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Chapter 5: Q.5.33 (page 348)
Use the following information to answer the next eight exercises. A distribution is given as.
Find the percentile
The value ofpercentile is.
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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?
Find the percentage of carbon-14 lasting longer than 10,000 years.
a. Sketch the graph, and shade the area of interest.
Find the probability. P(x > 10,000) = ________
Find the amount (percent of one gram) of carbon-14 lasting less than 5,730 years. This means, find P(x < 5,730).
a. Sketch the graph, and shade the area of interest
b. Find the probability. P(x < 5,730) = __________
Use the following information to answer the next seven exercises. A distribution is given as What is the probability density function?
55.
A customer service representative must spend different
amounts of time with each customer to resolve various concerns. The amount of time spent with each customer can be
modelled by the following distribution:
Find the 70th percentile.
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