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ISBN: 9781305787612

Author: Charles Henry Brase, Corrinne Pellillo Brase

Publisher: Cengage Learning

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Chapter 7.5, Problem 6P

Basic Computation: Central Limit Theorem Suppose x has a distribution with a mean of 20 and a standard deviation of 3. Random samples of size n = 36 are drawn.

(a) Describe the x ¯ distribution and compute the mean and standard deviation of the distribution.

(b) Find the z value corresponding to x ¯ = 19.

(d) Interpretation Would it be unusual for a random sample of size 36 from the x distribution to have a sample mean less than 19? Explain.

Features Features Normal distribution is characterized by two parameters, mean (µ) and standard deviation (σ). When graphed, the mean represents the center of the bell curve and the graph is perfectly symmetric about the center. The mean, median, and mode are all equal for a normal distribution. The standard deviation measures the data's spread from the center. The higher the standard deviation, the more the data is spread out and the flatter the bell curve looks. Variance is another commonly used measure of the spread of the distribution and is equal to the square of the standard deviation.

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