Questions from Statistics Principles


Q: The salmon fisheries support a primary industry in Alaska and their management

The salmon fisheries support a primary industry in Alaska and their management is of high priority. Salmon are born in freshwater rivers and streams but then swim out into the ocean for a few years be...

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Q: Refer to the alligator data in the Data Bank. Using the

Refer to the alligator data in the Data Bank. Using the data on x5 for thirty-seven alligators: (a) Make a histogram. (b) Obtain the sample mean and standard deviation.

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Q: Refer to Exercise 2.124. (a) Obtain

Refer to Exercise 2.124. (a) Obtain the quartiles. (b) Obtain the 90th percentile. How many of the alligators above the 90th percentile are female? Data from Exercise 2.124: Refer to the alligator d...

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Q: Refer to the data on malt extract in the Data Bank.

Refer to the data on malt extract in the Data Bank. (a) Obtain sample mean and standard deviation. (b) Obtain quartiles. (c) Check conformity with the empirical rule.

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Q: In an optical sensory experiment, a subject shows a fast response

In an optical sensory experiment, a subject shows a fast response ( F ), a delayed response ( D ), or no response at all ( N ). The experiment will be performed on two subjects. (a) Using a tree diag...

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Q: Four upper level undergraduate students are available to serve on a committee

Four upper level undergraduate students are available to serve on a committee. Two students will be selected at random to serve on the committee. Let A = The students selected are of the same gender....

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Q: A local moving company owns 12 trucks. Three are randomly selected

A local moving company owns 12 trucks. Three are randomly selected for compliance with emission standards and all are found to be noncompliant. The company argues that these are the only three that do...

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Q: In all of William Shakespeare's works, he used 884,647

In all of William Shakespeare's works, he used 884,647 different words. Of these, 14,376 appeared only once and 4343 appeared twice. If one word is randomly selected from a list of these 884,647 diffe...

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Q: An IRS auditor receives a batch of 20 tax returns that were

An IRS auditor receives a batch of 20 tax returns that were flagged by a computer program for possible tax evasions. Suppose, unknown to the agent, 8 of these returns have illegal deductions and the o...

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Q: Repeat (a) and (b) of Exercise 2.

Repeat (a) and (b) of Exercise 2.57 for the data set 5 9 -2 Data from Exercise 2.57: For the data set 6 2 4 (a) Calculate the deviations (x - x) and check to see that they add up to 0. (b) Calculate...

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