The operations manager of a toll booth located at a major exit of a state turnpike is

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The operations manager of a toll booth located at a major exit of a state turnpike is trying to estimate the average number of vehicles that arrive at the toll booth during a 1-minute period during the peak of rush-hour traffic. In an effort to estimate this average throughput value, he records the number of vehicles that arrive at the toll booth over a 1-minute interval commencing at the same time for each of 365 normal weekdays. The data are provided in the file P2_9.XLS. Choose a simple random sample of size 20 from the given frame of 365 values to help the operations manager estimate the average throughput value.

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Managerial Statistics

ISBN: 9780534389314

1st Edition

Authors: S. Christian Albright, Wayne L. Winston, Christopher Zappe

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