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Title: Find the area under the standard normal curve to the left of z = 1.25.
Post by: jmountain on Mar 3, 2018
Find the area under the standard normal curve to the left of z = 1.25.
 
  A) 0.2318 B) 0.1056 C) 0.7682 D) 0.8944

Q. 2

A medical school claims that more than 28 of its students plan to go into general practice. It is found that among a random sample of 130 of the school's students, 39 of them plan to go into general practice.
 
  Find the P-value for a test of the school's claim.
  A) 0.0026 B) 0.9974 C) 0.0052 D) 0.1635

Q. 3

The partially filled contingency table gives the frequencies of the data on age (in years) and sex from the residents of a retirement home.
 
  Age (yrs)
   60-69 70-79 Over 79 Total
   Male 14 9 5
   Female 6 2 4
   Total
 
  What percentage of residents are female ?
  A) 31 B) 30.4 C) 30 D) 29.5

Q. 4

Dave drives to work each morning at about the same time. His commute time is normally distributed with a mean of 46 minutes and a standard deviation of 5 minutes.
 
  The percentage of time that his commute time exceeds 58 minutes is equal to the area under the standard normal curve that lies to the ___ of ___.
  A) right, 2.4 B) left, 1.2 C) right, 12 D) left, 2.4

Q. 5

A researcher wishes to estimate the proportion of all drivers who exceed the speed limit on a certain stretch of road where accidents frequently happen. Obtain a sample size that will ensure a margin of error of at most 0.
 
  022 for a 92 confidence interval.
  A) 20 B) 904 C) 35 D) 1582

Q. 6

Dave drives to work each morning at about the same time. His commute time is normally distributed with a mean of 49 minutes and a standard deviation of 8 minutes.
 
  The percentage of time that his commute time lies between 41 and 65 minutes is equal to the area under the standard normal curve between ___ and ___.
  A) -1.5, 1.5 B) 0, 1 C) -1, 2 D) -0.5, 2.5

Q. 7

True or False: The proportion of the population that has certain characteristics is the same as the probability that a randomly selected individual of the population has these same characteristics.
 
  A) False B) True

Q. 8

A company manufactures batteries in batches of 24 and there is a 3 rate of defects. Find the standard deviation for the random variable X, the number of defects per batch.
 
  A) 0.833 B) 0.818 C) 0.849 D) 0.836


Title: Find the area under the standard normal curve to the left of z = 1.25.
Post by: davis578 on Mar 3, 2018
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Title: Find the area under the standard normal curve to the left of z = 1.25.
Post by: jmountain on Mar 3, 2018
Makes tons more sense now! Vote with confidence people, these are all correct


Title: Find the area under the standard normal curve to the left of z = 1.25.
Post by: davis578 on Mar 3, 2018
:) Feeling super proud now