Suppose that at a hotel's registration desk there are 5 guests who check-in and need their luggage delivered to their rooms. Suppose that the probability that the luggage will be delivered within five minutes is 0.41, and that you would like to know how likely certain outcomes are, based on those assumptions.
Please think for a moment about what framework you would use to model this....
True or False:
Based on criteria 1~4 above, we can use a member of the family of binomial distributions to model this problem.
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You should come to the conclusion that you could let T (on Time) be a random variable that counts the number of times that that the luggage is delivered on time. Then T is a binomial random variable with:
Using the notation B(n, p) for a binomial random variable with n trials with a probability of "success" of p, we have:
T ~ B(5, p = 0.41)
(b) For each value of s, calculate P(T=s). (Round final answers to 4 decimal places.)
| s | P(T = s) |
| 5 | |
| 4 | |
| 3 | |
| 2 | |
| 1 | |
| 0 |
NOTE: You may use the Excel function =BINOM.DIST(number_s, trials, prob_s, cumulative) where
NOTE2: Even if you use the Excel function: YOU SHOULD BE SURE THAT YOU CAN COMPUTE TWO OR THREE OF THE VALUES DIRECTLY (i.e. USING THE FORMULA):
P(T=s) = 5Cs ps q5-s
(c) What is the likelihood that exactly three sets of luggage are delivered on time? Find P(T = 3). (Round final answer to 4 decimal places.)
P(T=3) =
(d) What is the likelihood that up to three sets of luggage are delivered on time? Find P(T ≤ 3). (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round final answer to 4 decimal places.)
P(T ≤ 3) =
(e) How likely are up to two sets of luggage delivered on time? Find P(T < 3). (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round final answer to 4 decimal places.)
P(T < 3) = P(T ≤ 2) =
(f) How likely is it that four or more sets of luggage are delivered on time? Find P(T ≥ 4). (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round final answer to 4 decimal places.)
P(x ≥ 4) =
(g) How likely is it that more than two sets of luggage will be delivered on time? Find P(T > 2). (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round final answer to 4 decimal places.)
P(T > 2) =
(h) Use the probabilities you computed in part b to calculate the mean μT, the variance, σ 2T , and the standard deviation, σT, of this binomial distribution. Show that the formulas for μT ,σ 2T, and σT given in this section give the same results. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round final answers to µT in to 2 decimal places, σ 2T and σT in to 4 decimal places.)
| µT | |
| σ2Tσ2T | |
| σT | |
(i) Calculate the interval [μT ± 2σT]. Use the probabilities of part b to find the probability that t will be in this interval. Hint: When calculating probability, round up the lower interval to next whole number and round down the upper interval to previous whole number. (Round your answers to 4 decimal places. A negative sign should be used instead of parentheses.)
| The interval is [ , ]. | |
| P( ≤ t ≤ ) = | |
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