50% of Reese’s Pieces candies are orange. The Reese’s Pieces applet lets you simulate draws from a hypothetical population of Reese’s Pieces and take data on the orange candies in your sample(s). (This applet was created by Professors Allan Rossman and Beth Chance at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.) http://www.rossmanchance.com/applets/OneProp/OneProp.htm?candy=1 If you do not immediately see the “Reese’s Pieces” simulation, scroll down the page and in the bottom left-hand corner you need to ‘click’ where prompted to default to the “Reese’s Pieces” simulation. 1)1) Use the applet to draw 25 candies and calculate the proportion of orange candies. Do this […]
The length of songs in a collector’s iTunes album collection is uniformly distributed from two to 3.5 minutes. Suppose we randomly pick five albums…
The length of songs in a collector’s iTunes album collection is uniformly distributed from two to 3.5 minutes. Suppose we randomly pick five albums from the collection. There are a total of 43 songs on the five albums. d.
Retail stores experience their heaviest returns on December 26 and December 27 each year.
Retail stores experience their heaviest returns on December 26 and December 27 each year. Most are gifts that, for some reason, did not please the recipient. The number of items returned, by a sample of 30 persons at a large discount department store, are observed and the summary statistics below are obtained. n = 30 x (x with a line over it ) = 2,358 s = 1.202 Determine a 98% confidence interval for the population mean number of items returned. Confidence interval = ( , )
A random sample of 85 group leaders, supervisors, and similar personnel revealed that on the average a person spent 6.5 years on the job before being…
A random sample of 85 group leaders, supervisors, and similar personnel revealed that on the average a person spent 6.5 years on the job before being promoted. The standard deviation of the sample was 1.7 years. Using the 0.95 degree of confidence, what is the confidence interval within which the population mean lies?
MATLAB Problems: 1) For f (x) = e^(-|x|) on [-3, 3], you are to compare evenly-spaced interpolation with Chebyshev interpolation. In this exercise,…
MATLAB Problems: 1) For f (x) = e^(-|x|) on [-3, 3], you are to compare evenly-spaced interpolation with Chebyshev interpolation. In this exercise, you do not have to use any loops. b) Modify your script from part (a) to make a new script file to do the following: Compute the n Chebyshev nodes, and call newtdd.m and nest.m the same way you did in part (a) to get an interpolating polynomial on x-values evenly spaced by 0.01 between -3 and 3. Plot the new interpolating polynomial, and also plot the vector of the absolute errors between the interpolating polynomial and […]
