Provide an appropriate response.The repair costs for five ca…
Provide an appropriate response.The repair costs for five cars which were crashed by a safety testing organization were as follows:$100, $150, $200, $250, and $[A]0. Find the mean cost of repair. Mean cost of repair = $________
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Solve the problem.A small computing center has found that the number of jobs submitted per day to its computers has a distribution that is approximately mound-shaped and symmetric, with a mean of 79 jobs and a standard deviation of 5. Where do we expect approximately 95% of the distribution to fall?
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Solve the problem.As part of an economics class project, students were asked to randomly select 500 New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) stocks from the Wall Street Journal. As part of the project, students were asked to summarize the current prices (also referred to as the closing price of the stock for a particular trading date) of the collected stocks using graphical and numerical techniques. What type of variable is being collected?
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Solve the problem.A study was designed to investigate the effects of two variables — (1) a student’s level of mathematical anxiety and (2) teaching method — on a student’s achievement in a mathematics course. Students who had a low level of mathematical anxiety were taught using the traditional expository method. These students obtained a mean score of 290 with a standard deviation of 50 on a standardized test. Assuming a mound-shaped and symmetric distribution, in what range would approximately 99.7% of the students score?
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Solve the problem.A realtor is analyzing recent sale prices of 3 bedroom homes in her area. The mean sale prices of recent sales was $370 ,000 with a standard deviation of $50,000. Assuming no information concerning the shape of the distribution is known, what percentage of homes sold between $270,000 and $470,000?
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