MAA 161 STATISTICS FOR SCIENCES STUDENTS TUTORIAL 5

1. A large retail company encourages its employees to get customers to apply for the store credit card. Below is the distribution for the number of credit card applications received per employee for an 8 hour shift. X 0 1 2 3 4 5 P(X) 0.27 0.28 0.20 0.15 0.08 0.02 a. What is the probability that an employee will get 2 or 3 applications during any given shift? b. Find the mean, variance, and standard deviation for this probability distribution. 2. Construct a probability distribution for a family with 4 children and construct a bar graph for this probability. Let X be the number of girl. 3. A game is set up as follows: All the diamonds are removed from a deck of cards, and these 13 cards are placed in a bag. The cards are mixed up, and then one card is chosen at random (and then replaced). The player wins according to following rules: If the ace is drawn, the player loses $20. If a face card is drawn, the player wins $10. If any other card (2-10) is drawn, the player wins $2. How much should be charged to play this game order for it to be fair? 4. Three out of four American adults under age 35 have eaten pizza for breakfast. If a random sample of 20 adults under age 35 is selected, find the probability that exactly 16 have eaten pizza for breakfast. 5. The chance that a U.S. police chief believes the death penalty significantly reduces the number of homicides is 1 in 4. If a random sample of 8 police chiefs is selected, find the probability that at most 3 believe that the death penalty significantly reduces the number of homicides. 6. If 80% of job applicants are able to pass a computer literacy test, find the mean, variance, and standard deviation of the number of people who pass the examination in a sample of 150 applicants. 7. At a food bank a case of donated items contains 10 cans of soup, 8 cans of vegetables, and 8 cans of fruit. If 3 cans are selected at random to distribute, find the probability of getting 1 vegetable and 2 cans of fruit.

8. Of the 50 automobiles in a used-car lot, 10 are white. If 5 automobiles are selected to be sold at an auction, find the probability that exactly 2 will be white. 9. Computer Help Hot Line receives, on average, 6 calls per hour asking for assistance. The distribution is Poisson. For any randomly selected hour, find the probability that the company will receive a. at least 6 calls. b. 4 or more calls. c. at most 5 calls. 10. Transportation officials reported that 8.25 out of every 1000 airline passengers lost luggage during their travels last year. If we randomly select 400 airline passengers, what is the probability that 5 lost their luggage?