Elementary Statistics: A Step-by-Step Approach with Formula Card 9th Edition

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Chapter 5 - Discrete Probability Distributions - 5-2 Mean, Variance, Standard Deviation, and Expectation - Exercises 5-2 - Page 272: 1

Answer

$\mu = 0.17$ $ \sigma^2= 0.321$ $\sigma=0.567$

Work Step by Step

The data can be summarized as the following: Probability 0.9, Number of defect 0 Probability 0.05, Number of defect 1 Probability 0.03, Number of defect 2 Probability 0.02, Number of defect 3 Use the formula to calculate the weighted mean as $\mu = (0.9×0+0.05×1+0.03×2+0.02×3) / (0.9+0.05+0.03+0.02) = 0.17$ And use the formula to calculate the weighted variance as $ \sigma^2= \frac{0.9×(0-0.17)²+0.05×(1-0.17)²+0.03×(2-0.17)²+0.02×(3-0.17)²}{0.9+0.05+0.03+0.02} = 0.321$ Standard deviation $\sigma=\sqrt {\sigma^2}=0.567$
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