Stat 315 Recommended Homework 2 Chapter 5

Chapter 5
5-4.

x = 2121.667
s = 1737.714
Basic Statistics from Raw Data
Measures of Central tendency
Mean 2121.6667

Median

Measures of Dispersion
If the data is of a
Sample
Population
Variance 3019651.52
St. Dev. 1737.71445

5.5. average price = 4.367

standard deviation = 0.3486

Basic Statistics from Raw Data

Measures of Central tendency
Mean 4.3676471

Median

Measures of Dispersion
If the data is of a
Sample
Population
Variance 0.12154412
St. Dev. 0.34863178

5.6. p = x/n = 11/18 = 0.6111, where x = the number of users of the product.
5-19.

P X 8 = 1 P X < 8 = 1 P(8 < X < 8)

8
8

< Z<
= 1 P(1.78 < Z < 1.78)
55 / 150
55 / 150

= 1 P

= 1 2(.4625) = 0.075

5-21.

12 13.1

P(12 < X < 15) = P

1.2 / 36

< Z<

15 13.1

1.2 / 36

= P(5.5 < Z < 9.5) = 2 (.5) = 1.000 (approximately)

(Use template: Sampling Distribution.xls, sheet: x-bar)
Sampling Distribution of Sample Mean
Population Distribution
Mean
13.1

Stdev
1.2

Sample Size
n
36

Sampling Distribution of X-bar

Mean
Stdev
13.1
0.2
P(x1<X<x2)
1.0000

x1
12

5-23.

Is the population normal?

p = 0.18

x2
15

n = 200

P( P .20 ) = P Z

.02
= P Z
= P(Z .736)
.02717
(.18)(.82) / 200

.20 .18

= .5 .2692 = 0.2308

5.27.

5-27.

p = 1/7

P( P < .10) = P Z <

= P(Z < 1.648) = 0.5 0.4503 =

(1 / 7)(6 / 7) / 180
.10 .143

0.0497, a low probability. The sample size, along with np and n(1 p), are large enough
here that the sample distribution (over all the different samples of 180 people in the
population) of the proportion of people who get hospitalized during the year is going to
be pretty close to normal. Therefore, any one such sample proportion will be close to the
predicted mean 1/7 with reasonable probability, and 1/10 is far enough away from that
mean given our estimated sample standard deviation that the probability of falling even
farther away than that from the mean is small.

5-28.

= 700

= 100

n = 60

680 700
720 700

Z
P(680 X 720) = P
100 / 60
100 / 60
= 2TA(1.549) = 0.8786