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ISBN: 9780136921721

Author: Triola

Publisher: RENT PEARS

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Chapter 8, Problem 8CRE

Lightning Deaths Based on the results given in Cumulative Review Exercise 6, assume that for a randomly selected lightning death, there is a 0.8 probability that the victim is a male.

Find the probability that three random people killed by lightning strikes are all males.
Find the probability that three random people killed by lightning strikes are all females.
Find the probability that among three people killed by lightning strikes, at least one is a male.
If five people killed by lightning strikes are randomly selected, find the probability that exactly three of them are males.
A study involves random selection of different groups of 50 people killed by lightning strikes. For those groups, find the mean and standard deviation for the numbers of male victims.
For the same groups described in part (e), would 46 be a significantly high number of males in a group? Explain.

Definition Definition Measure of central tendency that is the average of a given data set. The mean value is evaluated as the quotient of the sum of all observations by the sample size. The mean, in contrast to a median, is affected by extreme values. Very large or very small values can distract the mean from the center of the data. Arithmetic mean: The most common type of mean is the arithmetic mean. It is evaluated using the formula: μ = 1 N ∑ i = 1 N x i Other types of means are the geometric mean, logarithmic mean, and harmonic mean. Geometric mean: The nth root of the product of n observations from a data set is defined as the geometric mean of the set: G = x 1 x 2 ... x n n Logarithmic mean: The difference of the natural logarithms of the two numbers, divided by the difference between the numbers is the logarithmic mean of the two numbers. The logarithmic mean is used particularly in heat transfer and mass transfer. ln x 2 − ln x 1 x 2 − x 1 Harmonic mean: The inverse of the arithmetic mean of the inverses of all the numbers in a data set is the harmonic mean of the data. 1 1 x 1 + 1 x 2 + ...

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