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The mean diameter of a ball bearing produced by a certain manufacturer is 0.80 cm with a standard deviation of 0.03 cm. A sample of 36 ball bearings is randomly selected from a production run. Use Excel to answer the following questions:a.What is the probability that the sample of ball bearings will have a mean less than 0.798 cm?b.What is the probability that the sample of ball bearings will have a mean of at least 0.815 cm?c.What is the probability that the sample of ball bearings will have a mean between 0.798 and 0.815 cm? d.For samples of size 36, 15% of all sample means are at most what diameter?​

When the population has a normal distribution, the sampling distribution of  is normally distributed _____.

Probability Distribution is as follows:​xf(x)​100.2​200.3​300.4​400.1 The expected value of x equals _____.

Forty percent of all registered voters in a national election are female. A random sample of 5 voters is selected. The probability that the sample contains 2 female voters is _____.

If P(A) = 0.62, P(B) = 0.47, and P(A ∪ B) = 0.88, then P(A ∩ B) =

A graphical method of representing the sample points of a multiple-step experiment is a(n) _____.

Starting salaries of a sample of 5 management majors along with their genders are shown below. EmployeeSalary ($1000s)Gender  160F  256M  344F  452F  538M ​a.What is the point estimate for the starting salaries of all management majors?b.Determine the point estimate for the variance of the population.c.Determine the point estimate for the proportion of male employees.

Bivariate probabilities are often called _____.

The probability distribution for the daily sales at Michael’s Co. is given below.​Daily Sales ($1000s)Probability​400.1​500.4​600.3​700.2 The expected daily sales are _____.

The weight of items produced by a machine is normally distributed with a mean of 8 ounces and a standard deviation of 2 ounces. What is the random variable in this experiment?