Chapter 1 The Probability in Everyday Life In This Chapter Recognizing the prevalence and impact of probability in your everyday life Taking different approaches to finding probabilities Steering clear of common probability misconceptions You’ve heard it‚ thought it‚ and said it before: “What are the odds of that happening?” Someone wins the lottery not once‚ but twice. You accidentally run into a friend you haven’t seen since high school during a vacation in Florida. A cop pulls you over the
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ACROPOLIS FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT & RESEARCH INDORE SYNOPSIS ON “A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CUSTOMER PERCEPTION OF FACTORY OUTLET STORES TOWARDS TRADITIONAL DEPARTMENT STORES” Guided By: Submitted By: Prof. Prerna Bamoriya Deepak Singh chouhan MBA (III-Sem) DEVI AHILYA
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Use this probability to calculate the approximate number of packets containing no defective‚ one defective and two defective pens‚ respectively in a consignment of 20‚000 packets [ e^(--0.02) =0.9802 ] Ans. : 19604‚ 392‚ 3.92=4 respectively 2. A manufacturer who produces medicine bottles finds that 0.1% of the bottles are defective. The bottles are packed in the boxes of 500 bottles. A drug manufacturer buys 100 boxes from the producer of bottles . Using suitable probability distribution
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is rolled‚ find the probability of getting a a. 5 b. 6 c. Number less than 5 2. When a card is selected from a deck‚ find the probability of getting a. A club b. A face card or a heart c. A6 and a spade d. A king e. A red card 3. In a survey conducted at a local restaurant during breakfast hours‚ 20 people preferred orange juice‚ 16 preferred grapefruit juice‚ and 9 preferred apple juice with breakfast. If a person is selected at random‚ find the probability that she or he prefers grapefruit
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by indicating characteristic(s) of each option in the space provided thereby showing how the exception was determined. (3 marks) a. glucose b. fructose c. cellulose d. ribose e. deoxyribose Four of the five sugars listed below are related as members of the same subgroup. Select the exception by indicating characteristic(s) of each option in the space provided thereby showing how the exception was determined. (3 marks) a. lactose
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03/12/2012 Red Earth White Lies “Red earth white lies” by Vine Deloria is by all accounts and standards is a ground breaking book which brings into light the troubling picture of cultural bias against the native American Indians‚ their origin and historic traditions. In his own words he emphasizes the need of dialog between western science and tribal people and says “corrective measures must be taken to eliminate scientific misconceptions about Indians‚ their culture and their past”. He goes on to
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Isaiah 7-9 is a popular passage that goes through a few phases of Israel’s condition amongst the Syrians and Philistines and also goes through the Messianic prophecy of the Birth of Christ. How do we know this is Christ? Mainly because there are many prophecies that he has fulfilled‚ and this passage just has three of them. In the Beginning of Chapter 7‚ Isaiah is recording the plot that the King of Syria and the King of Israel has against Jerusalem. At this time in history‚ Jerusalem is in the Hands
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is randomly selected from a day’s production and the tar content is measured in each. Assuming that the tobacco company’s claim is true‚ what is the probability that the mean tar content of the sample is greater than 4.15 milligrams? [0.00621] 2. The safety limit of a crane is known to be 32 tons. The mean weight and the standard deviation of a large number of iron rods are 0.3 ton and 0.2 ton respectively. One hundred rods are lifted at a time. Compute the probability of an accident
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probability questions : 1. A real estate office has been averaging 1.8 sales per day for the past several months. What is the probability that the office will make 4 sales today? .0723 2. A washing machine in a Laundromat breaks down an average of two times per month. What is the probability that the machine will break down more than 28 times in the next year? .1775 3. Flaws occur randomly in a particular fabric with a mean rate of occurance of 1.5 every 5 sqare yards. If you purchase 20 square
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Distribution P(S) The symbol for the probability of success P(F) The symbol for the probability of failure p The numerical probability of a success q The numerical probability of a failure P(S) = p and P(F) = 1 - p = q n The number of trials X The number of successes The probability of a success in a binomial experiment can be computed with the following formula. Binomial Probability Formula In
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