In 2002, the average duration of incoming telephone calls to a furniture store was 9.4 minutes. The manager wants to perform a test to determine whether this average duration of incoming calls has changed. Twenty calls to the store was randomly selected and the mean duration was 10.2 minutes with standard deviation 4.8 minutes. Assuming that the duration of incoming telephone calls to a furniture store is normally distributed, a) Use a 1% level of significance to test whether the mean duration of incoming calls to the store had changed. b) Construct the 95% confidence interval for the population mean duration of the incoming calls to the furniture store.
Continuous Probability Distributions
Probability distributions are of two types, which are continuous probability distributions and discrete probability distributions. A continuous probability distribution contains an infinite number of values. For example, if time is infinite: you could count from 0 to a trillion seconds, billion seconds, so on indefinitely. A discrete probability distribution consists of only a countable set of possible values.
Normal Distribution
Suppose we had to design a bathroom weighing scale, how would we decide what should be the range of the weighing machine? Would we take the highest recorded human weight in history and use that as the upper limit for our weighing scale? This may not be a great idea as the sensitivity of the scale would get reduced if the range is too large. At the same time, if we keep the upper limit too low, it may not be usable for a large percentage of the population!
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