Population Proportion — Unit test Answers

Sarah randomly selected 80 shoppers at a grocery store to taste two different types of Greek yogurt. Yogurt brand B was chosen as the favorite by 53 of them.

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The life spans of a computer manufacturer’s hard drives are normally distributed, with a mean of 3 years 6 months and a standard deviation of 9 months. What is the probability of a randomly selected hard drive from the company lasting between 2 years 3 months and 3 years 3 months? Use the portion of the standard normal table below to help answer the question.zProbability0.000.50000.230.59100.330.62930.670.74861.000.84131.330.90821.670.95252.000.9772

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A graph with both axes numbered 1 to 10. A line increases from 1 to 3 then decreases from 3 to 5.

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The times of all 15 year olds who run a certain race are approximately normally distributed with a given mean = 18 sec and standard deviation = 1.2 sec. What percentage of the runners have times less than 14.4 sec?

The times taken to assemble a clock at a factory are approximately normally distributed with a given mean = 3 hr and standard deviation = 0.5 hr. What percentage of the times are between 2 hr and 4 hr?

What is the formula for margin of error?

The set of life spans of an appliance is normally distributed with a mean = 48 months and a standard deviation = 8 months. What is the life span of an appliance that has a z-score of –3?

The grades of a science test are normally distributed. Thanh finds that his grade on the test has a z-score of –2.5. Which statement must be true?

A gymnastics coach records the scores of a gymnast and develops the probability distribution below. What is the probability the gymnast scores a 9 or 9.5?Probability DistributionGymnastics Score: XProbability: P(X)50.025.50.0260.066.50.170.167.50.1480.188.50.189?9.50.02

The president of the math club is conducting a survey to see where the twelfth-grade class wants to go on their field trip. Instead of asking the whole class, she surveys only the twelfth-grade members of the math club. She records their choices and plans to present the results to the school principal. What type of sampling did she use?

The table shows the value of a savings bond that doubles in value after 5 years.

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?