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Chapter 5: Q.5.37 (page 348)
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.
The interval of values for x is ______.
The nterval of values for x is.
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The number of miles driven by a truck driver falls between , and follows a uniform distribution.
a. Find the probability that the truck driver goes more than miles in a day.
b. Find the probability that the truck drivers goes between miles in a day.
c. At least how many miles does the truck driver travel on the furthest of days?
Use the following information to answer the next ten exercises. 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 modeled by the following distribution:
What is m? What does it represent?
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.
Are the data discrete or continuous?
Which type of distribution does the graph illustrate?
According to the American Red Cross, about one out of nine people in the U.S. have Type B blood. Suppose the blood types of people arriving at a blood drive are independent. In this case, the number of Type B blood types that arrive roughly follows the Poisson distribution.
a. If people arrive, how many on average would be expected to have Type B blood?
b. What is the probability that over people out of these 100 have type B blood?
c. What is the probability that more than people arrive before a person with type B blood is found?
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