To use a normal approximation to the binomial, which of the following does not have to be true?
According to a report 77.3% of murders are committed with a firearm ( a) If 400 murders are randomly selected, how many would we expect to be committed with a firearm? (b) Would it be unusual to observe 338 murders by firearm in a random sample of 400 murders? Why?
The number of qualified voters living in the household on a randomly selected Subdivision block is described by the following probability distribution. What are the variance and standard deviation respectively of the probability distribution?
Suppose that the New England Colonials baseball team is equally likely to win a game as not to win it. If
5
Colonials games are chosen at random, what is the probability that exactly
4
of those games are won by the Colonials
Travel.By.Us is an internet-based travel agency wherein the customers can see vedios of the cities they plan to visit. the number of daily hits at its website is normally distributed with ú=1,000 and ō=240. What is the probability of getting fewer than 900 hits?
Country Financial, a financial services company, uses surveys of adults age 18 and older to determine if personal financial fitness is changing over time. A recent sample of 1000 adults showed 410 indicating that their financial security was more than fair. Just a year before, a sample of 900 adults showed 315
indicating that their financial security was more than fair.
a. State the hypotheses that can be used to test for a significant difference between the
population proportions for the two years.
b. Conduct the hypothesis test and compute the p-value. At a .05 level of significance,
what is your conclusion?
c. What is the 95% confidence interval estimate of the difference between the two
population proportions? What is your conclusion?
A normal distribution has a mean of 80 and a standard deviation of 14. Determine the value above which 80 percent of the values will occur.
Construct 90% and 95% confidence intervals for the population proportion. Interpret the results and compare the widths of the confidence intervals. In a survey of 2149 U.S. adults in a recent year, 1241 made a New Year's resolution to eat healthier.