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Chapter 6: Random Variables and Probability Models – Quiz A
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6.1.2 Find the expected value and standard deviation of a random variable.
1. A fast food restaurant just leased a new freezer and food fryer for three years. The
service contract for the freezer offers unlimited repairs for a fee of $125 a year plus a $35
service charge for each repair needed. The restaurant’s research indicates that during a
given year 80% of these freezers need no repairs, 11% needed to be serviced once, 5%
twice, 4% three times, and none required more than three repairs.
a. Find the expected number of repairs for this freezer per year.
c. What are the mean and standard deviation of the restaurant’s annual expense with the
service contract for the freezer?
a. What is the probability that exactly 7 will be resolved within one hour?
b. What is the probability that at least 7 will be resolved within one hour?
c. How many customers would be expected to have their service problems resolved
within one hour?
a. What is the probability that fewer than 3 calls are received per hour?
b. What is the probability that at least 3 calls are received per hour?
c. What is the probability that more than 6 calls are received per hour?
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a. What is the probability that the fourth part retrieved from stock is the first defective?
b. What is the probability that the tenth part retrieved from stock is defective?
c. What is the expected number of parts retrieved until the first defective part?
1. A fast food restaurant just leased a new freezer and food fryer for three years. The
service contract for the freezer offers unlimited repairs for a fee of $125 a year plus a $35
service charge for each repair needed. The restaurant’s research indicates that during a
given year 80% of these freezers need no repairs, 11% needed to be serviced once, 5%
twice, 4% three times, and none required more than three repairs.
a. Find the expected number of repairs for this freezer per year.
E(X) = 0(0.80) + 1(0.11) + 2(0.05) + 3(0.04) = 0.33 repairs
c. What are the mean and standard deviation of the restaurant’s annual expense with the
service contract for the freezer?
Let C = $125 + $35X; E(C) = $125 + $35(0.33) = $136.55
SD(C) = $35(0.72) = $25.20
a. What is the probability that exactly 7 will be resolved within one hour?
Use binomial with n = 10, p = .80. Find P (X = 7) = .2013
b. What is the probability that at least 7 will be resolved within one hour?
P (X >= 7) = .8791
c. How many customers would be expected to have their service problems resolved
within one hour?
E(X) = np = 10(.80) = 8 customers
3. Suppose that incoming calls per hour to a customer service center of a small credit
union are uniformly distributed between 0 and 6 calls.
a. What is the probability that fewer than 3 calls are received per hour?
3/7
b. What is the probability that at least 3 calls are received per hour?
4/7
c. What is the probability that more than 6 calls are received per hour?
0
4. A specific automotive part that a service station stocks in its inventory has an 8%
chance of being defective. Suppose many cars come into the service station needing this
part each week.
a. What is the probability that the fourth part retrieved from stock is the first defective?
Use the geometric with p = .08. Find P(X = 4) = .923.08 = .0623
b. What is the probability that the tenth part retrieved from stock is defective?
Use the geometric with p = .08. Find P(X = 10) = .929.08 = .0378
c. What is the expected number of parts retrieved until the first defective part?
E(X) = 1/p = 1/.08 = 12.5 parts.
6.1.2 Find the expected value and standard deviation of a random variable.
1. A small business just leased a new presentation equipment and a color laser printer for
three years. The service contract for the computer offers unlimited repairs for a fee of
$100 a year plus a $25 service charge for each repair needed. The company’s research
indicates that during a given year 86% of these computers need no repairs, 9% need to be
repaired once, 4% twice, 1% three times, and none required more than three repairs.
a. Find the expected number of repairs for this kind of computer per year.
c. What are the mean and standard deviation of the company’s annual expense with the
service contract for the computer?
6.1.2 Find the expected value and standard deviation of a random variable.
2. A local unemployment office keeps track of the number of new claims filed each day.
Based on the data collected, it determines that the following probability distribution
applies:
b. What is the standard deviation in the number of new claims filed each day?
c. What is the expected number of new claims filed each week? Assume the
unemployment office is open 5 days a week.
d. What is the standard deviation in the number of new claims filed each week? Assume
the unemployment office is open 5 days a week.
6.1.2 Find the expected value and standard deviation of a random variable.
3. It is estimated that 20% of luxury cars manufactured in 2012 were silver. A car
dealership typically sells 20 luxury cars per month.
a. What is the probability that 8 of the luxury cars sold per month are silver?
b. What is the probability that more than 10 of the luxury cars sold per month are silver?
c. How many silver luxury cars would you expect are sold per month?
b. What is the probability that a sheet of this size has no more than 2 imperfections?
c. What is the probability that a sheet half this size (18 sq. ft.) has 2 imperfections?
Language: Italian
IL RICHIAMO
DELLA FORESTA
ROMANZO
PREFAZIONE E TRADUZIONE DI
GIAN DÀULI
MCMXXIV
MODERNISSIMA
MILANO
PROPRIETÀ LETTERARIA RISERVATA
Stab. Tipo-Lit. FED. SACCHETTI & C. — Via Zecca
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INDICE
JACK LONDON
Credo che non vi sia scrittore il quale abbia vissuto e sofferto, amato
e odiato con tanta disperata e selvaggia intensità, come Jack
London. I Gorki, i Dostoiewski, gli Upton Sinclair, i Rimbaud, i
Baudelaire, tra miserie fisiche e morali, hanno saputo, sì,
rappresentare visioni mai concepite da altri, ma vivendo una vita
che, per quanto agitata, non soffrì che in parte del grandioso e
avventuroso travaglio che agitò l’esistenza dura ed eroica del grande
scrittore americano, le cui opere suscitano in noi sentimenti di paura
e di tenerezza, di amore e di dolore e, soprattutto, di ammirazione.
Ci pare di trovarci di fronte all’uomo delle caverne che riveli alla
nostra sensibilità moderna i misteri e le ferree leggi della vita
primitiva.
Perciò, con senso di pena, ho visto in questi giorni pubblicata, a cura
del Prezzolini, la prima traduzione italiana di uno dei romanzi di Jack
London, «Il lupo di mare», come uno dei tanti libri per ragazzi. Poveri
innocenti! Le opere di London affidate nelle mani di adolescenti che
s’affacciano alla vita, e non conoscono ancora il male, e ignorano i
feroci egoismi degli uomini, la cecità del Dio cristiano, le leggi
inesorabili della natura? Quale errore!
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