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Chapter 5: Q.5.29 (page 348)
Use the following information to answer the next eight exercises. A distribution is given as .
What is the theoretical mean?
The theoretical mean will be.
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a continuous probability function, is equal to and the function is restricted to . Describe.
Use the following information to answer the next eleven exercises. The age of cars in the staff parking lot of a suburban college is uniformly distributed from six months (0.5 years) to 9.5 years
In words, define the random variable X.
Use the following information to answer the next eleven exercises. The age of cars in the staff parking lot of a suburban college is uniformly distributed from six months (0.5 years) to 9.5 years.
Find the probability that a randomly chosen car in the lot was less than four years old;
a. Sketch the graph, and shade the area of interest.
b. Find the probability.
Find the probability that falls in the shaded area.
In a small city, the number of automobile accidents occur with a Poisson distribution at an average of three per week.
a. Calculate the probability that there are at most accidents occur in any given week.
b. What is the probability that there is at least two weeks between any accidents?
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