Exercise Chapter 1

1.4:

e.g.: A manufacturer claims that less than 10% of its products are defective. When 1000 chips were drawn from a
large production run, 7.5% were found to be defective.

What is the population of interest?

a. The population of interest is the chips in a large production, or production run.

b. The 1000 chips are sample out of 10000 products.

c. the parameter is the proportion of defective chips in the population, 10% is a parameter.

d. the statics is the proportion of the defective chips which is 7.5% which is taken from sample.

e. yes, the 10% of production is a parameter, because which has taken from whole production run. As
the parameter definition is the proportion of measurement come from population.

f. the value of 7.5% refers to the statistics, because it describe the defective chips in sample.

g. statics inference allow us to determine the confidence of the defective chips in a 10% parameter and
also significant of the non-defective.

According the parameter, statics inference say that 7.5% of chips are confedincely defective and 2.5% of
10% is non defective.

1.8

a. Population is large number of taxi in fleet.

b. The parameter is the mean proportion of propane mileages of all cars in the fleet.
c. The sample is 50 taxies
d. The statistic is the average of the all 50 taxies mileage which is 19.8 Mile/per Gallon.
e. The statics come from the 50 propane taxi will give this difference of gasoline mileage in a gallon
and propane in a gallon. This will give the estimation of the total distance and cost of mileage
of gasoline per gallon and the mileage of propane per gallon. This statics will give the near
estimation of next year’s operation cost.