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What do you conclude about the claim below? Do not use formal procedures or exact calculations. Use only the rare event rule and make a subjective estimate to determine whether the event is likely.
 
  Claim: An employee of a company is equally likely to take a sick day on any day of the week. Last year, the total number of sick days taken by all the employees of the company was 143. Of these, 52 were Mondays, 14 were Tuesdays, 17 were Wednesdays, 17 were Thursdays, and 43 were Fridays.

Question 2

To be able to say with 95 confidence level that the standard deviation of a data set is within 10 of the population's standard deviation, the number of observations within the data set must be greater than or equal to what quantity?
 
  A) 250 B) 805 C) 191 D) 335
 
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In one county, the conviction rate for speeding is 85. Estimate the probability that of the next 100 speeding summonses issued, there will be at least 90 convictions.
 
  A) 0.0420 B) 0.8962 C) 0.1038 D) 0.3962



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Answer to Question 1

You just saved me a lot of time. ;)

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How great was that.Thank you so much.

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Reply 2 on: Aug 2, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review


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Great answer, keep it coming :)

 

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