Statistics - math word problems - page 14 of 44
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- Basketball team
The heights of five starters on Redwood High's basketball team are 5'11", 6'3", 6'6", 6'2", and 6'. The average height of these players is?
- Z-score test
The fish weights in a certain lake are normally distributed with a mean of 11 lb and a standard deviation of 6. If four fish are randomly selected, what is the probability that the mean weight will be between 8.6 and 14.6 lb? Your answer should be a decim
- From MAN statistics
It was determined how many points from the homework assignments in statistics were received by randomly selected students of the MAN field and how many by randomly selected students of the THK field. It was found: MAN x/17/17/15/21/29/30/16/18/15/25/16/ T
- Annual income
The annual income (in thousands of $) of fifteen families is 60, 80, 90, 96, 120, 150, 200, 360, 480, 520, 1060, 1200, 1450, 2500, 7200. Calculate the harmonic and geometric mean.
- Summaries
A specialist teacher observes the time taken by each of the students with learning disabilities to complete a psychological task. She summaries the times using the following: Time Taken(mins) ; 1-5; 6-10; 11-12; 16-20 No. of Student ; 2 ; 4 ; 12; 4 Using
- Classroom 64434
In physics class, students estimated the volume of the trash can in the classroom. There is a record of the answers of 20 pupils on the board. The actual volume of this dustbin was 12 liters. By how many liters does the average student estimate differ fro
- Chi square
A phone battery manufacturer claims that his battery lives are approximately normally distributed with a standard deviation equal to 0.9 years. Suppose a random sample of 10 of these batteries has a standard deviation of 1.2 years. Do you think that the s
- Water
Mix 58 l of water with a temperature of 81 °C, 10 l warm of 54 °C, and 41 l water of 67 °C. What is the temperature of the mixed water immediately after mixing?
- Harmonic and arithmetic means
The local Utah Department of Child Service office wants to project staffing needs based on current social worker assignments. They have the number of cases per social worker for the following staff: Mary: 25 John: 35 Ted: 15 Lisa: 45 Anna: 20 Calculate: a
- Rounded 4526
Alfonz grew 150 melons with an average weight of 2.35 kg. He sold them for € 1.50 per kg. How much did he earn? The result is rounded to the euro.
- Seedlings
The meadow was divided into 30 equally large parts, and then how many seedlings were in each part was calculated. It was found that there were no seedlings in six parts. Five parts contained one seedling, twelve parts two seedlings, and seven parts three
- Elephants 2906
In 1979, 1.3 million elephants lived in Africa. By 1989, their number had dropped to 600,000. On average, how many elephants have died each year during this period?
- Certificate 4615
Maroš received hockey cards as a reward after his certificate. The number of cards he received is twice the sum of the marks on his report card. Maroš has 8 subjects, and his average grade on his report card was 1.75. How many hockey cards did Maroš get?
- Company 5
The Photo-Lab company offers developing digital photos in the size of 9 x 13 cm for 2,- CZK per photo. However, it adds a flat fee of 50,- CZK to the order (for any number of photos taken). Calculate what price we actually pay for 1 photo if we order 1, 5
- Confidence Interval
The average grade of 50 senior students in a statistics class is 85, with a standard deviation of 10.2. In comparison, 60 senior students got an average of 80 with a standard deviation of 8.9. Can the difference in the mean grade be attributed to chance,
- RBA
Regional Building Authority has an annual budget of EUR 1806814. In the previous calendar year, has processed 804 approval procedures. How much does an average one-building approval cost (e.g., unsuccessful revoke)?
- Two methods
A teacher wishes to teach verbs to his English class using two methods. He randomly divided the class into two samples of 14 students each. Using Method 1, the students learned an average of 43.8 with a standard deviation of 4.6, while the second group (M
- Variability
In the table below, the number of wrong produced goods in two shifts: morning shift: 2; 0; 6; 10; 2; 2; 4; 2; 5; 2; afternoon shift: 4; 4; 0; 2; 10; 2; 6; 2; 3; 10; Compare the variability in both shifts, compare the average number of wrong goods on both
- Wednesday 24741
Eva read 20 pages of the adventure book on Monday,15 on Tuesday, and 19 on Wednesday. She did not read on Thursday but read 36 pages on Friday. On average, how many pages per day did she read?
- Confidence 61774
What is the smallest number of men we would have to choose to estimate the mean height of men with an accuracy of +, - 0.5cm, and 95% confidence, assuming a standard deviation of 8cm?
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