Loose Leaf for Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics
17th Edition
ISBN: 9781260152647
Author: Douglas A. Lind
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 6, Problem 5E
FILE The information below is the number of daily emergency service calls made by the volunteer ambulance service of Walterboro, South Carolina, for the last 50 days. To explain, there were 22 days on which there were two emergency calls, and 9 days on which there were three emergency calls.
- a. Convert this information on the number of calls to a
probability distribution. - b. Is this an example of a discrete or continuous probability distribution?
- c. What is the mean number of emergency calls per day?
- d. What is the standard deviation of the number of calls made daily?
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