Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life (5th Edition)
5th Edition
ISBN: 9780134494043
Author: Jeff Bennett, William L. Briggs, Mario F. Triola
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 9.1, Problem 14E
What Is Significant? In testing a method of gender selection, 200 couples use a treatment designed to increase the likelihood of having a girl, and each couple has one baby. Answer the following questions without doing any calculations.
- a. If the 200 babies include exactly 130 girls, would you consider this result statistically significant, or would you attribute it to random fluctuations? Explain.
- b. If the 200 babies include exactly 105 girls, would you consider this result statistically significant, or would you attribute it to random fluctuations? Explain.
- c. You are told that the result in either part (a) or (b) has P-value of 0.262. Which part, (a) or (b), is it, and how do you know?
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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
(c)
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
20
30
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).
Chapter 9 Solutions
Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life (5th Edition)
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