The United States Postal Service reports 95 percent of first class mail within the same city is delivered within two days of the time of mailing. Six letters are randomly sent to different locations....

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ASSIGNMENT 1
Assignment 4
BUS210 Business Statistics
Directions: Answer the following exercises. Please show all of your work for each
exercise.
Complete and submit the following problems from your text:
Chapter 6:
Exercises #14 and #46
Chapter 7:
Exercises #10, #38 and #52
Chapter 6
14. The United States Postal Service reports 95 percent of first class mail within the same city is delivered within two days of the time of mailing. Six letters are randomly sent to different locations.
a. What is the probability that all six will arrive within two days?
b. What is the probability that exactly five arrive within two days?
c. Find the mean number of letters that will arrive within two days.
d. Compute the variance and standard deviation of the number that will arrive within two days.
46. Dr. Richmond, a psychologist, is studying the daytime television viewing habits of college students. She believes 45 percent of college students watch soap operas during the afternoon. To further investigate, she selects a sample of 10.
a. Develop a probability distribution for the number of students in the sample who watch soap operas.
b. Find the mean and the standard deviation of this distribution.
c. What is the probability of finding exactly four watch soap operas?
d. What is the probability less than half of the students selected watch soap...
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