Question

A month later, Mayor Bruns (from Exercise 5-23) picks up the morning edition of the city's leading newspaper, the Sun-American, and reads an exposé of unemployment fraud. In this article, the newspaper claims that out of every 15 unemployment beneficiaries, the probability that four or more have jobs is 0.9095, and the expected number of employed beneficiaries exceeds 7. You are a special assistant to Mayor Bruns, who must respond to these claims at an afternoon press conference. She asks you to find the answers to the following two questions: (a) Are the claims of the Sun-American consistent with each other? (b) Does the first claim conflict with the opinion of the mayor's assistants?​

Answer 1

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Explanation:

a)The claims of the Sun-American are not consistent with each other. The probability that four or more out of every 15 unemployment beneficiaries have jobs is 0.9095, but the expected number of employed beneficiaries exceeds 7, which is more than 4.