72. In 2012, MetricNet found that the average length of a phone call to a help desk was about ten minutes. Call times were strongly right skewed with a standard deviation around 3.5 minutes. Suppose we take a random sample of 50 calls to the help desk and find the average () call duration for the 50 calls. We repeat this process many times. (a) What do you expect the mean of the 's to be? (b) What do you expect the standard deviation of the r's to be? (c) What do you expect the shape of the r's to be? What guarantees this fact?

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### 7.9 Topic 9: Sampling Distributions

#### 71. 
- Describe in a few sentences what the sampling distribution of the mean represents in your own words.

#### 72.
- In 2012, MetricNet found that the average length of a phone call to a help desk was about ten minutes. Call times were strongly right skewed with a standard deviation of around 3.5 minutes. Suppose we take a random sample of 50 calls to the help desk and find the average (\( \bar{x} \)) call duration for the 50 calls. We repeat this process many times.
  - (a) What do you expect the mean of the \( \bar{x} \)’s to be?
  - (b) What do you expect the standard deviation of the \( \bar{x} \)’s to be?
  - (c) What do you expect the shape of the \( \bar{x} \)’s to be? What guarantees this fact?

#### 73.
- The on-campus housing costs for a semester at a state university are Normally distributed with a mean of $1553 and a standard deviation of $329.
  - (a) What is the distribution of the mean on-campus housing cost for a semester at this university for a random sample of 50 students?
  - (b) What is the probability that a randomly selected on-campus student spends more than $1200 per semester?
  - (c) What is the probability that a random sample of 50 students spends an average of less than $1500?
  - (d) What is the probability that a random sample of 50 students spends an average of $1450 to $1600 per semester?

#### 74.
- Sunshine City was designed to attract retired people, and its current population of 50,000 residents has a mean age of 60 years and a standard deviation of 16 years. The distribution of ages is skewed to the left.
  - (a) What is the distribution of the sample mean age of residents for a random sample of 100 residents?
  - (b) What is the probability that a random sample of 100 residents has a mean age between 50 and 70 years of age?
  - (c) What is the probability that the mean age of a random sample of 100 residents is less than 55?

#### 75.
- According to Quantcast analytics of
Transcribed Image Text:### 7.9 Topic 9: Sampling Distributions #### 71. - Describe in a few sentences what the sampling distribution of the mean represents in your own words. #### 72. - In 2012, MetricNet found that the average length of a phone call to a help desk was about ten minutes. Call times were strongly right skewed with a standard deviation of around 3.5 minutes. Suppose we take a random sample of 50 calls to the help desk and find the average (\( \bar{x} \)) call duration for the 50 calls. We repeat this process many times. - (a) What do you expect the mean of the \( \bar{x} \)’s to be? - (b) What do you expect the standard deviation of the \( \bar{x} \)’s to be? - (c) What do you expect the shape of the \( \bar{x} \)’s to be? What guarantees this fact? #### 73. - The on-campus housing costs for a semester at a state university are Normally distributed with a mean of $1553 and a standard deviation of $329. - (a) What is the distribution of the mean on-campus housing cost for a semester at this university for a random sample of 50 students? - (b) What is the probability that a randomly selected on-campus student spends more than $1200 per semester? - (c) What is the probability that a random sample of 50 students spends an average of less than $1500? - (d) What is the probability that a random sample of 50 students spends an average of $1450 to $1600 per semester? #### 74. - Sunshine City was designed to attract retired people, and its current population of 50,000 residents has a mean age of 60 years and a standard deviation of 16 years. The distribution of ages is skewed to the left. - (a) What is the distribution of the sample mean age of residents for a random sample of 100 residents? - (b) What is the probability that a random sample of 100 residents has a mean age between 50 and 70 years of age? - (c) What is the probability that the mean age of a random sample of 100 residents is less than 55? #### 75. - According to Quantcast analytics of
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