Step Functions — Cumulative exam Answers

Car insurance companies want to keep track of the average cost per claim. The current data in use for Auto Insurance R Us is an average of $2,200 for each claim with a standard deviation of $500. With this average, the company can stay competitive with rates but not lose money. However, the statistician for the company believes that the cost of the average claim has increased. He pulled 40 recent claims and found the average to be $2,350. Which most restrictive level of significance would suggest that the company should raise rates? Upper-Tail Valuesa5%2.5%1%Critical z-values1.651.962.58

Twelve education students, in groups of four, are taking part in a student-teacher program. Mark cannot be in the first group because he will be arriving late.How many ways can the instructor choose the first group of four education students?

A farmer grows vegetables on seven acres, fruit on six acres, and flowers on two acres. Out in his fields, he finds a ladybug.To the nearest tenth of a percent, what is the theoretical probability that the ladybug was not found within the acres of flowers?

Which expression is equivalent to the following complex fraction?

A textbook company states that the average time a student needs to take a quiz from its book is 30 minutes with a standard deviation of 3 minutes. A teacher using the book is not sure that this is correct for her classes and wants to check. She collects data on 10 random students and finds that the average time to take the quiz was only 25 minutes. As a result, the teacher performs a two-tailed hypothesis test with a significance level of 5%. Which conclusion is valid based on the results of the test?

An angle measuring (870n)° is in standard position. For which value of n will the terminal side fall on the y-axis?

The number of absences for one week for all students at a high school were compiled, and the probability distribution below was created. What is the probability in any given week that a randomly selected student will be absent no more than one day?Probability DistributionDays Absent: XProbability: P(X)00.7810.1420.0330.014050.04

A local newspaper compiles data on the number of days, X, people in a neighborhood receive the newspaper. The probability distribution for the data is shown in the table below. What is the probability that a randomly chosen person receives the newspaper at least one day per week?

Opal is collecting data on water levels in different parts of town. She notices that her sample data has a low-value outlier. Which statement must be true?

Which formula gives the zeros of y = sin(x)?

Using V = lwh, what is an expression for the volume of the following rectangular prism?

A sequence can be defined by the explicit formula . Which recursive formula represents the same sequence of numbers?

Four girls and six boys are in a Spanish club. Three of the people will be chosen at random to represent the group in a photograph.What is the probability that one girl and two boys will be chosen?

Miriam is visiting five friends in her neighborhood, Louise, Mike, Nicole, Oscar, and Pascal. In each arrangement below, the first initial of each person’s name represents that person’s position as he or she is visited by Miriam.Which shows all the outcomes for this event if she visits with Nicole first and Louise last?

A certain company has a fixed cost of $200 per day. It costs the company $3.10 per unit to make its products. The company is tracking its average cost to make x units using . Which statement is true?

Which graph shows the solution to the equation below?

Which measure is of an angle that is coterminal with a 95° angle?

Weston completed a hypothesis test and found that he could not reject the null hypothesis. Which of the following is a valid reason for his conclusion?

Which of the following represents the measures of all angles coterminal with a –220° angle?

What is the solution of ?