A normally distributed population with unknown variance has a mean of 20. If you took a random sample of size n = 9 from this population and computed a sample standard deviation of 4.1, how likely is it that the sample mean is greater than 24?

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A normally distributed population with unknown variance has a mean of 20. If you
took a random sample of size n =
standard deviation of 4.1, how likely is it that the sample mean is greater than 24?
9 from this population and computed a sample
Transcribed Image Text:A normally distributed population with unknown variance has a mean of 20. If you took a random sample of size n = standard deviation of 4.1, how likely is it that the sample mean is greater than 24? 9 from this population and computed a sample
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Given,  X is normally distributed with mean μ=20 and variance is unknown. A random sample of size n=9 is taken from this population with sample standard deviation s=4.1

 

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