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If twо items аre perfectly cоrrelаted, bоth should be included in аn index.

If twо items аre perfectly cоrrelаted, bоth should be included in аn index.

If twо items аre perfectly cоrrelаted, bоth should be included in аn index.

If twо items аre perfectly cоrrelаted, bоth should be included in аn index.

(12 pоints) Every week yоu buy а ticket in а lоttery thаt offers one chance in a million of winning.  If you play every week for twenty-five years, what is the chance that you will never win?  (Note: there are 25 times 52 weeks in twenty-five years = 1300 weeks.) (12 points) Indicate whether each statement is true or false. Briefly justify your answer using an example or concepts discussed in class. Suppose we pick a random business in Santa Clara right now.  Let be the event the business is currently open. Then the event  and its complement, are mutually exclusive. Suppose on Friday the weatherman says that there is a 50% chance of rain for Saturday and a 50% chance of rain on Sunday. This means that there is a 100% chance it will rain sometime this weekend. (12 points) Adriana, a botanist is studying a new hybrid Kentucky blue grass seed. It is known that these grass seeds have a 91% chance of germinating.  Adriana plants a random sample of 31 seeds. She is interested in the number of seeds that will germinate. Check the conditions that this experiment satisfies the criteria for a Binomial Probability Experiment. Calculate the mean (expected value) and standard deviation of the number of seeds that germinate. Would it be unusual for Adriana to have 24 seeds germinate? (18 points) Accrotime is a manufacturer of quartz crystal watches.  Accrotime researchers have shown that the watches have an average life of 35 months before the electronics fail causing the time to become unreliable.  The standard deviation of watch lifetimes is 7 months.  Assuming the lifetimes are normally distributed. What percentage of watches last between 30 months and 45 months? The company offers a 24-month replacement guarantee on the life of the watch. What percentage of watches will need replacement before 24 months? The company wants to offer replacements to only 4.5% of customers. How long (in months) should the guarantee be for? (16 points) An insurance company knows that in the entire population of millions of apartment owners, the mean annual loss from damage is $90 and the standard deviation of the losses is $475.  The population distribution of losses is strongly right skewed: most policies have $0 loss, but a few have large losses.  If the company considers its 10,000 policy holders as a simple random sample from this population, this sample will be large enough for the central limit theorem to apply. Determine the expected value and standard error of mean loss among the sample of 10,000 policy holders. Check that the conditions for the central limit theorem apply. Find the probability that the insurance companies 10,000 policy holders experience a mean loss less than $83. Find the probability that the insurance companies 10,000 policy holders experience a mean loss of between 91 and 103. (12 points) Suppose that 37% of all college students would rent textbooks if that option were available to them. If a polling group chose a simple random sample of 1279 students from the population.  Find the sampling distribution for the proportion of the sample would rent textbooks if that option were available Find the probability that percentage of students in the sample who would rent textbooks is between 35% and 38%. (12 points) A national health organization warns that 25% of all middle school students nationwide have been drunk. Concerned, a local health agency randomly and anonymously surveys a simple random sample of 220 students. Only 42 of the students surveyed report having been drunk. The city wants an 99% confidence interval for the proportion of their students that have been drunk. Compute the estimated standard error. Compute the margin of error for a 99% confidence interval. Construct the 99% confidence interval for the proportion. (12 points) A market research company surveyed 38 people, asking how much money they spent on their child’s last birthday gift. The sample distribution was roughly bell shaped with a mean of $39.25 and a standard deviation of $9.50. These results yielded a 95% confidence interval for the average amount parents spend on their child’s birthday gifts of between $36.13 and $42.37. The company would like to tell toy manufacturers to expect parents to spend an average of $40 on birthday gifts. Does the confidence interval support this claim? The company used the same data to compute another confidence interval this time concluding the mean amount spent was between $36.65 and $41.85. In this second confidence interval, is the confidence level higher or lower than 95%.  Briefly explain. The company wants to do a similar study with a different sample.  They want to keep the confidence level at 95% but make the confidence interval narrower. What do you recommend they do? Copy the following fill in the blank with your name. Below the statement add your signature and todays date.I ___________ certify that the work I submit with this exam has been my own, written in my own words, and done according to the rules above.­­­­­­­­­­­______________________ __________________           (Signature)                                                        (Date)

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