A couple plans to have no more than two children, and they w…
A couple plans to have no more than two children, and they will keep having children until they have a girl. So, if their first child is a girl, they will stop and have only one child. However, if their first child is a boy, they will try again and have a second child. As it turns out, the probability of having a boy is slightly greater than having a girl. Here is the probability distribution for the number of boys the couple could have. Boys 0 boys 1 boy 2 boys Probability 0.49 0.25 0.26 What is the expected number of boys the couple will have? (Recall: the expected value is the mean).
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For a statistics project a student gathered data on monthly car insurance premiums paid by students and faculty at a California community college in 2008. She found a fairly strong linear relationship between driving experience and monthly car insurance premiums. She used the line shown in the scatterplot to summarize the pattern in the data. Here is the equation of the line: y = – 1.45 x+ 97. The predicted monthly car insurance premium paid by someone who has been driving 12 years is ________ dollars a month.
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