Exam 5: Discrete Probability Distributions
Exam 1: The Nature of Probability and Statistics81 Questions
Exam 2: Frequency Distributions and Graphs107 Questions
Exam 3: Data Description127 Questions
Exam 4: Probability and Counting Rules173 Questions
Exam 5: Discrete Probability Distributions117 Questions
Exam 6: The Normal Distribution114 Questions
Exam 7: Confidence Intervals and Sample Size122 Questions
Exam 8: Hypothesis Testing178 Questions
Exam 9: Testing the Difference Between Two Means, Two Variances, and Two Proportions99 Questions
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Exam 12: Analysis of Variance69 Questions
Exam 13: Nonparametric Statistics62 Questions
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A computer store has 75 printers of which 25 are laser printers and 50 are ink jet printers. If a group of 10 printers is chosen at random from the store, find the mean and variance
Of the number of ink jet printers.
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A school is sending 12 children to a camp. If 20% of the children in the school
are first graders, and the 12 children are selected at random from among all 6
grades at the school, find the mean and variance of the number of first graders
chosen?
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A die is rolled 360 times. Find the standard deviation of the number of times a 3 will be rolled.
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The number of typographical errors in a document follows a Poisson distribution with a mean of 3 errors per page. Let represent the number of errors on 4 pages. Find .
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Fill in the missing value so that the following table represents a probability distribution.
x -4 -3 -2 -1 P(x) 0.42 0.08 ? 0.05
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Find the mean of the distribution shown below. 2 3 4 ( ) 0.26 0.31 0.43
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In a batch of 100 cell phones, there are, on average, 6 defective ones. If a random sample of 25 is selected, find the probability of 3 defective ones.
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In a survey, 65% of the voters support a particular referendum. If 20 voters are
chosen at random, find the standard deviation of the number of voters who
support the referendum.
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The binomial distribution equations will not give exact probabilities for experiments in
which sampling is done without replacement. In those cases, the trials are not
independent.
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Compute the mean of the random variable with the given discrete probability distribution. x P(x) 0 0.45 15 0.05 20 0.5 30 0
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The following table presents the probability distribution of the number of vacations taken last year for a randomly chosen family. Find the probability that a family took at lea vacations last year.
x 0 1 2 3 4 P(x) 0.05 0.69 0.17 0.07 0.02
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A certain type of battery has a 0.5% failure rate. Find the probability that a shipment of 1,000 batteries has more than two defective batteries.
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Compute the standard deviation of the random variable with the given discrete probability distribution.
x P(x) 0 0.2 5 0.45 15 0.05 25 0.3
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Determine the indicated probability for a binomial experiment with the given number of trials and the given success probability .
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Last year, a manufacturer produced 1,450,000 DVD players. Of these, approximately were defective. Assume that a simple random sample of players is drawn. Use the Poisson approximation to the binomial distribution to compute the mean number of DVD players that were defective.
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The following distribution is a probability distribution because -2 -1 0 1 2 ( ) 0.16 0.15 0.42 0.13 0.31
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The number of cartoons watched on Saturday mornings by students in Mrs. Kelly's first | class is shown below.
Number of cartoons watched 0 1 2 3 4 5 Probability ( ) 0.15 0.20 0.30 0.10 0.20 0.05
Give the standard deviation for the probability distribution. de
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An investor is considering a $25,000 investment in a start-up company. She estimates that she has probability 0.05 of a $15,000 loss, probability 0.15 of a $20,000 loss,
Probability 0.35 of a $35,000 profit, and probability 0.45 of breaking even (a profit of
$0)) What is the expected value of the profit?
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