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

Published by McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 5 - Discrete Probability Distributions - Review Exercises - Section 5-4 - Page 306: 23

Answer

5 would be very confident $0.173$ 3 somewhat confident $0.190$ 1 not very confident $0.366$ 1 not at all confident $0.268$

Work Step by Step

With the given percentages, we can calculate the mean values. 46% Very confident $\mu1=np=10\times0.46=4.6$ 41% Somewhat confident $\mu2=4.1$ 9% Not very confident $\mu3=0.9$ 4% Not at all confident $\mu4=0.4$ Use Poisson formula $P(x)=\frac{\mu^xe^{-\mu}}{x!}$ 5 would be very confident $P_1(5)=\frac{4.6^5e^{-4.6}}{5!}=0.173$ 3 somewhat confident $P_2(3)=\frac{4.1^3e^{-4.1}}{3!}=0.190$ 1 not very confident $P_3(1)=\frac{0.9^1e^{-0.9}}{1!}=0.366$ 1 not at all confident $P_4(1)=\frac{0.4^1e^{-0.4}}{1!}=0.268$
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