MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications
6th Edition
ISBN: 9781119256830
Author: Amos Gilat
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
expand_more
expand_more
format_list_bulleted
Concept explainers
Question
ward Doering Auto Sales is considering offering a special service contract that will cover
the total cost of any service work required on leased vehicles. From experience, the company manager estimates that yearly service costs are approximately
with a mean of $150 and a standard deviation of $25.
a. If the company offers the service contract to customers for a yearly charge of $200, what
is the probability that any one customer’s service costs will exceed the contract price of
$200?
b. what is ward’s expected profit per service contract?
Expert Solution
This question has been solved!
Explore an expertly crafted, step-by-step solution for a thorough understanding of key concepts.
This is a popular solution
Trending nowThis is a popular solution!
Step by stepSolved in 2 steps with 3 images
Knowledge Booster
Learn more about
Need a deep-dive on the concept behind this application? Look no further. Learn more about this topic, statistics and related others by exploring similar questions and additional content below.Similar questions
- A ski lift states a maximum capacity is 12 people or 2004lb. A worst-case scenario would be 12 adult male passengers since they tend to be heavier verse women and children. Assume adult male weights are normally distributed with a mean of 188.6 lb and a standard deviation of 38.9 lb. A. If 12 men weighed exactly 2004 lb, what would be the average weight? B. Find the probability that a single man will have a weight greater than your result from A. C. Find the probability that a single man will have a weight greater than your result from A. Does the ski lift appear to have the correct weight limit from these results?arrow_forwardThe lengths of pregnancies are normally distributed with a mean of 268 days and a standard deviation of 15 days. a. A wife claimed to have given birth 308 days after a brief visit from her husband, who was serving in the Navy. Find the probability of a pregnancy lasting 308 days or longer. b. A baby is premature if the length of pregnancy is in the lowest 3%. Find the length that separates premature babies from those who are not premature. Must use Excel to solve! To translate/copy the numbers ONLY is ok. You CANNOT copy the entire question onto Excel. Otherwise, 10% penalty will apply! Search SAMSUNGarrow_forwardBeef Consumption. According to Food Consumption, Prices, and Expenditures, published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the mean consumption of beef per person in 2011 was 57.5 lb. A sample of 40 people taken this year yielded the data, in pounds, on last year’s beef consumption given on the WeissStats site. Use the technology of your choice to do the following. a. Obtain a normal probability plot, a boxplot, a histogram, and a stem-and-leaf diagram of the data on beef consumptions. b. Decide, at the 5% significance level, whether last year’s mean beef consumption is less than the 2011 mean of 57.5 lb. Apply the onemean t-test. c. The sample data contain four potential outliers: 0, 0, 0, and 13. Remove those four observations, repeat the hypothesis test in part (b), and compare your result with that obtained in part (b). d. Assuming that the four potential outliers are not recording errors, comment on the advisability of removing them from the sample data before performing the…arrow_forward
- Solve the attached problemarrow_forwardAn insurance company wants to make sure that its best customers (those with lowest value of insurance claims) stay with the company. To achieve this goal, the company plans to offer a 10% discount on the annual health insurance premium for customers with the lowest 20% of annual health care expenses. If the average annual health care expenses for a family of four is $3,650 with a standard deviation of $975, what is the amount of the maximum annual health care expense that will qualify for the proposed discount?arrow_forwardIf a payoff is equally likely to be $1, $2, $3, $4, or $5, the square of the standard deviation is: O 0. Ⓒ 2. O 4. O 10. O 100.arrow_forward
- e) Suppose that weekly household expenditures on petrol are normally distributed, with a mean of $120 and a standard deviation of $50. i. A family is randomly selected. Find the probability that this family spends more than $245 per week on petrol? A 2.5 B 0.0062 C 0.9938 D 0.0202 ii. The government wants to promote public transport and will award a prize to the families who spend the lowest amount on petrol. If the government only wants to give a prize to 10% of households, what is the most that a family is allowed to spend on petrol each week to obtain the prize? A $56 B $184 C $3.50 D $217.60 In a sample of 25 families, what is the probability that the average weekly expenditure on petrol will be less than $105? ii. A 0.0668 B 0.9332 C 0.3821 D 0.6179arrow_forward1) The mean and standard deviation of a population are 200 and 20, respectively.The probability of selecting one data value less than 190 is ____ %. (Round answer to the nearest percent (whole number). Do not write the % sign.) 2) A. C. Neilsen reported that children between the ages of 2 and 5 watch an average of 25 hours of television per week. Assume the variable is normally distributed and the standard deviation is 3 hours.If 20 children between the ages of 2 and 5 are randomly selected, the number of children in the sample who watch at least 25.2 hours of television is? Give answer to the nearest whole number, not a percent. 3) A. C. Neilsen reported that children between the ages of 2 and 5 watch an average of 25 hours of television per week. Assume the variable is normally distributed and the standard deviation is 3 hours.If 20 children between the ages of 2 and 5 are randomly selected, the number of children in the sample who watch at most 22.5 hours of television is? . Give…arrow_forwardDan is doing research on organic farming for an agricultural foundation. He has collected data on the number of oranges harvested from individual trees in two different orchards. In each orchard, the number of oranges harvested from each of 57 trees was recorded. The histograms below show the distributions of the two data sets. The means and standard deviations for the data sets are also given. Orchard 1 Orchard 2 25 25 20- 20- 15+ 15- 10+ 10+ 5+ 5+ 199.5 219.5 239.5 259.5 279.5 299.5 319.5 339.5 359.5 199.5 219.5 239.5 259.5 279.5 299.5 319.5 339.5 359.5 Orchard 1 mean: 275.1 oranges Orchard 2 mean: 274.9 oranges Orchard 1 standard deviation: 23.2 oranges Orchard 2 standard deviation: 47.9 oranges Dan wants to use the Empirical Rule to make some approximations about both data sets. Unfortunately, it is appropriate to use the Empirical Rule on only one of them! Answer the parts below to help Dan with his approximations. (a) Identify the data set for which it is appropriate to use the…arrow_forward
arrow_back_ios
arrow_forward_ios
Recommended textbooks for you
- MATLAB: An Introduction with ApplicationsStatisticsISBN:9781119256830Author:Amos GilatPublisher:John Wiley & Sons IncProbability and Statistics for Engineering and th...StatisticsISBN:9781305251809Author:Jay L. DevorePublisher:Cengage LearningStatistics for The Behavioral Sciences (MindTap C...StatisticsISBN:9781305504912Author:Frederick J Gravetter, Larry B. WallnauPublisher:Cengage Learning
- Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (7th E...StatisticsISBN:9780134683416Author:Ron Larson, Betsy FarberPublisher:PEARSONThe Basic Practice of StatisticsStatisticsISBN:9781319042578Author:David S. Moore, William I. Notz, Michael A. FlignerPublisher:W. H. FreemanIntroduction to the Practice of StatisticsStatisticsISBN:9781319013387Author:David S. Moore, George P. McCabe, Bruce A. CraigPublisher:W. H. Freeman
MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications
Statistics
ISBN:9781119256830
Author:Amos Gilat
Publisher:John Wiley & Sons Inc
Probability and Statistics for Engineering and th...
Statistics
ISBN:9781305251809
Author:Jay L. Devore
Publisher:Cengage Learning
Statistics for The Behavioral Sciences (MindTap C...
Statistics
ISBN:9781305504912
Author:Frederick J Gravetter, Larry B. Wallnau
Publisher:Cengage Learning
Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (7th E...
Statistics
ISBN:9780134683416
Author:Ron Larson, Betsy Farber
Publisher:PEARSON
The Basic Practice of Statistics
Statistics
ISBN:9781319042578
Author:David S. Moore, William I. Notz, Michael A. Fligner
Publisher:W. H. Freeman
Introduction to the Practice of Statistics
Statistics
ISBN:9781319013387
Author:David S. Moore, George P. McCabe, Bruce A. Craig
Publisher:W. H. Freeman