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Author: Charles Henry Brase, Corrinne Pellillo Brase
Publisher: Brooks Cole
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Chapter 4.1, Problem 19P
Psychology: Creativity When do creative people get their best ideas? USA Today did a survey of 966 inventors (who hold U.S. patents) and obtained the following information:
Time of Day When Best Ideas Occur
- (a) Assuming that the time interval includes the left limit and all the times up to but not including the right limit, estimate the
probability that an inventor has a best idea during each time interval: from 6 A.M. to 12 noon, from 12 noon to 6 P.M., from 6 P.M. to 12 midnight, from 12 midnight to 6 A.M. - (b) Do the probabilities of part (a) add up to 1? Why should they? What is the
sample space in this problem?
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