Introductory Statistics
3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780135188927
Author: Gould, Robert, Ryan, Colleen N. (colleen Nooter)
Publisher: Pearson,
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Chapter 9, Problem 5SE
Showers According to home-water-works.org, the average shower in the United States lasts 8.2 minutes. Assume this is correct, and assume the standard deviation of 2 minutes.
a. Do you expect the shape of the distribution of shower lengths to be Normal, right-skewed, or left-skewed? Explain.
b. Suppose that we survey a random sample of 100 people to find the length of their last shower. We calculate the
c. Refer to part b. What will be the mean and the standard deviation of the distribution of these sample means?
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