Probability of randomly selected men will have a sum weight

Assignment Help Basic Statistics
Reference no: EM131643865

Question: Men have an average weight of 172 pounds with a standard deviation of 29 pounds.

a. Find the probability that 20 randomly selected men will have a sum weight greater than 3600 lbs.

b. If 20 men have a sum weight greater than 3500 lbs, then their total weight exceeds the safety limits for water taxis. Based on (a), is this a safety concern? Explain.

Reference no: EM131643865

Questions Cloud

How to govern international financial agencies : A major source of North-South conflict occurs over the issue of how to govern international financial agencies such as the IMF and World Bank.
Construct a ci for the mean number of hours slept : You do a study of hypnotherapy to determine how effective it is in increasing the number of hourse of sleep subjects get each night.
Define how to prevent illness in the patients future : health promotion and disease prevention. quitting smoking, weight loss programs in order to prevent illness in the patients future
Explain how do we create our own realities : Explain how do we create our own realities? Is it OK that everyone's reality just a bit different? What role does social media play in social constructionism?
Probability of randomly selected men will have a sum weight : Find the probability that 20 randomly selected men will have a sum weight greater than 3600 lbs.
Discuss about the state of nature : Hobbes says that life in the State of Nature is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" (Part I, Chapter XIII, para. 9). What does he mean by this?
How would the outcome of your picot study : How would the outcome of your PICOT study contribute to your selected nursing theory. Would it add new information
Find the probability that janice is the drive : Four friends, Janice, Barbara, Kathy and Roberta, decided to carpool together to get to school. Each day the driver would be chosen by randomly selecting.
Find probabilities using the normal to binomial distribution : Suppose in a local Kindergarten through 12th grade (K - 12) school district, 53 percent of the population favor a charter school for grades K through five.

Reviews

Write a Review

Basic Statistics Questions & Answers

  Statistics-probability assignment

MATH1550H: Assignment:  Question:  A word is selected at random from the following poem of Persian poet and mathematician Omar Khayyam (1048-1131), translated by English poet Edward Fitzgerald (1808-1883). Find the expected value of the length of th..

  What is the least number

MATH1550H: Assignment:  Question:     what is the least number of applicants that should be interviewed so as to have at least 50% chance of finding one such secretary?

  Determine the value of k

MATH1550H: Assignment:  Question:     Experience shows that X, the number of customers entering a post office during any period of time t, is a random variable the probability mass function of which is of the form

  What is the probability

MATH1550H: Assignment:Questions: (Genetics) What is the probability that at most two of the offspring are aa?

  Binomial distributions

MATH1550H: Assignment:  Questions:  Let’s assume the department of Mathematics of Trent University has 11 faculty members. For i = 0; 1; 2; 3; find pi, the probability that i of them were born on Canada Day using the binomial distributions.

  Caselet on mcdonald’s vs. burger king - waiting time

Caselet on McDonald’s vs. Burger King - Waiting time

  Generate descriptive statistics

Generate descriptive statistics. Create a stem-and-leaf plot of the data and box plot of the data.

  Sampling variability and standard error

Problems on Sampling Variability and Standard Error and Confidence Intervals

  Estimate the population mean

Estimate the population mean

  Conduct a marketing experiment

Conduct a marketing experiment in which students are to taste one of two different brands of soft drink

  Find out the probability

Find out the probability

  Linear programming models

LINEAR PROGRAMMING MODELS

Free Assignment Quote

Assured A++ Grade

Get guaranteed satisfaction & time on delivery in every assignment order you paid with us! We ensure premium quality solution document along with free turntin report!

All rights reserved! Copyrights ©2019-2020 ExpertsMind IT Educational Pvt Ltd