Business Analytics
Business Analytics
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ISBN: 9780135231715
Author: Evans
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 5, Problem 24PE

Construct the probability distribution for the value of a two-card hand dealt from a standard deck of 52 cards (all face cards have a value of 10 and an ace has a value of 11 ).

  1. What is the probability of being dealt 21 ?
  2. What is the probability of being dealt 16 ?
  3. Construct a chart for the cumulative distribution function. What is the probability of being dealt a 16 or less? Between 12 and 16 ? Between 17 and 20 ?
  4. Find the expected value and standard deviation of a two-card hand.

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Ch. 5 - Lauren drinks a variety of soft drinks. Over the...Ch. 5 - A home improvement company in Cincinnati ran a...Ch. 5 - Consider the experiment of drawing two cards...Ch. 5 - Three coins are drop on a table. List all possible...Ch. 5 - A market research company surveyed consumers to...Ch. 5 - Refer to the card scenario described in Problem 3....Ch. 5 - Refer to the coin scenario described in Problem 4....Ch. 5 - Prob. 8PECh. 5 - Prob. 9PECh. 5 - An airline tracks data on its flight arrivals....
Ch. 5 - A survey of 200 college graduates who have been...Ch. 5 - Prob. 12PECh. 5 - A survey of shopping habits found the percentage...Ch. 5 - A Canadian business school summarized the gender...Ch. 5 - Prob. 15PECh. 5 - Use the Civilian Labor Force data in the Excel...Ch. 5 - Prob. 17PECh. 5 - A home pregnancy test is not always accurate....Ch. 5 - In the scenario in Problem 3, what is the...Ch. 5 - In the roulette example described in Problem 8,...Ch. 5 - Prob. 21PECh. 5 - An investor estimates that there is a 1in10 chance...Ch. 5 - The weekly demand of a slow-moving product has the...Ch. 5 - Construct the probability distribution for the...Ch. 5 - Based on the data in the Excel file Consumer...Ch. 5 - A major application of analytics in marketing is...Ch. 5 - The Excel file Call Center Data shows that in a...Ch. 5 - If a cell phone company conducted a telemarketing...Ch. 5 - During one year, a particular mutual fund...Ch. 5 - A popular resort hotel has 300 rooms and is...Ch. 5 - A telephone call center where people place...Ch. 5 - A financial consultant has an average of eight...Ch. 5 - The number and frequency of Atlantic hurricanes...Ch. 5 - Prob. 34PECh. 5 - Prob. 35PECh. 5 - Prob. 36PECh. 5 - In determining automobile mileage ratings, it was...Ch. 5 - The distribution of SAT scores in math for an...Ch. 5 - A popular soft drink is sold in 2-liter...Ch. 5 - A supplier contract calls for a key dimension of a...Ch. 5 - Historical data show that customers who download...Ch. 5 - A lightbulb is warranted to last for 5,000 hours....Ch. 5 - The actual delivery time from Giodannis Pizza is...Ch. 5 - Apply the chi-square goodness of fit test to the...Ch. 5 - Apply the chi-square goodness of fit test to the...Ch. 5 - Compute the daily change of the closing price for...
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