Statistics - math word problems

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  • Heptagonal pyramid
    truncated_hexagonal_pyramid A hardwood for a column is in the form of a frustum of a regular heptagonal pyramid. The lower base edge is 18 cm, and the upper base of 14 cm. The altitude is 30 cm. Determine the weight in kg if the wood density is 10 grams/cm3.
  • Inflation
    tsar Once upon a time, tsar owned a money printer and printed and printed. The result of printing money prices went up,in the first year 3.9 %, in the second 6%, in the third 4.7% and in the fourth 5.5%. Then tsar was failed in election. Calculate the average
  • Basketball team
    meter The heights of five starters on redwood high’s basketball team are 5’11”, 6’3”, 6’6”, 6’2” and 6’. The average of height of these players is?
  • Center of gravity
    map_1 The mass points are distributed in space as follows - specify by coordinates and weight. Find the center of gravity of the mass points system: A1 [1; -20; 3] m1 = 46 kg A2 [-20; 2; 9] m2 = 81 kg A3 [9
  • Statistical survey
    statistics Write TRUE OR FALSE for each question: 1 Standard deviation is a measure of central location. 2. The most frequent observation in a data set is known as the mode. 3 The most passive method of data collection is observation. 4 Access time for secondary dat
  • Company car
    fuel Ms. Vaňková has a company car equipped with a multifunction indicator, on which she can monitor the average petrol consumption during individual rides. During the first ride, mostly in city traffic, it traveled 20.5 km, with an average consumption of 7.8L
  • Tallest people a
    normal_d As a group, the Dutch are amongst the tallest people in the world. The average Dutchman is 184 cm tall. If a normal distribution is appropriate, and the standard deviation for Dutchmen is about 8 cm, what is the percentage of Dutchmen who will be over 2 m
  • Stoaches
    normal_d_2 Stoaches are fictional creatures distantly related to bigfoot and yeti. Stoach weights are normally distributed, with mean 904g and standard deviation 104g. State the probability that the sample mean of a random sample of 36 stoach weights exceeds 943g. (
  • Tennis aces
    tenis The number of aces served by Novak Djokovic in the last 20 tournaments that he has participated in, is shown below. 12 17 13 7 8 14 11 14 10 12 15 9 11 13 6 15 18 5 19 24 1.1 using the raw, determine the range. 1.2 Group the data into a frequency distribu
  • Average monthly salary
    penize A total of 10 teachers work at one small school in Moravia. The monthly salary of each is 21,500 CZK or 21,800 CZK or 22,500 CZK according to their education and age. The average monthly salary for this school's teacher is 21 850 CZK. How many teachers of
  • Mixture of nuts
    vahy2 The mixture of nuts should be prepared from almonds, peanuts and cashew nuts ratio 1: 2: 3 (respectively). The price of almonds is 150 CZK/kg, the price of peanuts is 140 CZK/kg and the price of cashew nuts is 180 CZK/kg. The price of the mixture is deter
  • Standard deviation
    standard-dev_1 Find standard deviation for dataset (grouped data): Age (years) No. Of Persons 0-10 15 10-20 15 20-30 23 30-40 22 40-50 25 50-60 10 60-70 5 70-80 10
  • Statistical XY file
    trendline Year; money spent on advertising; profit (three values each row) 2008 2 12 2009 5 20 2010 7 25 2011 11 26 2012 15 40 1. draw a scatter diagram depicting the data. 2. calculate the Pearson's correlation coefficient. 3. determine the linear regression equat
  • Three friends
    penize_49 Cuba, Matthew and their friend Adam found a brigade during their weekend weekends because they wanted to make a joint trip to the Alps that they planned for the spring break. Cuba enjoyed the skiing trip very much, so he was not lazy to get up and went to
  • Precious metals
    gold_3 In 2006-2009, the value of precious metals changed rapidly. The data in the following table represent the total rate of return (in percentage) for platinum, gold, an silver from 2006 through 2009: Year Platinum Gold Silver 2009 62.7 25.0 56.8 2008 -41.3 4
  • Fog
    fog The car started in fog at speed 30 km/h. After a 12-minute drive, the fog dissipated and the driver drove next 12 minutes distance 17 km. On the last 17 km long again the driving conditions deteriorated and the driver drove the speed of 51 km/h. a) Calcul
  • ICE train
    ice_train German runways test a new ICE train between Munich and Berlin. The train runs to Berlin at a slow speed of 100 km/h. Back from Berlin goes faster. How quickly did the train have to go on a return trip so that the total average train speed for both journey
  • Motel
    motorest Three different dinners A, B, C are served in the motel. Three 20 members went to motel. Group 1 ordered dinners: A 20 members and their average dinner price in the group was CZK 200. From Group 2, they ordered a A: 10 persons, B 10 dinners, and their ave
  • Std-deviation
    standard-dev Calculate standard deviation for file: 63,65,68,69,69,72,75,76,77,79,79,80,82,83,84,88,90
  • Bivariate data set
    statistics_1 Here is a bivariate data set in which you believe y to be the response variable. x y 51.4 44.8 60.2 46.6 60.1 46.8 45.8 46.3 37.4 41.8 72.4 52.5 60 48.2 67.5 49.5 60.9 49.8 51.1 45.7 62.7 49.6 194.9 84.2 Make a scatter plot of this data. Which point is an

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