The information below is the number of daily emergency service calls made by the volunteer ambulance service
Question:
The information below is the number of daily emergency service calls made by the volunteer ambulance service of Walterboro, South Carolina, for the last 50 days. To explain, there were 22 days on which there were two emergency calls, and 9 days on which there were three emergency calls.
Number of Calls Frequency
0........ 8
1 .........10
2......... 22
3......... 9
4......... 1
Total...... 50
a. Convert this information on the number of calls to a probability distribution.
b. Is this an example of a discrete or continuous probability distribution?
c. What is the mean number of emergency calls per day?
d. What is the standard deviation of the number of calls made daily?
Step by Step Answer:
Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics
ISBN: 978-0078020520
16th edition
Authors: Douglas Lind, William Marchal