Statistics for Business & Economics, Revised (with XLSTAT Education Edition Printed Access Card)
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Chapter 10.4, Problem 34E
Oil wells are expensive to drill, and dry wells are a great concern to oil exploration companies. The domestic oil and natural gas producer Aegis Oil, LLC describes on its web-site how improvements in technologies such as three-dimensional seismic imaging have dramatically reduced the number of dry (nonproducing) wells it and other oil exploration companies drill. The following sample data for wells drilled in 2005 and 2012 show the number of dry wells that were drilled in each year.
| 2005 | 2012 | |
| Wells Drilled | 119 | 162 |
| Dry Wells | 24 | 18 |
- a. Formulate the null and alternative hypotheses that can be used to test whether the wells drilled in 2005 were more likely to be dry than wells drilled in 2012.
- b. What is the point estimate of the proportion of wells drilled in 2005 that were dry?
- c. What is the point estimate of the proportion of wells drilled in 2012 that were dry?
- d. What is the p-value of your hypothesis test? At α = .05, what conclusion do you draw from your results?
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Jesse runs a small business selling and delivering mealie meal to the spaza shops.
He charges a fixed rate of R80, 00 for delivery and then R15, 50 for each packet of
mealle meal he delivers. The table below helps him to calculate what to charge
his customers.
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10.1.2. Dependent Variables
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Determine the independent and dependent variables.
Are the variables in this scenario discrete or continuous values? Explain
What shape do you expect the graph to be? Why?
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table above.
TOTAL COST OF PACKETS OF MEALIE MEAL
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Let X be a random variable with support SX = {−3, 0.5, 3, −2.5, 3.5}. Part ofits probability mass function (PMF) is given bypX(−3) = 0.15, pX(−2.5) = 0.3, pX(3) = 0.2, pX(3.5) = 0.15.(a) Find pX(0.5).(b) Find the cumulative distribution function (CDF), FX(x), of X.1(c) Sketch the graph of FX(x).
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