Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World, Books a la Carte Edition (7th Edition)
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Chapter 4.3, Problem 23E
Using a Distribution to Find Probabilities In Exercises 11–26, find the indicated probabilities using the geometric distribution, the Poisson distribution, or the binomial distribution. Then determine whether the
23. Paying for College Education Sixty-eight percent of parents of children ages 8–14 say they are willing to get a second or part-time job to pay for their children’s college eduction. You randomly select five parents. Find the
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Worksheet 10
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.
10
20
30
40
50
Packets of mealie
meal (m)
Total costs in Rands
80
235
390
545
700
855
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10.1.
Define the following terms:
10.1.1. Independent Variables
10.1.2. Dependent Variables
10.2.
10.3.
10.4.
10.5.
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?
Draw a graph on the graph provided to represent the information in the
table above.
TOTAL COST OF PACKETS OF MEALIE MEAL
900
800
700
600
COST (R)
500
400
300
200
100
0
10
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40
60
NUMBER OF PACKETS OF MEALIE MEAL
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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Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World, Books a la Carte Edition (7th Edition)
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