Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data (4th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780321997838
Author: Alan Agresti, Christine A. Franklin, Bernhard Klingenberg
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 7, Problem 38CP
Home runs Based on data from the 2010 Major League Baseball season, X = number of home runs the San Francisco Giants hit in a game has a
- a. Do you think X has a
normal distribution ? Why or why not? - b. Suppose that this year X has the same distribution. Report the shape, mean, and standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the mean number of home runs the team will hit in its 162 games.
- c. Based on the answer to part b, find the
probability that the mean number of home runs per game in this coming season will exceed 1.50.
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