Exam 19: Questions that Involve Online Topics

TABLE 12-2 An agronomist wants to compare the crop yield of 3 varieties of chickpea seeds.She plants all 3 varieties of the seeds on each of 5 different patches of fields.She then measures the crop yield in bushels per acre.Treating this as a randomized block design,the results are presented in the table that follows. -Referring to Table 12-2,the Friedman rank test is valid only if the 5 blocks are independent so that the yields in one block have no influence on the yields in any other block.

TABLE 19-6 A student wanted to find out the optimal strategy to study for a Business Statistics exam.He constructed the following payoff table based on the mean amount of time he needed to study every week for the course and the degree of difficulty of the exam.From the information that he gathered from students who had taken the course,he concluded that there was a 40% probability that the exam would be easy. -Referring to Table 19-6,the optimal strategy using the expected monetary value criterion is to study 8 hours per week on average for the exam.

TABLE 19-1 The following payoff table shows profits associated with a set of 3 alternatives under 2 possible states of nature. -Blossom's Flowers purchases roses for sale for Valentine's Day.The roses are purchased for $10 a dozen and are sold for $20 a dozen.Any roses not sold on Valentine's Day can be sold for $5 per dozen.The owner will purchase 1 of 3 amounts of roses for Valentine's Day: 100,200,or 400 dozen roses.The opportunity loss for buying 400 dozen roses and selling 200 dozen roses at the full price is

TABLE 19-6 A student wanted to find out the optimal strategy to study for a Business Statistics exam.He constructed the following payoff table based on the mean amount of time he needed to study every week for the course and the degree of difficulty of the exam.From the information that he gathered from students who had taken the course,he concluded that there was a 40% probability that the exam would be easy. -Referring to Table 19-6,what is the expected value of perfect information?

TABLE 7-1 Times spent studying by students in the week before final exams follow a normal distribution with standard deviation 8 hours.A random sample of 4 students was taken from a population of 50 in order to estimate the mean study time for the population of all students.Use the finite population correction. -Referring to Table 7-1,10% of all the samples of 4 will have a sample mean of at least how many hours below the population mean?

TABLE 9-1 A manufacturer produces light bulbs that have a mean life of at least 500 hours when the production process is working properly.Based on past experience,the population standard deviation is 50 hours and the light bulb life is normally distributed.The operations manager stops the production process if there is evidence that the population mean light bulb life is below 500 hours. -Referring to Table 9-1,if you select a sample of 100 light bulbs and are willing to have a level of significance of 0.05,the probability of the operations manager not stopping the process when the process is in fact working properly and is in fact below 500 hours is ________.

TABLE 9-2 An appliance manufacturer claims to have developed a compact microwave oven that consumes a population mean of no more than 250 W.From previous studies,it is believed that power consumption for microwave ovens is normally distributed with a population standard deviation of 15 W.If there is evidence that the population mean consumption is greater than 250 W,the manufacturer will be unable to make the claim. -Referring to Table 9-2,if you select a sample of 20 compact microwave ovens and are willing to have a level of significance of 0.01,the power of the test is ________ if the mean power consumption of all such microwave ovens is in fact 257.3 W.

TABLE 9-2 An appliance manufacturer claims to have developed a compact microwave oven that consumes a population mean of no more than 250 W.From previous studies,it is believed that power consumption for microwave ovens is normally distributed with a population standard deviation of 15 W.If there is evidence that the population mean consumption is greater than 250 W,the manufacturer will be unable to make the claim. -Referring to Table 9-2,if you select a sample of 20 compact microwave ovens and are willing to have a level of significance of 0.01,the probability of making a Type II error is ________ if the mean power consumption of all such microwave ovens is in fact 248 W.

The risk- ________ curve represents the expected monetary value approach.

TABLE 16-2 Given below are the prices of a basket of four food items from 2006 to 2010. -Referring to Table 16-2,what is the Laspeyres price index for the basket of four food items in 2009 that consisted of 50 bushels of wheat,30 bushels of corn,40 bushels of soybeans and 80 hundredweight of milk in 2006 using 2006 as the base year?

TABLE 19-6 A student wanted to find out the optimal strategy to study for a Business Statistics exam.He constructed the following payoff table based on the mean amount of time he needed to study every week for the course and the degree of difficulty of the exam.From the information that he gathered from students who had taken the course,he concluded that there was a 40% probability that the exam would be easy. -Referring to Table 19-6,how many possible courses of action are there?

TABLE 9-2 An appliance manufacturer claims to have developed a compact microwave oven that consumes a population mean of no more than 250 W.From previous studies,it is believed that power consumption for microwave ovens is normally distributed with a population standard deviation of 15 W.If there is evidence that the population mean consumption is greater than 250 W,the manufacturer will be unable to make the claim. -Referring to Table 9-2,if you select a sample of 20 compact microwave ovens and are willing to have a level of significance of 0.05,the power of the test is ________ if the mean power consumption of all such microwave ovens is in fact 248 W.

TABLE 12-1 A perfume manufacturer is trying to choose between 2 magazine advertising layouts.An expensive layout would include a small package of the perfume.A cheaper layout would include a "scratch-and-sniff" sample of the product.The manufacturer would use the more expensive layout only if there is evidence that it would lead to a higher approval rate.The manufacturer presents both layouts to 5 groups and determines the approval rating from each group on both layouts.The data are given below.Use this to test whether the median difference in approval rating is different from zero in favor of the more expensive layout with a level of significance of 0.05. -Referring to Table 12-1,the perfume manufacturer will

Based on past experience,only 0.5% of the invoices of a company contain an error.Out of the 1,500 invoices that the company will issue,what is the approximate probability that exactly 2 invoices will contain an error?

When you use the Poisson distribution to approximate the binomial distribution,the standard deviation is nπ where n is the sample size and π is the probability of an event of interest.

TABLE 19-1 The following payoff table shows profits associated with a set of 3 alternatives under 2 possible states of nature. -Referring to Table 19-1,if the probability of S1 is 0.2,what is the optimal alternative using EOL?

TABLE 19-5 The following payoff table shows profits associated with a set of 2 alternatives under 3 possible events. -Referring to Table 19-5,what is the optimal action using maximax criterion?

TABLE 19-1 The following payoff table shows profits associated with a set of 3 alternatives under 2 possible states of nature. -Referring to Table 19-1,the opportunity loss for A2 when S1 occurs is

The ________ curve represents the expected monetary value approach.

TABLE 19-1 The following payoff table shows profits associated with a set of 3 alternatives under 2 possible states of nature. -Blossom's Flowers purchases roses for sale for Valentine's Day.The roses are purchased for $10 a dozen and are sold for $20 a dozen.Any roses not sold on Valentine's Day can be sold for $5 per dozen.The owner will purchase 1 of 3 amounts of roses for Valentine's Day: 100,200,or 400 dozen roses.Given 0.2,0.4,and 0.4 are the probabilities for the sale of 100,200,or 400 dozen roses,respectively,then the optimal EOL for buying roses is