Mathematical Statistics with Applications

7th Edition

ISBN: 9780495110811

Author: Dennis Wackerly, William Mendenhall, Richard L. Scheaffer

Publisher: Cengage Learning

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Chapter 5.8, Problem 102E

A firm purchases two types of industrial chemicals. Type I chemical costs $3 per gallon, whereas type II costs $5 per gallon. The mean and variance for the number of gallons of type I chemical purchased, Y₁, are 40 and 4, respectively. The amount of type II chemical purchased, Y₂, has E(Y₂) = 65 gallons and V(Y₂) = 8. Assume that Y₁ and Y₂ are independent and find the mean and variance of the total amount of money spent per week on the two chemicals.

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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A firm purchases two types of industrial chemicals. Type I chemical costs $3 per gallon, whereas type II costs $5 per gallon. The mean and variance for the number of gallons of type I chemical purchased, Y,, are 40 and 4, respectively. The amount of type II chemical purchased, Y2, has E(Y2) = 65 gallons and V(Y2) = 8. Assume that Y, and Y2 are independent and find the mean and variance of the total amount of money spent per week on the two chemicals.

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Solution Summary: The author calculates the mean and variance of the total spending on the two chemicals, per week.

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