Within all biological communities, energy at each trophic level is lost in the form of heat (as much as 80 to 90 percent), as organisms expend energy for metabolic processes such as staying warm and digesting food (see biosphere: The organism and the environment: Resources of the biosphere: The flow of energy).

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The area of the base of this prism is 35cm^2 , what is the volume of the prism

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The ratio of girls to boys on the swim team is 2 to 5. There are 15 boys on the team, how many girls are on the team?

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A shop sells a particular of video recorder. Assuming that the weekly demand for the video recorder is a Poisson variable with t

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Answer:

a) 0.5768 = 57.68% probability that the shop sells at least 3 in a week.

b) 0.988 = 98.8% probability that the shop sells at most 7 in a week.

c) 0.0104 = 1.04% probability that the shop sells more than 20 in a month.

Step-by-step explanation:

For questions a and b, the Poisson distribution is used, while for question c, the normal approximation is used.

Poisson distribution:

In a Poisson distribution, the probability that X represents the number of successes of a random variable is given by the following formula:

$P(X = x) = \frac{e^{-\lambda}*\lambda^{x}}{(x)!}$

In which

x is the number of successes

e = 2.71828 is the Euler number

$\lambda$ is the mean in the given interval.

Normal Probability Distribution

Problems of normal distributions can be solved using the z-score formula.

In a set with mean $\mu$ and standard deviation $\sigma$ , the z-score of a measure X is given by:

$Z = \frac{X - \mu}{\sigma}$

The Z-score measures how many standard deviations the measure is from the mean. After finding the Z-score, we look at the z-score table and find the p-value associated with this z-score. This p-value is the probability that the value of the measure is smaller than X, that is, the percentile of X. Subtracting 1 by the p-value, we get the probability that the value of the measure is greater than X.

The Poisson distribution can be approximated to the normal with $\mu = \lambda, \sigma = \sqrt{\lambda}$ , if $\lambda>10$ .

Poisson variable with the mean 3

This means that $\lambda= 3$ .

(a) At least 3 in a week.

This is $P(X \geq 3)$ . So

$P(X \geq 3) = 1 - P(X < 3)$

In which:

$P(X < 3) = P(X = 0) + P(X = 1) + P(X = 2)$

Then

$P(X = x) = \frac{e^{-\lambda}*\lambda^{x}}{(x)!}$

$P(X = 0) = \frac{e^{-3}*3^{0}}{(0)!} = 0.0498$

$P(X = 1) = \frac{e^{-3}*3^{1}}{(1)!} = 0.1494$

$P(X = 2) = \frac{e^{-3}*3^{2}}{(2)!} = 0.2240$

$P(X < 3) = P(X = 0) + P(X = 1) + P(X = 2) = 0.0498 + 0.1494 + 0.2240 = 0.4232$

$P(X < 3) = P(X = 0) + P(X = 1) + P(X = 2) = 1 - 0.4232 = 0.5768$

0.5768 = 57.68% probability that the shop sells at least 3 in a week.

(b) At most 7 in a week.

This is:

$P(X \leq 7) = P(X = 0) + P(X = 1) + P(X = 2) + P(X = 3) + P(X = 4) + P(X = 5) + P(X = 6) + P(X = 7)$

In which

$P(X = x) = \frac{e^{-\lambda}*\lambda^{x}}{(x)!}$

$P(X = 0) = \frac{e^{-3}*3^{0}}{(0)!} = 0.0498$

$P(X = 1) = \frac{e^{-3}*3^{1}}{(1)!} = 0.1494$

$P(X = 2) = \frac{e^{-3}*3^{2}}{(2)!} = 0.2240$

$P(X = 3) = \frac{e^{-3}*3^{3}}{(3)!} = 0.2240$

$P(X = 4) = \frac{e^{-3}*3^{4}}{(4)!} = 0.1680$

$P(X = 5) = \frac{e^{-3}*3^{5}}{(5)!} = 0.1008$

$P(X = 6) = \frac{e^{-3}*3^{6}}{(6)!} = 0.0504$

$P(X = 7) = \frac{e^{-3}*3^{7}}{(7)!} = 0.0216$

Then

$P(X \leq 7) = P(X = 0) + P(X = 1) + P(X = 2) + P(X = 3) + P(X = 4) + P(X = 5) + P(X = 6) + P(X = 7) = 0.0498 + 0.1494 + 0.2240 + 0.2240 + 0.1680 + 0.1008 + 0.0504 + 0.0216 = 0.988$