World class marathon runners are known to run that distance
(26.2 miles) in an average of 146 minutes with a standard deviation
of 15 minutes.
If we sampled a group of world class runners from a particular
race, find the probability of the following:
**(use 4 decimal places)**
a.) The probability that one runner chosen at random finishes the
race in less than 140 minutes.
b.) The probability that 10 runners chosen at random have an
average finish time of less than 140 minutes.
c.) The probability that 50 runners chosen at random have an
average finish time of less than 140 minutes.
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A company has a policy of retiring company cars; this policy looks at number of miles driven, purpose of trips, style of car and other features. The distribution of the number of months in service for the fleet of cars is bell-shaped and has a mean of 45 months and a standard deviation of 10 months. Using the 68-95-99.7 rule, what is the approximate percentage of cars that remain in service between 55 and 75 months?
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World class marathon runners are known to run that distance
(26.2 miles) in an average of 146 minutes with a standard deviation
of 14 minutes.
If we sampled a group of world class runners from a particular
race, find the probability of the following:
**(use 4 decimal places)**
a.) The probability that one runner chosen at random finishes the
race in less than 140 minutes.
b.) The probability that 10 runners chosen at random have an
average finish time of less than 140 minutes.
c.) The probability that 50 runners chosen at random have an
average finish time of less than 140 minutes.
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At noon, ship A is 10 nautical miles due west of ship B. Ship A is sailing west at 16 knots and ship B is sailing north at 21 knots. How fast (in knots) is the distance between the ships changing at 4 PM? (Note: 1 knot is a speed of 1 nautical mile per hour.)?
The area of a healing wound is given by A=πr2A=πr2. The radius is decreasing at the rate of 4 millimeters per day at the moment when r=30r=30. How fast is the area decreasing at that moment?
Gravel is being dumped from a conveyor belt at a rate of 40
cubic feet per minute. It forms a pile in the shape of a right
circular cone whose base diameter and height are always equal. How
fast is the height of the pile increasing when the pile is 11 feet
high?
Recall that the volume of a right circular cone with height h and
radius of the base r is given by
V=13πr2hV=13πr2h
A spherical snowball is melting in such a way that its radius is
decreasing at rate of 0.1 cm/min. At what rate is the volume of the
snowball decreasing when the radius is 16 cm. (Note the answer is a
positive number).
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Suppose that 26 of 200 tires of brand A failed to last 30,000 miles whereas the corresponding figures for 200 tires of brands B, C, and D were 23, 15, and 32. Test the null hypothesis that there is no difference in the durability of the four kinds of tires at the 0.05 level of significance. Using the above data, test the null hypothesis that the failure rates of the four tire brands are 10% at the 0.05 level of significance.
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1. The longevity of truck tires (in thousands of miles) follows a normal distribution with mean µ and standard deviation σ = 20. Suppose n = 64 tires are randomly selected and the sample mean ¯ x = 76.5.
(a) Test H0 : µ = 75 versus Ha : µ 6= 75 at the α = 0.05 significance level using a 3-step test.
(b) Based upon your answer in part (a), does µ significantly differ from 75? Why?
(c) Find the p−value for the test in part (a).
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A company has a policy of retiring company cars; this policy
looks at number of miles driven, purpose of trips, style of car and
other features. The distribution of the number of months in service
for the fleet of cars is bell-shaped and has a mean of 42 months
and a standard deviation of 6 months. Using the 68-95-99.7 rule,
what is the approximate percentage of cars that remain in service
between 54 and 60 months?
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Consider a car traveling on a highway. If the car travels 100 miles in 2 hours, which theorem guarantees that the car must have been traveling at 50 mph at some point in those two hours? (You may assume position and velocity are continuous and differentiable)
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The following table shows the miles per gallon of various cars and their weight in pounds. Suppose we are interested in predicting the miles per gallon of a car based on its weight.
|
Car |
Weight |
MPG |
|
Buick Lucerne |
3735 |
17 |
|
Cadillac CTS |
3860 |
16 |
|
Chevrolet Cobalt |
2721 |
25 |
|
Chevrolet Impala |
3555 |
19 |
|
Chrysler Sebring Sedan |
3319 |
21 |
|
Dodge Caliber |
2966 |
23 |
|
Dodge Charger |
3727 |
17 |
|
Ford Focus |
2605 |
24 |
|
Ford Mustang |
3473 |
19 |
|
Lincoln MKZ |
3796 |
17 |
|
Mercury Sable |
3310 |
18 |
Compute the correlation coefficient, and explain what this tells us about the relationship between weight and MPG of a car. (2pts)
Give the equation of the regression line. (2pts)
Write a sentence interpreting the y-intercept. (2pts)
Write a sentence interpreting the slope. (2pts)
A Subaru Legacy weighs 3500 pounds. Using the equation of the regression line, what would you predict the MPG of this car to be? (2pts)
The approximate fuel mileage of a Subaru Legacy is 25 MPG. Give the residual for the Subaru Legacy. (2pts)
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The manufacturer of a new compact car claims the miles per gallon (mpg) for the gasoline consumption is mound-shaped and symmetric with a mean of 27.4 mpg and a standard deviation of 12.3 mpg. If 30 such cars are tested, what is the probability the average mpg achieved by these 30 cars will be greater than 28?
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