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MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications

6th Edition

ISBN:9781119256830

Author:Amos Gilat

Publisher:Amos Gilat

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When studying radioactive material, a nuclear engineer found that over 365 days, 1,000,000 radioactive atoms decayed to 978 comma 724 radioactive atoms, so 21 comma 276 atoms decayed during 365 days.

a. Find the mean number of radioactive atoms that decayed in a day.

(Round to three decimal places as needed.)

b. Find the probability that on a given day, 52 radioactive atoms decayed.

(Round to six decimal places as needed.)

Definition Definition Measure of central tendency that is the average of a given data set. The mean value is evaluated as the quotient of the sum of all observations by the sample size. The mean, in contrast to a median, is affected by extreme values. Very large or very small values can distract the mean from the center of the data. Arithmetic mean: The most common type of mean is the arithmetic mean. It is evaluated using the formula: μ = 1 N ∑ i = 1 N x i Other types of means are the geometric mean, logarithmic mean, and harmonic mean. Geometric mean: The nth root of the product of n observations from a data set is defined as the geometric mean of the set: G = x 1 x 2 ... x n n Logarithmic mean: The difference of the natural logarithms of the two numbers, divided by the difference between the numbers is the logarithmic mean of the two numbers. The logarithmic mean is used particularly in heat transfer and mass transfer. ln x 2 − ln x 1 x 2 − x 1 Harmonic mean: The inverse of the arithmetic mean of the inverses of all the numbers in a data set is the harmonic mean of the data. 1 1 x 1 + 1 x 2 + ...

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When studying radioactive material, a nuclear engineer found that over 365 days, 1,000,000 radioactive atoms decayed to 978,724 radioactive atoms, so 21,276 atoms decayed during 365 days.