This textbook minimizes the derivations and mathematical theory, focusing instead on the information and techniques most needed and used in engineering applications. It is filled with practical. Introducing the tools of statistics and probability from the ground up An understanding of statistical tools is essential for engineers and scientists who often need to deal with data analysis over the course of their work.
Statistics and Probability with Applications for Engineers and Scientists walks readers through a wide. Traditional topics are presented thorough a wide array of illuminating engineering applications and an accessible modern framework that emphasizes statistical thinking,. This concise book for engineering and sciences students emphasizes modern statistical methodology and data analysis.
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Samples of emissions from three suppliers are classified for conformance to air-quality specifications. The results from samples are summarized as follows: Let A denote the event that a sample is from supplier 1, and let B denote the event that a sample conforms to specifications.
The rise time of a reactor is measured in minutes and fractions of minutes. Let the sample space be positive, real numbers.
A sample of two items is selected without replacement from a batch. A sample of two printed circuit boards is selected without replacement from a batch. Describe the ordered sample space for each of the following batches: a The batch contains 90 boards that are not defective, 8 boards with minor defects, and 2 boards with major defects.
Let g denote a good board, m a board with minor defects, and j a board with major defects. Counts of the Web pages provided by each of two computer servers in a selected hour of the day are recorded. Let A denote the event that at least 10 pages are provided by server 1, and let B denote the event that at least 20 pages are provided by server 2. Let the sample space for the rise time of each batch be positive, real numbers.
Consider the rise times of two batches. Let A denote the event that the rise time of batch 1 is less than A wireless garage door opener has a code determined by the up or down setting of 12 switches. How many outcomes are in the sample space of possible codes? An order for a computer can specify any one of five memory sizes, any one of three types of displays, and any one of four sizes of a hard disk, and can either include or not include a pen tablet. How many different systems can be ordered?
In a manufacturing operation, a part is produced by machining, polishing, and painting. If there are three machine tools, four polishing tools, and three painting tools, how many different routings consisting of machining, followed by polishing, and followed by painting for a part are possible? New designs for a wastewater treatment tank have proposed three possible shapes, four possible sizes, three locations for input valves, and four locations for output valves.
How many different product designs are possible? A manufacturing process consists of 10 operations that can be completed in any order. How many different production sequences are possible? From equation , the answer is 10! A manufacturing operation consists of 10 operations. However, five machining operations must be completed before any of the remaining five assembly operations can begin.
Within each set of five, operations can be completed in any order. From the multiplication rule and equation , the answer is 5! In a sheet metal operation, three notches and four bends are required. If the operations can be done in any order, how many different ways of completing the manufacturing are possible? A batch of semiconductor chips is inspected by choosing a sample of 5 chips.
Assume 10 of the chips do not conform to customer requirements. In the layout of a printed circuit board for an electronic product, 12 different locations can accommodate chips. In the laboratory analysis of samples from a chemical process, five samples from the process are analyzed daily. In addition, a control sample is analyzed twice each day to check the calibration of the laboratory instruments. Assume that the five process samples are considered identical and that the two control samples are considered identical.
In the design of an electromechanical product, 12 components are to be stacked into a cylindrical casing in a manner that minimizes the impact of shocks. One end of the casing is designated as the bottom and the other end is the top.
Consider the design of a communication system. A byte is a sequence of eight bits and each bit is either 0 or 1. In a chemical plant, 24 holding tanks are used for final product storage. Four tanks are selected at random and without replacement. Suppose that six of the tanks contain material in which the viscosity exceeds the customer requirements.
What is the probability that exactly one tank in the sample contains high-viscosity material and exactly one tank in the sample contains material with high impurities? The number of samples in which exactly one 4! Therefore, the probability is 1! Therefore, the 18 b The number of samples that contain no tank with high viscosity is 4 4!
Plastic parts produced by an injection-molding operation are checked for conformance to specifications. Each tool contains 12 cavities in which parts are produced, and these parts fall into a conveyor when the press opens. An inspector chooses 3 parts from among the 12 at random. Two cavities are affected by a temperature malfunction that results in parts that do not conform to specifications. Therefore, the requested probability is 1! The probability of at least one 10 b The number of samples with no nonconforming part is 3 3!
A bin of 50 parts contains 5 that are defective. A sample of 10 parts is selected at random, without replacement. How many samples contain at least four defective parts? From the 5 defective parts, select 4, and the number of ways to complete this step is 5! The following table summarizes endothermic reactions involving sodium bicarbonate. Let B denote the event that the heat absorbed is below target.
Determine the number of reactions in each of the following events. A Web ad can be designed from four different colors, three font types, five font sizes, three images, and five text phrases. How many different designs are possible? Consider the hospital emergency department data given below. Let A denote the event that a visit is to hospital 1, and let B denote the event that a visit results in admittance to any hospital.
Determine the number of persons in each of the following events. Let A denote the event that the geological formation has more than wells, and let B denote the event that a well failed.
Determine the number of wells in each of the following events. A hospital operating room needs to schedule three knee surgeries and two hip surgeries in a day. Suppose that an operating room needs to handle three knee, four hip, and five shoulder surgeries. Consider the bar code code 39 is a common bar code system that consists of narrow and wide bars black separated by either wide or narrow spaces white.
Each character contains nine elements five bars and four spaces. The code for a character starts and ends with a bar either narrow or wide and a white space appears between each bar. The original specification since revised used exactly two wide bars and one wide space in each character.
For example, if b and B denote narrow and wide black bars, respectively, and w and W denote narrow and wide white spaces, a valid character is bwBwBWbwb the number 6.
One code is still held back as a delimiter. For each of the following cases, how many characters can be encoded? Focus first on the bars. There are 5! There are 2 choices for each bar wide or narrow and 5 bars are used in total.
As in the example, there are 4 possibilities for the spaces. A computer system uses passwords that contain exactly eight characters, and each character is 1 of the 26 lowercase letters a—z or 26 uppercase letters A—Z or 10 integers 0—9. Determine the number of passwords in each of the following events. The number of passwords with 7 letters is 52 7. The following table provides the total patients in each group and the number that showed a complete positive response after 24 weeks of treatment.
Let A denote the event that the patient was treated with ribavirin plus interferon alfa, and let B denote the event that the response was complete. Determine the number of patients in each of the following events. Each of the possible five outcomes of a random experiment is equally likely. Orders for a computer are summarized by the optional features that are requested as follows: a What is the probability that an order requests at least one optional feature?
If the last digit of a weight measurement is equally likely to be any of the digits 0 through 9, a What is the probability that the last digit is 0? A part selected for testing is equally likely to have been produced on any one of six cutting tools. An injection-molded part is equally likely to be obtained from any one of the eight cavities on a mold. In an acid-base titration, a base or acid is gradually added to the other until they have completely neutralized each other.
Because acids and bases are usually colorless as are the water and salt produced in the neutralization reaction , pH is measured to monitor the reaction. Suppose that the equivalence point is reached after approximately mL of an NaOH solution has been added enough to react with all the acetic acid present but that replicates are equally likely to indicate from 95 to mL to the nearest mL. Assume that volumes are measured to the nearest mL and describe the sample space.
The probability that the event occurs is 0. In a NiCd battery, a fully charged cell is composed of nickelic hydroxide. Nickel is an element that has multiple oxidation states and that is usually found in the following states: a What is the probability that a cell has at least one of the positive nickel-charged options?
The probability is 0. A credit card contains 16 digits between 0 and 9. However, only million numbers are valid.
If a number is entered randomly, what is the probability that it is a valid number? Total possible: , but only are valid. Suppose your vehicle is licensed in a state that issues license plates that consist of three digits between 0 and 9 followed by three letters between A and Z. If a license number is selected randomly, what is the probability that yours is the one selected?
A message can follow different paths through servers on a network. Magnesium alkyls are used as homogenous catalysts in the production of linear low-density polyethylene LLDPE , which requires a finer magnesium powder to sustain a reaction. Redox reaction experiments using four different amounts of magnesium powder are performed.
Each result may or may not be further reduced in a second step using three different magnesium powder amounts. Each of these results may or may not be further reduced in a third step using three different amounts of magnesium powder. The number of experiments that complete all three steps is 9k out of 13k. The results from disks are summarized as follows: Let A denote the event that a disk has high shock resistance, and let B denote the event that a disk has high scratch resistance.
The frequency of each type of transaction in the second column can be used as the percentage of each type of transaction. The average number of selects operations required for each type of transaction is shown. Let A denote the event of transactions with an average number of selects operations of 12 or fewer. Let B denote the event of transactions with an average number of updates operations of 12 or fewer. Calculate the following probabilities. Let A denote the event that a reaction's final temperature is K or less.
Let B denote the event that the heat absorbed is above target. Determine the following probabilities. A specific design is randomly generated by the Web server when you visit the site. If you visit the site five times, what is the probability that you will not see the same design?
Total number of possible designs is The sample space of all possible designs that may be seen on five visits. This space contains outcomes.
The number of outcomes in which all five visits are different can be obtained as follows. On the first visit any one of designs may be seen. On the second visit there are remaining designs.
On the third visit there are remaining designs. On the fourth and fifth visits there are and remaining designs, respectively. Consider the hospital emergency room data is given below.
Let A denote the event that a visit is to hospital 4, and let B denote the event that a visit results in LWBS at any hospital. Consider the well failure data is given below. Consider the bar code 39 is a common bar code system that consists of narrow and wide bars black separated by either wide or narrow spaces white. Suppose that all 40 codes are equally likely none is held back as a delimiter. Determine the probability for each of the following: a A wide space occurs before a narrow space.
Number of permutations of the spaces where the wide space appears first is 1. Number of permutations of the bars is 5! The spaces are handled as in part a. Number of permutations of the bars where 2 wide bars are consecutive is 4. Number of permutations of the bars where the 2 consecutive wide bars are at the start or end is 2. Number of permutations of the bars where a wide bar is at the center is 4 because there are 4 remaining positions for the second wide bar.
Suppose that an operating room needs to schedule three knee, four hip, and five shoulder surgeries. Assume that all schedules are equally likely. Determine the probability for each of the following: a All hip surgeries are completed before another type of surgery. Let A denote the event that the patient is in the group treated with interferon alfa, and let B denote the event that the patient has a complete response. A computer system uses passwords that contain exactly eight characters, and each character is one of 26 lowercase letters a—z or 26 uppercase letters A—Z or 10 integers 0—9.
Determine the probability of each of the following: a A b B c A password contains at least 1 integer. The results from disks are summarized as follows: a If a disk is selected at random, what is the probability that its scratch resistance is high and its shock resistance is high? Are these two events mutually exclusive?
Strands of copper wire from a manufacturer are analyzed for strength and conductivity. The results from strands are as follows: a If a strand is randomly selected, what is the probability that its conductivity is high and its strength is high? The analysis of shafts for a compressor is summarized by conformance to specifications.
Cooking oil is produced in two main varieties: mono and polyunsaturated. Two common sources of cooking oil are corn and canola. The following table shows the number of bottles of these oils at a supermarket: a If a bottle of oil is selected at random, what is the probability that it belongs to the polyunsaturated category? A manufacturer of front lights for automobiles tests lamps under a high-humidity, high-temperature environment using intensity and useful life as the responses of interest.
The following table shows the performance of lamps: a Find the probability that a randomly selected lamp will yield unsatisfactory results under any criteria. Can the lamp manufacturer meet this demand? A computer system uses passwords that are six characters, and each character is one of the 26 letters a—z or 10 integers 0—9.
Uppercase letters are not used. Let A denote the event that a password begins with a vowel either a, e, i, o, or u , and let B denote the event that a password ends with an even number either 0, 2, 4, 6, or 8. Suppose a hacker selects a password at random. Consider the endothermic reactions given below. Use the addition rules to calculate the following probabilities. Let A denote the event that the design color is red, and let B denote the event that the font size is not the smallest one.
Consider the hospital emergency room data given below. Consider the well failure data given below. Determine the probability for each of the following: a The first bar is wide or the second bar is wide. Number of permutations of the bars with the second bar wide is 4.
Number of permutations of the bars with the wide bars in the last 3 positions is 3! Number of permutations of the bars with the first bar wide is 4. Number of permutations of the spaces with the first space wide is 1. Consider the three patient groups.
A computer system uses passwords that contain exactly eight characters, and each character is one of the 26 lowercase letters a—z or 26 uppercase letters A—Z or 10 integers 0—9. Assume all passwords are equally likely.
Let A and B denote the events that consist of passwords with only letters or only integers, respectively. The groups consisted of patients with different drug therapies such as prednisone and infliximab : sequential monotherapy group 1 , step-up combination therapy group 2 , initial combination therapy group 3 , or initial combination therapy with infliximab group 4.
Radiographs of hands and feet were used to evaluate disease progression. Suppose that a patient is selected randomly. Let A denote the event that the patient is in group 1, and let B denote the event that there is no progression. Samples of skin experiencing desquamation are analyzed for both moisture and melanin content.
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