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Dafna1
1 month ago
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Sally gets a cup of coffee and a muffin every day for breakfast from one of the many coffee shops in her neighborhood. She picks

a coffee shop each morning at random and independently of previous days. The average price of a cup of coffee is $1.40 with a standard deviation of 30¢ ($0.30), the average price of a muffin is $2.50 with a standard deviation of 15¢, and the two prices are independent of each other.
(a) What is the mean and standard deviation of the amount she spends on breakfast daily?
(b) What is the mean and standard deviation of the amount she spends on breakfast weekly (7 days)?
Mathematics
1 answer:
lawyer [12.5K]1 month ago
3 0

Answer:

A. Sally's average daily expenditure on breakfast is $3.90

The standard deviation for her daily breakfast expenses is $0.34 (rounded to the nearest cent)

B. Sally's average weekly breakfast spending amounts to $27.30

The standard deviation for her weekly breakfast expenses is $0.89 (rounded to the nearest cent)

Step-by-step explanation:

1. Let's analyze the provided information to answer the question accurately:

Average cost of a cup of coffee = $1.40

Standard deviation = $0.30

Average cost of a muffin = $2.50

Standard deviation = $0.15

The prices of the two items are independent.

2. How do we calculate the mean and standard deviation of Sally's daily breakfast expenditure?

Let's remember that:

1. The mean of the total of two independent variables equals the total of their means.

2. The variance of the total of two independent variables is the sum of their variances.

Thus,Mean of Sally's daily breakfast expenditure = Average cost of coffee + Average cost of muffin

Replacing with known values:

Mean of Sally's daily breakfast expenditure = 1.40 + 2.50

Mean of Sally's daily breakfast expenditure = $3.90

Variance of Sally's daily breakfast expenditure = Variance of coffee cost + Variance of muffin cost

Replacing with known values:

Variance of Sally's daily breakfast expenditure = 0.30² + 0.15²

Variance of Sally's daily breakfast expenditure = 0.1125

The standard deviation for Sally's daily breakfast expenditure = √0.1125

The standard deviation for Sally's daily breakfast expenditure = $0.34 (rounded to the nearest cent)

3. Calculating the mean and standard deviation for Sally's weekly breakfast expenses (7 days)?

The weekly average spending on breakfast = 7 * Daily average

Weekly average breakfast expenditure = 7 * 3.90Weekly average breakfast expenditure = $27.30

Variance of Sally's weekly breakfast expenditure = 7 * Daily variance

Weekly variance for breakfast expenses = 7 * 0.1125

Weekly variance for breakfast expenses = 0.7875

The standard deviation for Sally's weekly breakfast expenses = √0.7875

Standard deviation for Sally's weekly breakfast expenses = $0.89 (rounded to the nearest cent)

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