Typical machined parts require very tight tolerance in variance in order to work properly in their application. We took a sample of the length (in mm.) of 100 units from a large production run and got the following statistics: sample mean = 499.97, sample variance = 6.52 What is the 99% confidence interval estimate for the true population VARIANCE in unit length?
a. (499.30, 500.64)
b. (4.97, 8.93)
c. (4.64, 9.71)
d. (4.79, 9.32)
e. none of the above

Rockwell hardness of pins of a certain type is known to have a mean value of 50 and a standard deviation of 1.1. (round your answers to four decimal places.) (a) if the distribution is normal, what is the probability that the sample mean hardness for a random sample of 8 pins is at least 51?

Read the excerpt from the strange case of dr jekyll and mr. hyde what do dr. jekyll's thoughts reveal about him in this excerpt? [t]he inmates of my house were locked in the most rigorous hours of slumber, and i determined, flushed as i was with hope and triumph, to venture in my new shape as far as to my bedroom. i crossed the yard, wherein the constellations looked down upon me, i could have thought, with wonder, the first creature of that sort that their unsleeping vigilance had yet disclosed to he is jealous of those who can sleep through the night. he is revered for his scientific advances. he is interested in studying the movements of the stars he is proud and enthusiastic about his initial results.

Max recorded the heights of 500 male humans. he found that the heights were normally distributed around a mean of 177 centimeters. which statements about max’s data must be true? a) the median of max’s data is 250 b) more than half of the data points max recorded were 177 centimeters. c) a data point chosen at random is as likely to be above the mean as it is to be below the mean. d) every height within three standard deviations of the mean is equally likely to be chosen if a data point is selected at random.