Elementary Statistics (12th Edition)

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Chapter 5 - Discrete Probability Distributions - Review - Cumulative Review Exercises - Page 239: 5

Answer

a) Frequency distribution b) Probability distribution c) $4.7$, statistic d) $4.5$, parameter e) The mean has to be around $4.5$

Work Step by Step

a) The table on the left is a frequency distribution. b) The table on the right is a probability distribution, because the right column shows the probability of the given event occuring. c) The mean is: $\frac{\sum x}{n}$, where $n$ is the number of values. Hence:$\overline{x}=4.7$. This result is statistic. d) The probabilities are all the same, hence the mean will be the center of the data set, which is $4.5$. (The result is a parameter.) e) We would expect the mean to be the mean of the probability distribution, which is $4.5$.
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