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The Practice of Statistics for AP
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The Practice of Statistics for AP

The Practice of Statistics for AP

Book edition 4th
Author(s) David Moore,Daren Starnes,Dan Yates
Pages 809 pages
ISBN 9781319113339

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Knees Patients receiving artificial knees often experience pain after surgery. The pain is measured on a subjective scale with possible values of 1 (low) to 5 (high). Let X be the pain score for a randomly selected patient. The following table gives part of the probability distribution for X.

Value12345
Probability0.10.20.30.3?

(a) Find P(X=5)

(b) If two patients who received artificial knees are chosen at random, what’s the probability that both of them report pain scores of 1or 2? Show your work.

(c) Compute the mean and standard deviation of X. Show your work.

(a)P(X=5)=0.1

(b)P(1 or 2)=0.09

(c) Mean=3.1

Standard deviation=1.14

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Part (a) Step 1: Given information

Given in the question that, Knees Patients receiving artificial knees often experience pain after surgery. The pain is measured on a subjective scale with possible values of 1 (low) to 5 (high). Let X be the pain score for a randomly selected patient.

We need to find P(X = 5)

Part (a) Step 2: Explanation

Given:

the probability distribution is

Value 12345
Probabilitylocalid="1649746499147" 0.1localid="1649746505085" 0.2localid="1649746511170" 0.3localid="1649746516856" 0.3??

The formulas to compute the mean and standard deviation are:

localid="1649746524407" σ=x2×P(x)x×P(x)2

Let localid="1649746530834" x be the missing value.

The missing value can be calculated as:

localid="1649746539988" 0.1+0.2+0.3+0.3+x=1

localid="1649746546770" x+0.9=1

localid="1649746553075" x=0.1

localid="1649746559408" P(X=5) can be calculated as:

localid="1649746565386" P(X=5)=x

localid="1649746571448" =0.1

Part (b) Step 1: Given information

Given in the question that, Knees Patients receiving artificial knees often experience pain after surgery. The pain is measured on a subjective scale with possible values of 1 (low) to 5 (high). Let X be the pain score for a randomly selected patient.

We need to find the probability that both of the patients scores either 1 or 2

Part (b) Step 2: Explanation

The probability that both of the patients scores either 1 or 2 is computed as:

P(1 or 2)=P(X=1)+P(X=2)

=0.1+0.2

=0.3

The probability that both of the patients scores either 1 or 2 is computed as:

P(1 or 2)=P(1 or 2)×P(1or 2))

=0.3×0.3

=0.09

Part (c) Step 1: Given information

Knees Patients receiving artificial knees often experience pain after surgery. The pain is measured on a subjective scale with possible values of 1 (low) to 5 (high). Let X be the pain score for a randomly selected patient.

We need to compute the mean and standard deviation of X .

Part (c) Step 2: Explanation

The mean can be calculated as:

Mean=x×P(x)

=1(0.1)+2(0.2)+3(0.3)+4(0.3)+5(0.1)

localid="1649746701130" =3.1

The standard deviation is calculated as follows:

localid="1649746705865" σ=x2×P(x)x×P(x)2

localid="1649746709064" =12×0.1+22×0.2+.+52×0.2(3.1)2

localid="1649746712012" =1.1358

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