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A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

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ISBN:9780134753119

Author:Sheldon Ross

Publisher:Sheldon Ross

Chapter1: Combinatorial Analysis

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Transcribed Image Text:s. Several high-profile preventable suicides have drawn attention to the treatment of mental illness in prisons. In fact, some prisons, including California, have been ordered by the courts to improve the mental health services that they provide to inmates. Nationally, for prisons the mean suicide rate is 14 per 100,000 with a standard deviation of 4. You are the head of a national task force that has the job of reducing the suicide rate in prisons and you want to explore which states have the highest inmate suicide rates so you know where to focus your efforts. A. Missouri has an inmate suicide rate of 12. How many standard deviations from the national mean is Missouri's inmate suicide rate? B. Wisconsin's inmate suicide rate is 19. What is the z score associated with a suicide rate of 19? What does this z-score tell you? c. Iowa's inmate suicide rate is 20. What is the probability that a state has a suicide rate higher than Iowa? Be sure to draw a picture. Is this a common or rare inmate suicide rate? Explain

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