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Use the fact that the figure can be broken up into the area of a rectangle and the area of a triangle, where area of a triangle = ( )( ) and the area of a rectangle = ( )( ). a. What is the probability that a randomly selected package of this type weighs at most 0.5 lb. b. What is the probability that a randomly selected package of this type weighs between 0.25 lb. and 0.5 lb. c. What is the probability that a randomly selected package of this type weighs at least 0.75 lb. d. The probability is defined on the interval . Verify that the area under the curve in this region is 1. 5. A plumbing service is able to respond to off-site emergency calls uniformly between 15 and 45 minutes. a. Find the PDF for this random variable, . b. Find ( ) c. Find ( ) d. Why are both of the above probabilities the same e. Find ( ). f. Find and interpret the real-world meaning of the expected value. g. Find and interpret the real-world meaning of the standard deviation. h. What is the probability that the service responds within 1.5 standard deviations of the expected time Statistics for Decision-Making in Business © Milos Podmanik Page 170
Statistics for Decision-Making in Business © Milos Podmanik Page 171
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Statistics for Decision- Making in
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A Note to Students This book is far
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Account Type Revenue ($) New $5,296
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1.3Statistics in Excel When conduct
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For measures such as the range, Exc
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Chapter 2 Visual Representations of
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Frequency To make solid black lines
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Relative Frequency Histogram of Cal
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2.3.2 Percentile Another useful too
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Chapter 3 Probability and Decision
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Proportion of Rainy Days 1.2 Propor
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Company 1 Choices Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y N
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3.3 Probability of Unions Imagine t
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Homework Problems - 3.3 1. A gaming
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Relative Frequency 35% 30% 25% 20%
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