STATISTICS - DUE IN 2 HOURS

Some defendants in criminal proceedings plead guilty and are sentenced without a trial, whereas others who plead innocent are subsequently found guilty and then are sentenced. In recent years, legal scholars have speculated as to whether sentences of those who plead guilty differ in severity from sentences for those who plead innocent and are subsequently judged guilty. Consider the data given below on defendants accused of robbery, all of whom, by the way, had previous prison records. At the .01 level of significance, do these data suggest that the proportion of all defendants in these circumstances who plead guilty and are sent to prison differs from the proportion who are sent to prison after pleading innocent and being found guilty?

Reset Selection

Part 4 of 16 -

A null hypothesis can only be rejected at the 5% significance level if and only if:

Reset Selection

 A lab technician is tested for her consistency by taking multiple measurements of cholesterol levels from the same blood sample. The target accuracy is a variance in measurements of 1.2 or less. If the lab technician takes 16 measurements and the variance of the measurements in the sample is 2.2, does this provide enough evidence to reject the claim that the lab technician’s accuracy is within the target accuracy? At the  = .01 level of significance, what is your conclusion?

Reset Selection

If a teacher is trying to prove that a new method of teaching economics is more effective than a traditional one, he/she will conduct a:

Reset Selection

Part 5 of 16 -

The average gas mileage of a certain model car is 26 miles per gallon. If the gas mileages are normally distributed with a standard deviation of 1.3, find the probability that a randomly selected car of this model has a gas mileage between 25.8 and 26.3 miles per gallon.

Reset Selection

        In order to be accepted into a top university, applicants must score within the top 5% on the SAT exam. Given that SAT test scores are normally distributed with a mean of 1000 and a standard deviation of 200, what is the lowest possible score a student needs to qualify for acceptance into the university?

Reset Selection

Part 6 of 16 -

The standard normal distribution has a mean of ___ and standard deviation of ___, respectively.

Reset Selection

Part 7 of 16 -

The following data were obtained from a survey of college students. The variable X represents the number of non-assigned books read during the past six months.

What is the expected value of X?

Reset Selection

Part 8 of 16 -

The formal way to revise probabilities based on new information is to use:

Reset Selection

Part 9 of 16 -

Accepted characters: numbers, decimal point markers (period or comma), sign indicators (-), spaces (e.g., as thousands separator, 5 000), "E" or "e" (used in scientific notation). NOTE: For scientific notation, a period MUST be used as the decimal point marker.  Complex numbers should be in the form (a + bi) where "a" and "b" need to have explicitly stated values.  For example: {1+1i} is valid whereas {1+i} is not. {0+9i} is valid whereas {9i} is not.  Staples, a chain of large office supply stores, sells a line of desktop and laptop computers. Company executives want to know whether the demands for these two types of computers are dependent on one another. Each day's demand for each type of computers is categorized as Low, Medium-Low, Medium-High, or High. The data shown in the table below is based on 200 days of operation. Based on these data, can Staples conclude that demands for these two types of computers are independent? Test at the 5% level of significance.

What is the test value for this hypothesis test? Answer:     Round your answer to two decimal places. What is the critical value for this hypothesis test?   Answer:     Round your answer to two decimal places. What is the conclusion for this hypothesis test?  Choose one. 1.  At the .05 level of significance, Staples can conclude that demands for these two types of computers are independent. 2. At the .05 level of significance, Staples can conclude that demands for these two types of computers are dependent. Answer:     Enter only a 1 or 2 for your answer.

Part 10 of 16 -

Accepted characters: numbers, decimal point markers (period or comma), sign indicators (-), spaces (e.g., as thousands separator, 5 000), "E" or "e" (used in scientific notation). NOTE: For scientific notation, a period MUST be used as the decimal point marker.  Complex numbers should be in the form (a + bi) where "a" and "b" need to have explicitly stated values.  For example: {1+1i} is valid whereas {1+i} is not. {0+9i} is valid whereas {9i} is not.  Data for a sample of 25 apartments in a particular neighborhood are provided in the worksheet Apartments in the Excel workbook Apartments.xlsx. Using the estimated regression equation found by using size as the predictor variable, find a point estimate for the average monthly rent for apartments having 1,000 square feet of space. Place your answer, rounded to the nearest whole dollar, in the blank.   When entering your answer do not use any labels or symbols. Simply provide the numerical value. For example, 123 would be a legitimate entry. Apartments.xlsx

Part 11 of 16 -

Accepted characters: numbers, decimal point markers (period or comma), sign indicators (-), spaces (e.g., as thousands separator, 5 000), "E" or "e" (used in scientific notation). NOTE: For scientific notation, a period MUST be used as the decimal point marker.  Complex numbers should be in the form (a + bi) where "a" and "b" need to have explicitly stated values.  For example: {1+1i} is valid whereas {1+i} is not. {0+9i} is valid whereas {9i} is not.  Two teams of workers assemble automobile engines at a manufacturing plant in Michigan. A random sample of 145 assemblies from team 1 shows 15 unacceptable assemblies. A similar random sample of 125 assemblies from team 2 shows 8 unacceptable assemblies.  If you are interested in determining if there is sufficient evidence to conclude, at the 10% significance level, that the two teams differ with respect to their proportions of unacceptable assemblies, what is the test value you would use to conduct such a test of hypothesis?  Place your answer, rounded to 2 decimal places, in the blank. For example, 2.34 would be a legitimate entry.  

Part 12 of 16 -

Accepted characters: numbers, decimal point markers (period or comma), sign indicators (-), spaces (e.g., as thousands separator, 5 000), "E" or "e" (used in scientific notation). NOTE: For scientific notation, a period MUST be used as the decimal point marker.  Complex numbers should be in the form (a + bi) where "a" and "b" need to have explicitly stated values.  For example: {1+1i} is valid whereas {1+i} is not. {0+9i} is valid whereas {9i} is not.  Suppose that the average weekly earnings for employees in general automotive repair shops is $450, and that the standard deviation for the weekly earnings for such employees is $50. A sample of 100 such employees is selected at random.  Find the probability that the mean of the sample is between $445 and $455. Place your answer, rounded to 4 decimal places, in the blank. For example, 0.2345 would be a legitimate entry.  

Part 13 of 16 -

Accepted characters: numbers, decimal point markers (period or comma), sign indicators (-), spaces (e.g., as thousands separator, 5 000), "E" or "e" (used in scientific notation). NOTE: For scientific notation, a period MUST be used as the decimal point marker.  Complex numbers should be in the form (a + bi) where "a" and "b" need to have explicitly stated values.  For example: {1+1i} is valid whereas {1+i} is not. {0+9i} is valid whereas {9i} is not.  A marketing research consultant hired by Coca-Cola is interested in determining the proportion of customers who favor Coke over other soft drinks. A random sample of 400 consumers was selected from the market under investigation and showed that 53% favored Coca-Cola over other brands.  Compute a 95% confidence interval for the true proportion of people who favor Coke. Place your LOWER limit, rounded to 3 decimal places, in the first blank  . For example, .345 would be a legitimate entry. Place your UPPER limit in the second blank  . For example, .456 would be a legitimate entry. 

Part 14 of 16 -

Accepted characters: numbers, decimal point markers (period or comma), sign indicators (-), spaces (e.g., as thousands separator, 5 000), "E" or "e" (used in scientific notation). NOTE: For scientific notation, a period MUST be used as the decimal point marker.  Complex numbers should be in the form (a + bi) where "a" and "b" need to have explicitly stated values.  For example: {1+1i} is valid whereas {1+i} is not. {0+9i} is valid whereas {9i} is not.  Suppose that the probability that a new medication will cause a bad side effect is 0.03. If this medication is given to 150 people, what is the probability that more than three of them will experience a bad side effect? Place your answer, rounded to 4 decimal places, in the blank. For example, 0.1776 would be a legitimate answer.    

Part 15 of 16 -

Accepted characters: numbers, decimal point markers (period or comma), sign indicators (-), spaces (e.g., as thousands separator, 5 000), "E" or "e" (used in scientific notation). NOTE: For scientific notation, a period MUST be used as the decimal point marker.  Complex numbers should be in the form (a + bi) where "a" and "b" need to have explicitly stated values.  For example: {1+1i} is valid whereas {1+i} is not. {0+9i} is valid whereas {9i} is not.  The CEO of a software company is committed to expanding the proportion of highly qualified women in the organization’s staff of salespersons. He believes that the proportion of women in similar sales positions across the country is less than 45%. Hoping to find support for his belief, he directs you to test  H0: p   .45 vs H1: p < .45.  In doing so, you collect a random sample of 50 salespersons employed by his company, which is thought to be representative of sales staffs of competing organizations in the industry. The collected random sample of size 50 showed that only 18 were women.  What is the smallest level of significance at which you could reject the null in favor of the alternative hypothesis? Place your answer, rounded to 4 decimal places, in the blank. For example, 0.1234 would be a legitimate entry.  

Part 16 of 16 -

Accepted characters: numbers, decimal point markers (period or comma), sign indicators (-), spaces (e.g., as thousands separator, 5 000), "E" or "e" (used in scientific notation). NOTE: For scientific notation, a period MUST be used as the decimal point marker.  Complex numbers should be in the form (a + bi) where "a" and "b" need to have explicitly stated values.  For example: {1+1i} is valid whereas {1+i} is not. {0+9i} is valid whereas {9i} is not.  A restaurant menu has a price-fixed complete dinner that consists of an appetizer, entrée, beverage, and dessert. You have a choice of five appetizers, ten entrees, three beverages, and six desserts. How many possible complete dinners are possible? Place your answer, as a whole number—no decimal places—in the blank. For example 176 would be a legitimate entry