Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (6th Edition)
Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (6th Edition)
6th Edition
ISBN: 9780321911216
Author: Ron Larson, Betsy Farber
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 4.3, Problem 30E

Geometric Distribution: Mean and Variance In Exercises 29 and 30, use the fact that the mean of a geometric distribution is μ = 1 / p and the variance is σ2 = q / p2.

30. Paycheck Errors A company assumes that 0.5% of the paychecks for a year were calculated incorrectly. The company has 200 employees and examines the payroll records from one month, (a) Find the mean, variance, and standard deviation, (b) How many employee payroll records would you expect to examine before finding one with an error?

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