Student Solutions Manual for Devore's Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences, 9th
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ISBN: 9798214004020
Author: Jay L. Devore
Publisher: Cengage Learning US
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Chapter 3.2, Problem 22E
Refer to Exercise 13, and calculate and graph the cdf F(x). Then use it to calculate the probabilities of the
13. A mail-order computer business has six telephone lines. Let X denote the number of lines in use at a specified time. Suppose the pmf of X is as given in the accompanying table.
x | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
p(x) | .10 | .15 | .20 | 25 | .20 | .06 | .04 |
Calculate the probability of each of the following events.
- a. {at most three lines are in use}
- b. {fewer than three lines are in use}
- c. {at least three lines are in use}
- d. {between two and five lines, inclusive, are in use}
- e. {between two and four lines, inclusive, are not in use}
- f. {at least four lines are not in use}
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Student Solutions Manual for Devore's Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences, 9th
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