Statistics - math problems

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  • Population variance
    binomial1 In a California community college, 60% of students will transfer to a college in the CSU system. The number of students in a sample who will transfer follows a binomial distribution. If 8 students are randomly selected, find the population variance σ2 of
  • Sample Proportion
    binomial1 In a California community college, 60% of students will transfer to a college in the CSU system. The number of students in a sample who will transfer follows a binomial distribution. 400 students are randomly selected from the college and 224 of them will
  • Average score
    test In a math exam, two students scored 95, six students scored 90, 3 students scored 80, and one students scored 50. What was the average score for the class?
  • Apple collecting
    jablka Luke, Peter and Tibor compared how many kilograms of apples they had collected. They found that the arithmetic mean of what Luke and Peter collected was 10 kg larger than Tibor's contribution, and the arithmetic mean of what Luke and Tibor collected was 3
  • Gas prices 2021
    gasprom According to the SPP price list in 2021, the price of natural gas together with its supply is as follows: D1 - we cook. Fix 3.34 euros/month and 0.0479 euros/kWh (1 cubic meter of gas is approximately 10.555 kWh. It is called combustion heat and changes o
  • The temperature 14
    teplomer The temperature is 12°C lower than 4 hours ago. a. What is the average temperature change per hour? b. Write an integer equation for the situation.
  • Median of odd count
    vaha2 The following are weight(in kg) of 7 people 70,62,62,75,60,65,78. find the median of the weights of people.
  • The library
    books Anna stored a total of 126 books in three compartments of the library. There are 6 books more in the first compartment than in the second one. The number of books in the second compartment is the arithmetic average of the number of books in the first and
  • Suppose 4
    normal_d Suppose that 14% of all steel shafts produced by a certain process are nonconforming but can be reworked (rather than having to be scrapped). Consider a random sample of 200 shafts, and let X denote the number among these that are nonconforming and can be
  • Rich retirement
    normal_d Health care issues are receiving much attention in both academic and political arenas. A sociologist recently conducted a survey of citizens over 60 years of age whose net worth is too high to qualify for government health care but who have no private hea
  • Publishing company
    normal_d Suppose you work for a publishing company and before launching a new magazine targeting fashion-oriented consumers, your boss wants to hold a meeting with perspective advertisers. Assume that annual expenditures on magazine ads in this genre are normally
  • A plumber
    pipe1 A plumber has the following lengths of PVC: 3.3 ft, 9.77 ft, 8.41 ft, 9.61 ft, 8 ft. What is his average length of PVC
  • Day trip
    tourists A group of tourists went on a day trip. For two hours they walked at a speed of 6 km/h, for another hour they climbed a steep hill at a speed of 2 km/h, spent an hour and a half at lunch, then in an hour they inspected the castle garden at a free step at
  • Range, mean, median
    statistics Ages of 7 employees in an office are given below 32, 42, 30, 32, 33, 23, 32 Find a) Range b) Mean c) Median
  • A frequency
    frequency-and-wavelength A frequency table of grades has five classes (A, B, C, D, F) with frequencies of 2,14,13,8 and 1 respectively. Using percentages, what are the relative frequencies of the five classes?
  • The average 3
    means_math The average of fraction is 7/10. One of the fractions is 2/3, the other fraction is?
  • Mortality tables
    binomial Mortality tables enable actuaries to obtain the probability that a person at any age will live a specified number of years. Insurance companies and others use such probabilities to determine life-insurance premiums, retirement pensions, and annuity paymen
  • Manufacturing company
    statistics A random sample of 8 manufacturing companies is selected from a population of manufacturing companies. The market values (in millions of rands) of these eight manufacturing companies are: 17 65 117 206 172 181 221 94 What is the lowest and highest market
  • Binomial probability
    binomial What is the binominal probability that at least 4 of the 6 trials (n=6) are succeeded where φ = 0.50?
  • Language test
    test Your language test scores are 58, 68, 89 and 95. What is the lowest you can earn on the next test and still achieve an average of at least 79?

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