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Chapter 7.5, Problem 20E
Barron’s reported that the average number of weeks an individual is unemployed is 17.5 weeks. Assume that for the population of all unemployed individuals the population
- a. Show the sampling distribution of
- b. What is the
probability that a simple random sample of 50 unemployed individuals will provide a sample mean within 1 week of the population mean? - c. What is the probability that a simple random sample of 50 unemployed individuals will provide a sample mean within 1/2 week of the population mean?
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