The winner of the 2008–2009 National Basketball Association (NBA) championship was the Los Angeles Lakers. One starting lineup for that team is shown in the following table. Player Position Height (in.) Trevor Ariza (T) Forward 80 Kobe Bryant (K) Guard 78 Andrew Bynum(A) Center 84 Derek Fisher (D) Guard 73 Pau Gaosl (P) Forward 84 Find the population mean Height of the five players. For Samples of size 2, construct a table. Use the letter in parentheses after each player’s name to represent each player. Draw a dotplot for the sampling distribution of the sample mean for samples of size 2.

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Q) To provide concrete illustrations of the sampling distribution of the sample mean. For that reason, the populations considered are unrealistically small. In each exercise, assume that sampling is without replacement.

NBA Champs. The winner of the 2008–2009 National Basketball Association (NBA) championship was the Los Angeles Lakers. One starting lineup for that team is shown in

the following table.

Player Position Height (in.)
Trevor Ariza (T) Forward 80
Kobe Bryant (K) Guard 78
Andrew Bynum(A) Center 84
Derek Fisher (D) Guard 73
Pau Gaosl (P) Forward 84
  1. Find the population mean Height of the five players.
  2. For Samples of size 2, construct a table. Use the letter in parentheses after each player’s name to represent each player.
  3. Draw a dotplot for the sampling distribution of the sample mean for samples of size 2.
  4. For a random sample of size 2, what is the chance that the sample mean will equal the population mean.
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