Questions from Statistics Principles


Q: The length of human pregnancies is approximately normal with mean = 266

The length of human pregnancies is approximately normal with mean = 266 days and standard deviation = 16 days. (a) What is the probability a randomly selected pregnancy lasts less than 260 days? (...

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Q: 24 Hour Fitness wants to administer a satisfaction survey to its current

24 Hour Fitness wants to administer a satisfaction survey to its current members. Using its membership roster, the club randomly selects 40 club members and asks them about their level of satisfaction...

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Q: The upper leg length of 20- to 29-year-

The upper leg length of 20- to 29-year-old males is approximately normal with a mean length of 43.7 cm and a standard deviation of 4.2 cm. Source: “Anthropometric Reference Data for Children and Adult...

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Q: The reading speed of second-grade students is approximately normal,

The reading speed of second-grade students is approximately normal, with a mean of 90 words per minute (wpm) and a standard deviation of 10 wpm. (a) What is the probability a randomly selected student...

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Q: The most famous geyser in the world, Old Faithful in Yellowstone

The most famous geyser in the world, Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park, has a mean time between eruptions of 85 minutes. If the interval of time between eruptions is approximately normal with...

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Q: The S&P 500 is a collection of 500 stocks of

The S&P 500 is a collection of 500 stocks of publicly traded companies. Using data obtained from Yahoo! Finance, the monthly rates of return of the S&P 500 since 1950 are approximately normal. The mea...

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Q: A very good poker player is expected to earn $1 per

A very good poker player is expected to earn $1 per hand in $100/$200 Texas Hold’em. The standard deviation is approximately $32. (a) What is the probability a very good poker player earns a profit (m...

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Q: The shape of the distribution of the time required to get an

The shape of the distribution of the time required to get an oil change at a 10-minute oil-change facility is skewed right. However, records indicate that the mean time for an oil change is 11.4 minut...

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Q: The quality-control manager of a Long John Silver’s restaurant wants

The quality-control manager of a Long John Silver’s restaurant wants to analyze the length of time that a car spends at the drive-thru window waiting for an order. It is determined that the mean time...

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Q: The Food and Drug Administration sets Food Defect Action Levels (FDALs

The Food and Drug Administration sets Food Defect Action Levels (FDALs) for some of the various foreign substances that inevitably end up in the food we eat and liquids we drink. For example, the FDAL...

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