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The document consists of a worksheet with various problems related to continuous probability distributions, including exponential, uniform, and normal distributions. It covers scenarios such as time spent with a professor, delivery truck arrivals, age distribution of executives, grade point averages of students, service call durations, tax form completion times, supermarket shopper cooperation, seminar attendance, and calculations involving random variables. Each section includes specific probability calculations and statistical inquiries.

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BUS 201 Worksheet Continuous (1)

The document consists of a worksheet with various problems related to continuous probability distributions, including exponential, uniform, and normal distributions. It covers scenarios such as time spent with a professor, delivery truck arrivals, age distribution of executives, grade point averages of students, service call durations, tax form completion times, supermarket shopper cooperation, seminar attendance, and calculations involving random variables. Each section includes specific probability calculations and statistical inquiries.

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BUS 201 Worksheet (Continuous Probability Distributions)

1. A professor sees students during regular office hours. Time spent with students
follows an exponential distribution with a mean of 10 minutes.
a) Find the probability that a given student spends fewer than 20 minutes with the
professor.
b) Find the probability that a given student spends between 10 and 15 minutes with
the professor.

2. Delivery trucks arrive independently at the Floorstore Regional distribution center


with various consumer items from the company’s suppliers. The mean number of
trucks arriving per hour is 20. Given that a truck has just arrived answer the
following:
a) What is the probability that the next truck will not arrive for at least 5 minutes?
b) What is the probability that the next truck will arrive between 4 and 10 minutes?

3. The ages of a group of executives attending a convention are uniformly distributed


between 35 and 65 years. If the random variable X denotes ages in years,
a) Write the probability density function for X.
b) Find the probability that the age of a randomly chosen executive in this group is
between 40 and 50 years.
c) Find the mean age of the executives in the group.

4. Grade point averages of students on a large campus follow a normal distribution


with a mean of 2.6 and a standard deviation of 0.5.
a) One student is chosen at random from this campus. What is the probability that this
student has a grade point average higher than 3.0?
b) One student is chosen at random from this campus. What is the probability that this
student has a grade point average between 2.25 and 2.75?
c) A random sample of 400 students is chosen from this campus. What is the
probability that at least 80 of these students have grade point averages higher than
3.0?
5. A company services home air conditioners. It is known that times for service calls
follow a normal distribution with a mean of 60 minutes and a standard deviation of 10
minutes.
a) What is the probability that a single service call takes more than 65 minutes?
b) What is the probability that a single service call takes between 50 and 70 minutes?
c) The probability is 0.025 that a single service call takes more than how many
minutes?

6. It has been found that times taken by people to complete a particular tax form
follow a normal distribution with a mean of 100 minutes and standard deviation of 30
minutes.
a) What is the probability that a randomly chosen person takes less than 85 minutes to
complete this form?
b) What is the probability that a randomly chosen person takes between 70 and 130
minutes to complete this form?
c) 5 percent of all people take more than how many minutes to complete this form?

7. A market research organization has found that 40% of all supermarket shoppers
refuse to cooperate when questioned by its pollsters. If 1000 shoppers are approached,
what is the probability that fewer than 500 will refuse to cooperate?

8. An organization that gives regular seminars on sales motivation methods


determines that 60% of its clients have attended previous seminars. From a sample of
400 clients what is the probability that more than half have attended previous
seminars?
9. A random variable X is normally distributed with a mean of 500 and a variance of
100, and a random variable Y is normally distributed with a mean of 200 and variance
of 400. The random variables have a correlation equal to 0.5. Find the mean and
variance of random variable: W = 5X - 4Y

10. A Panasonic camera has a rechargeable battery. The battery life before recharging
is needed can be modeled as an exponential distribution with l = 0.05.
a. Calculate the standard deviation of the battery’s life before recharging.
b. Calculate the probability that the battery will last more than 20 hours.

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