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May 25, 2013

Posts by bart


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Help: three different answers
I do not know what to do. I used the Venn diagram for myself but I think I was wrong as I got 4/7 as PsyDag did. I don't think 5/7 is correct as the problem doesn't say equal to or less than 10. I do not understand Adam's equation and solution. Could you please hel...

Math
Assume that the weight loss for the first two months of a diet program has a uniform distrbiution over the interval 6 to 12 pounds. Find the probability that a person on this diet loses less than 10 pounds in the first two months. Not sure what to do. A) 1/6 B) 5/7 C) 1/3 D) 2/3

Math
The U.S. Department of Defense makes use of statistics in designing weapon systems for tanks and other forms of armor. By measuring the results of the firing of a weapons system under simulated combat conditions, ballistics researchers can estimate the accuracy of the shells f...

Math: Still need help
I need help understanding how to solve by going through step by step. I do not want to know the answer, I need to learn the process. Please help me through that.

Math: i do not understand
A tractor manufacturing company machines axles to extremely small tolerances. The main power axles have a mean diameter of 3.0000 inches and a standard deviation of 0.0050 inch. What is the probability that a given axle will have a diameter between 2.9915 and 3.0004 inches? As...

Math: Is my answer correct?
why do you only multiply to the third power?

math
Mode is the value that is used or repeated the most in a sequence of numbers.

Math: please check
There are 30 fish in a pond. We know that 13 of these fish are males, 4 of these males are salmon, and there are 8 salmon in the pond. What is the probability that a randomly chosen fish is a salmon, given that it is a male? I think they are just asking about salmon and trying...

Math: please check
Consider a bowl containing 36 different slips of paper. Ten of the slips of paper each contain one of 16) the digits from the set 0 through 9 and 26 slips each contain one of the 26 letters of the alphabet. If one slip is drawn at random, what is P(odd number or a consonant)? ...

probability Please check answer
A bag contains 7 red marbles, 2 blue marbles, and 1 green marble. If a marble is selected at random, what is the probability of choosing a marble that is not blue? 7 red marbles plus 1 green marble = 8/10 = answer = 4/5

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