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HW 3 Statistics Fall 2016

Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
____ 1. 1. A basketball player attempts 20 shots from the field during a game. This player
hits about 46% of these shots. What is the chance the player hits more than 15 shots? This
information will help the coach know when and who to play during various points of the
game.
a. .0062
b. .0336
c. .0196
d. .0020
____ 2. 2. Every now and then even a good diamond cutter has a problem and the diamond
breaks. For one cutter, the rate of breaks is .1%. If this cutter works on 75 stones, what is
the probability that he breaks 5 or more? This information will help a gemologist hire and
assess high-quality employees.
a. .9278
b. .0000
c. .0026
d. .0696
____ 3. 3. Ten peas are generated from parents having the green/yellow pair of genes, so
there is a .75 probability that an individual pea will have a green pod. Find the probability
that among the 10 offspring peas, at least 9 have green pods. Think about this: Is it unusual
to get this result (hint: compare it with the cutoff probability we established for the Rare
Event Rule)?
a. .9437
b. .1877
c. .2440
d. .7500
____ 4. 4. The television show NBC Sunday Night Football broadcast a game between the
Colts and Patriots received a share of 22, meaning that among the TV sets in use, 22%
were tuned to the game (based on Nielson data). An advertiser wants to obtain a second
opinion by conducting its own survey, and a pilot survey begins with 33 households having
TV sets in use at the time of that same NBC Sunday Night Football broadcast. Find the

probability that none of the households are tuned to NBC Sunday Night Football (be sure to
convince yourself of doing it with the table in excel and also using the multiplication rule)?
This information will help NFL executives price commercials and determine when to air
games.
a. .0002
b. .9997
c. .0480
d. .0069
____ 5. 5. The television show NBC Sunday Night Football broadcast a game between the
Colts and Patriots received a share of 22, meaning that among the TV sets in use, 22%
were tuned to the game (based on Nielson data). An advertiser wants to obtain a second
opinion by conducting its own survey, and a pilot survey begins with 33 households having
TV sets in use at the time of that same NBC Sunday Night Football broadcast.
Find the probability that at least one is is tuned to NBC Sunday Night Football (be sure to
convince yourself show using the direct method and the complement method)
a. .0002
b. .9997
c. .0480
d. .0069
____ 6. The television show NBC Sunday Night Football broadcast a game between the
Colts and Patriots received a share of 22, meaning that among the TV sets in use, 22%
were tuned to the game (based on Nielson data). An advertiser wants to obtain a second
opinion by conducting its own survey, and a pilot survey begins with 33 households having
TV sets in use at the time of that same NBC Sunday Night Football broadcast.
Find P(X<=3)=?
a. .0002
b. .9997
c. .0480
d. .0069
____ 7. 7. The number of calls received by a car towing service averages 19.2 per day (per
24 hour period). After finding the mean number of calls per hour, find the probability that in a
randomly selected hour, the number of calls is 4. This information will help the manager to
staff the store efficiently.
a. .1438

b. .5523
c. .0077
d. .0000
____ 8. 8. On one tropical island, hurricanes happen with a mean of 2.41 per year. Assume
the number of hurricanes can be modeled by a Poisson distribution, find the chance that
during the next 2 years the number of hurricanes will be 3. This information will help
meteorologists and planners prepare for natural disasters.
a. .1506
b. .2095
c. .5000
d. .0000