respondent is selected at random‚ what is the probability that he or she a. prefers to order at the drive-through? b. is a male and prefers to order at the drive-through? c. is a male or prefers to order at the drive-through? d. Explain the difference in the results in (b) and (c). e. Given that a respondent is a male‚ what is the probability that he prefers to order at the drive-through? f. Given that a respondent is a female‚ what is the probability that she prefers to order at the drive-through
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Winston: A Character Doomed to Fail Failure‚ a concept most people are familiar of‚ often refers to the inability to perform a particular action or finish a certain task. In the novel 1984 by George Orwell‚ the protagonist Winston Smith dreams to overthrow “The Party” and live in “the place without darkness”. However‚ he suffered the fate of being tortured and brainwashed eventually. Many readers perceive Winston as a tragic hero who valiantly tries but fails to rebel against the “Big Brother”
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the unparalleled task of protecting the world from tyranny. In terms of political power‚ this weight was bestowed upon the shoulders of two memorable individuals. By and large Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt can be labelled as beacons of democracy and leaders of the free world in their time. Winston Churchill‚ the son of Lord Randolph Churchill‚ became an officer in the 4th cavalry in 1894. Between 1895 and 1899 he served in Cuba‚ India and South Africa as a reporter. Churchill
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Ans.1: Non-Probability Sampling: When the units of a sample are chosen so that each unit in the population does not have a calculable non-zero probability of being selected in the sample‚ this is called Non-Probability Sampling. Also‚ Non-probability sampling is a sampling technique where the samples are gathered in a process that does not give all the individuals in the population equal chances of being selected. In contrast with probability sampling‚ non-probability sample is not a product
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The Collier Encyclopedia’s definition for probability is the concern for events that are not certain and the reasonableness of one expectation over another. These expectations are usually based on some facts about past events or what is known as statistics. Collier describes statistics to be the science of the classification and manipulation of data in order to draw inferences. Inferences here can be read to mean expectations‚ leading to the conclusion that the two go hand in hand in accomplishing
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Winston Churchill was a talented man; he had a very interesting early life with his family and education. His careers were short from going to military to a civilian world to the government. He ended his career with a pretty good end until he started getting ill. The British Prime Minister had a very long and eventful life full of adventure. Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was born to an aristocrat family on November 30‚ 1874. As his life unfolded‚ he displayed the traits on his father‚ Lord
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Probability Distribution Memo To: Howard Gray‚ CEO; Jean Dubois‚ VP Mechanical Watch Division; Uma Gardner‚ VP Production; Amanda Hamilton‚ VP Marketing After identifying the business problem of falling sales and an increase in rejections by the Swiss Official Chronometer Control‚ conducting a study for research will prove to identify a solution. Researchers performed a study of a sample population of 500 people. The study reveals 60% of the watches purchased are certified and the average
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new Household appliance to potential customers. She has found from her years of experience that after demonstration‚ the probability of purchase (long run average) is 0.30. To perform satisfactory on the job‚ the salesperson needs at least four orders this week. If she performs 15 demonstrations this week‚ what is the probability of her being satisfactory? What is the probability of between 4 and 8 (inclusive) orders? Solution p=0.30 q=0.70 n=15 k=4 [pic] Using Megastat we get
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The Fourth Crusade Is karma the reason for the slow but evident sinking of Venice into the Mediterranean? Maybe it is indemnity for the cruel selfish acts of Venice during the Fourth Crusade. The Venetians along with crusaders robbed Constantinople for personal gains. The Fourth Crusade should be an example that it is crude and unjust to attack fellow men for no reason. The Crusades were a series of battles and short wars against the Muslims. In the eleventh century Jerusalem had been taken
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14. If x has the probability distribution f(x) = 12x for x = 1‚2‚3‚…‚ show that E(2X) does not exist. This is famous Petersburg paradox‚ according to which a player’s expectation is infinite (does not exist) if he is to receive 2x dollars when‚ in a series of flips of a balanced coin‚ the first head appears on the xth flip. 17. The manager of a bakery knows that the number of chocolate cakes he can sell on any given day is a random variable having the probability distribution f(x) = 16 for x =
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