A population of 1,000 students spends an average of $10.50 a day on dinner. The standard deviation of the expenditure is $3. A simple random sample of 64 students is taken.
a. What are the expected value, standard deviation, and shape of the sampling distribution of the sample mean?
b. What is the probability that these 64 students will spend an average of more than $11 per person?
c. What is the probability that these 64 students will spend an average between $10 and $11 per person?
In: Math
suppose a woman wants to estimate her exact day of ovulation for contraceptive purposes. A theory exists that at the time of ovulation the body temperature rises 0.5 to 1.0 degrees F thus, changes in body temperature can be used to goes the day of ovulation.
suppose that for this purpose a woman measures her body temperature on awakening on the first 10 days after menstruation and obtains the following data: 95.8, 96.5, 97.4, 97.4, 97.3, 96.0, 97.1, 97.3, 96.2, 97.3.
A. what is the best point estimate of her underlying basal body temperature (population mean)
b. how precise is this estimate (calculate the standard error of the estimate)?
c. compute a 95% confidence interval for the underlying mean basal body temperature using the data. assume that her underlying mean basal body temperature has a normal distribution
In: Math
Desert Samaritan Hospital in Mesa, Arizona, keeps records of emergency room traffic. Those records reveal that the times between arriving patients have a mean of 8.7 minutes with a standard deviation of 8.7 minutes. Using only the values of these two parameters and your knowledge of the properties of the Normal distribution, give an argument why it is unreasonable to assume that the time between arrivals of buses is normally distributed (or even approximately so). (Hint: Consider the range of data of a Normal distribution.)
In: Math
A baseball coach reviews the number of runs hit per game for the past several seasons. Since the team plays so many games, he selects a random sample of 10 games and records the number of runs scored in each game. The average number of runs scored is 7 with a standard deviation of 3.1 runs.
Compute the margin of error given a confidence level of 99%. (Use a table or technology. Round your answer to three decimal places.)
In: Math
Working backwards, Part I. A 90% confidence interval for a population mean is (83, 89). The population distribution is approximately normal and the population standard deviation is unknown. This confidence interval is based on a simple random sample of 25 observations. Calculate the sample mean, the margin of error, and the sample standard deviation. Use the t distribution in any calculations. Round non-integer results to 2 decimal places.
Sample mean =
Margin of error =
Sample standard deviation =
In: Math
Below is a distribution of race in the United States from 2014.
White= 60.5%
Black= 12.5%
Hispanic= 18.3%
Asian= 5.7%
Other= 3%
If we were to randomly choose 150 people for a survey, what is the probability that less than 70 of them would be white (round to 3 decimal places)?
Would this be unusual? If so, give some reasons why a particular sample might have less than 70 whites.
What is the probability that we would randomly choose a sample of 150 people and more than 22 of them were black (to 3 decimal places)?
What is the probability you would randomly select two Americans and they would both be white?
How many Asian people should we expect to have in a randomly selected group of 150 people?
In: Math
Delta airlines quotes a flight time of 2 hours, 5 minutes for its flight from Cincinnati to Tampa. Assume that the probability of a flight time within any one-minute interval is the same as the flight time within any other one-minute interval contained within the larger interval, 120 and 140 minutes.
*State the objective: What is the probability that the flight will be no more than 5 minutes late?
•Q1: What pdf best describes (models) the situation or assigns probabilities to outcomes of r.v.?
•Q2: Name and given values for parameters in the pdf.
•Q3: Define r. v.?
•Q4: Is r.v. discrete or continuous? (Make sure consistent with Q1)
•Q5: Write down the objective, question, or problem statement and then translate the English version into a statistics problem (using statistical and math language/formulas)
•Q6: Solve the objective.
In: Math
A random sample of 23 items is drawn from a population whose standard deviation is unknown. The sample mean is x⎯⎯x¯ = 820 and the sample standard deviation is s = 25. Use Excel to find your answers. |
(a) |
Construct an interval estimate of μ with 99% confidence. (Round your answers to 3 decimal places.) |
The 99% confidence interval is from to |
(b) |
Construct an interval estimate of μ with 99% confidence, assuming that s = 50. (Round your answers to 3 decimal places.) |
The 99% confidence interval is from to |
(c) |
Construct an interval estimate of μ with 99% confidence, assuming that s = 100. (Round your answers to 3 decimal places.) |
The 99% confidence interval is from to |
(d) |
Describe how the confidence interval changes as s increases. |
||||||
|
In: Math
Read the following statements and decide if they are true sometimes, always or never. Be sure to give a reason for each statement or use an example and the reason why it shows the statement is false. You can download this document in the module one section Fractions and attach it if you prefer.
In: Math
These questions come from MBA 5008
1. What is the difference between a point estimate and a confidence interval?
2. Is a point estimate alone is adequate?
3. Evaluating the effect of variability measurement (confidence interval) on the resulting estimates.
In: Math
Assume that a simple random sample has been selected from a normally distributed population and test the given claim. Identify the null and alternative hypotheses, test statistic, P-value, and state the final conclusion that addresses the original claim.
A coin mint has a specification that a particular coin has a mean weight of 2.5 g. A sample of 36 coins was collected. Those coins have a mean weight of 2.49502g and a standard deviation of 0.01562
Use a 0.05 significance level to test the claim that this sample is from a population with a mean weight equal to 2.5g
Do the coins appear to conform to the specifications of the coin mint?
test statistic z=
p=
In: Math
A researcher studied the relationship between the salary of a working woman with school-aged children and the number of children she had. The results are shown in the following frequency table:
Number of Children
Salary |
2 or fewer children |
more than 2 children |
high salary |
13 |
2 |
medium salary |
20 |
10 |
low salary |
30 |
25 |
If a working woman has more than 2 children, what is the probability she has a low or medium salary?
A. 0.79 B. 0.45 C. 0.35 D. 0.95
In: Math
Q 1.An online retailer, Mr Collins Ndhlovu, has two adverts posted in different parts of a well-known social networking website, Advertisement A and Advertisement B. An average of 2 ‘clicks’ are generated by Advertisement A during the period Monday 10.00 to 10.05am. There are on average 5 ‘clicks’ generated by Advertisement B during the same period. Calculate the probability that on a particular Monday between 10.00 and 10.05 am: i)Advertisement A generates at most 3 clicks. ii)Advertisement A generates at least 4 clicks. ii)Advertisement B generates no more than 4 clicks. iv)Advertisement A generates exactly 2 clicks and Advertisement B exactly 2 clicks. v)At least 3 clicks are generated in total by the two advertisements. (5marks)
In: Math
Explain the difference between a confidence interval and a prediction interval?
In: Math
The National Association of Home Builders provided data on the
cost of the two most popular home remodeling projects. Sample data
on cost in thousands of dollars for two types of remodeling
projects are as follows.
Kitchen | Master Bedroom | Kitchen | Master Bedroom | |
27.0 | 18.0 | 23.0 | 17.8 | |
17.4 | 21.1 | 19.7 | 24.6 | |
22.8 | 26.4 | 16.9 | 22.0 | |
21.9 | 24.8 | 21.8 | ||
21.0 | 25.4 | 19.0 |
Using Kitchen as population 1 and Master Bedroom as population
2, develop a point estimate of the difference between the
population mean remodeling costs for the two types of projects (to
1 decimal).
$ thousand
Develop a 90% confidence interval for the difference between the
two population means (to 1 decimal). Use z-table.
( , )
In: Math