Practical Management Science
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Author: WINSTON, Wayne L.
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Chapter 10.2, Problem 2P
Use Excel’s functions (not @RISK) to generate 1000 random numbers from a
- a. Calculate the mean and standard deviation of these random numbers. Are they approximately what you would expect?
- b. What fraction of these random numbers are within k standard deviations of the mean? Answer for k = 1; for k = 2; for k = 3. Are the answers close to what they should be (about 68% for k = 1, about 95% for k = 2, and over 99% for k = 3)?
- c. Create a histogram of the random numbers using about 10 bins of your choice. Does this histogram have approximately the shape you would expect?
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