, what is the probability that she will answer exactly 8 questions correctly?
0.7840 - An airline reports that it has been experiencing a 12% rate of no-shows on
advanced reservations. Among 100 advanced reservations, find the probability that
there will be fewer than 15 no-shows.
64.9% - Suppose that prices of a certain model of new homes are normally distributed
with a mean of $150,000. Find the percentage of buyers who paid between $148,885
and $151,220 if the standard deviation is $1250.
-0.99 - Find z if the normal curve area to the left of z is 0.1611.

0.3602 - The number of hours you spend looking at YouTube on a typical Saturday
night is distributed according to the density function with . Find the probability that, on a
typical Saturday night, you spend between 0.75 and 1.25 hours watching YouTube.
Mean = 0.67; Standard deviation = 0.44 - Suppose that the random variable X has an
exponential distribution with λ = 1.5. Find the mean and standard deviation of X.
93.8 - According to a CNN poll taken in February of 2008, 67% of respondents

disapproved of the overall job that President Bush was doing. Based on this poll, for
samples of size 140, what is the mean number of American adults who disapprove of
the overall job that President Bush is doing?
None - Apple would like to estimate the web browsing battery life (in hours) of the
Iphone 6. Four users are randomly selected and the battery life are: 4 4 3 5 Using this
sample, what is the point estimate for the variance of the battery life?
mean: 1.47; standard deviation: 1.19 - The random variable X represents the number of
tests that a patient entering a hospital will have along with the corresponding
probabilities. Find the mean and standard deviation for the random variable X. x
0.375 - Suppose a uniform random variable can be used to describe the outcome of an
experiment with outcomes ranging from 41 to 81. What is the probability that this
0.57 - Assume that z scores are normally distributed with a mean of 0 and a standard
deviation of 1. If P(-a < Z < a) = 0.4314, find a.
d. Mean = 0.67; Standard deviation = 0.44 - Suppose that the random variable X has an
exponential distribution with λ = 1.5. Find the mean and standard deviation of X.
10 - Suppose that X has a discrete uniform distribution on the integers 0 through 5.

Determine the mean of the random variable Y = 4X
0.0046 - In a recent survey, 85% of the community favored building a police substation
in their neighborhood. If 20 citizens are chosen, what is the probability that the number
favoring the substation is exactly 12?
0.3701 - Police estimate that 22% of drivers drive without their seat belts. If they stop 4
drivers at random, find the probability that all of them are wearing their seat belts.
0.3566 - The length of time it takes college students to find a parking spot in the library
parking lot follows a normal distribution with a mean of 10 minutes and a standard
deviation of 2.1 minute. Find the probability that a randomly selected college student will
take between 8.5 and 10.5 minutes to find a parking spot in the library lot.
standard deviation is σ = 4.0. Find the probability that X is less than 53.0.
0.27253 - A catalog company that receives the majority of its orders by telephone
placing an order?
6.36 - The probability that a person has immunity to a particular disease is 0.06. Find
the mean for the random variable X, the number who have immunity in samples of size
106.
0.433 - The diameters of ball bearings produced in a manufacturing process can be

described using a uniform distribution over the interval 4.5 to 7.5 millimeters. Any ball
bearing with a diameter of over 6.25 millimeters or under 4.55 millimeters is considered
defective. What is the probability that a randomly selected ball bearing is defective?
4.2 - The number of visible defects on a product container is thought to be Poisson

distributed with a mean equal to 2.1. Based on this, how many defects should be
expected if 2 containers are inspected?
45.5 - A supermarket manager has determined that the amount of time customers
minutes and a standard deviation of 6.5 minutes. Find the number of minutes, m, for
which the probability that a customer spends less than m minutes in the supermarket is
0.20.
80 - Product codes of 3, 4 or 5 letters are equally likely. What is the mean of the number
of letters in 20 codes?
0.0863 - An archer is able to hit the bull's-eye 57% of the time. If she shoots 15 arrows,
what is the probability that she gets exactly 6 bull's-eyes? Assume each shot is
independent of the others.
binomial distribution. - To calculate the probability of obtaining three aces in eight draws
of a card with replacement from an ordinary deck, we would use the
bigger than - When considering area under the standard normal curve, decide whether
the area between z = 3 andz = -3 is bigger than, smaller than, or equal to the area
betweenz =2.7 and z = 2.9.
2/3 - Let X be a continuous random variable with probability density function defined by
What value must k take for this to be a valid density?
0.0498 - Patients arriving at an outpatient clinic follow an exponential distribution at a
more than 12 minutes?
24.91 - Find the standard deviation for the binomial distribution which has the stated
values of n = 2661 and p = 0.63. Round your answer to the nearest hundredth.
0.69 - The probabilities that a batch of 4 computers will contain 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4

defective computers are 0.4521, 0.3970, 0.1307, 0.0191, and 0.0010, respectively. Find
the variance for the probability distribution.
0.7 - Suppose X is a uniform random variable over the interval [40, 50]. Find the
0.0018 - The number of visible defects on a product container is thought to be Poisson

distributed with a mean equal to 4.3. Based on this, the probability that 2 containers will
contain less than 2 defects is:
100 - Product codes of 1, 2 or 3 letters are equally likely. What is the mean of the
number of letters in 50 codes?
0.0444 - A card game is played in which the player wins if a face card is drawn (king,
queen, jack) from a deck of 52 cards. If the player plays 10 times, what is the probability
that the number of wins for the player is 5?
0.186 - The probability that an individual is left-handed is 0.15. In a class of 30 students,

what is the probability of finding five left-handers?
0.34 - In 2005, the property crime rates (per 100,000 residents) for the 50 states and the
District of Columbia had a mean of 3477 and a standard deviation of 747. Assuming the
distribution of property crime rates is normal, what percentage of the states had
property crime rates between 3362 and 4055?
2.41% - For a standard normal distribution, find the percentage of data that are more
than 2 standard deviations below the mean or more than 3 standard deviations above
the mean.
0.268384 - The time (in years) until the first critical-part failure for a certain car is
3.67 - A die is rolled 22 times and the number of times that two shows on the upper face
is counted. If this experiment is repeated many times, find the mean for the number of
twos.
9.39 - The following table is the probability distribution of the number of golf balls
ordered by customers x
7.8 - The number of ounces of soda that a vending machine dispenses per cup is
normally distributed with a mean of 12.4 ounces and a standard deviation of 4.3 ounces.
favoring the substation is exactly 42?
0.5695 - The on-line access computer service industry is growing at an extraordinary

randomly and independently sampled. What is the probability that at least 1 of those
0.7734 - The tread life of a particular brand of tire is a random variable best described
miles. What is the probability a particular tire of this brand will last longer than 58,400
miles?
0.2478 - Find the standard normal-curve area between z = -1.3 and z = -0.4.
f(x) = 1/8 x^2 , 0<= x <= 2 and f(x) = 0 , otherwise Find the mean of X
6.9 minutes - A catalog company that receives the majority of its orders by telephone
approximated by an exponential distribution with a mean equal to 3 minutes. Find the
waiting time at which only 10% of the customers will continue to hold.
12.5 - On a 50-question multiple choice test , each question has four possible answers,
one of which is correct. For students who guess at all answers, find the mean for the
random variable X, the number of correct answers.
mean: 1.04; standard deviation: 1.09 - In a pizza takeout restaurant, the following
probability distribution was obtained. The random variable X represents the number of
toppings for a large pizza. Find the mean and standard deviation for the random
variable X. x
0.30 - Suppose a uniform random variable can be used to describe the outcome of an
experiment with the outcomes ranging from 30 to 80. What is the probability that this
0.006 - The Columbia Power Company experiences power failures with a mean of
0.120 per day. Use the Poisson Distribution to find the probability that there are exactly
two power failures in a particular day.
17.32 - Let X be a normal random variable with a mean of 18.2 and a variance of 5.
Find the value of c if P(X -1 < c) = 0.5221.
0.857 - A basketball player has made 95% of his foul shots during the season. If he
shots?
0.3385 - A machine pours beer into 16 oz. bottles. Experience has shown that the
number of ounces poured is normally distributed with a standard deviation of 1.5
ounces. Find the probabilities that the amount of beer the machine will pour into the
next bottle will be more than 16.5 ounces.
equal to - When considering area under the standard normal curve, decide whether the
area between z = -1.5 and z = 1.1 is bigger than, smaller than, or equal to the area
between z = -1.1 and z = 1.5.
0.5 - The probability density function of X, the lifetime of a certain type of electronic
device (measured in hours), is given by Determine the value of
0.625 - Let X be a uniform random variable over the interval [0, 8] . What is the
probability that the random variable X has a value greater than 3?
(ii) only - Suppose that X has a discrete uniform distribution on the integers 20 to 79.
Which of the followings are true? (i) P(X > 41) = 13/20 (ii) E(10X)= 495
0.0016 - A telemarketer found that there was a 1.5% chance of a sale from his phone
solicitations. Find the probability of getting 28 or more sales for 1000 telephone calls.
0.2313 - Find the probability that in 20 tosses of a fair six-sided die, a five will be
0.7180 - A supermarket manager has determined that the amount of time customers
spend in the supermarket is approximately normally distributed with a mean of 43.2
minutes and a standard deviation of 5.2 minutes. Find the probability that a customer
spends less than 46.5 minutes in the supermarket.
0.453176 - Let X represent the amount of time it takes a student to park in the library
that it will take a randomly selected student between 2.5 and 10 minutes to park in the
library lot.
12.0 - Find the mean for the binomial distribution which has the stated values of n = 20
and p = 3/5. Round answer to the nearest tenth.
1.60 -
deviation of 1. If P(Z > c) = 0.1093, find c.
38 - The range of the random variable X is {1, 2, 3, 6, u}, where u is unknown. If each
value is equally likely and the mean of X is 10, determine the value of u.
the probability 0.04 of success on a single trial.
1.9703 - Find z if the normal curve area between 0 and z is 0.4756.
0.417 - The age (in years) of randomly chosen T-shirts in your wardrobe from last
summer is distributed according to the density function with . Find the probability that a
randomly chosen T-shirt is between 2 and 8 years old
modeled using an exponential distribution with a mean of 4.8 minutes, find the
probability that it will take a randomly selected student more than 9 minutes to park in
the library lot.
.0005 - Assume that x has a Poisson probability distribution. Find P(x = 6) when μ = 1.0.
deviation of 1. If P(0.2 < Z < a) = 0.2314, find a.
(i) only - Suppose that X has a discrete uniform distribution on the integers 2 to 8. Which
of the following are true? (i) E(4X) = 20 (ii) σ(X) = 4
0.0762 - A bank's loan officer rates applicants for credit. The ratings are normally
0.2946 - Find the standard normal-curve area to the left of z = -0.54.
0.375 - Suppose that X is a continuous random variable whose probability density

function is given by and for other values of What is the value of C?
6.6 - Find the mean for the binomial distribution which has the values of n = 33 and p =
0.2. Round answer to the nearest tenth.
95% - The lifetimes of light bulbs of a particular type are normally distributed with a
have lifetimes that lie within 2 standard deviations of the mean?
69.7 - The probability is 0.85 that a person shopping at a certain store will spend less
than $20. For random samples of 82 customers, find the mean number of shoppers who
spend less than $20.
3.57 - Find the variance of the following probability distribution. x
μ = 9.0, σ = 3.0 - Suppose X has a Poisson probability distribution with = 9.0. Find μ and
σ.
4.19 - The owner of a fish market determined that the weights of catfish are normally
distributed with the average weight for a catfish is 3.2 pounds with a standard deviation
of 0.6 pound. A citation catfish should be one of the top 5% in weight. At what weight (in
pounds) should the citation designation be established?
0.5 - Let the random variable X have a discrete uniform distribution on the integers
Determine P(X < 6).
0.5339 - A new phone system was installed last year to help reduce the expense of
installed, the amount being spent on personal calls followed a normal distribution with
an average of $1000 per month and a standard deviation of $65 per month. Refer to
such expenses as PCE's (personal call expenses). Using the distribution above, what is
the probability that a randomly selected month had a PCE of between $875 and $1010?
-1.2798 - Find z if the normal curve area to the right of z is 0.8997.
0.25 - Suppose the cumulative distribution of the random variable X is Detemine
2.27 - According to a college survey, 18% of all students work full time. Find the
standard deviation for the random variable X, the number of students who work full time
in samples of size 35.
0.8 - Suppose x is a uniform random variable over [10,90]. Find the probability that a
randomly selected observation exceeds 26.
7.5 - The number of calls to an Internet service provider during the hour between 6:00
and 7:00 p.m. is described by a Poisson distribution with mean equal to 15. Given this
information, what is the expected number of calls in the first 30 minutes?
0.0584 - The on-line access computer service industry is growing at an extraordinary

randomly and independently sampled. What is the probability that exactly 5 of those
The area under the standard normal curve to the left of z = 0 is negative. - Which of the
following is not true about the standard normal distribution?
84.00% - For a standard normal distribution, find the percentage of data that are
between 3 standard deviations below the mean and 1 standard deviation above the
mean.
31.74% - For a standard normal distribution, find the percentage of data that are more
than 1 standard deviation away from the mean.
6.48 - According to a college survey, 12% of all students work full time. Find the mean
for the number of students who work full time in samples of size 54.
1.32 - A basketball player is asked to shot free throws in sets of four. The player shoots
100 sets of 4 free throws. The probability distribution for making a particular number of
free throws id given below. Determine the standard deviation for this discrete probability
distribution. x
0.8732 - A salesperson knows that 20% of her presentations result in sales. Find the
probabilities that in the next 60 presentations at least 9 result in sales.
0.1941 - The tread life of a particular brand of tire is a random variable best described
miles. What is the probability a certain tire of this brand will last between 60,010 miles
and 58,580 miles?
0.398 - In a recent survey, 80% of the community favored building a police substation in
their neighborhood. If 15 citizens are chosen, what is the probability that the number
favoring the substation is more than 12?
0.4987 - LetZ is a standard normal variable, find the the probability that Z lies between 0
and 3.01.
0.0003 - An automobile service center can take care of 12 cars per hour. If cars arrive at
the center randomly and independently at a rate of 8 per hour on average, what is the
probability of the service center being totally empty in a given hour?
20 - Suppose that X has a discrete uniform distribution on the integers 2 to 5. Find
V(4X).
0.3174. - If X is a normal random variable with μ = 50 and σ = 6, then the probability that
X is not between 44 and 56 is
0.16 - Suppose the cumulative distribution function of the random variable X is Find the
value of P(X>5).
30.81 - Assume that X is normally distributed with a mean of 23 and a standard

deviation of 5. Find the value of c if P(X > c) = 0.0592.
obtained at most 11 times.
99.7% - The systolic blood pressure of 18-year-old women is normally distributed with a
year-old women have a systolic blood pressure that lies within 3 standard deviations of
the mean?
3.33 - A die is rolled 80 times and the number of twos that come up is tallied. If this
experiment is repeated many times, find the standard deviation for the random variable
X, the number of twos.
2.41 - The accompanying table shows the probability distribution for x, the number that
shows up when a loaded die is rolled. Find the variance for the probability distribution. x
0.625 - Let X be a uniform random variable over the interval [1, 9] . What is the
probability that the random variable X has a value less than 6?
P(x > 7) = P(x ≥ 8) - In a binomial distribution with 10 trials, which of the following is
true?
0.797 - In 2006, the percent of the voting-age population that was registered to vote for
the 50 states and the District of Columbia had a mean of 63.5% with a standard
deviation of 7.4. Assuming that the distribution is normal, what percentage of states had
between 53 and 72 percent of it's voting-age population who were registered to vote?
0.6554 - If a random variable has the normal distribution with μ = 30 and σ = 5, find the
probability that it will take on the value less than 32.
placing an order?
3.65 millimeters - The diameters of ball bearings produced in a manufacturing process

can be described using a uniform distribution over the interval 2.55 to 4.75 millimeters.
What is the mean diameter of ball bearings produced in this manufacturing process?
0.0028 - Samples of 10 parts from a metal punching process are selected every hour.
Let X denote the number of parts in the sample of 10 that require rework. If the
percentage of parts that require rework at 3%, what is the probability that X exceeds 2?
86.23% - The diameters of bolts produced by a certain machine are normally distributed
with a mean of 0.42 inches and a standard deviation of 0.11 inches. What percentage of
bolts will have a diameter greater than 0.30 inches?
0.1587. - The area to the right of z = 1.0 is equal to
0.8708 - If Z is a standard normal variable, find the the probability that Z is less than
1.13.
mean = 11 and standard deviation = 0.58 - Suppose the probability density function of
the length of computer cables is from 10 to 12 millimeters. Determine the mean and
standard deviation of the cable length.
0.0455 - Patients arriving at an outpatient clinic follow an exponential distribution with

mean 22 minutes. What is the average number of arrivals per minute?
0.98 - Find the standard deviation for the probability distribution. x
normally distributed with a mean of 14 ounces and a standard deviation of 4.2 ounces.
0.9990 - According to the 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 55.3% of
males have never used marijuana. Based on this percentage, what is the probability
that more than 50 males who have used marijuana for samples of size 120?
0.8281 - A test consists of 10 true/false questions. To pass the test a student must
answer at least 4 questions correctly. If a student guesses on each question, what is the
probability that the student will pass the test?
0.322 - A normal distribution has mean μ = 60 and standard deviation σ = 6, find the
area under the curve between 58 and 63.
the first critical-part failure is 6 years or more.
96.5% - The systolic blood pressure of 18-year-old women is normally distributed with a
year-old women have a systolic blood pressure between 96 mmHg and 140 mmHg?
0.7557 - Let Z is a standard normal variable, find P(-0.73 < Z < 2.27).
6.30 - According to a college survey, 15% of all students work full time. Find the mean
for the random variable X, the number of students who work full time in samples of size
42.
0.0912 - The amount of soda a dispensing machine pours into a 12 ounce can of soda
follows a normal distribution with a mean of 12.27 ounces and a standard deviation of
0.18 ounce. The cans only hold 12.51 ounces of soda. Every can that has more than
12.51 ounces of soda poured into it causes a spill and the can needs to go through a
special cleaning process before it can be sold. What is the probability a randomly
selected can will need to go through this process?
0.0033 - If the probability of a newborn child being female is 0.5, find the probability that
in 50 births, 35 or more will be female.
1.500 - On a multiple choice test with 12 questions, each question has four possible
answers, one of which is correct. For students who guess at all answers, find the
standard deviation for the random variable X, the number of correct answers.
0.325 - The diameter of ball bearings produced in a manufacturing process can be

explained using a uniform distribution over the interval 4.5 to 6.5 millimeters. What is the
probability that a randomly selected ball bearing has a diameter greater than 5.85
millimeters?
0.50 - The random variable X represents the number of girls in a family of three
children. Assuming that boys and girls are equally likely, find the probability that the
number of girls is two or more.
78.81% - The diameters of bolts produced by a certain machine are normally distributed
with a mean of 0.34 inches and a standard deviation of 0.01 inches. What percentage of
bolts will have a diameter greater than 0.332 inches?
0.4920 - LetZ is a standard normal variable, find theprobability that Z lies between -2.41
and 0.
0.2525 - A normal distribution has mean μ = 60 and standard deviation σ = 6, find the
area under the curve to the right of 64.
0.1568 - The probability of winning a certain lottery is 1/9999. For people who play 246
times, find the standard deviation for the random variable X, the number of wins.
0.109643 - The time between customer arrivals at a furniture store has an approximate
exponential distribution with mean of 9.5 minutes. If a customer just arrived, find the
probability that the next customer will not arrive for at least 21 minutes.
0.9920 - The number of weeds that remain living after a specific chemical has been
applied averages 1.21 per square yard and follows a Poisson distribution. Based on
this, what is the probability that a 1 square yard section will contain less than 5 weeds?
0.1247 - Suppose that 14% of people are left handed. If 5 people are selected at
0.6915 - The volumes of soda in quart soda bottles are normally distributed with a mean
of 22.3 oz and a standard deviation of 1.6 oz. What is the probability that the volume of
soda in a randomly selected bottle will be less than 23.1 oz?
0.3109 - In one region, the September energy consumption levels for single-family
homes are normally distributed with a mean of 1155 kWh and a standard deviation of
218 kWh. For a randomly selected home, find the probability that the September energy
consumption level is between 1050 kWh and 1225 kWh.
0.262 - If a random variable has the normal distribution with μ = 30 and σ = 5, find the
probability that it will take on the value between 31 and 35.
standard deviation of X.
0.1259 - A new phone system was installed last year to help reduce the expense of
installed, the amount being spent on personal calls follows a normal distribution with an
average of $705 per month and a standard deviation of $48 per month. Refer to such
expenses as PCE's (personal call expenses). Find the probability that a randomly
selected month had a PCE that falls below $650.
0.0196 - The lengths of human pregnancies are normally distributed with a mean of 269
days and a standard deviation of 16 days. What is the probability that a pregnancy lasts
at least 302 days?
0.1039 - A machine pours beer into 16 oz. bottles. Experience has shown that the
number of ounces poured is normally distributed with a standard deviation of 1.2
ounces. Find the probabilities that the amount of beer the machine will pour into the
next bottle will be between 12.5 and 14.5 ounces.
rate described by the uniform distribution over the interval 4.5 to 7.5 gallons per minute.
Find the probability that between 4.8 gallons and 6.2 gallons are pumped during a
randomly selected minute.
89.73% - Assume that the weights of quarters are normally distributed with a mean of
rejected?
probability that a randomly selected observation is between 23 and 85.
79.4% - At one college, GPAs are normally distributed with a mean of 2.4 and a
standard deviation of 0.3. What percentage of students at the college have a GPA
between 2.1 and 2.9?
0.3091 - A tennis player makes a successful first serve 53% of the time. If she serves 6
times, what is the probability that she gets exactly 3 first serves in? Assume that each
serve is independent of the others.
0.3324 - In 2004, the infant mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) for the 50 states and the
District of Columbia had a mean of 6.98 and a standard deviation of 1.62. Assuming
that the distribution is normal, what percentage of states had an infant mortality rate
between 5.6 and 7.1 percent?
0.8239 - The weekly salaries of elementary school teachers in one state are normally
distributed with a mean of $595 and a standard deviation of $43. What is the probability
that a randomly selected elementary school teacher earns more than $555 a week?
minute. Find the probability that between 10.5 gallons and 11.15 gallons are pumped
during a randomly selected minute.
normally distributed with a mean of 13.5 ounces and a standard deviation of 3.5 ounces.
Find the probability that between 13 and 14.4 ounces are dispensed in a cup.
approximated by an exponential distribution with a mean equal to 6.5 minutes. What is
the probability that a randomly selected caller is placed on hold fewer than 7.5 minutes?
1.54 - What is the standard deviation of the following probability distribution? x
0.1366 - The number of customers that arrive at a fast-food business during a one-hour
period is known to be Poisson distributed with a mean equal to 8.60. What is the
probability that exactly 8 customers will arrive in a one-hour period?
the probability 0.25 of success on a single trial.
bigger than - When considering area under the standard normal curve, decide whether
the area to the right of z = 2 is bigger than, smaller than, or equal to the area to the right
of z = 2.5.
normally distributed with a mean of 13 ounces and a standard deviation of 2.5 ounces.
Find the probability that more than 14.8 ounces is dispensed in a cup.
minute. What is the probability that at the time the machine is checked it is pumping
more than 10.65 gallons per minute?
0.03 - The thickness measurements of a coating process are uniform distributed with
values 0.1, 0.14, 0.18, 0.16. Determine the standard deviation of the coating thickness
for this process.
0.3362 - In one city, the probability that a person will pass his or her driving test on the
first attempt is 0.59. 23 people are selected at random from among those taking their
driving test for the first time. What is the probability that among these 23 people, the
number passing the test is between 15 and 18 inclusive?
4.5 - The probability that a house in an urban area will be burglarized is 15%. If 30
houses are randomly selected, what is the mean of the number of houses burglarized?
0.0111 - The owner of a fish market has an assistant who has determined that the
weights of catfish are normally distributed, with mean of 3.5 pounds and standard
deviation of 0.7 pound. If a sample of 64 fish is randomly selected, what is probability
that the sample mean is more than 3.7 pounds?
422.940 - Each year advertisers spend billions of dollars purchasing commercial time on
network television. In the first 6 months of one year, advertisers spent $1.1 billion. In a
recent article, the top 10 leading spenders and how much each spent (in million of
dollars) were listed: Company A: $73.7 Company F: $26.7 Company B: $63.9 Company
G: $26.4 Company C: $57.9 Company H: $22.8 Company D: $57.1 Company I: $21.1
Company E: $32 Company J: $19.8 Calculate the sample variance.
Normal with a mean of $47 and a standard deviation of $0.73 - The amount of gasoline
purchased per car at a large service station is normally distributed with the mean of $47
and a standard deviation of $5. A random sample of 47 is selected, describe the
sampling distribution for the sample mean.
25.3 minutes - The amount of time required for an oil and filter change on an automobile
is normally distributed with a mean of 26 minutes and a standard deviation of 3 minutes.
A random sample of 30 cars is selected. So, 90% of the sample means will be greater
than what value?
0.9772 - An electrical firm manufactures a certain type of light bulb that has a mean light
of 1,900 hours and a standard deviation of 200 hours. Find the probability that a random
sample of 100 bulbs will have an average life of not more than 1,975 hours and not less
than 1,860 hours.
55.8 - The highway speeds of 100 cars are summarized in the frequency distribution
below. Find the mean speed.
- Use the data to create a stemplot. The following data show the number of laps run by
each participant in a marathon. 46 65 55 43 51 48 57 30 43 49 32 56
8 - The data below represent the amount of grams of carbohydrates in a serving of

breakfast cereal in a sample of 11 different servings. 11 15 23 29 19 22 21 20 15 25 17
What is the value of IQR?
0.0093 - A study of the amount of time it take a mechanic to rebuild the transmission for
a 1992 Chevrolet Cavalier shows that the mean is 8.5 hours and the standard deviation
is 1.7 hours. If 64 mechanics are randomly selected, find the probability that their mean
rebuild time exceeds 9 hours.
0.15 - Suppose that and =15 for a population. In a sample where n = 100 is randomly
taken, what is the variance for the sample mean?
0.0166 - Car batteries produced by company A have a mean life of 3.5 years with a
standard deviation of 0.4 years. A similar battery producted by company B has a mean
life of 3.3 years and a standard deviation of 0.3 years. What is the probability that a
random sample of 25 batteries from company A will have a mean life of at least 0.4
years more thanthe mean life of a sample of 36 batteries from company B?
0.9052 - Assume that blood pressure readings are normally distributed with a mean of
122 and a standard deviation of 6.1. If 64 people are randomly selected, find the
probability that their mean blood pressure will be less than 123.
55.5 - A stem-and-leaf diagram for a set of examination scores is given below. Find
sample median of these data. Stem
53.4 - Find the mean of the data summarized in the given frequency distribution. Daily
Low Temperature (F)
98 - Find the mode(s) for the given dample data 98, 25, 98, 13, 25, 29, 56, 98
0.3487 - A study of the amount of time it take a mechanic to rebuild the transmission for
a 1992 Chevrolet Cavalier shows that the mean is 8.4 hours and the standard deviation
is 1.8 hours. If 49 mechanics are randomly selected, find the probability that their mean
rebuild time exceeds 8.5 hours.
3.96 - Find the variance of the given data. Round your answer to one more decimals
than the original data. 5.0, 8.0, 4.9, 6.8 and 2.8
statistics. - Sampling distributions describe the distribution of
Stem Leaf 15 235 16 889 17 155 - Construct the stem-and-leaf diagram for the below
data. 16.9; 15.2; 17.5; 15.5; 16.8; 16.8; 17.1; 17.5; 15.3.
78.9 - Elaine gets quiz grades of 67, 64, and 87. She gets a 84 on her final exam. Find
the mean grade if the quizzes each count for 15% and final exam counts for 55% of the
final grade.
46 miles - The distances traveled (in miles) to 7 different swim meets are given below:
12, 18, 31, 46, 69, 71, 85. Find the median distance traveled.
0.500 - The amount of time required for an oil and filter change on an automobile is
14 - Fred, a local mechanic, gathered the following data regarding the price, in dollars,
of an oil and filterchande at twelve competing service stations: 32.95 24.95 26.95 28.95
18.95 28.95 30.95 22.95 24.95 26.95 29.95 28.95 Compute the range of data.
0.21 - The amount of bleach a machine pours into bottles has a mean of 28 oz. with a
standard deviation of 1.05 oz. Suppose we take a random sample of 25 bottles filled by
this machine. What is the standard deviation for the sample mean?
0.0359 - The time for a worker to assemble a component is normally distributed with
mean 15 minutes and variance 4. Denote the mean assembly times of 16 day-shift
workers and 9 night-shift workers by and , respectively. Assume that the assembly
times of the workers are mutually independent. Compute P( - < -1.5) is
0.7164 - The weights of the fish in a certain lake are normally distributed with a mean of
15 lb and a standard deviation of 5. If 4 fish are randomly selected, what is the
probability that the mean weight will be between 12.6 and 18 lb.
79.5 - The test scores of 32 students are listed below. Find Q3. 32 37 41 44 46 48 53 55
56 57 59 63 65 66 68 69 70 71 74 74 75 77 78 79 80 82 83 86 89 92 95 99
i) and iv) - Which of the following statements is false i) If X1, X2,...,Xn is a random
sample of size n,the sample standard deviation S is nota statistic. ii) The probability
distribution of a statistic is called a sampling distribution. iii) A statistic is any function of
the observations in a random sample. iv) The sampling distribution of a statistic does
not depend on the distribution of the population.
0.1463 - An electrical firm manufactures a certain type of light bulb that has a mean light
sample of 100 bulbs will have an average life of more than 1,870 hours.
2 2 3 2 1 (7X2 , 8X2 , 10X3 11X2 14X1) - A store manager counts the number of
customers who make a purchase in his store each day. The data are as follows. 10 11 8
14 7 10 10 11 8 7 Construct the dot plot for the given data.
76.4 - The heights of a group of professional basketball players are summarized in the
frequency distribution below. Find the mean height. Round your answer to one decimal
place.
35% - A nurse measured the blood pressure of each person who visited her clinic.
0.0062 - Assume that the heights of men are normally distributed with a mean of 69.8
inches and a standard deviation of 2.4 inches. If 36 men are randomly selected, find the
probability that they have a mean height greater than 70.8 inches.
0.465 - The manager of an electrical supply store measured the diameters of the rolls of
wire in the inventory. The diameters of the rolls (in m) are listed below: 0.165 0.114
0.503 0.392 0.579 0.311. Find the range of data.
normal with mean 0 and standard deviation 1347.22 - To determine the difference , if
any, between two brands of radial tires, 12 tires of each brand are tested. Assume that
the lifetimes of both brands of tires come from the same normal distribution N(102000,
33002). The distribution of the difference of the sample mean
0.0478 - The average score of all golfers for a particular course has a mean of 80 and a
standard deviation of 3. Suppose 100 golfers played the course today. Find the
probability that the average score of the 100 golfers exceeded 80.5.
73.90 - The scores for a statistics test are as follows: Compute the mean score.
4.5, 12.5, 24.5 - Use the given sample data to find three quartiles: 15, 21, 3, 6, 10, 28,
36, 1
2 - Ten cartons of fragile ceramic castings were shipped on each of two air freight
carries. On delivery at their destination the cartons were opened and inspected. The
number of damaged items per carton were as follows: 17, 20, 1, 18, 5, 14, 18, 10, 6, 2.
Assume that you are finding the frequency distribution using groupings: 1-4 inclusively,
5-8 inclusively, 9-12 inclusively and so on.What is the frequency of the interval 5-8?
0.0584 - For women aged 18-24, systolic blood pressures ( in mm Hg) are normally
distributed with a mean of 115 and a standard deviation of 13. If 25 women aged 18-24
are randomly selected, find the probability that their mean systolic blood pressures is
between 119 and 122.
(33.49, 39.93) - The mean of a data set is 36.71, and the sample standard deviation s is
3.22. Find the interval representing measurements within one standard deviation of the
mean.
52.0 - Use the given sample data to find Q1. 55, 52, 52, 52, 49, 74, 67, 55.
0.4623 - A population of Australian Koala bears has a mean height of 21 inches and a
standard deviation of 4.5 inches. You plan to choose a sample of 64 bears at random.
What is the probability of a sample mean between 21 and 22.
this machine. So, 85% of the sample means will be greater than what value?
0.1587 - The amount of corn chips dispensed into a 20-ounce bag by the dispensing
machine has been identified at possessing a normal distribution with a mean of 20.5
ounces and a standard deviation of 0.5-ounce. Suppose 100 bags of chips were
randomly selected from this dispensing machine. Find the probability that the sample
mean weight of these 100 bags exceeded 20.55 ounces.
16 - For the sample below, find the number of observations that are within 1.5 standard
deviations of the mean, i.e. the number of observations lie the interval (μ - 1.5σ; μ +
1.5σ). 2, 3, 5, 5, 6, 3, 6, 5, 6, 9, 2, 5, 3, 5, 6, 3, 5, 6, 6, 9.
normal with mean 0 and standard deviation 5/6. - The time for a worker to assemble a
component is normally distributed with mean 15 minutes and variance 4. Denote the
mean assembly times of 16 day-shift workers and 9 night-shift workers by and ,
respectively. Assume that the assembly times of the workers are mutually independent.
The distribution of - is
74 - A sociologist recently conducted a survey of senior citizens who have net worths
too high to qualify for Medicaid but have no private health insurance. The ages of the 25
uninsured senior citizens were as follows: Find the median of the observations.
A random sample of 25 cars is selected. What is the probability that the sample mean is
between 43 and 52 minutes?
regardless of the shape of the population. - For sample sizes greater than 50, the
sampling distribution of the mean will be approximately normally distributed
0.0548 - The mean diameter of marbles manufactured at a particular toy factory is 0.850
cm with a standard deviation of 0.010cm. What is the probability of selecting a random
sample of 64 marbles that has a mean diameter greater than 0.852 cm?
- The attendace counts for this season's basketball games are listed below: 227 239
215 219 221 233 229 233 235 228 245 231 Use the data to creat a sterm plot.
The average savings was $0.37 per coupon. - During one recent year, U.S. consumers
redeemed 6.79 billion manufacturers' coupons and saved themselves $2.52 billion.
Calculate and interpret the mean savings per coupon.
221 - A store manager kept track of the number of newspapers sold each week over a
seven-week period. The results are shown below: 95, 38, 221, 122, 258, 237, 233. Find
the median number of newspapers sold
39.3 - Find the variance for the given data. Round your answer to one more decimals
than original data 1, 4, -5, -9, and 6
than what value?
0.3644 - The lengths of pregnancies are normally distributed with a mean of 269 days
and a standard deviation of 25 days. If 64 women are randomly selected, find the
probability that they have a mean pregnancy between 268 days and 271 days.
0.0001 - At a computer manufacturing company, the actual size of computer chips is

normally distributed with a mean of 0.95 centimeter and a standard deviation of 0.02
centimeter. A random sample of 4 computer chips is taken. What is the variance for the
sample mean?
normal with mean 0 and standard deviation 1.6155 - Let denote the sample mean of a
random sample of size n1 = 16 taken from a normal distribution N(125, 36), and let
denote the sample mean of a random sample of size n2 = 25 taken from a different
normal distribution N(125, 9). The distribution of is
12, 16, 25 - Use the given sample data to find three quartiles: 5, 21, 13, 16, 11, 28, 36,
13, 22
2.6 - Find the standard deviation for the given sample data: 2 6 2 2 1 4 4 2 4 2 3 8 4 2 2
7 7 2 3 11
Normal with a mean of $5.25 and a standard deviation of $0.35 - Sales prices of
baseball cards from the 1980s are known to possess a normal distribution with a mean
sale price of $5.25 and a standard deviation of $2.80. Suppose a random sample of 64
cards from the 1980s is selected. Describe the sampling distribution for the sample
mean sale price of the selected cards.
0.0314 - To determine the difference , if any, between two brands of radial tires, 12 tires
of each brand are tested. Assume that the lifetimes of both brands of tires come from
the same normal distribution N(12500, 33002). Compute
The mean of the sampling distribution is always μ. - Which of the following is true about
the sampling distribution of the sample mean?
14 - Calculate the range of the following data set: 7, 8, 4, 1, 4, 15, 5, 8, 5
0.2 - If the amount of gasoline purchased per car at a large service station has a
population mean of $34 and a population standard deviation of $2 and a random
sample of 100 cars is selected, find the value of the standard deviation of the sample
mean.
11 and 22 - Find the mode(s) for the given sample data 11, 13, 11, 23, 22, 24, 56, 22,
72, 15, 27
2.2 - A data processing firm sampled 75 small businesses to find the number of days
their computer systems were down during the previous three months. The distribution of
responses is given below. Find the sample mean. Days of down time
65.5 - Health care issues are receiving much attention in both academic and political
arenas. A sociologist recently conducted a survey of citizens over 60 years of age
whose net worth is too high to qualify for Medicaid and have no private health
insurance. The ages of 25 uninsured senior citizens were as follows: 60 61 62 63 64 65
66 68 68 69 70 73 73 74 75 76 76 81 81 82 86 87 89 90 92 Identify the first quartile of
the ages of the uninsured senior citizens.
3.3 and 1.4599 - A study of the checkout times of 100 customers at a supermarket
resulted in the distribution below. Find the mean and standard deviation. x (minutes)
89.6 - Find the variance for the given sample data 53 52 75 62 68 58 49 49
a statistic. - Sample variance is
0.9088 - One year, professional sports players salaries averaged $1.55 million with a
standard deviation of $0.75 million. Suppose a sample of 100 major league players was
taken. Find the approximate probability that the average salary of the 100 players
exceeded $1.45 million.
33.05 - The top speeds for a sample of five new automobiles are listed below. Calculate
the standard deviation of the speeds. 105, 145, 190, 140, 175
6.8 and 6.5 - Find the mode(s) for the given data
this machine. So, 75% of the sample means will be less than what value?
22.68 - The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is a test required for admission to
many U.S. graduate schools. Students' scores on the verbal reasoning portion of the
GRE follow a normal distribution with a standard deviation of 108. Suppose a random
sample of 21 students took the test, and the standard deviation of their scores is 115.
What is the test statistic for the test H1: σ ≠ 108.
H0: μ = 14.4 H1: μ >14.4 - A cereal company claims that the mean weight of the cereal
in its packets is at least 14.4 oz. Express the null hypothesis H0 and the alternative
1.06 - The waiting times (in minutes) of customers at the TienPhong Bank, where
customers enter a single waiting line that feeds three teller windows, are normally
distributed. A random sample of 6 has mean of 7.07 and standard deviation of 0.53.
Construct a 94% upper confidence bound for the population standard deviation. Let and
46 - In order to fairly set flat rates for auto mechanics, a shop foreman needs to
estimate the average time it takes to replace a fuel pump in a car. How large a sample
must he select if he wants to be 99% confident that the true average time is within 8
minutes of the sample average? Assume the standard deviation of all times is 21
minutes. Let z0.005 = 2.58.
±1.695 - Assume that the data has a normal distribution and the number of observations
is greater than fifty. Find the critical z value used to test a null hypothesis. α = 0.09 for a
two-tailed test.
597 - A confidence interval was used to estimate the proportion of statistics students
that are female. A random sample of 100 statistics students generated the following
99% confidence interval: (0.438, 0.642). Using the information above, what total size
sample would be necessary if we wanted to estimate the true proportion to within 0.04
using 95% confidence?
($1130, $1270) - A random sample of 42 students has a mean annual earnings of

$1200 and a population standard deviation of $230. Construct a 95% confidence
interval for the population mean, μ.
(0.522, 0.658) - A university dean is interested in determining the proportion of students

who receive some sort of financial aid. Rather than examine the records for all students,
the dean randomly selects 200 students and finds that 118 of them are receiving
financial aid. Use a 95% confidence interval to estimate the true proportion of students
on financial aid.
(18.81, 22.19) - Construct a 90% confidence interval for the population mean, μ.
Assume the population has a normal distribution. In a recent study of 22 eighth graders,
the mean number of hours per week that they watched television was 20.5 with a
standard deviation of 4.6 hours.
H0: p = 0.02 H1: p <0.02 - A skeptical paranormal researcher claims that the proportion
of Americans that have seen a UFO, p, is less than 20 in every one thousand. Express
the null hypothesis H0 and the alternative hypothesis H1 in symbolic form.
-0.243 - Find the test statistic t0 for a sample with n = 10, = 7.9, s = 1.3, and ifH1:µ >
8.0. Round your answer to three decimal places.
28.869 - Find the critical value or values of based on the given information. H1: σ > 4.5
n = 19 = 0.05
6.07 - The claim is that the proportion of drowning deaths of children attributable to
beaches is more than 0.25, and the sample statistics include n= 690 drowning deaths of
children with 35% of them attributable to beaches. Find the value of the test statistic z
using .
The error of rejecting the claim that the mean weight is 14 oz. when it really is 14 oz. - A
cereal company claims that the mean weight of the cereal in its packets isdifferent from
14 oz. Assume that a hypothesis test of the given claim will be conducted. Identify the
type I error for the test.
0.193 - The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat. Such bats are roughly the
size of a large bumblebee. A sample of the weights for 5 randomly selected bats has
standard deviation of 0.33. Assume that the weights of the bats are normally distributed.
Construct a 98% lower confidence bound for the standard deviation of weights for all
such bats. Let and
25 - The standard IQ test has a mean of 106 and a standard deviation of 12. We want to
be 90% certain that we are within 4 IQ points of the true mean. Determine the required
sample size.
-2.32 - Assume that the data has a normal distribution and the number of observations
left-tailed test (H1:µ <µ0).
283 - A researcher wishes to estimate the number of households with two cars. How
large a sample is needed in order to be 98% confident that the sample proportion will
not differ from the true proportion by more than 6%? A previous study indicates that the
proportion of households with two cars is 25%.
We are 95% confident that the average total compensation of all CEOs falls in the
interval $3 212 540 to $6 020 240. - It is desired to estimate the average total
compensation of CEOs. Data were randomly collected from 32 CEOs and the 95%
confidence interval was calculated to be ($3 212 540, $6 020 240). Which of the
following interpretations is correct?
narrower for 90% confidence than for 99% confidence. - The width of a confidence
interval estimate for a proportion will be
The error of rejecting the claim that the standard deviation is 24.1 when it really is 24.1.
- The principal of a middle school claims that test scores of the seventh-graders at his
school varydifferent fromthe test scores of seventh-graders at a neighboring school,
which have variation described by σ = 24.1. Assume that a hypothesis test of the given
claim will be conducted. Identify the type I error for the test.
Student t - Determine whether the hypothesis test involves a sampling distribution of

Sample data: n = 24, s = 15.3. The sample data appear to come from a population that
is normally distributedand σ is unknown.
5.90 - The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is a test required for admission to
many U.S. graduate schools. Students' scores on the verbal reasoning portion of the
GRE follow a normal distribution with a standard deviation of 120. Suppose a random
sample of 10 students took the test, and the standard deviation of their scores is 97.2.
What is the test statistic for the test H1: σ ≠120.
-1.76 - A telephone company claims that 25% of its customers have at least two
telephone lines. The company selects a random sample of 500 customers and finds that
108 have two or more telephone lines. At = 0.05, compute the value of the test statistic
to test the company's claim.
10 - In order to set rates, an insurance company is trying to estimate the number of sick
days that full time workers at an auto repair shop take per year. A previous study
indicated that the standard deviation was 3.2 days. How large a sample must be
selected if the company wants to be 95% confident that the true mean differs from the
sample mean by no more than 2 day? Let z0.05 = 1.96.
±2.575 - Assume that the data has a normal distribution and the number of observations
two-tailed test.
About 817 - A regional hardware chain is interested in estimating the proportion of their
customers who own their own homes. There is some evidence to suggest that the
proportion might be around 0.825. Given this, what sample size is required if they wish
a 94 percent confidence level with a error of ± 0.025?
(0.13, 0.22) - A survey of 200 homeless persons showed that 35 were veterans.
Construct a 90% confidence interval for the proportion of homeless persons who are
veterans. Let z0.05 = 1.65.
($3.39, $6.01) - A random sample of 10 parking meters in a beach community showed

the following incomes for a day. Assume the incomes are normally distributed. $6.30
$6.75 $4.25 $3.60 $4.50 $2.80 $8.00 $3.00 $2.60 $5.20 Find the 95% confidence
interval for the true mean.
H0: σ =7.3 mg H1: σ ≠ 7.3 mg - A researcher claims that the amounts of acetaminophen
in a certain brand of cold tablets have a standard deviation different from the σ = 7.3 mg
claimed by the manufacturer. Express the null hypothesis H 0 and the alternative
hypothesis H 1 in symbolic form.
56.64 - A new apparatus has been devised to replace the needle in administering
vaccines. The apparatus, which is connected to a large supply of vaccine, can be set to
inject different amounts of the serum, but the variance in the amount of serum injected
to a given person must not be greater than 0.05 to ensure proper inoculation. A random
sample of 25 injections resulted in a variance of 0.118. What is a test statistic for the
test H1: σ> 0.05.
-0.35 - A recent study claimed that at least 17% of junior high students are overweight.
In a sample of 175 students, 28 were found to be overweight. At = 0.01, determine the
value of the test statistic to test the claim.
The error of rejecting the claim that the mean attendance is at most 67,000, when it
really is at most 67,000. - The owner of a football team claims that the average
attendance at games is over 67,000, and he is therefore justified in moving the team to
a city with a larger stadium. Assume that a hypothesis test of the given claim will be
conducted. Identify the type I error for the test.
44,000 - We consider salaries of 45 college graduates who took a statistics course in

college. Based on these data we have a sample variance of $25,150. Find 99% upper
confidence bound for σ2. Let and
None of the others. - A manager wishes to estimate the proportion of parts in his
inventory that are in proper working order. However, the sample size that he has been
informed he will need exceeds his budget. Which of the following steps might he take to
reduce the required sample size?
$428.32 - An economist is interested in studying the incomes of consumers in a

particular region. The population standard deviation is known to be $1000. A random
sample of 59 individuals resulted in an average income of $21000. What is the width of
($481.85, $719.55) - A local bank needs information concerning the checking account
balances of its customers. A random sample of 18 accounts was checked. The mean
balance was $600.70 with a standard deviation of $196.20. Find a 98% confidence
interval for the true mean. Assume that the account balances are normally distributed.
H0: μ, the average attendance at games, is equal to 79,000 H1: μ, the average
0.53 - You wish to test the claim that μ = 1200 at a level of significance of α = 0.01
andsample statistics are given n = 37, s =80, . Compute the value of the test statistic.
Round your answer to two decimal places.
202 - The Hilbert Drug Store owner plans to survey a random sample of his customers
with the objective of estimating the mean dollars spent on pharmaceutical products
during the past three months. He has assumed that the population standard deviation is
known to be $14.50. Given this information, what would be the required sample size if
we want the total width of the two-side confidence interval on mean to be $4 at 95
percent confidence?
1.66 - You wish to test the claim that μ > 6 at a level of significance of α = 0.05. Let
sample statistics be n = 60, s = 1.4. Compute the value of the test statistic. Round your
answer to two decimal places.
About 165 - The State Transportation Department is interested in estimating the

proportion of vehicle owners that are operating vehicles without the required liability
insurance. If they wish to estimate the population proportion within ± 0.08 and use 96
percent confidence, what is the largest random sample that they will need?
(1.55, 3.53) - The grade point averages for 10 randomly selected high school students
are listed below and has mean of 2.54 and standard deviation of 1.11. 2.9 0.9 4.0 3.6
0.8 2.0 3.2 1.8 3.3 2.9 Assume the grade point averages are normally distributed. Find a
98% confidence interval for the true mean.
-2.16 - You wish to test the claim that μ ≠ 17 at a level of significance of α = 0.05 and
sample statistics are given n = 36, s = 2.5, . Compute the value of the test statistic.
Round your answer to two decimal places.
16.92 and 3.33 - Find the critical value or values of based on the given information. H0:
σ = 8.0/ H1: σ ≠ 8.0 n = 10 α = 0.1
-1.88 - A recent study claimed that at least 15% of junior high students are overweight.
In a sample of 175 students, 28 were found to be overweight. At = 0.03, determine the
critical values to test the claim.
1.476 - Assume that the data has a normal distribution and the number of observations
test H1: µ0.
(0.013, 0.067) - The fraction of defective integrated circuits produced in a

photolithography process is being studied. A random sample of 200 circuits is tested,
revealing 8 defectives. Find a 95% two-sided confidence interval on the fraction of
defective circuits produced by this particular tool.
(2.51, 3.21) - A random sample of 15 students has a grade point average of 2.86 with a
standard deviation of 0.78. Construct the confidence interval for the population mean at
a significant level of 10% . Assume the population has a normal distribution.
H0: σ = 17.4 H1: σ < 17.4 - The principal of a middle school claims that test scores of
the seventh-graders at her school vary less than the test scores of seventh-graders at a
neighboring school, which have variation described by σ = 17.4. Express the null
Yes, test statistic = (x^- - u) / (o nhan sqrt(n) ) - Determine whether the given conditions
justify testing a claim about a population mean μ. If so, what is formula for test statistic?
The sample size is n = 17, σ is not known, and the original population is normally
distributed.
27.54 - The quality control manager for a filling operation in a bottling plant is concerned
with the variability in the volume of milk dispensed into gallon jugs. The filling process
results in jugs whose volumes are normally distributed with a mean of 1.02 gallons. The
process standard deviation should be less than 0.004 gallons. A sample of 35 jugs was
selected and the sample standard deviation was determined to be 0.0036 gallons. What
is the value of test statistic for the test H1: < 0.004
(2.1, 5.1) - Assume that the heights of men are normally distributed. A random sample
of 19 men have a mean height of 65.5 inches and a standard deviation of 3.0 inches.
Construct a 99% confidence interval for the population standard deviation,
39 - A university is interested in estimating the mean time that students spend at the
student recreation center per week. A previous study indicated that the standard
deviation in time is about 30 minutes per week. If the officials wish to estimate the mean
time within 8 minutes with a 90 percent confidence, what should the sample size be?
241 - A private opinion poll is conducted for a politician to determine what proportion of
the population favors decriminalizing marijuana possession. How large a sample is
(64.3, 66.1) - In a sample of 25 randomly selected women, it was found that their mean
height was 65.2 inches. From previous studies, it is assumed that the standard
deviation, is 2.4. Construct the 95% confidence interval for the population mean.
(0.14, 0.36) - A random sample of 60 suspension helmets used by motorcycle riders

and automobile race-car drivers was subjected to an impact test, and on 15 of these
helmets some damage was observed. Find a 95% two-sided confidence interval on the
true proportion of helmets of this type that would show damage from this test.
2.575 and -2.575 - Determine the critical values to test the claim about the population
proportion p ≠ 0.325 given n = 42 and Use .
(0.18; 1.21) - The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat. Such bats are roughly
the size of a large bumblebee. A sample of the weights for 5 randomly selected bats
has standard deviation of 0.33. Assume that the weights of the bats are normally
distributed. Construct a 98% confidence interval of the standard deviation of weights for
all such bats. Let and
All of the above. - If a manager believes that the required sample size is too large for a
situation in which she desires to estimate the mean income of blue collar workers in a
state, which of the following would lead to a reduction in sample size?
Approximately 1,066 - Suppose that an internal report submitted to the managers at a

bank in Boston showed that with 95% confidence, the proportion of the bank's
customers who also have accounts at one or more other banks is between 0.40 and
0.46. Given this information, what sample size was used to arrive at this estimate?
(0.5496, 0.5754) - Many people think that a national lobby's successful fight against gun
control legislation is reflecting the will of a minority of Americans. A random sample of
4000 citizens yielded 2250 who are in favor of gun control legislation. Estimate the true
proportion of all Americans who are in favor of gun control legislation using a 90%
confidence interval.
-1.883 - Find the test statistic t0 for a sample with n = 20, = 7.5, s = 1.9, and if H1: μ <
None of the other choices is true - Determine the test statistic to test the claim about the
population proportion p > 0.51 given n = 50 and p ^ - = 0.61 Use alpha = 0.05
The error of failing to reject the claim that the standard deviation is at least 7.3 mg when
it is actually less than 7.3 mg. - A researcher claims that the amounts of acetaminophen
in a certain brand of cold tablets have a standard deviationless thanthe σ = 7.3 mg
claimed by the manufacturer. Assume that a hypothesis test of the given claim will be
385 - A researcher at a major hospital wishes to estimate the proportion of the adult
population of the United States that has high blood pressure. How large a sample is
($52, $58) - In a random sample of 120 computers, the mean repair cost was $55 with a
population standard deviation of $12. Construct a 99% confidence interval for the
population mean.
The error of rejecting the claim that the mean is at most 27 miles per gallon when it
really is at most 27 miles per gallon. - Carter Motor Company claims that its new sedan,
the Libra, will average better than 27 miles per gallon in the city. Assume that a
1.575 - Find the test statistic t0 for a sample with n = 27, = 21, s = 3.3, and α = 0.005 if
H1: μ > 20. Round your answer to three decimal places.
13.565 - Find the critical value or values of based on the given information. H1: σ < 26.1
n = 29 = 0.01
(3.9, 17.7) - The mean replacement time for a random sample of 21 microwave ovens is
8.6 years with a standard deviation of 2.7 years. Construct the 98% confidence interval
for the population variance, Assume the data are normally distributed
Reject H0 if the test statistic is greater than 2.05 - Suppose you want to test the claim
that μ > 28.6. Given a sample size of n = 62 and a level of significance of . When should
you reject H0?
332 - Many people think that a national lobby's successful fight against gun control
legislation is reflecting the will of a minority of Americans. A previous random sample of
4000 citizens yielded 2500 who are in favor of gun control legislation. How many
citizens would need to be sampled if a 94% confidence interval was desired to estimate
the true proportion to within 5%?
Both of (i) and (ii) - A 99% confidence interval estimate can be interpreted to mean that
(i) if all possible samples are taken and confidence interval estimates are developed,
99% of them would include the true population mean somewhere within their interval. (ii)
we have 99% confidence that we have selected a sample whose interval does include
the population mean.
The error of rejecting the claim that the true proportion is at most 13 percent when it is
actually at most 13 percent. - A psychologist claims that more than13 percent of the
population suffers from professional problems due to extreme shyness. Assume that a
Student t - Determine whether the hypothesis test involves a sampling distribution of

Sample data: n = 25, s = 25. The sample data appear to come from a normally
distributed population with σ unknown.
There is sufficient evidence to support the claim that the mean attendance is greater
than than 727. - The owner of a football team claims that the average attendance at
games is over 727, and he is therefore justified in moving the team to a city with a larger
stadium. Assuming that a hypothesis test of the claim has been conducted and that the
conclusion isrejecting the null hypothesis, state the conclusion in nontechnical terms.
1225 - A manufacturer of golf equipment wishes to estimate the number of left-handed
proportion will not differ from the true proportion by more than 2%? A previous study
-6.928 - A claim is made that the proportion of children who play sports is less than 0.5,
and the sample statistics include n =1200 subjects with 40% saying that they play a
sport. Find the value of the test statistic z using
42 - In order to efficiently bid on a contract, a contractor wants to be 99% confident that

his error is less than two hours in estimating the average time it takes to install tile
flooring. Previous contracts indicate that the standard deviation is 5 hours. How large a
sample must be selected? Let z0.005 = 2.58.
3.1058 - If you were constructing a 99% confidence interval of the population mean
based on a sample of n = 12 where the standard deviation of the sample s = 3.25, the
(0.318, 0.422) - An article a Florida newspaper reported on the topics that teenagers
most want to discuss with their parents. The findings, the results of a poll, showed that
46% would like more discussion about the family's financial situation, 37% would like to
talk about school, and 30% would like to talk about religion. These and other
percentages were based on a national sampling of 549 teenagers. Estimate the
proportion of all teenagers who want more family discussions about school. Use a 99%
confidence level.
(18.6, 22.2) - Construct a 99% confidence interval for the population mean, μ. Assume
the population has a normal distribution. A group of 29 randomly selected students has
a mean age of 20.4 years with a standard deviation of 3.5 years.
The error of failing to reject the claim that the mean temperature equals 45°F when it is
really different from 45°F. - The manufacturer of a refrigerator system for beer kegs
produces refrigerators that are supposed to maintain a true mean temperature, μ, of
45°F, ideal for a certain type of German pilsner. The owner of the brewery does not
agree with the refrigerator manufacturer, and claims he can prove that the true mean
temperature is incorrect. Assume that a hypothesis test of the given claim will be
H0: μ = 70 H1: μ >70 - Carter Motor Company claims that its new sedan, the Libra, will
average better than 70 miles per gallon in the city. Use μ, the true average mileage of
the Libra. Express the null hypothesis H0 and the alternative hypothesis H1 in symbolic
form.
27.587 - Find the critical value or values of based on the given information. H1: σ > 9.3
n = 18 = 0.05
(4.8, 15.0) - Assume that the heights of women are normally distributed. A random
sample of 35 women have a mean height of 62.5 inches and a standard deviation of 2.8
inches. Construct a 98% confidence interval for the population variance,
8836 - A local men's clothing store is being sold. The buyers are trying to estimate the
percentage of items that are outdated. They will randomly sample among its 100000
items in order to determine the proportion of merchandise that is outdated. The current
owners have never determined their outdated percentage and can not help the buyers.
Approximately how large a sample do the buyers need in order to insure that they are
94% confident that the error is within 1%?
(0.37, 0.43) - Of 900 randomly selected cases of lung cancer, 360 resulted in death
within five years. Construct a 95% two-sided confidence interval on the death rate from
lung cancer.
Assume the population has a normal distribution. A random sample of 24 fluorescent
light bulbs has a mean life of 665 hours with a standard deviation of 24 hours.
p ≤ 0.016 - A manufacturer of electronic calculators is interested in estimating the

fraction of defective units produced. A random sample of 1500 calculators contains 15
defectives. Compute a 99% upper-confidence bound on the fraction defective. Let
z0.005 = 2.58 and z0.01 =2.33.
Assume the population has a normal distribution. A study of 31 bowlers showed that
their average score was 187 with a standard deviation of 8.
4.841 - Find the test statistic t0 for a sample with n = 15, = 7, s = 0.8, and ifH1: µ < 6.0.
Round your answer to three decimal places.
n = 21 = 0.025
About 239 - Past experience indicates that the standard deviation in the time it takes for
a "fast lube" operation to actually complete the lube and oil change for customers is
3.00 minutes. The manager wishes to estimate the mean time with 99% confidence and
a total width of the two-side confidence interval on mean to be 1 minute. Given this,
what must the sample size be?
H0: p =16% H1: p >16% - A psychologist claims that more than 16 percent of the
population suffers from professional problems due to extreme shyness. Use p, the true
percentage of the population that suffers from extreme shyness. Express the null
2.51 - You wish to test the claim that μ ≤ 38 at a level of significance of α = 0.01 and are
given sample statistics n = 43, s =4.7, . Compute the value of the test statistic. Round
your answer to two decimal places.
849 - A pollster wishes to estimate the proportion of United States voters who favor
(594.1, 605.9) - A random sample of 68 fluorescent light bulbs has a mean life of 600
hours with a population standard deviation of 25 hours. Construct a 95% confidence
interval for the population mean.
Maybe. 0.60 is a believable value of the population proportion based on the information
above. - A confidence interval was used to estimate the proportion of statistics students
that are females. A random sample of 200 statistics students generated the following
90% confidence interval: (0.48, 0.64). Based on the interval above, is the population
proportion of females equal to 0.60?
Normal - Determine whether the hypothesis test involves a sampling distribution of

Sample data: n = 45, s = 15.2. The sample data appear to come from a populationthat
is not normally distributedwith unknown μ and
(0.73, 1.65) - A sample of the grade point averages for 10 randomly selected students
has mean of 6.7 and standard deviation of 1.0. Construct a 90% confidence interval for
the population standard deviation, Assume the data are normally distributed.
51.89 - The quality control manager for a filling operation in a bottling plant is concerned
with the variability in the volume of milk dispensed into gallon jugs. The filling process
results in jugs whose volumes are normally distributed with a mean of 1.02 gallons. The
process standard deviation should be less than 0.032 gallons. A sample of 42 jugs was
selected and the sample standard deviation was determined to be 0.036 gallons. What
is the value of test statistic for the test H1: < 0.032
In repeated sampling, 95% of the intervals constructed would contain the population
definition of what it means to be "95% confident" in an inference.
H0: p = 0.0042 H1: p < 0.0042 - An entomologist writes an article in a scientific journal
which claims that fewer than21 infive thousand male fireflies are unable to produce light
due to a genetic mutation. Use the parameter p, the true proportion of fireflies unable to
produce light. Express the null hypothesis H0 and the alternative hypothesis H1 in
symbolic form.
(16.7, 20.5) - In a recent study of 49 eighth graders, the mean number of hours per
327 - A Professor at Hanoi Medical University is interested in estimating the birth weight
of infants. How large a sample must he select if he desires to be 99% confident that the
true mean is within 0.1 kilograms of the sample mean? A past experience indicates that
the standard deviation of the birth weights is known to be 0.7 kilograms. Let z0.005 =
2.58.
Reject H0 if the test statistic is greater than 2.33 or less than -2.33 - Suppose you want
to test the claim that μ ≠ 3.5. Given a sample size of n = 51 and a level of significance
of. When should you reject H0 ?
n = 25 = 0.10
H0:p = 0.26 H1: p ≠ 0.26 - A researcher claims that 26% of voters favor gun
control.Express the null hypothesis H0 and the alternative hypothesis H1 in symbolic
form.
3.464 - Find the test statistic t0 for a sample with n = 12, = 30.2, s = 2.2, and α = 0.01 if
H0 : µ = 28. Round your answer to three decimal places.
1.88 - Compute the critical value that corresponds to a 94% level of confidence.
($3218, $3682) - A sample of 28 teachers had mean annual earnings of $3450 with a
standard deviation of $600. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population
mean, μ. Assume the population has a normal distribution.
(6.46, 6.74) - A random sample of 169 students has a grade point average with a mean
of 6.6 and with a population standard deviation of 0.8. Construct a 98% confidence
interval for the population mean, μ.
12 - A nurse at a local hospital is interested in estimating the birth weight of infants. How
large a sample must she select if she desires to be 95% confident that the true mean is
within 4 ounces of the sample mean? The standard deviation of the birth weights is
known to be 7 ounces.
($0.96, $1.79) - A student randomly selects 22 CDs at a store. The mean is $8.5 with a
standard deviation of $1.25. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population
standard deviation, Assume the data are normally distributed.
(8.0, 14.3) - Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population standard deviation σ
of a random sample of 25 men who have a mean weight of 170.4 pounds with a
standard deviation of 10.3 pounds. Assume the population is normally distributed.
(187.2, 192.8) - A group of 55 bowlers showed that their average score was 190 with a
population standard deviation of 8. Find the 99% confidence interval of the mean score
of all bowlers.
I cannot conclude that the average is less than $3,000,000 at the 99% confidence level.
- It is desired to estimate the average total compensation of CEOs in the Service
industry. Data were randomly collected from 28 CEOs and the 99% confidence interval
was calculated to be ($2,181,260, $5,836,180). Based on the interval above, do you
believe the average total compensation of CEOs in the Service industry is less than
$3,000,000?
-0.344 - Find the test statistic t0 for a sample with n = 17, = 17.7, s = 2.4, and if H1: μ ≠
2.4 - An airline claims that the no-show rate for passengers is less than 3%. In a sample
of 420 randomly selected reservations, 21 were no-shows. At = 0.01, compute the value
of the test statistic to test the airline's claim.
Both increase the sample size and decrease the confidence level. - Suppose a 99%
confidence interval for population mean turns out to be (1500, 2200). To make more
useful inferences from the data, it is desired to reduce the width of the confidence
interval. Which of the following will result in a reduced interval width?
The width decreases. - The grade point averages for 11 randomly selected students in a
statistics class are listed below. 2.4 3.2 1.8 1.9 2.9 4.0 3.3 0.9 3.6 0.8 2.2 What is the
effect on the width of the confidence interval if the sample size is increased to 15?
c. no correlation - Given the size of a human's brain, x, and their score on an IQ test, y,
would you expect a positive correlation, a negative correlation, or no correlation?
b. 3.63 - Let t0.025,18 = 2.1, t0.05,18 = 1.73 and t0.025,19 = 2.09.
c. 0.919 - Assume that we found out the regression equation = 1.6 +x corresponding to
the data below x 0 1 2 4 5 y 1 2 4 5 7 Find the error sum of square SSE.
a. 3.857 - A manager wishes to determine the relationship between the number of miles
(in hundreds of miles) the Manager's sales representatives travel per month and the
amount of sales (in thousands of dollars) per month. Miles traveled, x 4 8 10 Sales, y 27
58 61 Calculate the test statistic to test the claim ρ = 0. Round answers to three decimal
places.
c. 0.6337 - A sample of 8 households was asked about their monthly income (X) and
the number of hours they spend connected to the internet each month (Y). The data
yield the following statistics: = 324, = 393, = 1720.875, = 1150, = 1090.5. What is the
slope of the regression line of hours on income?
e. 0.73 - The table contains the weights and heights of nine randomly selected adults.
Compute the correlation coefficient.
b. -0.642 - Suppose we have the following information from a simple regression: =

117.4, = -17.29, n = 300, = 4.3, SST = 17000, and SSE = 10000. What is the correlation
coefficient?
d. Positive correlation - The table below shows the sales and profits of a company from
2000 to 2005. Construct a scatter diagram for the data and state whether sales and
profits for this company have no correlation, a positive correlation, or a negative
correlation for this period.
b. 2 units - A simple regression model has the form: = 10 + 2x. As x increases by one
unit, then the value of y will increase by:
b. = 5.5 + 0.23x - A mail-order firm is interested in estimating the number of order that
need to be processed on a given day from the weight of the mail received. A close
monitoring of the mail on 4 randomly selected business days produced the results
below. Find the equation of the least squares regression line relating the number of
orders to the weight of the mail. Mail: x (pounds) 10 12 13 17 Orders: y 8 10 6 10
b. -0.38 - For the data in the table below, what is the value of the test statistic for testing
x 15 21 16 30 y 67 80 85 78
b. None of the other choices is true - A sample of10 households was asked about their
monthly income (X) and the number of hours they spend connected to the internet each
month (Y). The data yield the following statistics: = 324, = 393, = 15210, = 17150, =
2599. What is the value of the coefficient of determination?
c. 0.649 - Consider a random sample of 27 observations of two variables X and Y. The

following summary statistics are available: Σyi = 57.2,Σxi = 1253.4, = 73296.4, and Σxiyi
= 3133.7. What is the y-intercept of the sample regression line?
b. Positive correlation - The following table gives the total sales (revenue) and profits for
8 retailers. Construct a scatter diagram for the data and state whether sales and profits
for these companies have no correlation, a positive correlation, or a negative
correlation.
b. 1.844 - Given a sample with r = 0.329, n = 30, and = 0.10, determine the test statistic
to test the claim ρ = 0. Round answers to three decimal places
a. It is +1. - In a regression problem the following pairs of (x, y) are given: (-4, 8), (-1, 2),
(0, 0), (1, -2) and (4, -8). What does this indicate about the value of coefficient of
determination?
b. negative correlation - Given the supply of a commodity, x, and the price of a
commodity, y, would you expect a positive correlation, a negative correlation, or no
correlation?
a. the relationship between x and y is positive. - Identify the choice that best completes
the statement Given the least squares regression line = 12.31 + 0.03 x:
b. 4.761 - Given a sample with r = 0.833, n = 12, and = 0.05, determine the test statistic
t0 necessary to test the claim ρ = 0. Round answers to three decimal places.
e. = 21.11x+17.22 - The height y and base diameter x of five tree of a certain variety
produced the following data x 1 2 2 5 y 30 40 90 120 Find the equation of the estimated
regression line of y on x.
e. None of the other choices is true - A sample of10 households was asked about their
a. 0.873 - The height y and base diameter x of five tree of a certain variety produced the
following data x 2 2 3 5 y 30 40 90 100 Compute the correlation coefficient.
c. Negative correlation - The table below shows the legal costs and the profits of a
company from 2000 to 2005. Construct a scatter diagram for the data and state whether
legal costs and profits for this company have no correlation, a positive correlation, or a
negative correlation for this period.
d. 12.97 - Suppose we have the following information from a simple regression: n = 15,
= 301.5, = 385.7, = 1719.8, = 1200.9, = 1090.5. What is the y-intercept of the regression
line of hours on income?
b. student's t distribution. - We can show that, when the null hypothesis H0: ρ = 0 is true
and the random variables have a joint normal distribution, then the random variable
which is used to test the hypothesis that there is no linear association in the population
between a pair of random variables, follows the:
c. -0.97 - Which of the following represents the strongest linear correlation?
d. 0.019 - Suppose that a random sample of 10,000 (X, Y) pairs yielded: = 10.4, se()=
21.2, se()= 2.4. What is the value of the test statistic for testing H0: ?
a. 2.66 - A recent study of 60 shoppers showed that the correlation between the time
spent in the store and the dollars spent was 0.235. Using a significance level equal to
0.01, the critical value for the test to determine whether the true population correlation
coefficient is zero is:
d. 2 units - A simple regression model has the form: = 10 + 2x. As x increases by one
d. = 5.67 + .048x. - A manufacturing company is interested in predicting the number of

defects that will be produced each hour on the assembly line. The managers believe
that there is a relationship between the defect rate and the production rate per hour.
The managers believe that they can use production rate to predict the number of
defects. The following data were collected for 10 randomly selected hours. Based on
these sample data, which of the following is the regression equation?
d. = 9.341 + 0.243x - Suppose you are interested in determining the relationship

between the temperatures (x) on days during a summer class and the number of
absences on those days (y). For a sample of 9 observations, you have the following
information: Σxi = 196, Σyi = 131.7, Σxiyi = 2001.4, Σ(xi)2 = 702.3, Σ(yi)2 = 1321.5. Find
the sample regression line.
d. 0.07 - The data below are the exam scores of 4 randomly selected statistics students,
what is the value of the test statistic for testing Mid-term, x 5 6 6 7.4 Final, y 5.2 4.6 7 7
a. -0.97 - Which of the following represents the strongest linear correlation?
d. -0.23 - For a sample of 45 observations, you have the following information: Σxi =
153.7, Σyi = 231.2, Σxiyi = 712.5, Σ(xi)2 = 718, Σ(yi)2 = 1775.2. What is the sample
correlation coefficient between X and Y?
b. 0.897 - Consider the following pairs of observations: x 2 3 5 5 7 6 y 1.3 1.5 2.2 2.3
2.7 1.9 Find the value of the coefficient of correlation.
b. -0.8 - Given the least squares regression line = -2.88- 1.77x and a coefficient of
determination of 0.64, the coefficient of correlation is:
d. Reject H0 - For a random sample of 263 professionals, the correlation between their
age and their income was found to be 0.17. You are interested in testing the null
hypothesis that there is no linear relationship between these two variables against the
alternative that there is a positive relationship. What is your conclusion in testing H0: ρ =
0 vs. H1: ρ > 0 at = 0.01?
d. Negative correlation - The table below shows the legal costs and the profits of a
c. 4.761 - Given a sample with r = 0.833, n = 12, and = 0.05, determine the test statistic
t0 necessary to test the claim ρ = 0. Round answers to three decimal places.
c. 0.17 - An actuary wanted to develop a model to predict how long individuals will live.
After consulting a number of physicians, he collected the age at death (y), the average
number of hours of exercise per week (x). A random sample of 7 individuals was
selected and the results are shown below. x 7 8 6 7 12 12 3 y 85 80 75 79 82 79 80
Determine the correlation coefficient.
e. 23.46 - A sample of 8 households was asked about their monthly income (X) and the
number of hours they spend connected to the internet each month (Y). The data yield
the following statistics: = 324, = 393, = 1720.875, = 1150, = 1090.5. What is the y-
intercept of the regression line of hours on income?
c. Positive correlation - For several customers at the local bookstore, the scatter
diagram compares the weight of their books (y) and the number of pages in them(x) is
shown below. State whether there is no correlation, a positive correlation, or a negative
correlation between the x and y variables.
b. H0: β1 = 0 - In a simple linear model, testing H0 : = 0 is the same as testing:
d. 3.857 - A manager wishes to determine the relationship between the number of miles
places.
b. the relationship between x and y is positive. - Identify the choice that best completes
b. no correlation - Given the size of a human's brain, x, and their score on an IQ test, y,
would you expect a positive correlation, a negative correlation, or no correlation?
d. It is +1. - In a regression problem the following pairs of (x, y) are given: (-4, 8), (-1, 2),
(0, 0), (1, -2) and (4, -8). What does this indicate about the value of coefficient of
determination?
c. 21.97 - The data below are the gestation periods, in months, of randomly selected
animals and their corresponding life spans, in years. Use the regression equation to
predict the life span, y, for a gestation period of 6 months, x. Assume the variables x
and y have a significant correlation. Gestation, x 8 2.1 3.8 Life span, y 30 12 10
c. 0.0042 - Consider a random sample of 20 observations of two variables X and Y. The

following summary statistics are available: Σyi = 12.75,Σxi = 1478, = 143,215.8, and
Σxiyi = 1083.67. What is the slope of the sample regression line?
c. 5.913 - The data below are the ages and systolic blood pressures (measured in
millimeters of mercury) of 3 randomly selected adults. Age, x 42 45 49 Pressure, y 118
122 125 Calculate the test statistic to test the claim ρ = 0. Round answers to three
decimal places.
e. 0.07 - The data below are the exam scores of 4 randomly selected statistics students,
what is the value of the test statistic for testing Mid-term, x 5 6 6 7.4 Final, y 5.2 4.6 7 7
b. No correlation - For a group of English students at the local junior college, the scatter
diagram compares the number of incorrect answers on a test they took (y) and the
length of the pencil used to take the test (x). State whether there is no correlation, a
positive correlation, or a negative correlation between the x and y variables.
c. -0.642 - Suppose we have the following information from a simple regression: =

coefficient?
c. negative correlation - Given the supply of a commodity, x, and the price of a

correlation?
d. student's t distribution. - We can show that, when the null hypothesis H0: ρ = 0 is true
b. 0.6084 - If the coefficient of correlation is 0.78, what does the coefficient of

determination equal?
d. -0.97 - Which of the following represents the strongest linear correlation?
d. -0.93 - For a sample of 10 observations, you have the following information: Σxi =
253, Σyi = 172.2, Σxiyi = 643.4, Σ(xi)2 = 696, Σ(yi)2 = 152.2. What is the sample
e. 371.578 - A sample of 8 households was asked about their monthly income (X) and
error sum of squares?
b. r = -0.85 - Assume that you are predicting Y from X. Which of the following correlation
coefficients would yield predictions with the least error?
e. -5.96 - Suppose we have the following information from a simple regression: = 107.4,
= -14.30, se()= 2.8, se()= 2.4, n = 200. What is the value of the test statistic for testing
H0: ?
e. 3.26 - If a sample of n = 40 people is selected and the sample correlation between
two variables is r = 0.468, what is the test statistic value for testing whether the true
population correlation coefficient is equal to zero?
b. = 0.5x +0.5 - For the data in the table below, find the equation of the regression line
of y on x. x 0 1 2 1 y 0 0 1 3
d. Positive correlation - The following table gives the total sales (revenue) and profits for
correlation.
a. 0.81 - The general manager of a chain of furniture stores believes that experience is
the most important factor in determining the level of success of a salesperson. To
examine this belief she records last month's sales and the years of experience of 8
randomly selected salespeople. These data are listed below. Years of Experience 0 2 7
4 9 5 5 8 Sales 7 7.7 15 8.5 15 7 8 12 Determine the correlation coefficient.
a. $12,824.722 - An insurance company analyst is interested in analyzing the dollar

value of damage in automobile accidents. She collects data from 115 accidents, and
records the amount of damage as well as the age of the driver. The results of her
regression analysis are listed below. On average, what would be the dollar value of an
accident involving a 30-year-old driver?
c. 0.019 - Suppose that a random sample of 10,000 (X, Y) pairs yielded: = 10.4, se()=
21.2, se()= 2.4. What is the value of the test statistic for testing H0: ?
c. No correlation - For a group of English students at the local junior college, the scatter
a. 2.06 - You want to explore the relationship between the grades students receive on
their first two exams. For a sample of 17 students, you find a correlation coefficient of
0.47. What is the value of the test statistic for testing H0: ρ = 0 vs. H1: ρ 0 ?
d. H0: ρ = 0 and H1: ρ < 0 - You want to explore the relationship between the scores
students receive on their first quiz and their first exam. You believe that there is
anegative correlation between the two scores. What are the most appropriate null and
alternative hypotheses regarding the population correlation?
c. 2 units - A simple regression model has the form: = 10 + 2x. As x increases by one
c. 12.97 - Suppose we have the following information from a simple regression: n = 15,
0.05 - Assume that you are predicting X from Y. Which of the following correlation
coefficients would yield predictions with the most error?
None - In a regression problem the following pairs of (x, y) are given: (2, 1), (3,-1), (2,
0), (4,-2) and (4, 2). That indicates that the:
e. 1.46 - The weight and systolic blood pressure of 4 randomly selected males in the
age group 25 to 30 are shown in the following table. Assume that weight and blood
pressure are jointly normally distributed. Weight, x 50 62 67 55 Pressure, y 90 110 100
90 What is the value of the test statistic for testing
e. = 0.5x +0.5 - For the data in the table below, find the equation of the regression line
of y on x. x 0 1 2 1 y 0 0 1 3
b. All of the others - Which of the following statements is true regarding the coefficient of
correlation?
b. 2.06 - You want to explore the relationship between the grades students receive on
c. 641.164 - A sample of 8 households was asked about their monthly income (X) and
regression sum of squares?
a. Positive correlation - The following table gives the total sales (revenue) and profits for
correlation.
a. 0.07 - Find the value of the linear correlation coefficient r. x 85.3 78.3 80.6 95.8 y
12.2 15.1 19.4 17.4
a. 0.0042 - Consider a random sample of 20 observations of two variables X and Y. The

a. Positive correlation - For several customers at the local bookstore, the scatter
diagram compares the weight of their books (y) and the number of pages in them(x) is
shown below. State whether there is no correlation, a positive correlation, or a negative
d. 0.81 - The general manager of a chain of furniture stores believes that experience is
b. 3.63 - A random sample of 20 observations was made on the diameter of spot welds
and the corresponding weld shear strength. Given that r = 0.65, what is the value of test
statistic if we want to test the hypothesis that ρ = 0 at a level of significance of 0.05. Let
t0.025,18 = 2.1, t0.05,18 = 1.73 and t0.025,19 = 2.09.
c. the relationship between x and y is positive. - Identify the choice that best completes
c. coefficient of correlation of 0 - An indication ofno linear relationship between two

variables would be a:
a. None of the other choices is true - A sample of10 households was asked about their
b. Reject H0 - For a random sample of 263 professionals, the correlation between their
0 vs. H1: ρ > 0 at = 0.01?
e. 0.81 - The general manager of a chain of furniture stores believes that experience is
d. -5.96 - Suppose we have the following information from a simple regression: = 107.4,
= -14.30, se()= 2.8, se()= 2.4, n = 200. What is the value of the test statistic for testing
H0: ?
a. No correlation - For a group of English students at the local junior college, the scatter
e. 3.63 - Let t0.025,18 = 2.1, t0.05,18 = 1.73 and t0.025,19 = 2.09.

a. 30 - Given the equation of a regression line is = 4x - 6, what is the best predicted
value for y given x = 9? Assume that the variables x and y have a significant correlation.
d. 2.66 - A recent study of 60 shoppers showed that the correlation between the time
a. 0.909 - You want to explore the relationship between the grades students receive on
their first quiz (X) and their first exam (Y). The first quiz and test scores for a sample of
11 students reveal the following summary statistics: = 330.5, sx = 2.03, and sy = 17.91
What is the sample correlation coefficient?
e. 0.58 - Two separate tests are designed to measure a student's ability to solve
problems. Several students are randomly selected to take both tests and the results are
shown below. Test 1 7.5 6.4 6.6 5.8 8.3 Test 2 6.7 6.6 7.2 4.0 6.7 Find the value of the
linear correlation coefficient r.
d. -0.8 - Given the least squares regression line = -2.88- 1.77x and a coefficient of
e. -1.071 - Suppose we have the following information from a simple regression: =

107.4, = -14.39, se()= 2.8, se()= 2.4, n = 200. What is the value of the test statistic for
testing H0: ?
d. 0.0042 - Consider a random sample of 20 observations of two variables X and Y. The

c. 2.06 - You want to explore the relationship between the grades students receive on
c. All of the others - Which of the following statements is true regarding the coefficient of
correlation?
e. 0.96 - A company keeps extensive records on its new salespeople on the premise
that sales should increase with experience. A random sample of seven new salespeople
produced the data on experience and sales shown in the table. Months on job, x 2 12 5
9 7 Monthly sales, y 2.4 15.0 3.5 11.0 10.5 Find the value of the coefficient of
correlation.
b. 1.688 - Recently, an automobile insurance company performed a study of a random

sample of 38 of its customers to determine if there is a positive relationship between the
number of miles driven and the age of the driver. The sample correlation coefficient is r
= 0.59. Given this information, which of the following is appropriate critical value for
testing the null hypothesis at an alpha = 0.05 level?
b. Coefficient of correlation is 0.0. - In simple linear regression, which of the following

statements indicates there is no linear relationship between the variables x and y?
d. = 21.11x+17.22 - The height y and base diameter x of five tree of a certain variety
a. = 21.11x+17.22 - The height y and base diameter x of five tree of a certain variety
e. -0.642 - Suppose we have the following information from a simple regression: =

coefficient?
c. 0.026 - The height y and base diameter x of five tree of a certain variety produced the
following data x 2 4 3 4 y 33 41 96 90 What is the value of the test statistic for testing
c. 0.73 - The table contains the weights and heights of nine randomly selected adults.
c. = 9.341 + 0.243x - Suppose you are interested in determining the relationship

between the temperatures (x) on days during a summer class and the number of
absences on those days (y). For a sample of 9 observations, you have the following
information: Σxi = 196, Σyi = 131.7, Σxiyi = 2001.4, Σ(xi)2 = 702.3, Σ(yi)2 = 1321.5. Find
the sample regression line.
a. -0.8 - Given the least squares regression line = -2.88- 1.77x and a coefficient of
b. Negative correlation - For a group of students in a statistics class, the scatter diagram
compares their test scores (y) and the number of red shirts they have(x) is shown as
below. State whether there is no correlation, a positive correlation, or a negative
d. 641.164 - A sample of 8 households was asked about their monthly income (X) and
regression sum of squares?
b. 3.857 - A manager wishes to determine the relationship between the number of miles
places.
a. an increase of $1 in advertising is expected to result in an increase of $6000 in sales.

- A regression analysis between sales (in $1000) and advertising (in $) resulted in the
following least squares line: = 50,000 + 6x. This implies that:
b. 30 - Given the equation of a regression line is = 4x - 6, what is the best predicted

value for y given x = 9? Assume that the variables x and y have a significant correlation.
b. -0.76 - Suppose that you are interested in the relationship between the return on a
stock this year (Y), compared to the return the year before (X). From a sample of 12
firms, you have collected the following information: Σxi = 217, Σyi = 131.7, Σxiyi =
1932.5, Σ(xi)2 = 689, Σ(yi)2 = 1321.5. What is the sample correlation coefficient
between X and Y?
d. 0.026 - The height y and base diameter x of five tree of a certain variety produced the
a. -0.23 - For a sample of 45 observations, you have the following information: Σxi =
153.7, Σyi = 231.2, Σxiyi = 712.5, Σ(xi)2 = 718, Σ(yi)2 = 1775.2. What is the sample
d. 3.26 - If a sample of n = 40 people is selected and the sample correlation between

two variables is r = 0.468, what is the test statistic value for testing whether the true
population correlation coefficient is equal to zero?
c. -0.8 - Given the least squares regression line = -2.88- 1.77x and a coefficient of
a. = -0.24x + 78.31 - The data below are the final exam scores of 10 randomly selected
statistics students and the number of hours they studied for the exam. Hours,x 3 5 2 8 2
4 4 5 6 3 Scores,y 65 80 60 66 78 85 90 90 71 88 Find the equation of the regression
line for the given data.
a. 3.63 - Let t0.025,18 = 2.1, t0.05,18 = 1.73 and t0.025,19 = 2.09.
a. H0: β1 = 0 - In a simple linear model, testing H0 : = 0 is the same as testing:
b. Negative correlation - The table below shows the legal costs and the profits of a
a. H0: ρ = 0 and H1: ρ < 0 - You want to explore the relationship between the scores
students receive on their first quiz and their first exam. You believe that there is
anegative correlation between the two scores. What are the most appropriate null and
alternative hypotheses regarding the population correlation?
d. 0.897 - Consider the following pairs of observations: x 2 3 5 5 7 6 y 1.3 1.5 2.2 2.3
2.7 1.9 Find the value of the coefficient of correlation.
a. negative correlation - Given the supply of a commodity, x, and the price of a

correlation?
e. 0.919 - Assume that we found out the regression equation = 1.6 +x corresponding to
the data below x 0 1 2 4 5 y 1 2 4 5 7 Find the error sum of square SSE.
b. 12.97 - Suppose we have the following information from a simple regression: n = 15,
a. Coefficient of correlation is 0.0. - In simple linear regression, which of the following

statements indicates there is no linear relationship between the variables x and y?
c. 2.66 - A recent study of 60 shoppers showed that the correlation between the time
b. 0.026 - The height y and base diameter x of five tree of a certain variety produced the
a. 0.6084 - If the coefficient of correlation is 0.78, what does the coefficient of

determination equal?
c. -1.071 - Suppose we have the following information from a simple regression: =

testing H0: ?
c. = 8.027 + 0.274x - Suppose you are interested in determining the relationship

between the number of absences (x) and the final grades (y) of students from a
statistics class. For a sample of 9 observations, you have the following information: Σxi
= 217, Σyi = 131.7, Σxiyi = 1932.5, Σ(xi)2 = 689, Σ(yi)2 = 1321.5. Find the sample
regression line.
d. 1.688 - Recently, an automobile insurance company performed a study of a random

a. student's t distribution. - We can show that, when the null hypothesis H0: ρ = 0 is true
a. -0.93 - For a sample of 10 observations, you have the following information: Σxi =
d. 21.97 - The data below are the gestation periods, in months, of randomly selected
animals and their corresponding life spans, in years. Use the regression equation to
predict the life span, y, for a gestation period of 6 months, x. Assume the variables x
and y have a significant correlation. Gestation, x 8 2.1 3.8 Life span, y 30 12 10
c. Positive correlation - The table below shows the times (in hours) that seven students
spend watching television and using the Internet. Construct a scatter diagram for the
data and state whether these times have no correlation, a positive correlation, or a
negative correlation.
b. an increase of $1 in advertising is expected to result in an increase of $6000 in sales.

- A regression analysis between sales (in $1000) and advertising (in $) resulted in the
following least squares line: = 50,000 + 6x. This implies that:
a. for each unit increase in X, Y increases on average by 8. - If the least squares

equation is = 10 + 8X, then the value of8 (the coefficient of x)indicates:
b. 5.913 - The data below are the ages and systolic blood pressures (measured in
millimeters of mercury) of 3 randomly selected adults. Age, x 42 45 49 Pressure, y 118
122 125 Calculate the test statistic to test the claim ρ = 0. Round answers to three
decimal places.
c. Reject H0 - For a random sample of 263 professionals, the correlation between their
0 vs. H1: ρ > 0 at = 0.01?
d. -1.071 - Suppose we have the following information from a simple regression: =

testing H0: ?
e. 2.66 - A recent study of 60 shoppers showed that the correlation between the time
c. -0.93 - For a sample of 10 observations, you have the following information: Σxi =
e. 1.688 - Recently, an automobile insurance company performed a study of a random

c. -0.44 - The weight and systolic blood pressure of 4 randomly selected males in the
age group 25 to 30 are shown in the following table. Assume that weight and blood
pressure are jointly normally distributed. Weight, x 50 62 67 55 Pressure, y 90 110 120
90 What is the value of the test statistic for testing
b. 0.310 - The manager of a used-car dealership is very interested in the resale price of
used cars. The manager feels that the age of the car is important in determining the
resale value. He collects data on the age and resale value of 15 cars and runs a
regression analysis with the value of the car (in thousands of dollars) as the dependent
variable and the age of the car (in years) as the independent variable. Unfortunately, he
spilled his coffee on the printout and lost some of the results. The partial results left are
displayed below. Multiple R 0.557 R Square "A" Adjusted R Square 0.133 Standard
error "B" Observations 15000 What is the value of "A"?
Observation study - A stock analyst compares the relationship between stock prices and
earnings per share to help him select a stock for investment. What type of the
description is?
quantitative and discrete - The amount of television viewed by today's youth is of

primary concern to Parents Against Watching Television (PAWT). 250 parents of
elementary school-aged children were asked to estimate the number of hours per week
that their child watches television. Identify the type of data collected by PAWT.
2, 4, 6, 8, 10 - An experiment consists of randomly choosing a number between 1 and

10. Let E be the event that the number chosen is even. List the sample points in E.
0.117 - Fifty percent of the people that get mail-order catalogs order something. Find
1/4 - Pick a bit string from the set of all bit strings of length 10. Find the probability of
getting a bit string that begins and ends with 0.
residents of a household own 2 cars and have an income less than or equal to $25,000
a year is:
1/54 - A pair of dice is thrown twice. What is the probability of getting totals of 7 and 11?
cannot be determined - Given events E and F with probabilities P(E) = 0.65 and P(F) =
0.19, are E and F mutually exclusive?
The number of eggs that hens lay in a month - Which of the following is a discrete
random variable?
0.1139 - Suppose that 11% of people are left handed. If 6 people are selected at
1.67 - A die is rolled 10 times and the number of times that two shows on the up face is
counted. If this experiment is repeated many times, find the mean for the random
variable X, the number of twos thrown out of ten tosses.
45.7 - According to the 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 54.3% of males
have never used marijuana. Based on this percentage, what is the expected number of
males who have used marijuana for samples of size 100?
(i) only - Product codes of 6, 7, 8 or 9 letters are equally likely. Which of the following
statements are true? (i) Standard deviation of the number of letters in one code is 1.19.
(ii) The probability of the event that the code has at least 7 letters is 0.5
250 - In a manufacturing process that laminates several ceramic layers, 2% of the

assemblies are defective. Assume that the assemblies are independent. What is the
mean number of assemblies that need to be checked to obtain five defective
assemblies?
0.001 - Printed circuit cards are placed in a functional test after being populated with
semiconductor chips. A lot contains 40 cards, and a sample of 3 are selected at random
without replacement for functional testing. If 5 cards are defective, what is the
probability that all cards in the sample are defective?
(i) - (See picture) [file:1968.jpg]
0.61 - (See picture) [file:1979.jpg]
8 - (See picture) [file:1986.jpg]

0.0146 - A multiple-choice quiz has 20 questions each with 4 possible answers of which
only 1 is the correct answer. What is the probability that sheer guesswork yields 4
correct answers for 5 of the 20 problems about which the student has no knowledge?
that it will take a randomly selected student more than 10 minutes to park in the library
lot.
(ii) - Suppose that a qualitative variable has three categories with frequencies of
occurrence shown in the table. When constructing a pie chart, what is the size of the
angle for class A? [file:3558.jpg]
598, 600, 602, 604, 605 - [file:3579.jpg]
7 - The heights (in inches) of 20 adult males are listed below. 70 72 71 70 69 73 69 68

70 71 67 71 70 74 69 68 71 71 71 72 Find the range of the data set.
Frankin scored as high or higher than 80 percent of the people who took the test. - A
large retail company gives an employment screening test to all prospective employees.
Frankin Gilman recently took the test and it was reported back to him that his score
placed him at the 80th percentile. Therefore:
as population proportion approaches 0.50. - The standard error of the population

proportion will become larger
normal with mean 40 and variance 5/16. - A random sample of size n = 16 is taken from
a normal population with mean 40 and variance 5. The distribution of the sample mean
is
8 - A normal population has mean 76 and variance 9. How large must be the random
sample be if we want the standard error of the sample mean to be 1.1?
definition of what it means to be 95% confident in an inference.
(2910, 3330) - A random sample of 40 students has a mean annual earnings of 3120
and a population standard deviation of 677. Construct the confidence interval for the
population mean. Use a 95% confidence level. [file:2187.jpg]
population standard deviation of 8. Assume that bowler's scores are normally
distributed. Find the 95% confidence interval of the mean score of all bowlers.
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(186.3, 197.7) - (See picture) [file:2212.jpg]
(7.5, 16.2) - Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population standard deviation
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true proportion by more than 4%? [file:2235.jpg]
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True - In hypothesis testing, the null hypothesis should contain the equality sign.
(ii) - [file:3641.jpg]
Reject the null hypothesis - (See picture) [file:2252.jpg]
to = -1.98, fail to reject Ho - (See picture) [file:2255.jpg]
-46.15 - (See picture) [file:2266.jpg]
(iv) - (See picture) [file:2271.jpg]

Probability models quantify the risks involved in decisions made every day - Which
statement is true?
220 - How many baseball teams of nine members can be chosen from among twelve
boys, without regard to the position played by each member?
0.172 - Assume that male and female births are equally likely and that the birth of any
probability of at most three boys in ten births.
0.279 - According to the U.S. census, in 2005, 21% of homicide victims were known to
0.117 - Among the contestants in a competition are 25 women and 25 men. If 3 winners
are randomly selected, what is the probability that they are all men?
All of the others - For each of the following pairs of events, which are subsets of the set
of all possible outcomes when a coin is tossed three times, choose the pair(s) is (are)
independent.
1,000 - An electronic scale that displays weights to the nearest pound is used to weigh
packages. The display shows only three digits. Any weight greater than the display can
indicate is shown as 999. The random variable X is the displayed weight. What is the
number of member in the sample space of X?
0.343 - A basketball player has made 70% of his foul shots during the season. If he
shots?
2.5 - On a 10-question multiple choice test , each question has four possible answers,
one of which is correct. For students who guess at all answers, find the mean for the
random variable X, the number of correct answers.
1.16 - A polltaker asked graduating college seniors how many times they had given
blood in the last year. The results of the survey are given in the table. The random
variable X represents the number of times a person gave blood and P(x) represents the
probability of selecting a graduating college who had given blood that percent of the
time. What is the standard deviation for the number of times a person gave blood based
on this poll? [file:1911.jpg]
56 - Suppose that X has a discrete uniform distribution on the integers 1 to 15. Find
3V(X).
0.0154 - Assume that a procedure yields a binomial distribution with a trial repeated n =
4 times. Use the binomial probability formula to find the probability of x=3 successes
given the probability p=1/6 of success on a single trial.
0.0096 - In a certain manufacturing process it is known that, on the average, 1 in every

100 items is defective. What is the probability that the fifth item inspected is the first
defective item found.
0.1798 - A naturalist leads whale watch trips every morning in March. The number of
whales seen has a Poisson distribution with a mean of 4.3. Find the probability that on a
randomly selected trip, the number of whales seen is 3.
0.50 - The probability density function of the time required to complete an assembly
operation is f(x)= 0.1 for 20≤ x ≤ 30 seconds. Determine the proportion of assemblies
that requires more than 25 seconds to complete.
0.0668 - The diameters of pencils produced by a certain machine are normally

distributed with a mean of 0.30 inches and a standard deviation of 0.01 inches. What is
the probability that the diameter of a randomly selected pencil will be less than 0.285
inches?
14 - The following data reflect the number of customers who test drove new cars each
day for a sample of 20 days at the Redfield Ford Dealership. (See picture) Given these
data, what is the range? [file:3562.jpg]
19.6 - Find the sample standard deviation. 15 42 53
3 - The following data reflect the number of customers who test drove new cars each
day for a sample of 20 days at the Redfield Ford Dealership. (See picture) Given these
data, what is the interquartile range? [file:3589.jpg]
if the shape of the population is normally distributed. - For sample size 16, the sampling
distribution of the sample mean will be approximately normally distributed...
We are 97% confident that the average total compensation of all CEOs in the Service
industry falls in the interval 2181260 to 5836180. - It is desired to estimate the average
total compensation of CEOs in the Service industry. Data were randomly collected from
18 CEOs and the 97% confidence interval was calculated to be (2181260, 5836180).
Which of the following interpretations is correct?
153.6 - A trucking firm suspects that the variance for a certain tire is greater than
1,000,000. To check the claim , the firm puts 151 of these tires on its trucks and gets a
standard deviation of 1012 miles . Find the value of the test statistic to test the trucking
firm's claim at the significance level of 0.05.
hours. Find the 98% confidence interval for the population mean. [file:2188.jpg]
(3.41, 5.99) - A random sample of 10 parking meters in a beach community showed the
following incomes for a day. 3.60 4.50 2.80 6.30 2.60 5.20 6.75 4.25 8.00 3.00 A simple
computation yields a sample mean of 4.7 and standard deviation of 1.8. Assume the
incomes are normally distributed. Find the 95% confidence interval for the true mean.
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proportion will not differ from the true proprtion by more than 4%? A previous study
indicates that the proportion of left-handed golfers is 10%. [file:2222.jpg]
0.59 ± 0.068 - (See picture) [file:2228.jpg]
(iii) - (See picture) [file:2245.jpg]
Test statistic: 3.5 and critical value: 1.645 - An article stated that students in FPT
university system take an average of 4.5 years to finish their undergraduate degrees.
Suppose you believe that the average time is longer. You conduct a survey of 49
students and obtain a sample mean of 5.1 with a sample standard deviation of 1.2.
Assume that time to finish their undergraduate degrees is normally distributed.
Calculate the value of the test statistic and the critical values for this test statistic. Use a
significance level of 0.05. [file:3645.jpg]
0 - Suppose that a random variable X has the discrete uniform distribution on the
integers 10,...,20. Find P(X = 7).
16.875 - [file:3656.jpg]
(iii) - (See picture) [file:2264.jpg]
0.98 - The height y and base diameter x of five trees of a certain variety produced the
following data. Compute the correlation coefficient r. [file:2287.jpg]
Number of items - discrete; total time - continuous - The peak shopping time at home
A retrospective study using historical data - What is a method of collecting data?
HH HT TH TT - Flip a coin twice, create the sample space of possible outcomes.

(Below, H stands for Head, T stands for Tail)
0.333 - A single six-sided die is rolled. Find the probability of rolling a number less than
3.
0.19 - At a California college, 22% of students speak Spanish, 5% speak French, and
3% speak both languages. What is the probability that a student chosen at random from
the college speaks Spanish but not French?
disjoint but not independent. - (See picture) [file:1867.jpg]

[1, 491] - A batch of 500 machined parts contains 10 that do not conform to customer
requirements.Parts are selected succesively, without replacement, until a
nonconforming part is obtained. Determine the range (possible values) of the random
variable giving the number of parts selected.
15.6 - The probability that a person has immunity to a particular disease is 0.6. Find the
mean for the random variable X, the number who have immunity in samples of size 26.
1.55 - In a recent survey, 80% of the community favored building a police substation in
their neighborhood. If 15 citizens are chosen, what is the standard deviation of the
number favoring the substation?
18 and 102 - Let the random variable X have a discrete uniform distribution on the
interval [1, 35]. Determine the mean and variance of X.
12.0 - Find the mean for the binomial distribution which has the stated values of n=20
and p=0.6. Round answer to the nearest tenth.
0.0064 - The probability of a successful optical alignment in the assembly of an optical

data storage product is 0.8. Assume the trials are independent. What is the probability
that the first successful alignment requires exactly four trials?
1.52 - The probability that a radish seed will germinate is 0.7. A gardener plants seeds
in batches of 11. Find the standard deviation for the random variable X, the number of
seeds germinating in each batch.
All of them - Let X be a continuous random with f(x) is probability density function.
Which the following statement(s) is (are) TRUE?
0.1587 - Assume that X has a normal distribution with the mean is µ= 15.2 and the
standard deviation is σ = 0.9. Find the probability that X is greater than 16.1
6 - Find the mode for the sample composed of the observations 4, 5, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8,

5.
All of the other choices is correct - Which of the following is an acceptable format for
setting up class boundaries for a frequency distribution?
only if the population is normally distributed. - For sample size 1, the sampling
distribution of the mean will be normally distributed
Normal, mean = 64 inches, standard deviation = 0.5 inches - The heights of people in a
certain population are normally distributed with a mean of 64 inches and a standard
deviation of 3.1 inches. Determine the sampling distribution of the mean for samples of
size 39.
sampling distribution of the mean will be approximately normally distributed...
(21.1, 23.7) - A group of 49 randomly selected students has a mean age of 22.4 years
with a population standard deviation of 3.8. Construct a 98% confidence interval for the
population mean. [file:2194.jpg]
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are listed below, which implies a sample mean of 2.54 and a sample standard deviation
of 1.11. Assume the grade point averages are normally distributed. 2.0 3.2 1.8 2.9 0.9
4.0 3.3 2.9 3.6 0.8 Find a 98% confidence interval for the true mean. [file:2211.jpg]
Construct a 99% confidence interval for the population standard deviation, (sigma).
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true proportion by more than 6%? [file:2241.jpg]
less than 20%, when in fact, it is at least 20% - A statistics instructor believes that fewer
than 20% of Evergreen Valley College (EVC) students attended the opening night
midnight showing of the latest Harry Potter movie. She surveys 84 of her students and
finds that 11 of attended the midnight showing. The Type I error is believing that the
percent of EVC students who attended is:

Test statistic z = -8.43. There is sufficient evidence to warrant rejection of the claim that
the population mean temperature is 22 degree C. - (See picture) [file:2253.jpg]
14.573, 43.194 - (See picture) [file:2257.jpg]
-0.93 - (See picture) [file:3694.jpg]
92.0218 - It is believed that, the average numbers of hours spent studying per day
(HOURS) during undergraduate education should have a positive linear relationship
with the starting salary (SALARY, measured in thousands of dollars per month) after
graduation. Given below is the Excel output from regressing starting salary on number
of hours spent studying per day for a sample of 51 students. NOTE: Some of the
numbers in the output are purposely erased. The error sum of squares (SSE) of the
above regression is [file:3710.jpg]
mean. - Suppose a 95% confidence interval for µ turns out to be (1000, 2100). Give a
definition of what it means to be 95% confident in an inference.
(2910, 3330) - A random sample of 40 students has a mean annual earnings of 3120
and a population standard deviation of 677. Construct the confidence interval for the
population mean. Use a 95% confidence level.
population standard deviation of 8. Assume that bowler's scores are normally
distributed. Find the 95% confidence interval of the mean score of all bowlers.
(186.3, 197.7) - (See picture)
True - In hypothesis testing, the null hypothesis should contain the equality sign.
(3.41, 5.99) - A random sample of 10 parking meters in a beach community showed the
following incomes for a day. 3.60 4.50 2.80 6.30 2.60 5.20 6.75 4.25 8.00 3.00 A simple
computation yields a sample mean of 4.7 and standard deviation of 1.8. Assume the
incomes are normally distributed. Find the 95% confidence interval for the true mean.

proportion will not differ from the true proprtion by more than 4%? A previous study
0.98 - The height y and base diameter x of five trees of a certain variety produced the
following data. Compute the correlation coefficient r.
population mean.
are listed below, which implies a sample mean of 2.54 and a sample standard deviation
of 1.11. Assume the grade point averages are normally distributed. 2.0 3.2 1.8 2.9 0.9
4.0 3.3 2.9 3.6 0.8 Find a 98% confidence interval for the true mean.
Construct a 99% confidence interval for the population standard deviation, (sigma).
less than 20%, when in fact, it is at least 20% - A statistics instructor believes that fewer
than 20% of Evergreen Valley College (EVC) students attended the opening night
midnight showing of the latest Harry Potter movie. She surveys 84 of her students and
finds that 11 of attended the midnight showing. The Type I error is believing that the
percent of EVC students who attended is:
mean. - Suppose a 95% confidence interval for µ turns out to be (1000, 2100). Give a
definition of what it means to be 95% confident in an inference
if the shape of the population is normally distributed. - For sample size 16, the sampling
distribution of the sample mean will be approximately normally distributed...
sampling distribution of the mean will be approximately normally distributed.
732,735,738,742,743,749,751,758 - Find the origin data from the sterm-and-leaf plot
a. P(x ≤ 28.5). - If we are using the normal approximation to determine the probability of
at most 28 successes in a binomial distribution P(x ≤ 28) the normal distribution
probability that is used to make the estimate is
d.$18,813.00 - A company had 80 employees whose salaries are summarized in the

frequency distribution below. Find the mean salary. Salary ($) 5,001 - 10,000 10,001-
15,000 15,001 - 20,000 20,001 - 25,000 25,001 - 30,000 Employees 16 11 16 10 27
μ = 9.0, σ = 3.0 - Suppose X has a Poisson probability distribution with = 9.0. Find μ and
σ.
- Construct the cumulative frequency distribution that coressponds to the given

frequency distribution
Yes, test statistic = - Determine whether the given conditions justify testing a claim
about a population mean μ. If so, what is formula for test statistic? The sample size is n
= 25,σ = 5.93, and the original population is normally distributed.
b. 0.04 - A random sample of n = 25 observations was made on the time to failure of an

electronic component and the temperature in the application environment in which the
component was used. Given that = 0.4, = 1.50, se()= 7.68, se()= 12.4. What is the value
of th e test statistic for testing H0: ?
c. coefficient of correlation of 0 - An indication of no linear relationship between two

variables would be a:
- .58
(64.3, 66.1) - In a sample of 25 randomly selected women, it was found that their mean
height was 65.2 inches. From previous studies, it is assumed that the standard
deviation, \sigma, is 2.4. Construct the 95% confidence interval for the population mean.
($0.96, $1.79) - A student randomly selects 22 CDs at a store. The mean is $8.5 with a
standard deviation of $1.25. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population
standard deviation, \sigma. Assume the data are normally distributed.
H1: p >16% - A psychologist claims that more than 16 percent of the population suffers
from professional problems due to extreme shyness. Use p, the true percentage of the
population that suffers from extreme shyness. Express the null hypothesis H0 and the
Yes, test statistic = (\bar x - \mu)/(\sigma/\sqrt n) - Determine whether the given

conditions justify testing a claim about a population mean μ. If so, what is formula for
test statistic? The sample size is n = 49, σ = 12.3, s = 8.72 and the original population is
not normally distributed.
3.464 - Find the test statistic t0 for a sample with n = 12, = 30.2, s = 2.2, and α = 0.01 if
H0 : µ = 28. Round your answer to three decimal places.
The error of rejecting the claim that the true proportion is at least 1 in one thousand
when it really is at least 1 in one thousand. - A skeptical paranormal researcher claims
that the proportion of Americans that have seen a UFO, p, is less than 1 in every one
thousand. Assume that a hypothesis test of the given claim will be conducted. Identify
the type I error for the test.
Positive correlation - The following table gives the total sales (revenue) and profits for 8
retailers. Construct a scatter diagram for the data and state whether sales and profits for
these companies have no correlation, a positive correlation, or a negative correlation.
an increase of $1 in advertising is expected to result in an increase of $7000 in sales. -

A regression analysis between sales (in $1000) and advertising (in $) resulted in the
following least squares line: \hat y = 50,000 + 7x. This implies that:
0.73 - The table contains the weights and heights of nine randomly selected adults.
-0.76 - Suppose that you are interested in the relationship between the return on a stock
this year (Y), compared to the return the year before (X). From a sample of 12 firms,
you have collected the following information:
23.46 - A sample of 8 households was asked about their monthly income (X) and the
the following statistics:
5.913 - The data below are the ages and systolic blood pressures (measured in
millimeters of mercury) of 3 randomly selected adults.
0.07 - The data below are the exam scores of 4 randomly selected statistics students,
what is the value of the test statistic for testing H_0:\beta_0=1
population mean.
0.717 - Based on this percentage, what is the probability that more than 50 males who
have used marijuana for samples of size 120?
0.28 - A batch contains 36 bacteria cells, in which 12 are not capable of cellular
replication. Suppose you examine 7 bacteria cells selected at random, without
replacement. What is the probability that exactly 3 of them are not capable of cellular
replication?

that the first successful alignment requires exactly 4 trials?

that the first two successful alignments require exactly 4 trials?
0.12 - A batch contains 36 bacteria cells, in which 12 are not capable of cellular
replication. Suppose you examine 7 bacteria cells selected at random, without
replacement. What is the probability that exactly 3 of them are capable of cellular
replication?
1.55 - Find the mean of the following probability distribution.
-x01234
- P(x) 0.19 0.37 0.16 0.26 0.02
0 2(.) 1 1(.) 2 4(.) 3 2(.) 4 1(.) 5 2(.) 6 1(.) - A manufacturer records the number of errors
each work station makes during the week. The data are as follows. 6 3 2 3 5 2 0 2 5 4 2
0 1 Construct the dot plot for the given data. 0 5 10
6 (.) Oxy+ , 1 (.) Ox+y- , 1(.) Oxy- - Use the given paired data to construct a scatterplot.
x 0.25 0.47 0.32 0.63 -0.27 0.25 0.15 0.32 y 0.44 0.56 -0.04 0.52 -0.68 0.9 0.88 0.19
5-9 6-358 7-24479 8-3558 9-137 - Use the data to create a stemplot. The midterm test
scores for the seventh-period typing class are listed below. 85 77 93 91 74 65 68 97 88
59 74 83 85 72 63 79
.10 .20 .30 .40 poverty .35 drugs .30 family .20 education .10 other .05 - Solve the
problem.At the National Criminologists Association's annual convention, participants
filled out a questionnaire asking what they thought was the most important cause for
criminal behavior. The tally was as follows. Cause - Frequency , education - 19.5 ,
drugs - 58.5 , family - 39 , poverty - 68.25 , other - 9.75
Excellent 20% - Good 50% , Fair 30% - After reviewing a movie, 800 people rated the
movie as excellent, good, or fair. The following data give the rating
distribution.Excellent: 160, Good: 400, Fair: 240 Construct a pie chart representing the
given data set.
3 (.) Oxy+ , 1 (.) Ox-y+ , 1 (.) Ox+y- , 5(.) Oxy- - Use the given paired data to construct a
scatterplot. x 1 -3 -3 -2 3 5 -1 8 -4 -1 y -4 -6 -7 2 3 3 -6 3 -3 -3
21 - 5, 9 22 - 1, 7, 8, 9 23 - 1, 3, 3, 5, 9 24 - 5 - Use the data to create a stemplot.The

attendance counts for this season's basketball games are listed below.227 239 215 219
221 233 229 233 235 228 245 231
The error of failing to reject the claim that the proportion favoring gun control is at most
62% when it is actually more than 62%. - A researcher claims that more than 62% of
voters favor gun control. Assume that a hypothesis test of the given claim will be
6 Oxy+ , 2 Ox-y+ - Use the given paired data to construct a scatterplot.x -6 7 7 7 5 6 2

-1 -6 y 2 7 11 8 9 11 6 3 2
16.92 and 3.33 - Find the critical value or values of based on the given information.H0:
σ = 8.0/ H1: σ ≠ 8.0 n = 10 α = 0.1
0.4920 - Let Z is a standard normal variable, find the probability that Z lies between
-2.41 and 0.
d. 0.973 - Score 4 8 3 6 9 8 $$ Find the value of the linear correlation coefficient $$r$$.
a. - The Kappa lata Sigma Fraternity polled its members on the weekend party theme.
The vote was as follows: six for toga, four for hayride, eight for beer bash, and two for
a. If A and B are disjoint, then they cannot be independent. - TWhich of the following is
always true?
a. 0.6554 - TIf a random variable has the normal distribution with μ = 30 and σ = 5, find
the probability that it will take on the value less than 32.
a.85,88,91,98,105,105 - Find the origin data from the sterm-and-leaf plot Stem (Leaves)
8 (5 8) 9 (1 8) 10 (5 5)
Bieu do .4 .3 .2 .1 - Family 0.35 Truck 0.3 Economy 0.2 Luxury 0.1 Sports 0.05 - A car
dealer is deciding what kinds of vehicles he should order from the factory. He looks at
his sales report for the preceding period. Choose the vertical scale so that the relative
frequencies are represented. Vehicle (Sales) Economy (32) Sports (8) Family (56)
Luxury (16) Truck (48)
0.950 - A percentage distribution is given below for the size of families in one U.S. city.
Size
0.169 - A percentage distribution is given below for the size of families in one U.S. city.
Size
Find the mean of X
2.46 -
Both (i) and (ii) - Suppose that X has a discrete uniform distribution on the integers 20 to
79. Which of the followings are true? (i) P(X > 41) = 13/20 (ii) E(10X)= 495
favoring the substation is more than 12?
- Solve the problem. At the National Criminologists Association's annual convention,

participants filled out a questionnaire asking what they thought was the most important
cause for criminal behavior. The tally was as follows. Make a Pareto chart to display
these findings.
- Use the given paired data to construct a scatterplot. x -6 7 7 7 5 6 2 -1 -6 y 2 7 11 8 9

11 6 3 2
than what value?
- Attendance records at a school show the number of days each student was absent
during the year. The days absent for each student were as follows. 0 2 3 4 2 3 4 6 7 2 3
4 6 9 8 Construct the dot plot for the given data.
- The Kappa lata Sigma Fraternity polled its members on the weekend party theme.
The vote was as follows: six for toga, four for hayride, eight for beer bash, and two for
- Use the given paired data to construct a scatterplot. x 1 -3 -3 -2 3 5 -1 8 -4 -1 y -4 -6

-7 2 3 3 -6 3 -3 -3
- A store manager counts the number of customers who make a purchase in his store
each day. The data are as follows. 10 11 8 14 7 10 10 11 8 7 Construct the dot plot for
the given data.
- Use the data to create a stemplot. The attendance counts for this season's basketball
games are listed below. 227 239 215 219 221 233 229 233 235 228 245 231
- Use the given paired data to construct a scatterplot. x 0.25 0.47 0.32 0.63 -0.27 0.25
0.15 0.32 y 0.44 0.56 -0.04 0.52 -0.68 0.9 0.88 0.19
- After reviewing a movie, 800 people rated the movie as excellent, good, or fair. The
following data give the rating distribution. Excellent: 160, Good: 400, Fair: 240 Construct
a pie chart representing the given data set.
- Use the data to create a stemplot. The midterm test scores for the seventh-period
typing class are listed below. 85 77 93 91 74 65 68 97 88 59 74 83 85 72 63 79
- A manufacturer records the number of errors each work station makes during the
week. The data are as follows. 6 3 2 3 5 2 0 2 5 4 2 0 1 Construct the dot plot for the
given data.
Yes, test statistic = - Determine whether the given conditions justify testing a claim
about a population mean μ. If so, what is formula for test statistic? The sample size is n
= 49, σ = 12.3, s = 8.72and the original population is not normally distributed.
All of the others - When products and processes are designed and developed with
designed experiments, they enjoy
(iv) - Test for the significance of regression H0:B1 = B1.0 H1: B1 != B1.0 We would
reject H0 if _ (i) [t0] > t(n/2x-1) (ii) [t0] < t(n/2x - 2) (iii) [t0] < t(n/2x - 1) (iv) [t0] > t(n/2x -
2)
b. 0.63 - The probability that a student at a certain college is male is 0.45. The
probability that a student at that college has a job off campus is 0.33. The probability
that a student at the college is male and has a job off campus is 0.15. If a student is
chosen at random from the college, what is the probability that the student is male or
has an off campus job?
0.06 - Let P(A) = 0.7, P(B) = 0.2. What is P(B U nguoc A') if A and B are independent?
d. 0.361 - A percentage distribution is given below for the size of families in one U.S.
random. Find the probability that the size of the family is 4 or more. Round your result to
d. -
b. Reject H0The height y and base diameter x of five tree of a certain variety produced
the following data x 2 4 3 4 y 33 41 96 90 What is the value of the test statistic for
testing | d. 0.026 - For a random sample of 263 professionals, the correlation between
their age and their income was found to be 0.17. You are interested in testing the null
0 vs. H1: ρ > 0 at = 0.01?
None - A recent study by a major financial investment company was interested in

determining whether the annual percentage change in stock price for companies is
linearly related to the annual percent change in profits for the company. The following
data was determined for 8 randomly selected companies: Based upon this sample
information, which of the following is the regression equation?
2.639 - For a random sample of 236 professionals, the correlation between their age
and their income was found to be 0.17. You are interested in testing the null hypothesis
that there is no linear relationship between these two variables against the alternative
that there is a positive relationship. What is the value of the test statistic?
statistical inference - The process of using sample statistics to draw conclusions about
true population parameters is called
The amount of milk produced by a cow in one 24-hour period - Which of the following is
a continuous quantitative variable?
Observation study - A T.V. show's executives raised the fee for commercials following a
report that the show received a " No.1" rating in a survey of viewers. What type of the
description is?
{red, yellow, blue, orange} - A bag of colored candies contains 20 red, 25 yellow, 15
blue and 20 orange candies. An experiment consists of randomly choosing one candy
from the bag and recording its color. What is the sample space for this experiment?
0.0096 - Sixty-five percent of men consider themselves knowledgeable football fans. If
15 men are randomly selected, find the probability that exactly five of them will consider
themselves knowledgeable fans.
0.169 - A family is selected at random. Find the probability that the size of the family is
more than 4. Round your result to three decimal places.
positions on stronger gun control laws. What is the probability that a Democrat opposes
stronger gun control laws?
0.585 - Mr. Ômô figures that there is a 65% chance that his university will set up a
branch office in Lao Cai. If it does, he is 90% certain that she will be made director of
this new branch. What is the probability that Ômô will be a Lao Cai branch office
director?
0.15 - Assume that P(C) = 0.5 and P(D) = 0.3. If C and D are independent, find P(C and
D).
worker had claimed bias was 0%
6.30 - The on-line access computer service industry is growing at an extraordinary rate.
Current estimates suggest that 10% of people with home-based computers have access
to on-line services. Suppose that 8 people with home-based computers were randomly
and independently sampled. What is the probability that at least 1 of those sampled
have access to on-line services at home?
0.9920 - The number of weeds that remain living after a specific chemical has been
applied averages 1.21 per square yard and follows a Poisson distribution. Based on
this, what is the probability that a 1 square yard section will contain less than 5 weeds?
0.375 - Suppose that X is a continuous random variable whose probability density

function is given by f(x)=C(4x-2x^2),0<x<2 and f(x)=0 for other values of x. What is the
value of C?
0.0762 - A bank's loan officer rates applicants for credit. The ratings are normally
0.3174. - If X is a normal random variable with µ = 50 and s = 6, then the probability that
X is not between 44 and 56 is
30.81 - Assume that X is normally distributed with a mean of 23 and a standard

deviation of 5. Find the value of c if P(X > c) = 0.0592.
Mean = 0.67; Standard deviation = 0.67 - Suppose that the random variable X has an
exponential distribution with ? = 1.5. Find the mean and standard deviation of X.
35% - A nurse measured the blood pressure of each person who visited her clinic.
($1130, $1270) - A random sample of 42 students has a mean annual earnings of

$1200 and a population standard deviation of $230. Construct a 95% confidence
interval for the population mean, µ.
(78.93, 86.07) - Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population mean, µ.
1.06 - The waiting times (in minutes) of customers at the TienPhong Bank, where
customers enter a single waiting line that feeds three teller windows, are normally
distributed. A random sample of 6 has mean of 7.07 and standard deviation of
0.53.Construct a 94% upper confidence bound for the population standard deviation
(0.14, 0.36) - A random sample of 60 suspension helmets used by motorcycle riders

and automobile race-car drivers was subjected to an impact test, and on 15 of these
helmets some damage was observed. Find a 95% two-sided confidence interval on the
true proportion of helmets of this type that would show damage from this test.
202 - The Hilbert Drug Store owner plans to survey a random sample of his customers
with the objective of estimating the mean dollars spent on pharmaceutical products
during the past three months. He has assumed that the population standard deviation is
known to be $14.50. Given this information, what would be the required sample size if
we want the total width of the two-side confidence interval on mean to be $4 at 95
percent confidence?
About 817 - A regional hardware chain is interested in estimating the proportion of their
customers who own their own homes. There is some evidence to suggest that the
proportion might be around 0.825. Given this, what sample size is required if they wish
a 94 percent confidence level with a error of ± 0.025?
H0: µ, the average attendance at games, is equal to 79,000 && H1: µ, the average
1.66 - You wish to test the claim that µ > 6 at a level of significance of a = 0.05. Let
sample statistics be n = 60, s = 1.4
-1.76 - A telephone company claims that 25% of its customers have at least two
telephone lines. The company selects a random sample of 500 customers and finds that
108 have two or more telephone lines. At \alpha = 0.05, compute the value of the test
statistic to test the company's claim.
y = 5.67 + .048x. - A manufacturing company is interested in predicting the number of

defects that will be produced each hour on the assembly line. The managers believe
that there is a relationship between the defect rate and the production rate per hour.
The managers believe that they can use production rate to predict the number of
defects. The following data were collected for 10 randomly selected hours.
2.66 - A recent study of 60 shoppers showed that the correlation between the time
P=nCk*p^k*(1-p)^(n-k) - binomial distribution
Mean^k/k!*e^mean - poisson distribution
f(x)=(x-a)/(b-a) - uniform distribution
(f(x,E,V)=1/(X*sqrt(2pi))*e^(-(x-V)^2/2V^2) - normally distributed
f(x)=1/(X*sqrt(2pi))*e^(-x^2/2) - standard normal distribution
f(x)=1-e^(-lada*x)......V=lada - exponential distribution
all custormers - An employee at the local ice cream parlor asks three customers if they
like chocolate ice cream. What is the population?
0.057 - The probability that a tennis set will go to a tie-breaker is 15%. What is the
Positive correlation - For a group of employees at the local video store, the scatter
diagram compares the number of days worked per year and the average number of
stairs climbedweekly (x) is shown below. State whether there is no correlation, a
0.844 - Find the value of the linear correlation coefficient r.x 12.3 13.1 7.0 9.7 y 22.1
15.7 7.5 13.2
0.728 - A sample of 10 households was asked about their monthly income (X) and the
the following statistics: \sum x_i = 324, \sum y_i = 393, \sum (x_i-\bar x)^2 = 1900, \sum
(y_i-\bar y)^2 = 1200, \sum (x_i-\bar x)(y_i-\bar y) = 1100.What is the sample correlation
coefficient between X and Y?
0.32 0.2 Other 0.13 0.12 What is the probability that a voter who favors stronger gun
control laws is a Republican?
mean: 1.62; standard deviation: 0.95 - The random variable X represents the number of
credit cards that adults have along with the corresponding probabilities. Find the mean
and standard deviation. x 0 1 2 3 4 P(x) 0.05 0.49 0.32 0.07 0.07
Descriptive Statistics - When an administrator at a local hospital prepares a series of

charts and graphs pertaining to the patients that have stayed at the hospital during the
past month, she is using which general category of statistical analysis?
Experiments - A tire manufacturing company is interested in obtaining data on stopping

distances for each of the three main tread types made by the company. The data
collection method that would be most likely used in this case would be:
Non-Statistical Sampling - Some stores and restaurants have "tell us what you think"
cards available for customers. Assuming that angry customers are more likely to take
the time to fill these out, this is an example of:
Ordinal Data - When a survey uses the responses strongly disagree, disagree, neutral,
agree, strongly agree, this is an example of:
Time-Series Data - Weekly stock closing prices for IBM would be classified as which of
the following?
10 or <65 (430-11)/8 =52.375, 11-1 =10+52.375 =62.375-->65 - The Maple Grove Hotel
manager has collected data on the number of rooms occupied each evening for the past
700 nights. The fewest rooms occupied during that period was 11 and the most was the
capacity, 430. Based on this information, which of the following would be reasonable
class limits for the first class if the manager wishes to use 8 classes to develop a
frequency distribution?
The approximate center of the data - The spread in the data - The shape of the
distribution - A histogram is used to display which of the following characteristics for a
quantitative variable?
A nominal level variable - An ordinal level variable - A bar chart is most likely used to
display which of the following?
Pie chart - The city counsel has just voted to pass the city's budget for next year. If you
were writing a report describing the budget so the citizens could understand how the
total tax dollars will be spent, which of the following graphs might be most appropriate?
a statistic - If a business manager selected a sample of customers and computed the

mean income for this sample of customers, she has computed:
7.5 (=median(data sample)) - Consider the following sample data: 25, 11, 6, 4, 2, 17, 9,
6 For these data the median is:
The distribution is right-skewed - A sample of people who have attended a college

football game at your university has a mean = 3.2 members in their family. The mode
number of family members is 2 and the median number is 2.0. Based on this
information:
The average of the 148th and 149th values - If a data set has 740 values that have
been sorted from low to high, which value in the data set will be the 20th percentile?
8 - The number of days that homes stay on the market before they sell in Houston is
bell-shaped with a mean equal to 56 days. Further, 95 percent of all homes are on the
market between 40 and 72 days. Based on this information, what is the standard
deviation for the number of days that houses stay on the market in Houston?
.56 - A study was recently done in which 500 people were asked to indicate their
preferences for one of three products. The following table shows the breakdown of the
responses by gender of the respondents.Male: A 80; B 20; C 10 Female: A 200; B 70; C
120 Based on these data, the probability that a person in the population will prefer
product A can be assessed as:
slightly greater than 0.43 - Harrison Water Sports has three retail outlets: Seattle,
Portland, and Phoenix. The Seattle store does 50 percent of the total sales in a year,
while the Portland store does 35 percent of the total sales. Further analysis indicates
that of the sales in Seattle, 20 percent are in boat accessories. The percentage of boat
accessories at the Portland store is 30 and the percentage at the Phoenix store is 25. If
a sales dollar is recorded as a boat accessory, the probability that the sale was made at
the Portland store is:
- The Jack In The Box franchise in Bangor, Maine, has determined that the chance a
customer will order a soft drink is 0.90. The probability that a customer will order a
hamburger is 0.60. The probability that a customer will order french fries is 0.50.
0.45 - If a customer places an order, what is the probability that the order will include a
soft drink and no fries if these two events are independent?
85.5 - Cramer's Bar and Grille in Dallas can seat 130 people at a time. The manager
has been gathering data on the number of minutes a party of four spends in the
restaurant from the moment they are seated to when they pay the check. What is the
mean number of minutes for a dinner party of four? Number of Minutes Probability 60
0.05 70 0.15 80 0.20 90 0.45 100 0.10 110 0.05
0.0115 - A package delivery service claims that no more than 5 percent of all packages
arrive at the address late. Assuming that the conditions for the binomial hold, if a
sample of size 10 packages is randomly selected and the 5 percent rate holds, what is
the probability that more than 2 packages will be delivered late?
0.4703 - The number of customers who enter a bank is thought to be Poisson

distributed with a mean equal to 10 per hour. What are the chances that 2 or 3
customers will arrive in a 15-minute period?
9 - If the standard deviation for a Poisson distribution is known to be 3, the expected

value of that Poison distribution is:
the sampling is performed without replacement from a finite population - The

hypergeometric probability distribution is used rather than the binomial or the Poisson
when:
About 0.00001 - The manager of a computer help desk operation has collected enough
data to conclude that the distribution of time per call is normally distributed with a mean
equal to 8.21 minutes and a standard deviation of 2.14 minutes. What is the probability
that three randomly monitored calls will each be completed in 4 minutes or less?
Approximately 0.29 - A recent study showed that the length of time that juries deliberate
on a verdict for civil trials is normally distributed with a mean equal to 12.56 hours with a
standard deviation of 6.7 hours. Given this information, what is the probability that a
deliberation will last between 10 and 15 hours?
.33 - It is assumed that the time customers spend in a record store is uniformly
distributed between 3 and 12 minutes. Based on this information, what is the probability
that a customer will spend more than 9 minutes in the record store?
About 0.18 - It is assumed that the time failures for an electronic component are
exponentially distributed with a mean of 50 hours between consecutive failures. Based
on this information, what is the probability that a randomly selected part will fail in less
than 10 hours?
True - When using the Histogram tool in Excel to construct a frequency distribution and
histogram, the bins represent the upper class limits.
True - After developing a frequency distribution for a quantitative variable, a histogram

can be developed with the horizontal axis representing the values of the variable and
the vertical axis representing the frequency of occurrence in each class or group.
True - Histograms cannot have gaps between the bars, whereas bar charts can have
gaps.
Between 5 and 20 classes - A common rule of thumb for determining how many classes
to use when developing a frequency distribution with classes is: - between 5 and 20
classes. - equal to 0.25 times the number of data values. - at least 10 classes. - no
fewer than 6 classes.
Line Chart - To show how the price of a stock has changed over the last 3 months, the
best type of chart to use is: a histogram. a line chart. a bar chart. a pie chart.
True - A major insurance company believes that for drivers between 16 years of age
and 60 years of age, the number of accidents per year tends to decrease as age
increases. If this is the case, a scatter diagram should show a negative relationship
between the two variables.
True - A scatter diagram can show whether a pair of variables has a strong or weak
relationship, and also whether it is linear or curved.
True - Bar charts can typically be formed with the bars vertical or horizontal without
adversely affecting the interpretation.
False - When a histogram is constructed for discrete numerical data, there should be
spaces between the bars of the histogram.
False - A histogram can be constructed for data that are either quantitative or
qualitative.
True - If a scatter diagram shows points that are reasonably aligned and are sloping
downward from left to right, this implies that there is a negative linear relationship
between the two variables.
True - To show the relationship between amount of rainfall and the number of car
accidents, the best type of graph to use is a scatter diagram.
Either B or C - A bar chart is most likely used to display which of the following? a. A
continuous variable b. A nominal level variable c. An ordinal level variable d. Either B or
C
False - In a scatter plot the points should always be connected with a line.
Quantitative Data - A histogram is most commonly used to analyze which of the

following? Time-series data Ordinal data Quantitative data Nominal level data
Descriptive statistics - The use of charts and graphs is an example of: -inferential
statistics. -descriptive statistics. -hypothesis testing. -estimation.
True - Recording vehicle type as sedan, minivan, pick-up truck, etc. is an example of
qualitative data.
False - An open-end question requires respondents to choose from a short list of

choices
True - A short survey with closed-end questions is likely to have a better response rate
than a long survey with open-ended questions.
False - Data collected on marital status (married, divorced, single, other) would be an
ordinal level variable.
True - A variable, i.e., the length of time it takes for an employee to complete an
assembly procedure at an automotive plant, is a ratio level variable.
True - When students are asked to list their age and the percentage of their college
expenses that they pay for themselves, the type of data being collected is quantitative.
False - Descriptive statistics allow a decision maker to reach a conclusion about a

population based on a subset from the population.
True - On a survey, amount of education is recorded as some high school, high school
graduate, some college, college graduate, etc. This is an example of ordinal data.
True - Flavors of ice cream (chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, etc.) are an example of
nominal data.
False - Nominal data is the highest level of data.
numerical measures - When the park ranger at Yellowstone National Park reports the
average length of time that visitors spend in the park, he is using: numerical measures.
graphical tools. statistical charts. histograms or bar charts.
true - At the end of the school term, students are asked to rate the course and instructor
by indicating on a scale of 1-5 how well they liked the course. The data generated from
this question are examples of ordinal data.
true - A variable that has all the properties of an interval variable, but also has a true
zero, is a ratio level variable.
inferential statistics. - When a marketing manager surveys a few of the customers for
the purpose of drawing a conclusion about the entire list of customers, she is applying:
quantitative models. descriptive statistics. numerical measures. inferential statistics.
Both A and B are Correct - Which of the following is an example of graphs used to
describe data? a. Histograms b. Bar charts c. Both A and B are correct. d. None of the
above.
True - Sales data measured each week for the past twenty weeks are examples of time-
series data.
False - A cell phone service provider has 14,000 customers. Recently, the sales
department selected a random sample of 400 customer accounts and recorded the
number of minutes of long distance time used during the previous billing period. The
data for this variable is considered to be nominal since the values are based on sample
data.
True - Simple random sampling involves selecting members of the population in such as
way that all members are equally likely to be chosen.
False - Possibly the most frequently used nonstatistical sampling procedure is the
simple random sample.
False - The difference between interval data and ratio data is that interval data has a
natural zero.
False - Cross-sectional data is a set of data values observed at successive points in

time.
False - The sales data for a company measured weekly for the past year would be
considered cross-sectional data since the sales values are computed from the entire
company.
True - A light bulb manufacturer wants to advertise the average life of its light bulbs so it
tests a subset of light bulbs. This is an example of inferential statistics.
True - An accountant has recently prepared a report for a client that contains a variety
of graphs and charts. In doing so, she has used descriptive statistical methods.
- A car salesman has noted that the probability that the dealership sells a car on a
Saturday morning
.70. - is .30. Then the probability of the dealership not selling a car on Saturday morning
is
False - 1) The following probability distribution was subjectively assessed for the
number of sales a salesperson would make if he or she made five sales calls in one
day. Sales Probability 0 0.10 1 0.15 2 0.20 3 0.30 4 0.20 5 0.05 Given this distribution,
the probability that the number of sales is more than 2 is 0.80.
True - 2) When the salesperson makes a sale, there are three possible sales levels:
large, medium, and small. The probability of a large sale is 0.20 and the chance of a
medium sale is 0.60. Thus, when a sale is made, the chance of it being a small sale is
0.20.
False - 3) Assume P(A) = 0.4 and P(B) = 0.2 and P(A and B) = 0.1, then the probability
of P(A or B) = 0.7.
True - 4) When the salesperson makes a sale, there are three possible sales levels:
large, medium, and small. The probability of a large sale is 0.20 and the chance of a
medium sale is 0.60. If a salesperson makes two sales, the probability that at least one
is large is 0.36.
True - 5) The following probability distribution was subjectively assessed for the number
of sales a salesperson would make if he or she made five sales calls in one day. Sales
Probability 0 0.10 1 0.15 2 0.20 3 0.30 4 0.20 5 0.05 When the salesperson makes a
sale, there are three possible sales levels: large, medium, and small. The probability of
a large sale is 0.20 and the chance of a medium sale is 0.60. The probability on a given
day that the salesperson will make one sale and that it is medium is 0.09.
- 6) When customers come to a bank, there are three primary locations they may select
to go to: teller, loan officer, or escrow department. Based on past experience, the
following probability distribution applies:
False - Location Probability Teller 0.60 Loan Officer 0.30 Escrow 0.10 Seventy percent
of customers are males. Thus, the probability that the next customer to enter the bank is
a male who goes to the teller is 1.30.
False - Location Probability Teller 0.60 Loan Officer 0.30 Escrow 0.10 Seventy percent
of customers are males. The probability that the next two customers to enter the bank
are males and go to the Loan Officer is 0.42.
True - 8) When customers come to a bank, there are three primary locations they may
select to go to: teller, loan officer, or escrow department. Based on past experience, the
following probability distribution applies: Location Probability Teller 0.60 Loan Officer
0.30 Escrow 0.10 Seventy percent of customers are males. The probability that three
consecutive customers all go to a teller is approximately 0.22.
True - Location Probability Teller 0.60 Loan Officer 0.30 Escrow 0.10 Seventy percent
of customers are males. The probability that the next customer will be male and will go
to either the teller or the escrow department is 0.49.
True - 10) There are three general locations that a taxi can go to: the airport, downtown,
and elsewhere. When a taxi driver starts in the downtown location, there is a 0.40
chance that his first call will take him to the airport and a 0.40 chance of going to
another downtown location. Once a taxi is at the airport, there is a 0.80 probability that
the next fare will take him downtown and a 0.20 chance of going elsewhere. The
probability of a call from anywhere except downtown taking him to the airport is 0.20.
Therefore, the probability that the taxi is at the airport when the third call arrives after
going on shift is 0.20.
True - 11) Assume P(A) = 0.6, P(B) = 0.7, and P(A and B) = 0.42, which means that
events A and B are independent of each other.
- 12) The Crystal Window Company makes windows at three locations: Reno, Las
Vegas, and Boise. Some windows made by the company contain a visible defect and
must be replaced. Each defect costs the company $45.00. The Reno plant makes 40
percent of all windows while the Las Vegas and Boise plants split the remaining
production evenly. A recent quality study shows that 8 percent of the Reno windows
contain a defect, 11 percent of the Las Vegas windows contain a defect, while 4 percent
of the windows made in Boise have a defect. Once the windows are made, they are
shipped to a central warehouse where they are commingled and the location where they
were made is lost.
True - Based on this information, if a defective window is discovered, it was most likely
made by the Las Vegas plant.
were made is lost.
True - Based on this information the probability that a defective window was made by
the Boise plant is approximately 0.16.
were made is lost.
True - Based on this information, the percentage of the defective cost that should be
allocated to the Reno plant is approximately 42 percent.
True - 15) The Baker Oil and Gas Company has four retail locations, code-named A, B,
C, and D. The following table illustrates the percentage of total company sales at each
store and also the percentage of customers at that store who make purchases with
debit cards: Store Proportion of Total Sales Proportion of Customers Using Debit A 0.18
0.32 B 0.30 0.19 C 0.41 0.18 D 0.11 0.40 Based on this information, the probability that
a customer will use a debit card is just slightly greater than 0.23.
False - 16) The Baker Oil and Gas Company has four retail locations, code-named A, B,
0.32 B 0.30 0.19 C 0.41 0.18 D 0.11 0.40 Based on this information, given that a
customer has used a debit card to make the purchase, the sale was most likely made at
store D.
False - 17) The Baker Oil and Gas Company has four retail locations, code-named A, B,
0.32 B 0.30 0.19 C 0.41 0.18 D 0.11 0.40 Based on this information, the probability that
a customer who used a debit card shopped at store C is 0.0738.
False - 18) If a six-sided die is tossed two times and "4" shows up both times, the
probability of "4" on the third trial is much larger than any other outcome.
a collection of elementary events. - 19) An event is:

relative frequency of occurrence. - 20) The method of probability assessment that relies
on an examination of historical data from similar situations is:
classical assessment. - 21) The method of probability assessment that is least likely to
be used by business decision makers is:
classical probability. - 22) At gambling casinos all over the country, a popular dice game
is called craps. The probability of a player winning at this game can be assessed using:
classical probability assessment. - 23) A consumer products company is planning to

introduce a new product. The method that is least likely to be used to assess the
probability of the product being successful is:
relative frequency of occurrence. - 24) A study was recently done in which 500 people
were asked to indicate their preferences for one of three products. The following table
shows the breakdown of the responses by gender of the respondents. Product
Preference Gender A B C Male 80 20 10 Female 200 70 120 If the people conducting
the study wish to assess the probability that product A will be preferred by members of
the target population, the method of assessment to be used would most likely be:
0.56. - 25) A study was recently done in which 500 people were asked to indicate their
responses by gender of the respondents. Product Preference Gender A B C Male 80 20
10 Female 200 70 120 Based on these data, the probability that a person in the
population will prefer product A can be assessed as:
0.24 - 26) A study was recently done in which 500 people were asked to indicate their
10 Female 200 70 120 Suppose one person is randomly chosen. Based on this data,
what is the probability that the person chosen is a female who prefers product C?
mutually exclusive. - 27) When a customer enters a store there are three outcomes that
can occur: buy nothing, buy a small amount, or buy a large amount. In this situation, if a
customer buys a large amount, he or she cannot also buy a small amount or buy
nothing. Thus the events are:
mutually exclusive. - 28) When a pair of dice are rolled, the outcome for each die can be
said to be:
None of the above. - 29) If two events are independent, then
0.52. - 30) The managers of a local golf course have recently conducted a study of the
types of golf balls used by golfers based on handicap. A joint frequency table for the
100 golfers covered in the survey is shown below: Type of Golf Ball Handicap Strata
Titleist Nike Other <2 5 8 3 2 2 to <10 8 7 9 10 ≥ 10 7 8 10 23 Based on these data, the
probability of a golfer having a handicap less than 10 is:
Titleist Nike Other < 2 5 8 3 2 2 to < 10 8 7 9 10 ≥ 10 7 8 10 23Based on these data, the
probability that a player will use a Strata golf ball is:
slightly greater than 0.45. - 32) The managers of a local golf course have recently
conducted a study of the types of golf balls used by golfers based on handicap. A joint
frequency table for the 100 golfers covered in the survey is shown below: Type of Golf
Ball Handicap Strata Titleist Nike Other < 2 5 8 3 2 2 to < 10 8 7 9 10 ≥ 10 7 8 10 23 If a
player comes to the course using a Nike golf ball, the probability that he or she has a
handicap of at least 10 is:
Titleist Nike Other < 2 5 8 3 2 2 to < 10 8 7 9 10 ≥ 10 7 8 10 23 Based on these data,
the probability of someone using a Strata ball and having a handicap under 2 is:
Titleist Nike Other < 2 5 8 3 2 2 to < 10 8 7 9 10 ≥ 10 7 8 10 23 Based on these data, if
a player has a handicap that is 10 or more, the probability that he or she will use a Nike
golf ball is:
0.170. - 35) The Anderson Lumber Company has three sawmills that produce boards of
different lengths. The following table is a joint frequency distribution based on a random
sample of 1,000 boards selected from the lumber inventory. Board Length Sawmill 8 ft
10 ft 12 ft 14 ft A 140 100 80 14 B 250 20 100 50 C 160 50 16 20 Based on these data,
the probability of selecting a board from inventory that is 10 feet long is:
0.41. - 36) The Anderson Lumber Company has three sawmills that produce boards of
sample of 1,000 boards selected from the lumber inventory. Board Length Sawmill 8 ft
if a board is selected that is 12 feet long, the probability that it was made at sawmill A is:
0.037 - 37) The Anderson Lumber Company has three sawmills that produce boards of
sample of 1000 boards selected from the lumber inventory. Board Length Sawmill 8 ft
if three boards are selected at random, the probability that all three were made at
sawmill A is:
slightly greater than 0.43. - 38) Harrison Water Sports has three retail outlets: Seattle,
Portland, and Phoenix. The Seattle store does 50 percent of the total sales in a year,
while the Portland store does 35 percent of the total sales. Further analysis indicates
that of the sales in Seattle, 20 percent are in boat accessories. The percentage of boat
accessories at the Portland store is 30 and the percentage at the Phoenix store is 25. If
a sales dollar is recorded as a boat accessory, the probability that the sale was made at
the Portland store is:
0.2425. - 39) Harrison Water Sports has three retail outlets: Seattle, Portland, and
Phoenix. The Seattle store does 50 percent of the total sales in a year, while the
Portland store does 35 percent of the total sales. Further analysis indicates that of the
sales in Seattle, 20 percent are in boat accessories. The percentage of boat
accessories at the Portland store is 30 and the percentage at the Phoenix store is 25.
Overall, the probability that a sale by Harrison Water Sports will be for a boat accessory
is:
0.50. - 40) Of the last 100 customers entering a computer shop, 25 have purchased a
computer. If the classical probability assessment for computing probability is used, the
probability that the next customer will purchase a computer is
- A manufacturing company makes three types of products. Each time it makes a

product, the item can be
- either good or defective and it can be either customized or standard. The events
consisting of
- customized and defective would be considered mutually exclusive since they apply to
different attributes
False - of the product.
- A New Jersey company relies on a steady supply of power to keep its manufacturing
going. Recently at
- a planning meeting, the general manager stated that the chance of a rolling blackout
affecting
- production is 0.15. The controller stated that the chance of a rolling blackout is 0.30.
The reason that
- the two probabilities are different is that these assessments were based on classical
probability
False - techniques.
- A used car lot has 15 cars. Five of these cars were manufactured in the U.S. and the
remainders were
- made in other countries. If three cars are purchased, the probability that all three will
be U. S. made cars
True - is approximately .022.
True - The following probability distribution was subjectively assessed for the number of
sales a salesperson would make if they made five sales calls in one day. Sales
Probability 0 0.10 1 0.15 2 0.20 3 0.30 4 0.20 5 0.05 When the salesperson makes a
sale, there are three possible sales levels: large, medium, and small. The probability of
a large sale is 0.20 and the chance of a medium sale is 0.60. If a salesperson makes
two sales, the probability that at least one is large is 0.36.
- A study was recently done in which 500 people were asked to indicate their
responses by gender of the respondents. Product Preference
- Gender A B C
- Male 80 20 10
- Female 200 70 120
0.56 - Based on these data, find the probability that a person in the population will prefer
product A.
0.454545 - The managers of a local golf course have recently conducted a study of the
100 golfers covered in the survey is show below: Type of Golf Ball Handicap Strata
Titleist Nike Other < 2 5 8 3 2 2 < 10 8 7 9 10 > 10 7 8 10 23 If a player comes to the
course using a Nike golf ball, find the probability that he or she has a handicap of at
least 10.
- The following probability distribution has been assessed for the number of accidents
that occur in a
1.2757 - midwestern city each day: Accidents (xi) Probability P(xi) (xi)P(xi) (xi)2
(xi)2P(xi) 0 0.25 0 0 0 1 0.20 0.20 1 0.20 2 0.30 0.60 4 1.20 3 0.15 0.45 9 1.35 4 0.10
0.40 1.65 16 1.60 4.35 SUM Based on this probability distribution, find the standard
deviation in the number of accidents per day.
0.26 - A study was recently done in which 500 people were asked to indicate their
10 Female 200 70 120 Based on these data, find the probability that a person in the
population will prefer product C.
- The Baker Oil and Gas Company has four retail locations code named A, B, C, and D.
The following
0.317556 - table illustrates the percentage of total company sales at each store and
also the percentage of customers at that store who make purchases with debit cards:
Store Proportion of Total Sales Proportion of Customers Using Debit A 0.18 0.32 B 0.30
0.19 C 0.41 0.18 D 0.11 0.40 Based on this information, find the probability that a
customer who used a debit card shopped at store C.
- The Ski Patrol at Criner Mountain Ski Resort has determined the following probability
distribution for
1.351851 - the number of skiers that are injured each weekend: Injured Skiers(xi)
ProbabilityP(xi) xiPxi xi2 xi2P(xi) 0 0.15 0 0 0 1 0.05 0.05 1 0.05 2 0.40 0.80 4 1.60 3
0.10 0.30 9 0.90 4 0.30 1.20 16 4.80 SUM 2.35 7.35 Based on this information, find the
standard deviation for the number of injuries per weekend .
- The Ski Patrol at Criner Mountain Ski Resort has determined the following probability
distribution
- for the number of skiers that are injured each weekend: Injured Skiers Probability 0
0.05 1 0.15 2 0.40 3 0.30 4 0.10
2.25 - Based on this information, what is the expected number of injuries per weekend?
(+ all)
None - Based on the information from exercise 1, find F(3) = 0.9
None - The following probability distribution has been assessed forthe number of
accidents that occur in a mid western city
eachday:Accidents01234Probability0.250.20.30.150.1E = 1.65Based on this probability
distribution, the standarddeviation in the number of accidents per day is: 1.2757
0.55 - Based on the data from exercise 3, find the probability thatthere are at least two
accidents per day.0.3+0.15+0.1
0.07157. - An office has three telephone lines. At any given time, theprobability that at
least one line is in use is 0.8. P(1)+P(2)+P(3) = 0.8, P(0) = 0.2 a) Find the probability
that, at any given time, all three are inuse. Answer:
0.3024 - b) Find the probability that, at any given time, there are exactly 2 lines is in use.
0.0263 - The number of customers who arrive at a fast food business during a one-hour
period is known to be Poisson distributed with a mean equal to 8.60. The probability that
between 2 and 3 customers inclusively will arrive in one hour
True - The time required to assemble two components into a finished part is recorded
for each employee at the plant. The resulting random variable is an example of a
continuous random variable.
True - When a market research manager records the number of potential customers
who were surveyed indicating that they like the product design, the random variable,
number who like the design, is a discrete random variable.
a discrete probability distribution. - The following probability distribution has been

assessed for the number of accidents that occur in a Midwestern city each day:
Accidents Probability 0 = 0.25 1 = 0.20 2 = 0.30 3 = 0.15 4 = 0.10 This distribution is an
example of:
The standard deviation is equal to the square root of the mean. - Which of the following
is not a condition of the binomial distribution?
binomial distribution. - If a study is set up in such a way that a sample of people is

surveyed to determine whether they have ever used a particular product, the likely
probability distribution that would describe the random variable, the number who say
yes, is a:
Poisson distribution. - Assuming that potholes occur randomly along roads, the number
of potholes per mile of road could best be described by the:
the sampling is performed without replacement from a finite population. - The

hypergeometric probability distribution is used rather than the binomial or the Poisson
when:
Approximately 0.48 - The transportation manager for the State of New Jersey has
determined that the time between arrivals at a toll booth on the state's turnpike is
exponentially distributed with λ = 4 cars per minute. Based on this information, what is
the probability that the time between any two cars arriving will exceed 11 seconds?
b. False - The Central Limit Theorem is of the most use to decision makers when the
population is known to be normally distributed.
- One of the things that the Central Limit Theorem tells us is that about half of the
sample means will be greater than the population mean and about half will be less.
- True
a. The Central Limit Theorem applies without regard to sample size. - Which of the
following statements is not consistent with the Central Limit Theorem?
b. 0.0206 - Suppose that 60% of the faculty voted in favor of a mandatory course in
quantitative literacy as a graduation requirement. The local newspaper will be
contacting 100 faculty members selected at random. What is the approximate
probability that fewer than half of them will have voted in favor of the issue?
b. False - A 95% confidence interval for the mean number of televisions per American
household is (1.15, 4.20). This means that 95% of all American households have
between 1.15 and 4.20 televisions.
b. (6.41, 7.79) - A survey of 200 students provides a sample mean of 7.10 hours worked
with a standard deviation of 5 hours. What is a 95% confidence interval for the mean
based on this sample?
a. (6.7, 7.9) - Consider a random sample of 35 teenagers who averaged 7.3 hours of
sleep per night with a standard deviation of 1.8 hours. Calculate a 95% confidence
interval for the mean.
a. It is a sample proportion - A randomly selected sample of 1,000 college students was

asked whether they had ever used the drug Ecstasy. Sixteen percent (16% or 0.16) of
the 1,000 students surveyed said they had. Which one of the following statements about
the number 0.16 is correct?
b. It is reasonable to say that more than 40% of Americans exercise regularly. -

Suppose a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of Americans who exercise
regularly is 0.29 to 0.37. Which one of the following statements is FALSE?
c. The null hypothesis is not rejected when the alternative hypothesis is true. - In
hypothesis testing, a Type 2 error occurs when
a. Increases - If you increase the confidence level, the confidence interval
Any value from 0.47 to 0.48 accepted. - You are told that a random sample of 150
people from Iowa has been given cholesterol tests, and 60 of these people had levels
over the "safe" count of 200. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population
proportion of people in Iowa with cholesterol levels over 200. What is the upper value of
the confidence interval?
- You have been assigned to determine whether more people prefer Coke to Pepsi.
Assume that roughly half the population prefers Coke and half prefers Pepsi. How large
a sample would you need to take to ensure that you could estimate, with 95%
confidence, the proportion of people preferring Coke within 3% of the actual value?
- Any value from 1066 to 1070 accepted.
Any value from 132 to 133 accepted. - 14) A random sample of 100 visitors to a popular
theme park spent an average of $142 on the trip with a standard deviation of $47.5.
Construct a 95% confidence interval for the mean money spent by all visitors to this
theme park. What is the lower value of this interval?
a. True - 15) Recently, a report in a financial journal indicated that the 90 percent
confidence interval estimate for the proportion of investors who own one or more mutual
funds is between 0.88 and 0.92. Given this information, the sample size that was used
in this study was approximately 609 investors.
a. The mean of a population is equal to 60. - 16) Which of the following is an

appropriate null hypothesis?
80 - The Olsen Agricultural Company has determined that the weight of hay bales is
normally distributed with a mean equal to 80 pounds and a standard deviation equal to
8 pounds. Based on this what is the mean of the sampling distrubution for (x with line
above) if the sample size is n=64
4.33 - In an application to estimate the mean number of miles that downtown employees
commute to work roundtrip each day, the following information is given: n = 20 x = 4.33
s = 3.50 The point estimate for the true population mean is:
- A major tire manufacturer wishes to estimate the mean tread life in miles for one of
their tires.
- They wish to develop a confidence interval estimate that would have a maximum
sampling error
- of 500 miles with 90 percent confidence. A pilot sample of n = 50 tires showed a

sample standard
- deviation equal to 4,000 miles. Based on this information and let z0.05 = 1.645, the
required
174 - sample size is:
To claim the drug is unsafe when, in fact, it is safe. - When a new drug is created, the
pharmaceutical company must subject it to testing before receiving the necessary
permission from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market the drug. Suppose
the null hypothesis is "the drug is unsafe." What is the Type II Error?
p > 0.30 - The next two questions refer to the following information: Over the past few
decades, public health officials have examined the link between weight concerns and
teen girls smoking. Researchers surveyed a group of 273 randomly selected teen girls
living in Massachusetts (between 12 and 15 years old). After four years the girls were
surveyed again. Sixty-three (63) said they smoked to stay thin. 2. Is there good
evidence that more than thirty percent of the teen girls smoke to stay thin? The alternate
hypothesis is:
Do not reject Ho: At most 30% of teen girls smoke to stay thin. - After conducting the
test, your decision and conclusion are
is approximately equal to 25.26 hours. - The cost of a college education has increased
at a much faster rate than costs in general over the past twenty years. In order to
compensate for this, many students work part- or full-time in addition to attending
classes. At one university, it is believed that the average hours students work per week
exceeds 20. To test this at a significance level of 0.05, a random sample of n = 20
students was selected and the following values were observed: 26 15 10 40 10 20 30
36 40 0 5 10 20 32 16 12 40 36 10 0 Based on these sample data, the critical value
expressed in hours is?
About 0.0125 - The manager of a computer help desk operation has collected enough
data to conclude that the distribution of time per call is normally distributed with a mean
equal to 8.21 minutes and a standard deviation of 2.14 minutes. Based on this, what is
the probability that a call will last longer than 13 minutes?
Essentially zero - The manager at a local movie theater has collected data for a long
period of time and has concluded that the revenue from concession sales during the
first show each evening is normally distributed with a mean equal to $336.25 and a
variance equal to 1,456. Based on this information, what are the chances that the
revenue on the first show will exceed $800?
0.0179 - A randomly selected value from a normal distribution is found to be 2.1

standard deviations above its mean. What is the probability that a randomly selected
value from the distribution will be greater than 2.1 standard deviations above the mean?
- A random variable is normally distributed with a mean of 25 and a standard deviation

of
0.5 - In a standard normal distribution, the probability that z is greater than 0 is:
0.9821 - A randomly selected value from a normal distribution is found to be 2.1

standard deviations above its mean. What is the probability that a randomly selected
value from the distribution will be less than 2.1 standard deviations from the mean?
90.00 - A professor noted that the grades of his students were normally distributed with
a mean of 75.07 and a standard deviation of 11.65. If only 10 percent of the students
received grades of A, what is the minimum score needed to receive an A?
Approximately 0.05 pounds - The makers of Sweet-Things candy sell their candy by the
box. Based on company policy, the mean target weight of all boxes is 2.0 pounds. To
make sure that they are not putting too much in the boxes, the manager wants no more
than 3 percent of all boxes to contain more than 2.10 pounds of candy. In order to do
this, with a mean weight of 2 pounds, what must the standard deviation be? Assume
that the box weights are normally distributed.
Approximately 1.86 pounds - The makers of Sweet-Things candy sell their candy by the
box. Based on company policy, the mean target weight of all boxes is 2.0 pounds. To
make sure that they are not putting too much in the boxes, the manager wants no more
than 3 percent of all boxes to contain more than 2.10 pounds of candy. In order to do
this, what should the mean fill weight be set to if the fill standard deviation is 0.13
pounds? Assume that the box weights are normally distributed.
About 237 minutes - A major cell phone service provider has determined that the
number of minutes that its customers use their phone per month is normally distributed
with a mean equal to 445.5 minutes with a standard deviation equal to 177.8 minutes.
The company is thinking of charging a lower rate for customers who use the phone less
than a specified amount. If it wishes to give the rate reduction to no more than 12
percent of its customers, what should the cut-off be?
Approximately 2.34 mpg - A major U.S. automaker has determined that the city mileage
for one of its new SUV models is normally distributed with a mean equal to 15.2 mpg. A
report issued by the company indicated that 22 percent of the SUV model vehicles will
get more than 17 mpg in the city. Given this information, what is the city mileage
standard deviation for this SUV model?
19.8 - A random variable is normally distributed with a mean of 25 and a standard

deviation of 5. If an observation is randomly selected from the distribution, what value
will be exceeded 85% of the time?
1.96 - For a standardized normal distribution, determine a value, say z0, so that P(-z0 ≤
z ≤ z0) = 0.95.
0.6826 - For a standardized normal distribution, calculate P(-1.00 < z 1 <.00).
0.9736 - Suppose the life of a particular brand of calculator battery is approximately

normally distributed with a mean of 75 hours and a standard deviation of 10 hours. If the
manufacturer of the battery is able to reduce the standard deviation of battery life from
10 to 9 hours, what would be the probability that 16 batteries randomly sampled from
the population will have a sample mean life of between 70 and 80 hours?
-0.05 - The proportion of items in a population that possess a specific attribute is known
to be 0.70. If a simple random sample of size n = 100 is selected and the proportion of
items in the sample that contain the attribute of interest is 0.65, what is the sampling
error?
0.1056 - A normally distributed population has a mean of 500 and a standard deviation
of 60. Determine the probability that a random sample of size 25 selected from the
population will have a sample mean greater than or equal to 515.
0.6165 - Given a population in which the probability of success is p = 0.20, if a sample

of 500 items is taken, then calculate the probability the proportion of successes in the
sample will be between 0.18 and 0.23 if the sample size is 200.
0.1093 - Suppose that a population is known to be normally distributed with mean =

2,000 and standard deviation = 230. If a random sample of size n = 8 is selected,
calculate the probability that the sample mean will exceed 2,100.
0.4522 - According to the most recent Labor Department data, 10.5% of engineers
(electrical, mechanical, civil, and industrial) were women. Suppose a random sample of
50 engineers is selected. How likely is it that the random sample will contain fewer than
5 women in these positions?
0.3830 - Suppose the life of a particular brand of calculator battery is approximately

normally distributed with a mean of 75 hours and a standard deviation of 10 hours.
What is the probability that a single battery randomly selected from the population will
have a life between 70 and 80 hours?
0.0000 - The branch manager for United Savings and Loan in Seaside, Virginia, has
worked with her employees in an effort to reduce the waiting time for customers at the
bank. Recently, she and the team concluded that average waiting time is now down to
3.5 minutes with a standard deviation equal to 1.0 minute. However, before making a
statement at a managers' meeting, this branch manager wanted to double-check that
the process was working as thought. To make this check, she randomly sampled 25
customers and recorded the time they had to wait. She discovered that mean wait time
for this sample of customers was 4.2 minutes. Based on the team's claims about waiting
time, what is the probability that a sample mean for n = 25 people would be as large or
larger than 4.2 minutes?
About 0.0019 - A major shipping company has stated that 96 percent of all parcels are
delivered on time. To check this, a random sample of n = 200 parcels were sampled. Of
these, 184 arrived on time. If the company's claim is correct, what is the probability of
184 or fewer parcels arriving on time?
180 - In a recent report, it was stated that the proportion of employees who carpool to
their work is 0.14 and that the standard deviation of the sampling proportion is 0.0259.
However, the report did not indicate what the sample size was. What was the sample
size?
(6.3881, 6.6855) - The file Danish Coffee contains a random sample of 144 Danish
coffee drinkers and measures the annual coffee consumption in kilograms for each
sampled coffee drinker. A marketing research firm wants to use this information to
develop an advertising campaign to increase Danish coffee consumption. Develop and
interpret a 90% confidence interval estimate for the mean annual coffee consumption of
Danish coffee drinkers.
- The file Danish Coffee contains a random sample of 144 Danish coffee drinkers and
measures the annual coffee consumption in kilograms for each sampled coffee drinker.
A marketing research firm wants to use this information to develop an advertising
campaign to increase Danish coffee consumption.
6.5368 - Based on the sample's results, what is the best point estimate of average
annual coffee consumption for Danish coffee drinkers?
0.0466 - The produce manager for a large retail food chain is interested in estimating
the percentage of potatoes that arrive on a shipment with bruises. A random sample of
150 potatoes showed 14 with bruises. Based on this information, what is the margin of
error for a 95 percent confidence interval estimate?
(0.224, 0.336) - At issue is the proportion of people in a particular county who do not
have health care insurance coverage. A simple random sample of 240 people was
asked if they have insurance coverage, and 66 replied that they did not have coverage.
Based on these sample data, determine the 95% confidence interval estimate for the
population proportion.
(0.3155, 0.3745) - Most major airlines allow passengers to carry two pieces of luggage
(of a certain maximum size) onto the plane. However, their studies show that the more
carry-on baggage passengers have, the longer it takes to unload and load passengers.
One regional airline is considering changing its policy to allow only one carry-on per
passenger. Before doing so, it decided to collect some data. Specifically, a random
sample of 1,000 passengers was selected. The passengers were observed, and the
number of bags carried on the plane was noted. Out of the 1,000 passengers, 345 had
more than one bag.Based on this sample, develop and interpret a 95% confidence
interval estimate for the proportion of the traveling population that would have been
impacted had the one-bag limit been in effect.
(0.714, 0.826) - A decision maker is interested in estimating a population proportion. A

sample of size n = 150 yields 115 successes. Based on these sample data, construct a
90% confidence interval estimate for the true population proportion.
(0.302, 0.358) - As the automobile accident rate increases, insurers are forced to
increase their premium rates. Companies such as Allstate have recently been running a
campaign they hope will result in fewer accidents by their policyholders. For each six-
month period that a customer goes without an accident, Allstate will reduce the
customer's premium rate by a certain percentage. Companies like Allstate have reason
to be concerned about driving habits, based on a survey conducted by Drive for Life, a
safety group sponsored by Volvo of North America, in which 1,100 drivers were
surveyed. Among those surveyed, 74% said that careless or aggressive driving was the
biggest threat on the road. One-third of the respondents said that cell phone usage by
other drivers was the driving behavior that annoyed them the most.Based on these
data, assuming that the sample was a simple random sample, construct and interpret a
95% confidence interval estimate for the true proportion in the population of all drivers
who are annoyed by cell phone users.
Approximately 547.1 watts - A study has indicated that the sample size necessary to
estimate the average electricity use by residential customers of a large western utility
company is 900 customers. Assuming that the margin of error associated with the
estimate will be ±30 watts and the confidence level is stated to be 90 percent, what was
the value for the population standard deviation?
Approximately 0.017 pound - The U.S. Post Office is interested in estimating the mean
weight of packages shipped using the overnight service. They plan to sample 300
packages. A pilot sample taken last year showed that the standard deviation in weight
was about 0.15 pound. If they are interested in an estimate that has 95 percent
confidence, what margin of error can they expect?
more than one bag.The domestic version of Boeing's 747 has a capacity for 568
passengers. Determine an interval estimate of the number of passengers that you
would expect to carry more than one piece of luggage on the plane. Assume the plane
is at its passenger capacity.
(163.50, 171.54) - Suppose a study of 196 randomly sampled privately insured adults
with incomes over 200% of the current poverty level is to be used to measure out-of-
pocket medical expenses for prescription drugs for this income class. The sample data
are in the file Drug Expenses.Based on the sample data, construct a 95% confidence
interval estimate for the mean annual out-of-pocket expenditures on prescription drugs
for this income class. Interpret this interval.
Approximately 1,066 - Suppose that an internal report submitted to the managers at a

bank in Boston showed that with 95 percent confidence, the proportion of the bank's
customers who also have accounts at one or more other banks is between .45 and .51.
Given this information, what sample size was used to arrive at this estimate?
249 - A production process that fills 12-ounce cereal boxes is known to have a
population standard deviation of 0.009 ounce. If a consumer protection agency would
like to estimate the mean fill, in ounces, for 12-ounce cereal boxes with a confidence
level of 92% and a margin of error of 0.001, what size sample must be used?
1225 - Suppose an airline decides to conduct a survey of its customers to determine

their opinion of a proposed one-bag limit. The plan calls for a random sample of
customers on different flights to be given a short written survey to complete during the
flight. One key question on the survey will be: "Do you approve of limiting the number of
carry-on bags to a maximum of one bag?" Airline managers expect that only about 15%
will say "yes." Based on this assumption, what size sample should the airline take if it
wants to develop a 95% confidence interval estimate for the population proportion who
will say "yes" with a margin of error of ±0.02?
219.75 - According to USA Today, customers are not settling for automobiles straight off
the production lines. As an example, those who purchase a $355,000 Rolls-Royce
typically add $25,000 in accessories. One of the affordable automobiles to receive
additions is BMW's Mini Cooper. A sample of 179 recent Mini purchasers yielded a
sample mean of $5,000 above the $20,200 base sticker price. Suppose the cost of
accessories purchased for all Mini Coopers has a standard deviation of
$1,500.Determine the margin of error in estimating the average cost of accessories on
Mini Coopers.
(113.41, 126.59) - Construct a 98% confidence interval estimate for the population
mean given the following values:
Approximately 79 percent - A sample of 250 people resulted in a confidence interval

estimate for the proportion of people who believe that the federal government's
proposed tax increase is justified is between 0.14 and 0.20. Based on this information,
what was the confidence level used in this estimation?
- According to USA Today, customers are not settling for automobiles straight off the
production lines. As an example, those who purchase a $355,000 Rolls-Royce typically
add $25,000 in accessories. One of the affordable automobiles to receive additions is
BMW's Mini Cooper. A sample of 179 recent Mini purchasers yielded a sample mean of
$5,000 above the $20,200 base sticker price. Suppose the cost of accessories
purchased for all Mini Coopers has a standard deviation of $1,500.
(4780.25, 5219.75) - Calculate a 95% confidence interval for the average cost of
accessories on Mini Coopers.
Approximately ±8.3 visits - A hospital emergency room has collected a sample of n = 40

to estimate the mean number of visits per day. It has found the standard deviation is 32.
Using a 90 percent confidence level, what is its margin of error?
(0.324, 0.436) - A survey of 499 women for the American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle
Society revealed that 38% wear flats to work. Use this sample information to develop a
99% confidence interval for the population proportion of women who wear flats to work.
(17.1, 19.3) - Even before the record gas prices during the summer of 2008, an article
written by Will Lester of the Associated Press reported on a poll in which 80% of those
surveyed say that Americans who currently own a SUV (sport utility vehicle) should
switch to a more fuel-efficient vehicle to ease America's dependency on foreign oil. This
study was conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. As a
follow-up to this report, a consumer group conducted a study of SUV owners to estimate
the mean mileage for their vehicles. A simple random sample of 91 SUV owners was
selected, and the owners were asked to report their highway mileage. The following
results were summarized from the sample data: x = 18.2 mpg s = 6.3 mpg Based on
these sample data, compute and interpret a 90% confidence interval estimate for the
mean highway mileage for SUVs.
more than one bag.Suppose the airline also noted whether the passenger was male or
female. Out of the 1,000 passengers observed, 690 were males. Of this group, 280 had
more than one bag. Using this data, obtain and interpret a 95% confidence interval
estimate for the proportion of male passengers in the population who would have been
affected by the one-bag limit.
1623 - A pilot sample of 75 items was taken, and the number of items with the attribute
of interest was found to be 15. How many more items must be sampled to construct a
99% confidence interval estimate for p with a 0.025 margin of error?
t-distribution - Allante Pizza delivers pizzas throughout its local market area at no
charge to the customer. However, customers often tip the driver. The owner is
interested in estimating the mean tip income per delivery. To do this, she has selected a
simple random sample of 12 deliveries and has recorded the tips that were received by
the drivers. These data are:$2.25 $2.50 $2.25 $2.00 $2.00 $1.50 $0.00 $2.00 $1.50
$2.00 $3.00 $1.50 Suppose the owner is interested in developing a 90% confidence
interval estimate. Given the fact that the population standard deviation is unknown, what
distribution will be used to obtain the critical value?
3684.21 - Suppose a study estimated the population mean for a variable of interest
using a 99% confidence interval. If the width of the estimated confidence interval (the
difference between the upper limit and the lower limit) is 600 and the sample size used
in estimating the mean is 1,000, what is the population standard deviation?
the null hypothesis should be rejected. - If the p value is less than α in a two-tailed test,
1.96 - Woof Chow Dog Food Company believes that it has a market share of 25
percent. It surveys n = 100 dog owners and ask whether or not Woof Chow is their
regular brand of dog food, and 23 people say yes. Based upon this information, what is
the critical value if the hypothesis is to be tested at the 0.05 level of significance?
False - The Adams Shoe Company believes that the mean size for men's shoes is now
more than 10 inches. To test this, it has selected a random sample of n = 100 men.
Assuming that the test is to be conducted using a .05 level of significance, a p-value of .
07 would lead the company to conclude that its belief is correct.
True - To calculate beta requires making a "what if" assumption about the true
population parameter, where the "what-if" value is one that would cause the null
hypothesis to be false.
significantly greater than 3. - The manager of an online shop wants to determine

whether the mean length of calling time of its customers is significantly more than 3
minutes. A random sample of 100 customers was taken. The average length of calling
time in the sample was 3.1 minutes with a standard deviation of 0.5 minutes. At a 0.05
level of significance, it can be concluded that the mean of the population is:
True - The null and alternate hypotheses must be opposites of each other.
False - Choosing an alpha of 0.01 will cause beta to equal 0.99.
The decision maker controls the probability of making a Type I statistical error. - Which
of the following statements is true?
False - The following is an appropriate statement of the null and alternate hypotheses
for a test of a population mean: H0: μ < 50 HA : μ > 50
H0 : μ = 24 ounces Ha : μ ≠ 24 ounces - The makers of Mini-Oats Cereal have an

automated packaging machine that can be set at any targeted fill level between 12 and
32 ounces. Every box of cereal is not expected to contain exactly the targeted weight,
but the average of all boxes filled should. At the end of every shift (eight hours), 16
boxes are selected at random and the mean and standard deviation of the sample are
computed. Based on these sample results, the production control manager determines
whether the filling machine needs to be readjusted or whether it remains all right to
operate. Use α = 0.05. Establish the appropriate null and alternative hypotheses to be
tested for boxes that are supposed to have an average of 24 ounces.
H0 : μ ≥ $47,413 HA : μ < $47,413 - According to CNN business partner

Careerbuilder.com, the average starting salary for accounting graduates in 2008 was at
least $47,413. Suppose that the American Society for Certified Public Accountants
planned to test this claim by randomly sampling 200 accountants who graduated in
2008. State the appropriate null and alternative hypotheses.
there is a maximum 5 percent chance that a true null hypothesis will be rejected. - A
hypothesis test is to be conducted using an alpha = .05 level. This means:
0.0183 - For the following z-test statistic, compute the p-value assuming that the
hypothesis test is a one-tailed test: z = 2.09.
16.041 ounces - A company that makes shampoo wants to test whether the average
amount of shampoo per bottle is 16 ounces. The standard deviation is known to be 0.20
ounces. Assuming that the hypothesis test is to be performed using 0.10 level of
significance and a random sample of n = 64 bottles, how large could the sample mean
be before they would reject the null hypothesis?
True - In conducting a hypothesis test where the conclusion is to reject the null
hypothesis, then either a correct decision has been made or else a Type I error.
False - Hypothesis testing and confidence interval estimation are essentially two totally
different statistical procedures and share little in common with each other.
Because t = -15.7648 is less than the critical t value of -2.0736, reject H0. The annual
average consumer unit spending for food at home in Detroit is less than the 2006
national consumer unit average. - The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (www.bls.gov)
released its Consumer Expenditures report in October 2008. Among its findings is that
average annual household spending on food at home was $3,624. Suppose a random
sample of 137 households in Detroit was taken to determine whether the average
annual expenditure on food at home was less for consumer units in Detroit than in the
nation as a whole. The sample results are in the file Detroit Eats. Based on the sample
results, can it be concluded at the α = 0.02 level of significance that average consumer-
unit spending for food at home in Detroit is less than the national average?
rejecting a null hypothesis that is false. - The power of a test is measured by its
capability of:
- Waiters at Finegold's Restaurant and Lounge earn most of their income from tips.
Each waiter is required to "tip-out" a portion of tips to the table bussers and hostesses.
The manager has based the "tip-out" rate on the assumption that the mean tip is at least
15% of the customer bill. To make sure that this is the correct assumption, he has
decided to conduct a test by randomly sampling 60 bills and recording the actual tips.
0.0606 - Calculate the probability of a Type II error if the true mean is 14%. Assume that
the population standard deviation is known to be 2% and that a significance level equal
to 0.01 will be used to conduct the hypothesis test.
0.0537 - According to data from the Environmental Protection Agency, the average daily
water consumption for a household of four people in the United States is approximately
at least 243 gallons.
(Source:http://www.catskillcenter.org/programs/csp/H20/Lesson3/house3.htm) Suppose
a state agency plans to test this claim using an alpha level equal to 0.05 and a random
sample of 100 households with four people.Calculate the probability of committing a
Type II error if the true population mean is 230 gallons. Assume that the population
standard deviation is known to be 40 gallons.
False - If a hypothesis test is conducted for a population mean, a null and alternative
hypothesis of the form: H0 : μ = 100 HA : μ ≠ 100 will result in a one-tailed hypothesis
test since the sample result can fall in only one tail.
Type I error is convicting an innocent person. - When someone is on trial for suspicion
of committing a crime, the hypotheses are:H0 : innocent HA : guilty Which of the
following is correct?
hypothesis test is a one-tailed test: z = 1.34.
Since z = 1.1594 < 1.645, do not reject the null hypothesis. - A major issue facing many
states is whether to legalize casino gambling. Suppose the governor of one state
believes that more than 55% of the state's registered voters would favor some form of
legal casino gambling. However, before backing a proposal to allow such gambling, the
governor has instructed his aides to conduct a statistical test on the issue. To do this,
the aides have hired a consulting firm to survey a simple random sample of 300 voters
in the state. Of these 300 voters, 175 actually favored legalized gambling.Assuming that
a significance level of 0.05 is used, what conclusion should the governor reach based
on these sample data?
False - The sample data do not provide sufficient evidence to conclude that more than
55 percent of the population favor legalized gambling.In a two-tailed hypothesis test the
area in each tail of the rejection region is equal to α.In a two-tailed hypothesis test the
area in each tail of the rejection region is equal to α.
Reject the null if SAT improvement is > 94.935 points. - A company that sells an online
course aimed at helping high-school students improve their SAT scores has claimed
that SAT scores will improve by more than 90 points on average if students successfully
complete the course. To test this, a national school counseling organization plans to
select a random sample of n = 100 students who have previously taken the SAT test.
These students will take the company's course and then retake the SAT test. Assuming
that the population standard deviation for improvement in test scores is thought to be 30
points and the level of significance for the hypothesis test is 0.05, find the critical value
in terms of improvement in SAT points, which would be needed prior to finding a beta.
2.087 - For the following hypothesis test: With n = 80, σ = 9, and = 47.1, state the
calculated value of the test statistic z.
-
Since t = 2.1953 < 2.8073 do not reject H0. There is not sufficient evidence to conclude
that the average height of the plastic tees is different from 66 mm. - Hono Golf is a
manufacturer of golf products in Taiwan and China. One of the golf accessories it
produces at its plant in Tainan Hsing, Taiwan, is plastic golf tees. The injector molder
produces golf tees that are designed to have an average height of 66 mm. To determine
if this specification is met, random samples are taken from the production floor. One
sample is contained in the file labeled THeight. Determine if the process is not
producing the tees to specification. Use a significance level of 0.01.
Since 2.7406 > 2.023, reject H0 and conclude that the mail-order business is not
achieving its goal. - A mail-order business prides itself in its ability to fill customers'
orders in six calendar days or less on the average. Periodically, the operations manager
selects a random sample of customer orders and determines the number of days
required to fill the orders. Based on this sample information, he decides if the desired
standard is not being met. He will assume that the average number of days to fill
customers' orders is six or less unless the data suggest strongly otherwise. On one
occasion where a sample of 40 customers was selected, the average number of days
was 6.65, with a sample standard deviation of 1.5 days. Can the operations manager
conclude that his mail-order business is achieving its goal? Use a significance level of
0.025 to answer this question.
True - A local medical center has advertised that the mean wait for services will be less
than 15 minutes. Given this claim, the hypothesis test for the population mean should
be a one-tailed test with the rejection region in the lower (left-hand) tail of the sampling
distribution.
0.1446 - According to CNN business partner Careerbuilder.com, the average starting

salary for accounting graduates in 2008 was at least $47,413. Suppose that the
American Society for Certified Public Accountants planned to test this claim by
randomly sampling 200 accountants who graduated in 2008.Compute the power of the
hypothesis test to reject the null hypothesis if the true average starting salary is only
$47,000. Assume that the population standard deviation is known to be $4,600 and the
test is to be conducted using an alpha level equal to 0.01.
True - When the decision maker has control over the null and alternative hypotheses,
the alternative hypotheses should be the "research" hypothesis.
H0 : μ ≥ 15 Ha : μ < 15 - State the appropriate null and alternative hypotheses.
H0 : p ≤ 0.55 Ha : p > 0.55 - A major issue facing many states is whether to legalize
casino gambling. Suppose the governor of one state believes that more than 55% of the
state's registered voters would favor some form of legal casino gambling. However,
before backing a proposal to allow such gambling, the governor has instructed his aides
to conduct a statistical test on the issue. To do this, the aides have hired a consulting
firm to survey a simple random sample of 300 voters in the state. Of these 300 voters,
175 actually favored legalized gambling.State the appropriate null and alternative
hypotheses.
Process is running okay, do not reject H0 - The makers of Mini-Oats Cereal have an
automated packaging machine that can be set at any targeted fill level between 12 and
32 ounces. Every box of cereal is not expected to contain exactly the targeted weight,
but the average of all boxes filled should. At the end of every shift (eight hours), 16
boxes are selected at random and the mean and standard deviation of the sample are
computed. Based on these sample results, the production control manager determines
whether the filling machine needs to be readjusted or whether it remains all right to
operate. At the end of a particular shift during which the machine was filling 24-ounce
boxes of Mini-Oats, the sample mean of 16 boxes was 24.32 ounces, with a standard
deviation of 0.70 ounce. Assist the production control manager in determining if the
machine is achieving its targeted average at alpha = 0.05.
hypothesis test is a one-tailed test: z = -1.55.
- A bank is interested in determining whether their customers' checking balances are

linearly related
- to their savings balances. A sample of n = 20 customers was selected and the

correlation was
- calculated to be +0.40. If the bank is interested in testing to see whether there is a

significant linear
- relationship between the two variables using a significance level of 0.05, what is the
value of the
1.8516 - test statistic?
F - Two variables have a correlation coefficient that is very close to zero. This means
that there is no relationship between the two variables.
F - Both a scatter plot and the correlation coefficient can distinguish between a
curvilinear and a linear relationship.
T - State University recently randomly sampled ten students and analyzed grade point
average (GPA) and number of hours worked off-campus per week. The following data
were observed: GPA HOURS 3.14 25 2.75 30 3.68 11 3.22 18 2.45 22 2.80 40 3.00 15
2.23 29 3.14 10 2.90 0 The correlation between these two variables is approximately
-.461
T - If a set of data contains no values of x that are equal to zero, then the regression
coefficient, b0, has no particular meaning.
T - A study was recently performed by the Internal Revenue Service to determine how
much tip income waiters and waitresses should make based on the size of the bill at
each table. A random sample of bills and resulting tips were collected and the following
regression results were observed: SUMMARY OUTPUT Given this output, the point
estimate for the average tip per dollar amount of the bill is approximately $0.21.
Because t = 2.50 > 1.7709, reject the null hypothesis. There is sufficient evidence to
conclude there is a positive linear relationship between sales units and marketing
expense for companies in this industry. - An industry study was recently conducted in
which the sample correlation between units sold and marketing expenses was 0.57. The
sample size for the study included 15 companies. Based on the sample results, test to
determine whether there is a significant positive correlation between these two
variables. Use an alpha = 0.05
False - If two variables are highly correlated, it not only means that they are linearly
related, it also means that a change in one variable will cause a change in the other
variable.
Approximately 57 percent - The following regression output is available. Notice that

some of the values are missing. Given this information, what percent of the variation in
the y variable is explained by the independent variable?
False - In developing a scatter plot, the decision maker has the option of connecting the
points or not.
True - You are given the following sample data for two variables:Y X 10 100 8 110 12
90 15 200 16 150 10 100 10 80 8 90 12 150 The sample correlation coefficient for these
data is approximately r = 0.755
True - If the correlation between two variables is known to be statistically significant at

the 0.05 level, then the regression slope coefficient will also be significant at the 0.05
level.
$20.61 - A study was recently performed by the Internal Revenue Service to determine
how much tip income waiters and waitresses should make based on the size of the bill
at each table. A random sample of bills and resulting tips were collected. These data
are shown as follows:Total Bill Tip $126 $19 $58 $11 $86 $20 $20 $3 $59 $14 $120 $30
$14 $2 $17 $4 $26 $2 $74 $16 Based upon these data, what is the approximate
predicted value for tips if the total bill is $100?
True - The scatter plot is a two dimensional graph that is used to graphically represent
the relationship between two variables.
True - If it is known that a simple linear regression model explains 56 percent of the
variation in the dependent variable and that the slope on the regression equation is
negative, then we also know that the correlation between x and y is approximately
-0.75.
False - You are given the following sample data for two variables: Y X 10 100 8 110 12
90 15 200 16 150 10 100 10 80 8 90 12 150 The regression model based on these
sample data explains approximately 75 percent of the variation in the dependent
variable.
About t = 2.80 - If a sample of n = 30 people is selected and the sample correlation

between two variables is r = 0.468, what is the test statistic value for testing whether the
true population correlation coefficient is equal to zero?
False - In a study of 30 customers' utility bills in which the monthly bill was the
dependent variable and the number of square feet in the house is the independent
variable, the resulting regression model is = 23.40 + 0.4x. Based on this model, the
expected utility bill for a customer with a home with 2,300 square feet is approximately
$92.00.
True - A dependent variable is the variable that we wish to predict or explain in a

regression model.
F - A correlation of -0.9 indicates a weak linear relationship between the variables.
8 - Use the following regression results to answer the question below. How many
observations were involved in this regression?
F - When a correlation is found between a pair of variables, this always means that
there is a direct cause and effect relationship between the variables.
F - A perfect correlation between two variables will always produce a correlation

coefficient of +1.0
T - When constructing a scatter plot, the dependent variable is placed on the vertical
axis and the independent variable is placed on the horizontal axis.
T - In a university statistics course a correlation of -0.8 was found between numbers of

classes missed and course grade. This means that the fewer classes students missed,
the higher the grade.
T - A study was recently done in which the following regression output was generated
using Excel. SUMMARY OUTPUT Given this, we know that approximately 57 percent of
the variation in the y variable is explained by the x variable.
F - The difference between a scatter plot and a scatter diagram is that the scatter plot
has the independent variable on the x-axis while the independent variable is on the Y-
axis in a scatter diagram.
False - A research study has stated that the taxes paid by individuals is correlated at a .
78 value with the age of the individual. Given this, the scatter plot would show points
that would fall on straight line on a slope equal to .78.
T - A bank is interested in determining whether its customers' checking balances are

linearly related to their savings balances. A sample of n = 20 customers was selected
and the correlation was calculated to be +0.40. If the bank is interested in testing to see
whether there is a significant linear relationship between the two variables using a
significance level of 0.05, the value of the test statistic is approximately t = 1.8516.
T - A study was recently done in which the following regression output was generated
using Excel. SUMMARY OUTPUT Given this output, we would reject the null hypothesis
that the population regression slope coefficient is equal to zero at the alpha = 0.05 level.
F - If two variables are spuriously correlated, it means that the correlation coefficient
between them is near zero.
a strong linear relationship and as X increases, Y increases - The correlation coefficient

between variables X and Y is positive and close to 1. The relationship between the
variables X and Y is _
F - The following regression model has been computed based on a sample of twenty
observations: = 34.2 + 19.3x. The first observations in the sample for y and x were 300
and 18, respectively. Given this, the residual value for the first observation is
approximately 81.6.
(0.317, 0.423) - An article reported on the topics that teenagers most want to discuss
with their parents. The findings, the results of a poll, showed that 33% would like more
discussion about the family's financial situation, 37% would like to talk about school, and
30% would like to talk about religion. These and other percentages were based on a
national sampling of 549 teenagers . Estimate the proportion of all teenagers who want
more family discussions about school. Use a 99% confidence level. Let z0.005 = 2.58
and z0.01 = 2.33
T - A study was recently performed by the Internal Revenue Service to determine how
much tip income waiters and waitresses should make based on the size of the bill at
each table. A random sample of bills and resulting tips were collected and the following
regression results were observed: SUMMARY OUTPUT Given this output, the upper
limit for the 95 percent confidence interval estimate for the true regression slope
coefficient is approximately 0.28.
T - A manufacturing company is interested in predicting the number of defects that will

be produced each hour on the assembly line. The managers believe that there is a
relationship between the defect rate and the production rate per hour. The managers
believe that they can use production rate to predict the number of defects. The following
data were collected for 10 randomly selected hours. Defects Production Rate Per Hour
20 400 30 450 10 350 20 375 30 400 25 400 30 450 20 300 10 300 40 300 Given these
sample data, the simple linear regression model for predicting the number of defects is
approximately = 5.67 + 0.048x.
T - The following regression model has been computed based on a sample of twenty
observations: = 34.2 + 19.3x. Given this model, the predicted value for y when x = 40 is
806.2.
Retrospective - Casualty data from the great flu epidemic of 1918 were collected for
study. This represents what type of study?
The complete collection of all elements. - The population is
Sampling method. - A self-selected study is a source of bias in which factor of statistical

analysis?
Weights of high school students. - Which is an example of quantitative data?
Number of students in an algebra class. - Which is not an example of continuous data?
Ordinal. - Questions on a survey are scored with integers 1 thru 5 with 1 representing
Strongly Disagree and 5 Strongly Agree. This is an example of what kind of
measurement?
Small samples. - In a large lecture room class of 300 students, a sample of 10 was
taken to determine the male/female make up of the class. Which misuse of statistics
does this represent?
Systematic. - At a security checkpoint to a government facility, every 10th individual was

more thoroughly searched than the others. What type of sampling is this?
Statistic - A sample of households is selected and the average (mean) number of

people per household is 2.58 (based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Continuous data - The mean weight of pennies currently being minted is 2.5 grams.
Discrete data - Fifty letters were sent as part of an experiment, three of them arrived at
the target address.
Nominal - Numbers on the shirts of marathon runners.
Ratio - Salaries of women who are chief executive officers of corporations.
Interval - The current temperature in the 50 state capitol cities.

0.82 - The probability of a New York teenager owning a skateboard is 0.37, of owning a
bicycle is 0.81 and of owning both is 0.36. If a New York teenager is chosen at random,
what is the probability that the teenager owns a skateboard or a bicycle?
2.25 - The Ski Patrol at Criner Mountain Ski Resort has determined the following
probability distribution for the number of skiers that are injured each weekend: Injured
Skiers Probability 0 0.05 1 0.15 2 0.40 3 0.30 4 0.10 Based on this information, what is
the expected number of injuries per weekend?
0.0263 - 2) The number of customers that arrive at a fast-food business during a one-
hour period is known to be Poisson distributed with a mean equal to 8.60. What is the
probability that 2 or 3 customers will arrive in one hour?
None of the others. - 3) The following probability distribution has been assessed for the
number of accidents that occur in a mid western city each day: Accidents Probability 0
0.25 1 0.20 2 0.30 3 0.15 4 0.10 Based on this probability distribution, the standard
deviation in the number of accidents per day is:
11 & 5.477 - 4) Let X be a discrete uniform random variable on the interval [2; 20]. a)
Find P(X <13). b) Find the mean and standard deviation of X.
C)6 and 3 - 5) A total of 12 cells are replicated. Freshly-synthesized DNA cannot be

replicated again until mitosis is completed. Two control mechanisms have been
identified- one positive and one negative- that are used with equal probability. Assume
that each cell independently uses a control mechanism.What is the mean and variance
of the number of cells use a positive control mechanism?
D) 0.2335 - 6) Bill Price is a sales rep in northern California representing a line of

athletic socks. Each day, he makes 10 sales calls. The chance of making sale on each
call is thought to be 0.30. What is the probability that he will make exactly two sales?.
0.1029 - 7) Bill Price is a sales rep in northern California representing a line of athletic
socks. Each day, he makes 10 sales calls. The chance of making sale on each call is
thought to be 0.30. Find the probability that the first sale call is the fourth call.
None of the others. - 8) The Ski Patrol at Criner Mountain Ski Resort has determined
the following probability distribution for the number of skiers that are injured each
weekend: Injured Skiers (X) Probability 0 0.05 1 0.15 2 0.40 3 0.30 4 0.10 Based on this
information, find F(3).
(0.3064) - 9) A clinical trial involves 30 patients. Ten of the 30 are diabetic. If a

researcher selects 6 patients at random, what is the probability that three or more of the
6 are diabetic?
0.2975 - The time it takes to assemble a children's bicycle by a parent has been shown
to be normally distributed with a mean equal to 295 minutes with a standard deviation
equal to 45 minutes. Given this information, what is the probability that it will take a
randomly selected parent between 300 and 340 minutes?. Let P(Z < 0) = 0.5000, P(Z
<0.11 ) = 0.5438, P(Z <1 ) = 0.8413
2.8 - Let X be a normal distribution with the mean of 4 and the variance of 9. Find the
value of x such that P(x < X < 7) = 0.5. Let P(Z < 0) = 0.5, P(Z < 1) = 0.8413, P(Z < -0.4)
= 0.3413.
0.40 - If the time it takes for a customer to be served at a fast-food chain business is
thought to be uniformly distributed between 3 and 8 minutes, what is the probability that
the time it takes for a randomly selected customer will be less than 5 minutes?
about 11.23 minutes. - 4) The manager of a computer help desk operation has collected
enough data to conclude that the distribution of time per call is normally distributed with
a mean equal to 8.21 minutes and a standard deviation of 2.14 minutes. The manager
has decided to have a signal system attached to the phone so that after a certain period
of time, a sound will occur on her employees' phone if she exceeds the time limit. The
manager wants to set the time limit at a level such that it will sound on only 8 percent of
all calls. Let P(Z < 1.41) = 0.92, P(Z < -1.41) = 0.08, the time limit should be:
1 - 5) Let X be a continuous random variable with the probability density function . Find
a
0.8 & 0.027 - 6) Suppose that a continuous random variable X has probability density
function f(x) = 4x3 (0 < x < 1). Find E(X) & V(X)
0.2401 - 7) Let be a cumulative distribution function of a continuous random variable

X.Find P( X < 0.7).
None of the others. - 8) Let X be a random variable that have exponential distribution
with mean 3. Find P(X > 1).
0.2231 - Let X be a random variable that has the density function f(x) = 2e^-2x,x > 0.
Denote F(x) the cummulative distribution function of X. Calculate F(0.75).
29.5 - You are given the following data: 23 34 11 40 25 47 Assuming that these data are
a sample selected from a larger population, the median value for these sample data
is ..........
3 - 3) Suppose a study of houses that have sold recently in your community showed the
following frequency distribution for the number of bedrooms: Bedrooms Frequency 1 18
140 57 11 Based on this information, determine the mode for the data.
3 cars - 4) The Good-Guys Car Dealership has tracked the number of used cars sold at
its downtown dealership. Consider the following data as representing the population of
cars sold in each of the 8 weeks that the dealership has been open. 3 5 2 7 7 7 9
0.What is the population standard deviation approximately?
30 - 5) You are given the following data: 23 34 11 40 25 47 Assuming that the data
reflect a sample from a larger population, what is the sample mean?
Sample mean will be approximately normally distributed with mean of 20 and standard
deviation of 0.79. - if we select a sample with sample size 40 from a population with
mean of 20 and standard deviation of 5 then:
About 1.00 - The monthly electrical utility bills of all customers for the Far East Power
and Light Company are known to be distributed as a normal distribution with mean
equal to $87 a month and standard deviation of $36. If a statistical sample of n = 100
customers is selected at random, what is the probability that the mean bill for those
sampled will exceed $75? Let P(Z < -3.33) = 0, P(Z < 0.33) = 0.63 and P(Z < -0.44) =
0.33.
174. - A major tire manufacturer wishes to estimate the mean tread life in miles for one
of their tires. They wish to develop a confidence interval estimate that would have a
maximum sampling error of 500 miles with 90 percent confidence. Let population
standard deviation equal to 4,000 miles. Based on this information and let z0.05 =
1.645, the required sample size is:
(10.51, 65.88) C) (2.24, 14.02) D) (11.13, 69.79) - 2) Given = 15.3, s = 4.7, and n = 18,
form a 99% confidence interval for σ2. Let X^2 0.005;17 = 35.72; X^2 0.995;17 = 5.70
about 5.97 miles. - In an application to estimate the mean number of miles that
downtown employees commute to work roundtrip each day, the following information is
given: n = 20; = 4.33; s = 3.50. Based on this information and let t0.025,19 = 2.09, the
upper limit for a 95 percent confidence interval estimate for the true population mean is:
- A survey of 865 voters in one state reveals that 408 favor approval of an issue before
the
- legislature. Construct the 95% confidence interval for the true proportion of all voters
in
0.438 < p < 0.505 - the state who favor approval
(2.76; 5.90) - In an application to estimate the mean number of miles that downtown
employees commute to work roundtrip each day, the following information is given: n =
20; x ^ - = 4.33; s = 3.50; the population is normally distributed. The Confidence Interval
on the true population mean with the confident level of 94% is:
204,750 - Find the minimum sample size you should use m assure that your estimate at
p^ will be within the required margin of error arround the population p.
The value of the test statistic is -1.123. There is sufficient evidence to support your
statistic instructor's claim - Your statistics instructor claims that 60 percent of the
students who take her Elementary Statisticsclass go through life feeling more enriched.
For some reason that she can't quite figure out, most people don't believe her. You
decide to check this out on your own. You randomly survey 64 of her past Elementary
Statistics students and find that 34 feel more enriched as a result of her class. Assume
that significance level of 0.05 (z0.025 = 1.96, z0.05 = 1.65). Which of the following
states is true?
The percent of girls born in Vietnam is more than 46.7% - According to an article in
Newsweek, the natural ratio of girls to boys is 100:105. In Vietnam, the birth ratio is 100:
114 (46.7% girls). Suppose you don't believe the reported figures of the percent of girls
born in Vietnam. You think that the percent of girls born in Vietnam is less than 46.7%.
You conduct a study. In this study, you count the number of girls and boys born in 150
randomly chosen recent births. There are 60 girls and 90 boys born of the 150. Based
on the results, draw your conclusion. Use α = 2% (z0.01 = 2.33 and z0.02 = 2.05).
To claim the drug is unsafe when, in fact, it is safe. - When a new drug is created, the
pharmaceutical company must subject it to testing before receiving the necessary
permission from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market the drug. Suppose
the null hypothesis is "the drug is unsafe." What is the Type II Error?
7.54 - An assembly line produces widgets with a mean weight of 10 and a standard
deviation of 0.2. A new process supposedly will produce widgets with the same mean
and a smaller standard deviation. A sample of 20 widgets produced by the new method
has a sample standard deviation of 0.126. At a significance level of 10%, what is the
value of the test statistic ?
is equal to 1.73. - The cost of a college education has increased at a much faster rate
than costs in general over the past twenty years. In order to compensate for this, many
students work part- or full-time in addition to attending classes. At one university, it is
believed that the average hours students work per week exceeds 20. To test this at a
significance level of 0.05 (t0.025,19 = 2.09 and t0.05,19 = 1.73), a random sample of n
= 20 students was selected and the following values were observed: 26 15 10 40 10 20
30 36 40 0 5 10 20 32 16 12 Based on these sample data, the critical value:
H0 : µ = 15 H1 : µ ≠15 ounces - A soft drink company has a filling machine that can be
set at different levels to produce different average fill amounts. The company sets the
machine to provide a mean fill of 15 ounces. The standard deviation on the machine is
known to be 0.20 ounces. Assuming that the hypothesis test is to be performed using a
random sample of n = 100 cans, which of the following would be the correct formulation
of the null and alternative?
1.8516 C) 1.645 D) 2.438 - A bank is interested in determining whether their customers'

checking balances are linearly related to their savings balances. A sample of n = 20
customers was selected and the correlation was calculated to be +0.40. If the bank is
interested in testing to see whether there is a significant linear relationship between the
two variables using a significance level of 0.05, what is the value of the test statistic?
-81.6 - The following regression model has been computed based on a sample of
twenty observations: = 34.2 + 19.3x. The first observations in the sample for y and x
were 300 and 18, respectively. Given this, the residual value for the first observation is
approximately ....
= 4.05 - 0.05x - 3) State University recently randomly sampled seven students and
analyzed grade point average (GPA) and number of hours worked off-campus per
week. The following data were observed: y-GPA : 3 2.8 3.7 2.5 x-Hours: 25 30 11 22
Find the simple linear regression equation based on these sample data..
-0.962 - Over a period of one year, a greengrocer sells tomatoes at six different prices
(x pence per kilogram). He calculates the average number of kilograms, y, sold per day
at each of the six different prices. From these data the following are calculated x1 =
200 , yi = 436 , xiyi = 12515 ; xi ^ 2 = 7250 ; yi^2 = 39234 ; n = 6 Estimate the
correlation coefficient.
-.
for a large n, it says the sampling distribution of the sample mean is approximately
normal, regardless of the shape of the population. - The Central Limit Theorem is
important in statistics because
A - For air travelers, one of the biggest complaints involves the waiting time between
when the airplane taxis away from the terminal until the flight takes off. This waiting time
is known to have a skewed-right distribution with a mean of 10 minutes and a standard
deviation of 8 minutes. Suppose 100 flights have been randomly sampled. Describe the
sampling distribution of the mean waiting time between when the airplane taxis away
from the terminal until the flight takes off for these 100 flights.
The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the sample mean is equal to σ. -
Which of the following statements about the sampling distribution of the sample mean is
INCORRECT?
The shape of the sampling distribution is approximately normal. - Suppose the ages of
students in Statistics 101 follow a skewed-right distribution with a mean of 23 years and
a standard deviation of 3 years. If we randomly sampled 100 students, which of the
following statements about the sampling distribution of the sample mean age is
INCORRECT?
biased - A sample that does not provide a good representation of the population from
which it was collected is referred to as a(n) __________ sample.
The mean of the sampling distribution is 6 ounces. - Suppose a sample of n = 50 items
is drawn from a population of manufactured products and the weight, X, of each item is
recorded. Prior experience has shown that the weight has a probability distribution with
μ = 6 ounces and σ = 2.5 ounces. Which of the following is true about the sampling
distribution of the sample mean if a sample of size 15 is selected?
Approximately 1 - 8) Major league baseball salaries averaged $1.5 million with a

standard deviation of $0.8 million in 1994. Suppose a sample of 100 major league
players was taken. Find the approximate probability that the average salary of the 100
players exceeded $1 million.
{HHT, HTH, THH} - Tosing a coin 3 times . Let A denote the event exactly 2 heads are
thrown. List the sample points in A. (H = Head, T = Tail)
(ii) - A large software development firm recently relocated its facilities . Top
management is interested in fostering good relatious with its new local community and
has encouraged its professional employees to engage in local service activities. The
company believes that its professionals volunteer an average of more than 15 hours per
month. If this is not the case, it will institute an incentive program to increase community
involvement. The correct null and alternative hypotheses are (i) H0: u < 15 and H1 : u >
15 (ii) H0 : u = 15 and H1 : u > 15 (iii) H0 : u = 15 and H1 : u < 15 (iv) H0 : u != 15 and
H1 : u = 15
0.2710 - 9) At a computer manufacturing company, the actual size of computer chips is

normally distributed with a mean of 1 centimeter and a standard deviation of 0.1
centimeters. A random sample of 12 computer chips is taken. What is the probability
that the sample mean will be between 0.99 and 1.01 centimeters?
0.200 - 10) The owner of a fish market has an assistant who has determined that the
weights of catfish are normally distributed, with mean of 3.2 pounds and a standard
deviation of 0.8 pounds. If a sample of 16 fish is taken, what would the standard error of
the mean weight equal?
0.0228 - 11) The owner of a fish market has an assistant who has determined that the
weights of catfish are normally distributed, with mean of 3.2 pounds and a standard
deviation of 0.8 pounds. If a sample of 64 fish yields a mean of 3.4 pounds, what is
probability of obtaining a sample mean this large or larger?
increase the sample size to 400.B) decrease the sample size to 50. - 12) The standard
error of the mean for a sample of 100 is 30. In order to cut the standard error of the
mean to 15, we would
It has a normal distribution with the same mean as the population but with a smaller
standard deviation. - 13) Which of the following is true regarding the sampling
distribution of the mean for a large sample size?
True - 14) True or False: Suppose μ = 50 and σ2 = 100 for a population. In a sample
where n = 100 is randomly taken, 95% of all possible sample means will fall between
48.04 and 51.96.
False - 15) True or False: Suppose μ = 50 and σ2 = 100 for a population. In a sample
where n = 100 is randomly taken, 90% of all possible sample means will fall between 49
and 51.
narrower for 90% confidence than for 95% confidence. - 16) The width of a confidence
interval estimate for a proportion mean will be
2.7970 - 17) If you were constructing a 99% confidence interval of the population mean
based on a sample of n = 25, where the standard deviation of the sample s = 0.05, the
all of the above - 18) The t distribution has more area in the tails than does the standard
normal distribution. assumes the population is normally distributed. approaches the
normal distribution as the sample size increases.
the population size - 20) When determining the sample size necessary for estimating
the true population mean, which factor is NOT considered when sampling with
replacement?
increase the sample size and decrease the confidence level - 21) Suppose a 95%
confidence interval for μ turns out to be (1,000, 2,100). To make more useful inferences
from the data, it is desired to reduce the width of the confidence interval. Which of the
following will result in a reduced interval width?
narrower - 22) In the construction of confidence intervals, if all other quantities are
unchanged, an increase in the sample size will lead to a __________ interval.
a t distribution with 14 degrees of freedom - 23) A major department store chain is

interested in estimating the average amount its credit card customers spent on their first
visit to the chain's new store in the mall. Fifteen credit card accounts were randomly
sampled and analyzed with the following results: X (line over it) = $50.50 and s2 = 400.
Assuming the distribution of the amount spent on their first visit is approximately normal,
what is the shape of the sampling distribution of the sample mean that will be used to
create the desired confidence interval for μ?
$180.975 ± $119.605 - 24) Private colleges and universities rely on money contributed
by individuals and corporations for their operating expenses. Much of this money is put
into a fund called an endowment, and the college spends only the interest earned by the
fund. A recent survey of 8 private colleges in the United States revealed the following
endowments (in millions of dollars): 60.2, 47.0, 235.1, 490.0, 122.6, 177.5, 95.4, and
220.0. Summary statistics yield = 180.975 and s = 143.042. Calculate a 95% confidence
interval for the mean endowment of all the private colleges in the United States,
assuming a normal distribution for the endowments.
n = 2033 - 25) A university system enrolling hundreds of thousands of students is

considering a change in the way students pay for their education. Presently the students
pay $55 per credit hour. The university system administrators are contemplating
charging each student a set fee of $750 per quarter, regardless of how many credit
hours each takes. To see if this proposal would be economically feasible, the
administrators would like to know how many credit hours, on the average, each student
takes per quarter. A random sample of 250 students yields a mean of 14.1 credit hours
per quarter and a standard deviation of 2.3 credit hours per quarter. Suppose the
administration wanted to estimate the mean to within 0.1 hours at 95% reliability and
assumed that the sample standard deviation provided a good estimate for the
population standard deviation. How large a sample would they need to take?
$465.23 - 26) An economist is interested in studying the incomes of consumers in a

particular region. The population standard deviation is known to be $1,000. A random
sample of 50 individuals resulted in an average income of $15,000. What is the width of
830 - 27) The head librarian at the Library of Congress has asked her assistant for an
interval estimate of the mean number of books checked out each day. The assistant
provides the following interval estimate: from 740 to 920 books per day. What is an
efficient, unbiased point estimate of the number of books checked out each day at the
Library of Congress?
11 - 28) The head librarian at the Library of Congress has asked her assistant for an
interval estimate of the mean number of books checked out each day. The assistant
provides the following interval estimate: from 740 to 920 books per day. If the head
librarian knows that the population standard deviation is 150 books checked out per
day, and she asked her assistant for a 95% confidence interval, approximately how
large a sample did her assistant use to determine the interval estimate?
False - 29) True or False: A race car driver tested his car for time from 0 to 60 mph, and
in 20 tests obtained an average of 4.85 seconds with a standard deviation of 1.47
seconds. A 95% confidence interval for the 0 to 60 time is 4.52 seconds to 5.18
seconds.
False - 30) True or False: Given a sample mean of 2.1 and a population standard
deviation of 0.7, a 90% confidence interval will have a width of 2.36.
The mean of a population is equal to 55. - 31) Which of the following would be an
appropriate null hypothesis?
The mean of a population is greater than 55. - 32) Which of the following would be an
appropriate alternative hypothesis?
we reject a null hypothesis that is true. - 33) A Type I error is committed when
rejecting a null hypothesis that is false. - 34) The power of a test is measured by its
capability of
False - 35) True or False: For a given level of significance, if the sample size is
increased, the probability of committing a Type II error will increase.
a one-tailed test should be utilized. - 36) If an economist wishes to determine whether

there is evidence that average family income in a community exceeds $25,000
a two-tailed test should be utilized. - 37) If an economist wishes to determine whether

there is evidence that average family income in a community equals $25,000
the Type II error (β) will increase. - 38) If the Type I error (α) for a given test is to be
decreased, then for a fixed sample size n
the probability of rejecting H0 when it is false. - 39) The power of a statistical test is
H0 : μ ≥ 60 and H1 : μ < 60 - 40) How many Kleenex should the Kimberly Clark
Corporation package of tissues contain? Researchers determined that 60 tissues is the
average number of tissues used during a cold. Suppose a random sample of 100
Kleenex users yielded the following data on the number of tissues used during a cold: =
52, s = 22. Give the null and alternative hypotheses to determine if the number of
tissues used during a cold is less than 60.
t = (52 - 60)/22 - 41) How many Kleenex should the Kimberly Clark Corporation
package of tissues contain? Researchers determined that 60 tissues is the average
number of tissues used during a cold. Suppose a random sample of 100 Kleenex users
yielded the following data on the number of tissues used during a cold: = 52, s = 22.
Using the sample information provided, calculate the value of the test statistic.
At α = 0.05, we reject H0. - 42) How many Kleenex should the Kimberly Clark
Corporation package of tissues contain? Researchers determined that 60 tissues is the
average number of tissues used during a cold. Suppose a random sample of 100
Kleenex users yielded the following data on the number of tissues used during a cold: =
52, s = 22. Suppose the test statistic does fall in the rejection region at α = 0.05. Which
of the following decisions is correct?
At α = 0.05, there is not sufficient evidence to conclude that the average number of
tissues used during a cold is 60 tissues.At α = 0.10, there is sufficient evidence to
conclude that the average number of tissues used during a cold is not 60 tissues. - 43)
How many Kleenex should the Kimberly Clark Corporation package of tissues contain?
Researchers determined that 60 tissues is the average number of tissues used during a
cold. Suppose a random sample of 100 Kleenex users yielded the following data on the
number of tissues used during a cold: = 52, s = 22. Suppose the test statistic does fall in
the rejection region at α = 0.05. Which of the following conclusions is correct?
no error. - 44) If, as a result of a hypothesis test, we reject the null hypothesis when it is
false, then we have committed
0.1032 - The on-line acess computer service industry is growing at an extraordinary

rate. current estimates suggest that 20% of people with home-based computers have
access to on-line services. suppose that 15 people with home-based computers were
randomly and independently sampled. what is the probability that exactly 5 of those
0.11 - A batch of parts contains 100 parts from a local supplier of tubing and 200 parts
from a supplier of tubing in the next state.
1/18 - The weekly demand for pepsi in thousand liters from a local store is continuous
random variable X having one probability density. f(x) = 2(x-1) if 1<x<2 0 if elsewhere .
Find the variance of X.
2.8 minutes - If we know that the length of time it takes a college student to find a
parking spot in the library parking lot follows a normal distribution with a mean of 3.5
minutes and a standard deviation of 1 minute, find the point in the distribution in which
75.8% and more of the college students succeed when trying to find a parking spot in
the library parking lot. Let P(Z < -0.7) = 0.242, P(Z < -0.1) = 0.460 and P (Z < 0.7) =
0.758.
10.117 - Entertainment Software Association would like to test if the standard deviation
for the age of gamers is equal to 5.0 years. The standard deviation for the age from a
random sample of 20 gamers is 5.6 years. Using the significance level of 0.10, find the
lower critical value for this hypothesis test. Let x^2 0.05,19 = 30.14; x^2 0.95,19 =
10.117; x^2 0.9,19 = 11.651
right-skewed - 1) Whenever p = 0.1 and n is small, the binomial distribution will be
0.9898 - 2) Suppose that past history shows that 60% of college students prefer Brand
C cola. A sample of 5 students is to be selected. The probability that at least 1 prefers
brand C is __________.
3 - 3) Suppose that past history shows that 60% of college students prefer Brand C
cola. A sample of 5 students is to be selected. The average number that you would
expect to prefer brand C is __________.
0.65 - TABLE 5-3 The following table contains the probability distribution for X = the
number of retransmissions necessary to successfully transmit a 1024K data package
through a double satellite media. X 0123 P(X) 0.35 0.35 0.25 0.05 4) Referring to Table
5-3, the probability of at least one retransmission is
1.0 - 5) Referring to Table 5-3, the mean or expected value for the number of
retransmissions is __________.
0.894 - 6) Referring to Table 5-3, the standard deviation of the number of

retransmissions is __________.
0.7745 - 8) If we know that the length of time it takes a college student to find a parking
spot in the library parking lot follows a normal distribution with a mean of 3.5 minutes
and a standard deviation of 1 minute, find the probability that a randomly selected
college student will take between 2 and 4.5 minutes to find a parking spot in the library
parking lot.
c. 378 - A researcher at a major hospital wishes to estimate the proportion of the adult
19 and 19 - Find the mode and the median of the sample 18, 19, 16, 21, 18, 19, 24, 15,
19
1.55 -
0.47 - Let X be a random variable has the following uniform density function f(x) = 0.1
when 0< x < 10. What is the probability that the random variable X has a value greater
than 5.3?
2.46 -
1.60 -
0.001 - Let denote the sample mean of a random sample of size n1 = 16 taken from a
normal distribution N(212, 36), and let denote the sample mean of a random sample of
size n2 = 25 taken from a different normal distribution N(212, 9). Compute
d. r = 0.14 - Assume that you are predicting X from Y. Which of the following correlation
d. 0.58 - Two separate tests are designed to measure a student's ability to solve
problems. Several students are randomly selected to take both tests and the results are
shown below. Test 1 7.5 6.4 6.6 5.8 8.3 Test 2 6.7 6.6 7.2 4.0 6.7 Find the value of the
linear correlation coefficient r.
c. r = 0.14 - Assume that you are predicting X from Y. Which of the following correlation
week that they watched television was 19.6 with a standard deviation of 5.8 hours.
Construct a 90% confidence interval for the population mean. Assume the population
has a normal distribution. [file:2209.jpg]
(2.51, 3.21) - Construct a 90% confidence interval for the population mean. Assume the
population has a normal distribution. A sample of 15 randomly selected students has a
grade point average of 2.86 with a standard deviation of 0.78. Let t0.05,14 = 1.76, z0.05
= 1.645
Reject the null hypothesis - A bearing used in an automotive application is supposed to

have a norminal inside diameter of 1.5 inches. A random sample of 36 bearing is
selected and the average inside diameter of these bear-ing is 1.4895 inches. Bearing
diameter is known to be normally distributed with standard deviation o = 0.02 inch. Test
the hypotheses H0 : u = 1.5 versus H1 : u != 1.5 using alpha = 0.01 Let z0.01 = 2.326 ,
z0.005 = 2.576
-0.894 - Bon Air Elementary School has 300 students. The principal of the school thinks
that the average IQ of students at Bon Air is at least 110. To prove her point, she
administers an IQ test to 20 randomly selected students. Among the sampled students,
the average IQ is 108 with a standard deviation of 10. What is the value of the test
statistic? Assume the IQ of students is normally distributed.
1.21 - A regression between foot length (dependent variable in cm) and height
(independent variable in inches) for 33 students resulted in the following regression
equation: y^ = 25.6 + 0.03x One student in the sample was 73 inches tall with a foot
length of 29 cm. What is the residual for this student?
the difference between the actual Y values and the predicted Y values. - The residuals
represent
{0, 1, ..., 8} - A batch of 50 machined parts contains 5 that do not conform to customer
requirements. Determine the range of the random variable that is number of parts that
do not conform to customer requirements in a sample of 8 parts selected without
replacement from the batch.
c. 1.732 - On a multiple choice test with 16 questions, each question has four possible
answers, one of which is correct. For students who guess at all answers, find the
standard deviation for the random variable X, the number of correct answers.
b. 3.57 - The produce manager at a food store was interested in determining how many
apples a person buys when they buy apples. He asked the cashiers over a weekend to
count how many apples a person bought when they bought apples and record this
number for analysis at a later time. The data is given below in the table. The random
variable x represents the number of apples purchased and P(x) represents the
probability that a customer will buy x apples. Determine the variance of the number of
apples purchased by a customer. x 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 P(x) 0.05 0.19 0.20 0.25 0.12
0.10 0 0.08 0 0.01
B) = P(A) or if P(B|A) = P(B). | independent - Two events A and B are said to be

_________ if P(A
0.408 or 0.4082 - Let X be a uniform random variable over the interval [0.1, 5] . What is
the probability that the random variable X has a value less than 2.1?
Capes: 25%, Garrisons: 35% , Splits: 40% - The following data give the distribution of
the types of houses in a town containing 30,000 houses. Capes: 7500, Garrisons:
10,500, Splits: 12,000 Construct a pie chart representing the given data set.
i) and iv)An electrical firm manufactures a certain type of light bulb that has a mean light
sample of 100 bulbs will have an average life of more than 1,870 hours. | 0.1463 -
Which of the following statements is false i) If X1, X2,...,Xn is a random sample of size
n,the sample standard deviation S is nota statistic. ii) The probability distribution of a
statistic is called a sampling distribution. iii) A statistic is any function of the observations
in a random sample. iv) The sampling distribution of a statistic does not depend on the
distribution of the population.
Yes, because [z0] = 1.58 < z0.025 - The FPT university claims that 20% of its graduates
are women. In a graduating class of 250 students, 60 were women. At = 0.05, does this
suggest that the school is believable? Let z0.025 = 1.96 and z0.05 = 1.65.
0.717 - Based on this percentage, what is the probability that more than 50 males who
have used marijuana for samples of size 120?
Statistics - the mathematical science that deals with the collection, analysis, and
presentation of data data that can then be used as a basis for inference and induction
Business Statistics - statistics applied to the business world in an effort to improve

people's decision making in fields such as marketing, operations, finance, and human
resources
information - derived from facts for the purpose of making decisions
population - represents all possible subjects of interest
sample - a subset of a population
statistics - data that describe a characteristic about a sample
parameters - data that describe a characteristic about a population. values calculated

using population
Qualitative - data use descriptive terms to measure or classify something of interest
Quantitative Data - Apple's closing stock price today is an example of...
interval and ratio - Which levels of measurement are considered quantitative data?
observation - A method of gathering data while the subjects of interest are in their
natural environment, the advantages of this are that the subjects are not likely to be
influenced by the data collection process
11,67 - A couple has six children whose ages are 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, and 16 Find the
variance in ages
(581,593) - Use the confidence level and sample data to find a confidence interval for
estimating the population µ. A random sample of 94 light bulbs had a mean life of X =
587 hours with a standard deviation of s = 36 hours. Construct a 90 percent confidence
interval for the mean life, µ, of all light bulbs of this type.
dependent - Is Event B dependent or independent of Event A? A: A green ball is drawn

from a box with five balls and placed next to the box. B: A red ball is drawn next and
placed next to the green one.
0.45 - The time to failure (in hours) for a laser in a cytometry machine is modeled by an
exponential distribution with λ = 0 00004. Find the probability that the laser will last at
least 20000 hours
All of the them - The random Variable X has a binomial distribution with n=10 and p=
0.5. Which in the following statements is True? P(X=5) = 0.2461 , P (X <=2) = 0.0547 ,
P (X >=9) = 0.0107
5/9 - A class in advanced physics is comprised of 10 juniors, 30 seniors and 10

graduate students. The final grades showed that 3 of the juniors , 10 of the seniors and
5 of the graduate students received an "A " for the course. If a student is chosen at
random from this class and is found to have earned an A, What is the probability that he
or she is a senior?
The distance from Q 1 is the same as the distance from Q 2 is half of the distance from
the smallest to the largest observation. - n perfectly symmetrical distributions, which of
the following is NOT a correct statement?
0.245 - You are dealt two cards successively (without replacement) from a shuffled deck
of 52 playing cards. Find the probability that both cards are black.
- The age distribution of students at a community college is given below. Age (years)
Number of students
0.454 - Under 21 410 21-24 404 25-28 276 29-32 155 33-36 97 37-40 63 Over 40 86 A
student from the community college is selected at random. Find the probability that the
student is 25 years or over. Give your answer as a decimal rounded to three decimal
places.

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