Anita's, a fast-food chain specializing in hot dogs and garlic fries, keeps track of the proportion of its customers who decide to eat in the restaurant (as opposed to ordering the food "to go") so it can make decisions regarding the possible construction of in-store play areas, the attendance of its mascot Sammy at the franchise locations, and so on. Anita's reports that 45% of its customers order their food to go. Suppose that this proportion is correct and that a random sample of 50 individual customers is taken. Answer the following. (If necessary, consult a list of formulas.) (a) Estimate the number of customers in the sample who order their food to go by giving the mean of the relevant distribution (that is, the expectation of the relevant random variable). Do not round your response.     (b) Quantify the uncertainty of your estimate by giving the standard deviation of the distribution. Round your response to at least three decimal places.

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Anita's, a fast-food chain specializing in hot dogs and garlic fries, keeps track of the proportion of its customers who decide to eat in the restaurant (as opposed to ordering the food "to go") so it can make decisions regarding the possible construction of in-store play areas, the attendance of its mascot Sammy at the franchise locations, and so on. Anita's reports that
45% of its customers order their food to go. Suppose that this proportion is correct and that a random sample of
50 individual customers is taken.

Answer the following.

(If necessary, consult a list of formulas.)
(a) Estimate the number of customers in the sample who order their food to go by giving the mean of the relevant distribution (that is, the expectation of the relevant random variable). Do not round your response.
 
 
(b) Quantify the uncertainty of your estimate by giving the standard deviation of the distribution. Round your response to at least three decimal places.
   
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Anita's, a fast-food chain specializing in hot dogs and garlic fries, keeps track of the proportion of its customers who decide to eat in the restaurant (as opposed to ordering the food "to go").

Anita's reports that:

  • Percentage of customers who order their food to go = 45%
  • A random sample of n = 50 customers is taken.

It is required to compute:

  • The number of customers in the sample who order their food to go by giving the mean of the relevant distribution.
  • the standard deviation of the distribution for quantifying the uncertainty of the estimate.

 

Introduction:

The binomial distribution is a discrete type of probability distribution with parameters n and p given by:

fx=Cxnpx1-px; x = 0, 1, 2, 3.........., n=0; otherwise

The mean and standard deviation of this distribution is np and npq respectively.

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