5.38 A company employs a total of 16 workers.

The management has asked these employees to select 2 workers who will negotiate a new contract with management. The employees have decided to select the 2 workers randomly. How many total selections are possible?

5.41 in how many ways can a sample (without replacement) of 8 items be selected from a population of 20 items?

7.49 The time taken to learn an assembly job a new worker hired in the assembly department of a company is normally distributed with a mean of 80 hours and a standard deviation of 6 hours . find the probability that the mean time taken to learn this job by a random sample of 16 new workers would be a. Between 76 and 78 hours b. Within 4 hours of the population mean c. More than the population mean by at least 3,5 hours

7.51 Let x be a continuous random variable that follows a distribution skewed to the left with and . Assuming n/N 0.05, find the probability that the sample mean x for a random sample of 64 taken from this population will be a. less than 82,3 b. more than 86,7

7.53. the amounts of electric bills for all households in a city have a skewed probability distribution with a mean of $65 and a standard deviation of $25. Find the probability that the mean amount of electric bills for a random sample of 75 households selected from this city will be a. more than $70 b. between $58 and $63 c. within $6 of the population mean d. more than the population mean by at least $5

8.11 For a data set obtained from a sample, n = 64 x(bar)=22.5 and s = 3.4 What is the margin of error associated with the point estimate of ?

8.21 for a population the value of the standard deviation is 2.45. a sample of 35 observations taken from this population produced the following data: 42 51 42 31 28 36 49

29 46 37 32 27 33 41 44 41 28 46 34 39 48 26 35 37 38 46 48 37 29 31 44 41 37 38 46 What is the margin of error with the point estimate of ?

8.46 A sample of a observations taken from a normally distributed population produced the following 44 52 31 48 46 39 43 36 41 49 a. what is the point estimate of ? b. make a 95% confidence interval for ? c. what is the maximum error of estimate for part b ?

8.55 A sample of 10 costumers to visit a supermarket was taken. The following data give the money in dollars they spent at this supermarket during that visit: 74 89 121 63 146 47 91 28 84 76 assuming that the money spend by all costumers at the supermarket has a normal distribution, construct a 90% confidence interval for the population mean (hint: first, calculate the sample mean and the sample standard deviation for this data using the formula from section 3.1.1 and 3.2.2 of chapter 3. Then make the confidence interval for )

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For a population, ) = 10.5 a. How large a sample shold be selected so that the maximum error of estimate for a 99% confidence interval for is 2.50 ? b. How large a sampleshould be selected so that the maximum error of estimate for a 96% confidence interval for is 3.20 ?

8.84 for a population, =16.42 a. what should the sample size be for a 98% confidence interval for to have a maximum error of estimate equal to 5.50?

b. what should the sample size be for a 95% confidence interval for to have a maximum error of estimate equal to 4.25?

statistics for business and economics prem s. mann wiley