
a. no offers.
b. at least 2 offers.
1.For e-commerce merchants, getting a customer to visit a Web site isn’t enough. Merchants must also persuade online shoppers to spend money by completing a purchase. Experts at Andersen Consulting estimated that 88% of Web shoppers abandon their virtual shopping carts before completing their transaction. Consider a sample of 20 customers who visit an e-commerce Web site, and assume that the probability a customer will leave the site, and assume that the probability a customer will leave the site before completing a transaction is 0.88.
a.What is the expected value, or mean, of the binomial distribution?1.76
b.What is the standard deviation of the binomial distribution?1.45
c.What is the probability that all 20 of the customers will leave the site without completing a transaction?0.078
d.What is the probability that 18 or more of the customers will leave the site without completing a transaction?0.5
Time spent using e-mail per session is normally distributed with mean=8 minutes and std=2 minutes. If random samples of 25 sessions were selected,
a. What proportion of the sample mean would be between 7.8 and 8.2 minutes?
b. What proportion of the sample mean would be between 7.5 and 8 minutes?
c. If random samples of 100 sessions were selected, what proportion of the sample mean would be between 7.8 and 8.2 minutes?
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During June and July of 2001, the European Union Executive Commission conducted a study of 6,543 European adults. Of those surveyed, 56% said that the euro single currency would promote economic growth and 73% knew the correct date of the changeover. Construct a 95% confidence interval estimate for the proportion of European adults who believe that the euro would promote economic growth.
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1. The following data represent the monthly service fee in dollars if a customer’s account falls below the minimum required $1,500 balance for a sample of 26 banks for direct-deposit customers. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population mean monthly service fee in dollars if a customer’s account falls below the minimum required balance.
12_8_5_5_6_6_10_10_9_7_10_7_7__5_0_10_6_9_12_0_5_10_8_5_5_9___ EMBED Equation.DSMT4 ___2. a manufacturer of flashlight batteries took a sample of 13 batteries from a day’s production and used them continuously until they failed to work. The life of the batteries in hours until failure is:342_426_317_545_2_451_1049__631_512_266_492_562_298___a. At the 0.05 level of significance, is there evidence that the mean life of the batteries is more than 400 hours?b. Determine the p-value in (a) and interpret its meaning._ EMBED Equation.DSMT4 ____ EMBED Equation.DSMT4 ___3. According to the Center for Work-Life Policy, a survey of 500 highly educated women who left careers for family reasons found 66% wanted to return to work. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population proportion of highly educated women who left careers for family reasons who want to return to work. 4. An article in The Wall Street Journal implies that more than half of all Americans would prefer being given $100 rather than a day off from work. This statement is based on a survey conducted by American Express Incentive Services, in which 593 of 1040 respondents indicated that they would rather have the $100. a. At the 0.05 level of significance, is there evidence based on the survey data that more than half of all Americans would rather have $100 than a day off from work?b. Compute the p-value and interpret its meaning.
