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Unitary Method
The word “unitary” comes from the word “unit”, which means a single and complete entity. In this method, we find the value of a unit product from the given number of products, and then we solve for the other number of products.
Speed, Time, and Distance
Imagine you and 3 of your friends are planning to go to the playground at 6 in the evening. Your house is one mile away from the playground and one of your friends named Jim must start at 5 pm to reach the playground by walk. The other two friends are 3 miles away.
Profit and Loss
The amount earned or lost on the sale of one or more items is referred to as the profit or loss on that item.
Units and Measurements
Measurements and comparisons are the foundation of science and engineering. We, therefore, need rules that tell us how things are measured and compared. For these measurements and comparisons, we perform certain experiments, and we will need the experiments to set up the devices.
Number 16
![5. The average American adult eats an average of 6.5 gallons of ice cream per year. Assume the
amount of ice cream eaten is normally distributed with a standard deviation of 2.3 hours. Find the
probability that a randomly selected adult eats between 4.0 and 9.0 gallons of ice cream per year.
6. You have a pool of 10 women and 16 men, and you need to form an 8-member team made up of
four women and four men. In how many ways can you do this?
1. You need to select a three-character password for a new online bank account. The rules are: you
can use any uppercase letter A-Z, any lowercase letter a - z, and any of the ten digits 0-9.
Repetitions are not allowed. How many different three-character passcodes can you create?
8. A survey determines that six out of every ten Niceville residents shop at Walmart. In a group or 10
randomly selected Nicevillians, find the probability that at least eight of them shop at Walmart.
9. A medical journal reports that the likelihood of having a headache during any single week is 0.035 .
Find the probability of having at least one headache during a year (1 year = 52 weeks).
10. The average number of minutes per week that teenagers spend texting is 240.0. Assume the standard
deviation is 72.0 minutes. A random sample of 64 teenagers is taken. Find the probability that the
mean number of minutes teenagers in this sample spend reading books is between 230.0 and 250.0.
11. A random sámple of 25 four-person families visiting Disneyworld was selected, and the average
amount spent by these families on their Disneyworld visit was $724.00. The population standard
deviation is $90.25. Find the 90% confidence interval for the true population mean. Express the
interval endpoints to the nearest cent.
12. In a sample of 500 Canadians, 275 say they would rather retire in the US than in Canada. Calculate
the 95% confidence interval for the true proportion of Canadians who would rather retire in the US.
13. Use Z-scores to determine which is a better relative golf score (remember that in golf, lower scores
are better): Shooting a 75 in Tournament A where the mean score is 73 and the standard deviation is
3.3; or shooting a 76 in Tournament B where the mean score is 74 and the standard deviation is 3.5.
14. A researcher claimed that for people that smoke cigarettes, the average number of cigarettes smoked
per day is greater than 9. To test her claim, she selected a random sample of 36 smokers and found
the mean number of cigarettes smoked per day was 10. The standard deviation of the population is
2.5 cigarettes. At a = 0.05, conduct all steps of a hypothesis test to test the researcher's claim.
15. A Harris Poll statistician stated that 35% of people drink coffee to combat midday drowsiness. A
recent survey was taken, and found that 19 out of 48 randomly selected people drank coffee to
combat midday drowsiness. At a = 0.02, conduct all steps of a hypothesis test to test the claim of
the Harris Poll statistician.
16. A recent study of 20 individuals found that the average number of therapy sessions these persons
required to recover from shoulder surgery was 9.6, with a standard deviation of 2.8. A senarate
study of 25 individuals found that the average number of sessions these persons required to recover
from hip surgery was 10.3 , with a standard deviation of 2.3. Assume the population variances are](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F1c3d35ae-0565-42b3-8d84-099b70205c89%2F851961fa-64cd-4b53-8880-c9d6e2771283%2Fwwrj1to_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
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