According to Global Research News (March 4, 2014), one-fourth of all rough diamonds produced in the world

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According to Global Research News (March 4, 2014), one-fourth of all rough diamonds produced in the world are blood diamonds, i.e., diamonds mined to finance war or an insurgency. Exercise 3.81. In a random sample of 700 rough diamonds purchased by a diamond buyer, let x be the number that are blood diamonds.

a. Find the mean of x.

b. Find the standard deviation of x.

c. Find the z-score for the value x = 200.

d. Find the approximate probability that the number of the 700 rough diamonds that are blood diamonds is less than or equal to 200.

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Statistics For Business And Economics

ISBN: 9780134506593

13th Edition

Authors: James T. McClave, P. George Benson, Terry Sincich

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