1. Medicare's new medical plans offer a wide range of variations and choices for seniors when picking...
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1. Medicare's new medical plans offer a wide range of variations and choices for seniors when picking a drug plan. The monthly cost for a stand-alone drug plan varies from plan to plan and from state to state. The accompanying table gives the premium for the plan with the lowest cost for each state.
State | Cost per Month (dollars) |
Alabama | 9.25 |
Alaska | 6.32 |
Arizona | 10.76 |
Arkansas | 9.10 |
California | 10.11 |
Colorado | 8.67 |
Connecticut | 13.23 |
Delaware | 8.34 |
District of Columbia | 6.03 |
Florida | 8.51 |
Georgia | 1.87 |
Hawaii | 6.55 |
Idaho | 8.76 |
Illinois | 1.87 |
Indiana | 8.12 |
Iowa | 8.36 |
Kansas | 6.71 |
Kentucky | 20.37 |
Louisiana | 19.77 |
Maine | 15.34 |
Maryland | 18.41 |
Massachusetts | 9.39 |
Michigan | 11.86 |
Minnesota | 11.75 |
Mississippi | 4.91 |
Missouri | 9.64 |
Montana | 13.99 |
Nebraska | 5.21 |
Nevada | 13.37 |
New Hampshire | 8.79 |
New Jersey | 6.67 |
New Mexico | 11.74 |
New York | 13.47 |
North Carolina | 1.87 |
North Dakota | 12.61 |
Ohio | 1.87 |
Oklahoma | 6.61 |
Oregon | 6.77 |
Pennsylvania | 16.82 |
Rhode Island | 7.33 |
South Carolina | 7.37 |
South Dakota | 1.87 |
Tennessee | 1.87 |
Texas | 15.62 |
Utah | 16.74 |
Vermont | 5.73 |
Virginia | 12.20 |
Washington | 8.75 |
West Virginia | 12.75 |
Wisconsin | 11.30 |
Wyoming | 7.87 |
(a) Use class intervals of $0 to <$3, $3 to <$6, $6 to <$9, etc., to create a relative frequency distribution for these data. (Round your answers for relative frequency to three decimal places.)
Class Interval | Frequency | Relative Frequency |
$0 - <$3 | ||
$3 - <$6 | 3 | 0.059 |
$6 - <$9 | ||
$9 - <$12 | ||
$12- <$15 | ||
$15 - <$18 | 4 | 0.078 |
$18 - <$21 | 3 | 0.059 |
TOTAL | 51 |
2.Consider the population of all 1-gallon cans of dusty rose paint manufactured by a particular paint company. Suppose that a normal distribution with mean=5mland standard deviation= 0.2 mlis a reasonable model for the distribution of the variablex= amountof red dye in the paint mixture. Use the normal distribution model to calculate the following probabilities. (Round your answers to four decimal places.)
(a)P(x<5) = (b)P(x<5.2)= (c)P(x5.2) = (d)P(4.8<x<5.2) = (e)P(x>4.5) = (f)P(x>4) =