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- Let x be a random variable that represents the batting average of a professional baseball player. Let y be a random variable that represents the percentage of strikeouts of a professional baseball player. A random sample of n = 6 professional baseball players gave the following information. x 0.336 0.296 0.340 0.248 0.367 0.269 y 3.2 7.5 4.0 8.6 3.1 11.1 (b) Use a 10% level of significance to test the claim that ρ ≠ 0. (Use 2 decimal places.) t critical t ± (d) Find the predicted percentage of strikeouts for a player with an x = 0.288 batting average. (Use 2 decimal places.) %(e) Find a 95% confidence interval for y when x = 0.288. (Use 2 decimal places.) lower limit % upper limit % (f) Use a 10% level of significance to test the claim that β ≠ 0. (Use 2 decimal places.) t critical t ± (g) Find a 95% confidence interval for β and interpret its meaning. (Use 2 decimal places.) lower limit upper limit please show steps and work1. Identify if the following scenarios describe a discrete or continuous random variable. Explain your choice. (a) X = The number of persons in an emergency room 181screte (b) W = The weights of delivery trucks at a supermarket. Lconinaas (c) H= The areas of houses being built in a new subdivision. 2. Faith is a 95% free throw shooter. At practice, each player shoots 20 free throws. L X the number of free throws Faith makes out of 20 shots. (a) Explain why X is a binomial random variable. (b) Calculate the mean of X. (c) Calculate the standard deviation of X. (d) Use the binomial probability formula to find P(X = 19). Interpret this value in context. (e) Her coach says that he will let the team out of practice early if Faith makes 18 or me free throws. What is the probability that practice ends early? Show your work. 2017 BFW Publishers Starnes/Tabor Statistics and Probability with Applications 3/eA fair coin is tossed three times. Let X denote 0 or 1 according as a head or a Tail occurs onthe first toss, and let Y denote the number of heads which occur. Determine the following: a. the distribution of X and Y;b. E(X) and E(Y);c. Variance and SD of X; andd. Variance and SD of Y
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- ASK YOUR TEACHER Nationally, about 11% of the total U.S. wheat crop is destroyed each year by hail.t An insurance company is studying wheat hail damage claims in a county in Colorado. A random sample of 16 claims in the county reported the percentage of their wheat lost to hail. 14 7 10 11 12 19 14 11 9 8 23 19 13 7 10 7 The sample mean is x = 12.1%. Let x be a random variable that represents the percentage of wheat crop in that county lost to hail. Assume that x has a normal distribution and a = 5.0%. Do these data indicate that the percentage of wheat crop lost to hail in that county is different (either way) from the national mean of 11%? Use a = 0.01. (a) What is the level of significance? State the null and alternate hypotheses. Will you use a left-tailed, right-tailed, or two-tailed test? O Ho: H = 11%; H,: µ 11%; right-tailed O Ho: H + 11%; H,: u = 11%; two-tailed O Ho: H = 11%; H,: u + 11%; two-tailed (b) What sampling distribution will you use? Explain the rationale for your…Nationally, about 11% of the total U.S. wheat crop is destroyed each year by hail.† An insurance company is studying wheat hail damage claims in a county in Colorado. A random sample of 16 claims in the county reported the percentage of their wheat lost to hail. 15 7 7 13 13 20 13 12 5 10 26 22 13 7 11 3 The sample mean is x = 12.3%. Let x be a random variable that represents the percentage of wheat crop in that county lost to hail. Assume that x has a normal distribution and σ = 5.0%. Do these data indicate that the percentage of wheat crop lost to hail in that county is different (either way) from the national mean of 11%? Use α = 0.01. (a) What is the level of significance? Compute the z value of the sample test statistic. (Round your answer to two decimal places.)(c) Find (or estimate) the P-value. (Round your answer to four decimal places.)Suppose that the random variable z has a standard normal distribution. Sketch each of the following z points, and use the normal table to find each z point. a) z.01 b) z.05 c) z.02
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