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A study is to be made to estimate the percentage of citizens in a town who favor having their water fluoridated. How large a sample is needed if one wishes to be at least 95% confident that the estima...
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A certain geneticist is interested in the proportion of males and females in the population who have a minor blood disorder. In a random sample of 1000 males, 250 are found to be afflicted, whereas 27...
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In the study Germination and Emergence of Broccoli, conducted by the Department of Horticulture at Virginia Tech, a researcher found that at 5◦ C, 10 broccoli seeds out of 20 germinated, while at 15◦...
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A survey of 1000 students found that 274 chose professional baseball team A as their favorite team. In a similar survey involving 760 students, 240 of them chose team A as their favorite. Compute a 95...
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How large a sample is needed in Exercise 9.3 if we wish to be 95% confident that our sample mean will be within 0.0005 inch of the true mean? Exercise 9.3 Many cardiac patients wear an implanted pace...
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According to USA Today (March 17, 1997), women made up 33.7% of the editorial staff at local TV stations in the United States in 1990 and 36.2% in 1994. Assume 20 new employees were hired as editorial...
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A manufacturer of car batteries claims that the batteries will last, on average, 3 years with a variance of 1 year. If 5 of these batteries have lifetimes of 1.9, 2.4, 3.0, 3.5, and 4.2 years, constru...
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