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1. Consider a parent population with mean 75 and a standard deviation 7. The population
doesn't appear to have extreme skewness or outliers.
A. What are the mean and standard deviation of the distribution of sample means
for n = 40? (2 points)
B. What's the shape of the distribution? Explain your answer in terms of the
Central Limit Theorem. (1 point)
C. What proportion of the sample means of size 40 would you expect to be 77 or
less? If you use your calculator, show what you entered. (1 point)
D. Draw a sketch of the probability you found in part C. (1 point)
2. Suppose over several years of offering AP Statistics, a high school finds that final exam
scores are normally distributed with a mean of 78 and a standard deviation of 6.
A. What are the mean, standard deviation, and shape of the distribution of x-bar
for n = 50? (2 points)
B. What's the probability a sample of scores will have a mean greater than 80?
(1 point)
C. Sketch the distribution curve for part B, showing the area that represents the
probability you found. (1 point)
3. Suppose college faculty members with the rank of professor at two-year institutions earn
an average of $52,500 per year with a standard deviation of $4,000. In an attempt to
verify this salary level, a random sample of 60 professors was selected from a personnel
database for all two-year institutions in the United States.
A. What are the mean and standard deviation of the sampling distribution for
n = 60? (2 points)
B. What's the shape of the sampling distribution for n = 60? (1 point)
C. Calculate the probability the sample mean x-bar is greater than $55,000.
(1 point)
D. If you drew a random sample with a mean of $55,000, would you consider this
sample unusual? What conclusions might you draw? (1 point)
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Acknowledgements
Question 3:
This question is based on question 7.24 (c & d) from page 261 of Introduction to Probability and Statistics, Tenth
Edition, by W. Mendenhall, R. Beaver, and B. Beaver. Copyright 1999 by Brooks Cole, division of Thompson
Learning Incorporated. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission of the publisher.
Question 4:
This question is based on question 7.26 from page 262 of Introduction to Probability and Statistics, Tenth Edition,
by W. Mendenhall, R. Beaver, and B. Beaver. Copyright 1999 by Brooks Cole, division of Thompson Learning
Incorporated. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission of the publisher.
Question 4:
This question is based on question 7.20 from page 261 of Introduction to Probability and Statistics, Tenth Edition,
by W. Mendenhall, R. Beaver, and B. Beaver. Copyright 1999 by Brooks Cole, division of Thompson Learning
Incorporated. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission of the publisher.
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