Exam 4: Probability
Exam 1: Introduction to Statistics and Business Analytics180 Questions
Exam 2: Visualizing Data With Charts and Graphs113 Questions
Exam 3: Descriptive Statistics88 Questions
Exam 4: Probability104 Questions
Exam 5: Discrete Distributions98 Questions
Exam 6: Continuous Distributions105 Questions
Exam 7: Sampling and Sampling Distributions97 Questions
Exam 8: Statistical Inference: Estimation for Single Populations94 Questions
Exam 9: Statistical Inference: Hypothesis Testing for Single Populations123 Questions
Exam 10: Statistical Inferences About Two Populations97 Questions
Exam 11: Analysis of Variance and Design of Experiments133 Questions
Exam 12: Simple Regression Analysis and Correlation111 Questions
Exam 13: Multiple Regression Analysis90 Questions
Exam 14: Building Multiple Regression Models100 Questions
Exam 15: Time-Series Forecasting and Index Numbers103 Questions
Exam 16: Analysis of Categorical Data85 Questions
Exam 17: Nonparametric Statistics110 Questions
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A recent survey found that 24% of people in Michigan like oatmeal.If the probability that someone lives in Michigan is 4.8%, what is the probability that someone lives in Michigan and likes oatmeal?
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A joint probability is the probability that at least one of two events occurs.
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Given that two events, A and B, are independent, if the marginal probability of A is 0.6, the conditional probability of A given B will be 0.4.
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A recent survey found that 24% of people in Michigan like oatmeal.If the probability that someone lives in Michigan is 4.8%.What is the probability that two people from Michigan would both like oatmeal?
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Your company provides services to three different industries: automotive, construction, and financial services.These services can be either on a yearly or on a monthly contract.The cross-tabulation below summarizes this information: Morthly Yearly Total Automotive 125 85 210 Construction 212 351 563 Finaricial 357 210 567 Total 694 646 1340 Suppose you know that a given client is a construction company and you are interested in the likelihood that this client is on a yearly contract.This is an example of _______.
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Which of the following statements is not true regarding probabilities:
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An automobile dealer wishes to investigate the relation between the gender of the buyer and type of vehicle purchased.Based on the following joint probability table that was developed from the dealer's records for the previous year, P (Female)= __________.
Type of Vehicle Female Male Total SUV Not SUV .30 .40 Total .40 1.00
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The table below provides summary information about the students in a class.The sex of each individual and their age is given. Male Fernale Total Under 20 yrs old 10 8 18 Between 20 and 25 yrs old 12 18 30 Older tharn 25 yrs. 26 26 52 Total 48 52 100 If a student is randomly selected from this group, what is the probability that the student is male?
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If the CEO of Apple wanted to know the probability that someone would own an Apple computer and spend more than 20 hours each week on the internet would be an example of a _____________ probability.
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If the probability that someone likes the color blue is 44% and the probability that among those individuals, the probability that they wake up early is 52%, then the probability that individuals who like the color blue and wake up early is about 23%.
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Consider the following sample space, S, and several events defined on it.S = {Albert, Betty, Abel, Jack, Patty, Meagan}, and the events are: F = {Betty, Patty, Meagan}, H = {Abel, Meagan}, and P = {Betty, Abel}.F H is ___________.
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The list of all elementary events for an experiment is called _______.
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A market research firm is investigating the appeal of three package designs.The table below gives information obtained through a sample of 200 consumers.The three package designs are labeled A, B, and C.The consumers are classified according to age and package design preference. A B C Total Under 25 years 22 34 40 96 25 or older 54 28 22 104 Total 76 62 62 200 If one of these consumers is randomly selected, what is the probability that the person prefers design A and is under 25?
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If X and Y are mutually exclusive events, then if X occurs _______.
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Abel Alonzo, Director of Human Resources, is exploring employee absenteeism at the Plano Power Plant.Ten percent of all plant employees work in the finishing department; 20% of all plant employees are absent excessively; and 7% of all plant employees work in the finishing department and are absent excessively.A plant employee is selected randomly; F is the event "works in the finishing department;" and A is the event "is absent excessively." P(A|F)= _____________.
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Let F be the event that a student is enrolled in a finance course, and let S be the event that a student is enrolled in a statistics course.It is known that 40% of all students are enrolled in a finance course and 35% of all students are enrolled in statistics.Included in these numbers are 15% who are enrolled in both statistics and finance.Find the probability that among all students, a student is in finance and is also in statistics.
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The law of multiplication gives the probability that at least one of the two events will occur.
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Suppose 5% of the population have a certain disease.A laboratory blood test gives a positive reading for 95% of people who have the disease and 10% positive reading of people who do not have the disease.What is the probability of testing positive?
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Given two events, A and B, if the probability of either A or B occurring is 0.6, then the probability of neither A nor B occurring is -0.6.
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Suppose that 3% of all TVs made by a company in 2018 are defective.If 2 of these TVs are randomly selected what is the probability that both are defective?
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