You are interested in the number of English-speaking people on the planet who want to play a new kind of online video game. You asked 300 college students if they were interested in playing video games, 100 said yes, and of them 20 preferred your game to an existing game that is widely used.
How many people were in the sample?
What is the expected number of successes (balloons popped) when throwing 5 darts (rounded to two decimal places)?
Select one:
a. 1.41
b. 1.00
c. 2.50
d. 0.75
e. 0.50
What is the probability of getting 4 or more successes (popped balloons) in 5 throws (rounded to two decimal places)?
Select one:
a. 0.00
b. 0.98
c. 0.07
d. 0.33
e. 0.12
A Poisson distribution called Q has an expectation of 4. Which of the following R commands would tell you the probability that a randomly selected value from Q is less than 6 and greater than or equal to 4 (read the question carefully)?
Select one:
a. ppois(6, 4) - ppois(3, 4)
b. ppois(6, lambda=4) - ppois(4, lambda=4)
c. ppois(5, 4) - ppois(3, 4)
d. ppois(5, 4) - ppois(4, 4)
e. ppois(6 - 4, lambda=4)
At a small store, a customer enters the front door on average every 8 minutes. A prior study indicated that the time between customers entering the front door during weekdays follows an exponential distribution. What is the probability that the time between customers entering the store on a weekday will be less than or equal to 7?
Select one:
a. 0.62
b. 0.43
c. 1/8
d. 7/8
e. 0.58
You read a research paper that applies to your industry, and it says that when people are given a list of facts about your product, they are more likely to buy your product and that the difference between the regular amount of sales and the sales when people read the list of facts is 3 standard deviations. How would you describe the difference of 3 standard deviations (select the best answer)?
Select one:
a. Cannot tell because the units are not specified.
b. It is a small difference because 3 is a small number.
c. It is an important difference because a 3 standard deviation difference would be expected due to random chance in less than 1% of the cases.
d. It is NOT an important difference because with each sample there is variation and the difference could be due to chance.
e. Cannot tell because the sample size is not given.
Use the following information for the next three questions.
At a medium-sized airport, mechanics need to replace tires on some of the airplanes each week because the tread on the tires is below the safe limit. You collected 36 weeks of data and observed that the numbers followed a Poisson distribution and that there was an average of 2 tires replaced per week.
What is the lambda value for the Poisson distribution?
Select one:
a. 0
b. 1/2
c. 1
d. 2
e. sqrt(1/2)
If we know that the expectation is 2, what is the standard deviation of the Poisson distribution?
Select one:
a. 1/2
b. sqrt(2)
c. 1 / sqrt(2)
d. 2
e. 2 / sqrt(n)
Traffic at the airport changed recently, and you collected 36 weeks of data in an effort to estimate the new rate of tire replacements. You found that the average tire replacements per week was 2 and the numbers followed a Poisson distribution, but you realize that your sample might not be 100% accurate. What is the 99th percentile of the sampling distribution of the mean of tires replaced per week (based on the observed mean of 2 and the sample size of 36)?
Select one:
a. qnorm(.99, mean=2, sd=sqrt(1/2))
b. pnorm(.99, mean=2, sd=2)
c. pnorm(.99, mean=2, sd=1/sqrt(2))
d. qnorm(.99, mean=2, sd=sqrt(2)/6)
e. qnorm(.99, mean=2, sd=1/2)
The mean weekly sales per employee at a nationwide store is normally distributed with a mean of $7,300 per week and a standard deviation of $700. What is the probability that a randomly selected employee will have sales less than $6,500?
Select one:
a. 0.03
b. 0.13
c. 0.23
d. 0.33
e. 0.43
The time between incoming customer service calls to a computer-repair hotline follows an exponential distribution with an expectation of 2 minutes between calls. What is the probability that the time between calls will be less than 1 minute for a randomly selected period?
Select one:
a. 0.44
b. 0.31
c. 0.39
d. 0.61
e. 0.07
The time between customer service calls to a computer-repair hotline follows an exponential distribution with an expectation of 2 minutes between calls. We collect calls for 40 minutes at random times during the month (a sample of size n=40). What is the probability that the mean of our sampling distribution will be greater than 2.2 minutes?
Select one:
a. 0.17
b. 0.26
c. 0.37
d. 0.68
e. 0.78