Friday, 5 April 2013

Statistics detects cheat

Statistics & Truth [by CR Rao]:

RedCross hires local food contractors to supply rice, salt, water to N unknown survived victims of a recent Earthquake.

The bill shows they supply quantities R, S, W, resp, per day.
Assume average daily consumption per person be r, s, w resp.

To verify any cheating of overbill by contractors:

R/r = S/s = W/w = N

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