machine are normally distributed with mean length of 150cm and a standard deviation of 10cm. Find the probability that the length of a randomly selected strip is (a) shorter than 165cm‚ (b) within 5cm of the mean. Example 5: The time taken by the milkman to deliver to the High Street is normally distributed with a mean of 12 minutes and a standard deviation of 2 minutes. He delivers milk every day. Estimate the number of days during the year when he takes (a) longer than 17 minutes‚ (b) less than
Premium Normal distribution Standard deviation Probability theory
ain’t he? Dead‚ ain’t he? cause he whistled at some Scarlett O’Hara cunt.” From this gesture we can assume that in the future Guitar will stand up to this injustice. Later on in the book when asked about his secret whereabouts‚ Guitar reveals to Milkman that he is a part of a secret society called the Seven Days. “ The organization‚ composed of seven black men each of whom is assigned a day of the week‚ kill white people at random every time that a black person is murdered and the assailants are
Premium Black people White people African American
A report to the Chief Executive about the dangers of escalation of commitment and measures that organisation can take to curb escalations Contents 1. Executive summary 1 2. Intoduction 2 3. Causes of escalation of commitment 3 3.1. Psychological 3 3.2. Social 3 3.3. Economic 4 3.4. Organisational 4 4. Dangers of Escalation of Commitment of the Ebola vaccine project 5 4.1. Physiological Dangers 5 4.2. Social Dangers 5 4.3. Economical Dangers 6 4.4. Organisational Dangers 6 5. Measures to deal with
Premium Decision making Risk Decision theory
Social media has changed the way we live in many ways. It has changed everything from the way we communicate with each other to where we get our news from. It happened so fast that people hardly realized just how much their lives had changed. Personal and professional communities are now intertwined and within arm’s reach and our once small social and work networks have now expanded to proportions that were once unimaginable. Just like in any revolution or period of expansion‚ there are many positive
Free Facebook Social media Sociology
Due to the technological revolution in financial sector‚ the payments in banking system have undergone a tremendous change. The Number of innovative products for making payment has developed after the privatization and globalization.Customers have showed their preference over the usageofthe plastic money generally over a period of timein thebanking process. Plastic money is an alternative to the cash or the standard ‘money’. Plastic money is referring to the credit cards or the debit cards that we
Premium Credit card Money Payment
Outline & Evaluate one or more Explanations of Why People Obey. There are many reasons as to why people obey which have been justified gradually over several decades. Milgram (1974) argued the fact that in an obedience situation‚ people tend to pass all sense of responsibility onto the authoritative figure. Milgram said that people are in an autonomous state when taking their responsibility but move into an agentic state when passing this responsibility to an authoritative figure; this shift in
Premium Security guard Stanford prison experiment Social psychology
beginning of the poem‚ the speaker mentions how “the white truck like an ambulance goes into real estate” (Sexton ln 12). This is a rather odd comparison and brings a sense of urgency and distress. While everything seems to be going well for the milkman‚ there is an underlying connection between newfound happiness and grief. As the story of Cinderella continued‚ the speaker mentions a dove‚ which “would drop [anything she wished for] like an egg upon the ground” (Sexton ln 39). With this‚ the reader
Premium Fairy tale English-language films Brothers Grimm
Terrell Jackson 4/2/13 African American History Matthew Alexander Henson “It’ll work‚ if God‚ wind‚ leads‚ ice‚ snow‚ and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing.” Matthew Henson was born on August 8‚ 1866‚ in a cabin near Nanjemoy‚ Charles County‚ Maryland. His parents Lemuel and Caroline were freeborn black sharecroppers. Matthew Henson mother died when he was two years old. His father remarried a widowed neighbor‚ Nellie. Seven years later Matthew Henson father dies and Nellie
Premium
cities demonstrate small-town life. On an ordinary day‚ in both cities‚ the newsboys make their morning rounds delivering the daily newspapers to the townspeople. In Chinquapin‚ the delivery man distributes parcels to their recipients‚ while the milkman in Grover’s Corners delivers his goods. A skirmish between George and Rebecca Gibbs corresponds to that of Shelby’s brothers‚ Jonathon and Tommy. This pair of presentational life dramas is alike in relation to love and marriage as well as daily life
Free Life Marriage Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Mary Rabadi Mr. Badger Honors English 4 February 2015 A crime‚ in most cases‚ requires a lot of analyzing to find suspects and evidence. Once both are clear and valid‚ you may then come to a conclusion based on what was figured out. Winston Peacock was found dead in his house on January 2nd by the local newspaper delivery girl named Jenny. She noticed something was wrong when he didn’t come out to greet her like he usually did every morning. Winston lived alone and many people in town thought Mr
Premium Homicide Murder Critical thinking