Exam 5: Discrete Probability Distributions

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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 XX represent the number of errors on 4 pages. Find μx\mu _ { x } .

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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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Find the mean of the distribution shown. 1 2 ( ) 0.32 0.68

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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 XX 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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Find the mean of the distribution shown. 4 6 ( ) 0.47 0.53

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Determine the indicated probability for a binomial experiment with the given number of trials nn and the given success probability pp . n=7,p=0.9,P( Fewer than 4)n = 7 , p = 0.9 , P ( \text { Fewer than } 4 )

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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 n=120n = 120 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 gg | 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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