A population is distributed with a known standard deviation, σ = 15 units. A random sample of size 50 is obtained from this population. The mean of this sample is 80.   True or False:  Since the sample size is greater than 25 the distribution of sample means from this population should be approximately normally distributed.   2.  What is the lower limit of the 95% confidence interval for the population mean μ?  (2 dp) distributed.   3. What is the upper limit of the 95% confidence interval for the population mean μ?  (2 dp) 4. Based on your confidence interval, would you believe that the true mean of this population could be 85?

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A population is distributed with a known standard deviation, σ = 15 units. A random sample of size 50 is obtained from this population. The mean of this sample is 80.  

  1. True or False:  Since the sample size is greater than 25 the distribution of sample means from this population should be approximately normally distributed.

 

2.  What is the lower limit of the 95% confidence interval for the population mean μ?  (2 dp) distributed.

 

3. What is the upper limit of the 95% confidence interval for the population mean μ?  (2 dp)

4. Based on your confidence interval, would you believe that the true mean of this population could be 85?  

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As per our guidelines, we are allowed to answer first three sub-parts . Thanks 

1) We know that if the sample size is greater than 30 , according to Central limit theorem , the distribution can be approximated using normal distribution

Here n = 50

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σ = 15 units

 The mean of this sample , x¯ = 80

 

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