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
Exam 10: Correlation and Regression73 Questions
Exam 11: Other Chi-Square Tests73 Questions
Exam 12: Analysis of Variance69 Questions
Exam 13: Nonparametric Statistics62 Questions
Exam 14: Sampling and Simulation58 Questions
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It is estimated that 25% of households own a riding lawn mower. A sample of 16 households is studied. What is the probability that exactly 5 of these own a riding lawn
Mower?
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Which of the following variables are discrete?
i. the depth of a submarine
ii. the number of torpedoes on a submarine
iii. the speed of the submarine
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The number of cartoons watched on Saturday mornings by students in Mrs. Kelly's first g/ 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
What is the mean of the data? de
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A survey asked 857 people how many times per week they dine out at a restaurant. The results are presented in the following table.
Number of Times Frequency 0 136 1 254 2 233 3 104 4 74 5 21 6 28 7 7 Total 857
Consider the 857 people to be a population. Let be the number of times per week a person dines out for a person sampled at random from this population. Compute the standard deviation.
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The probability that a Poisson random variable is equal to 4 , where , is
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The number of typographical errors in a document follows a Poisson distribution with a mean of 4 errors per page. Let represent the number of errors on 2 pages. Find Less than 3).
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Continuous random variables are obtained from data that can be measured rather than
counted.
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Use the multinomial formula to find the probability for the following situation.
when
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In a binomial experiment, the outcome of each trial will depend on the ones before it.
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It is estimated that 30% of households own a riding lawn mower. A sample of 12 households is studied. What is the probability that no more than 3 of these own a riding
Lawn mower?
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A student takes a true-false test that has 13 questions and guesses randomly at each answer. Let be the number of questions answered correctly. Find or more)
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Which of the following variables are continuous?
i. an automobile's gas mileage
ii. the air pressure in an automobile's spare tire
iii. an automobile's sticker price
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A survey of 13 people at a bookstore showed that five had purchased a hardcover book. If seven people are selected at random, what is the probability that four of them had
Purchased a hardcover book?
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A pet supplier has a stock of parakeets of which 20% are blue parakeets. A pet store orders 3 parakeets from this supplier. If the supplier selects the parakeets at random,
What is the chance that the pet store gets exactly one blue parakeet?
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The probability that a person will have 0, 1, or 2 dental checkups per year is 0.3 0.1, respectively. If seven people are picked at random, what is the probability that two
Will have no checkups, four will have one checkup, and one will have two checkups in
The next year?
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In the instructor's answer book for a mathematics text, 8% of the answers are incorrect. Use the Poisson approximation to express the probability that there are exactly 2
Incorrect answers for a homework set with 50 problems.
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