Question

You are preparing some sweet potato pie for your annual Thanksgiving feast. The store sells sweet potatoes in packages of 6. From prior experience you have found that the package will contain 0 spoiled sweet potatoes about 55% of the time, 1 spoiled sweet potato 25% of the time and 2 spoiled sweet potatoes the rest of the time. Conduct a simulation to estimate the number of packages of sweet potatoes you need to purchase to have three dozen (36) unspoiled sweet potatoes.

Part 1 of 3: (6 pts)

Describe in detail and in paragraph form how you will use the random numbers provided from a random number table (in part 2) to conduct 4 trials of this simulation. Be sure to include all of the first four steps of a simulation. Steps 5 and 6 are part 2 and step 7 are part 3 of this question.

1. Identify the component to be repeated.

2. Explain how you will model the outcome.

3. Explain in detail how you will simulate the trial.

4. State clearly what the response variable is.

Part 2 of 3: (3 pts)

Use the random number table to complete 2 trials. Analyze your response variable.

Trial#1:   41 23  19  98  75 08  63  29  10

Trial #2: 88 26 95 69  57  71 02 62 34

Part 3 of 3: (1 pt)

Give your conclusion based on your simulation results.

Answer 1