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The Central Limit Theorem for Sample Means

(Averages):
Use the following information to answer the next three exercises: Yoonie is a personnel manager in a
large corporation. Each month she must review 16 of the employees. From past experience, she has
found that the reviews take her approximately four hours each to do with a population standard
deviation of 1.2 hours. Let Χ be the random variable representing the time it takes her to complete one
review. Assume Χ is normally distributed. Let X¯¯¯X¯ be the random variable representing the mean time
to complete the 16 reviews. Assume that the 16 reviews represent a random set of reviews.

1. What is the mean, standard deviation, and sample size?

2. Find the probability that one review will take Yoonie from 3.5 to 4.25 hours. Sketch the graph,
labeling and scaling the horizontal axis. Shade the region corresponding to the probability.

a.

Figure 7.16

b. P(________ < x < ________) = _______

The Central Limit Theorem for Sums (Optional):


Use the following information to answer the next two exercises: An unknown distribution has a mean of
80 and a standard deviation of 12. A sample size of 95 is drawn randomly from the population.

3. Find the probability that the sum of the 95 values is greater than 7,650.

4. Find the sum that is two standard deviations above the mean of the sums.
Use the following information to answer the next three exercises: The distribution of results from a
cholesterol test has a mean of 180 and a standard deviation of 20. A sample size of 40 is drawn
randomly.

5. Find the probability that the sum of the 40 values is greater than 7,500.

7. Find the sum that is one standard deviation above the mean of the sums.

9. Find the percentage of sums between 1.5 standard deviations below the mean of the sums and one
standard deviation above the mean of the sums.

Use the following information to answer the next three exercises: A researcher measures the amount of
sugar in several cans of the same type of soda. The mean is 39.01 with a standard deviation of 0.5. The
researcher randomly selects a sample of 100.

10. Find the probability that the sum of the 100 values is less than 3,900.

11. Find the sum with a z-score of –2.5.

12. Find the probability that the sums will fall between the z-scores –2 and 1.

Use the following information to answer the next two exercises: An unknown distribution has a mean 12
and a standard deviation of one. A sample size of 25 is taken. Let X = the object of interest.

13. What is the standard deviation of ΣX?

14. What is P(Σx > 290)?

15. In order for the sums of a distribution to approach a normal distribution, what must be true?

16. An unknown distribution has a mean of 25 and a standard deviation of six. Let X = one object from
this distribution. What is the sample size if the standard deviation of ΣX is 42?

Use the following information to answer the next two exercises: A market researcher analyzes how many
electronics devices customers buy in a single purchase. The distribution has a mean of three with a
standard deviation of 0.7. She samples 400 customers.

16. What is the z-score for Σx = 840?

17. What is P(Σx < 1186)?

18. An unkwon distribution has a mean of 100, a standard deviation of 100, and a sample size of 100.
Let X = one object of interest. What is the standard deviation of ΣX?

Using the Central Limit Theorem:


Use the following information to answer the next 5 exercises: A manufacturer produces 25-pound lifting
weights. The lowest actual weight is 24 pounds, and the highest is 26 pounds. Each weight is equally
likely, so the distribution of weights is uniform. A sample of 100 weights is taken.

19.

a.
What is the distribution for the weights of one 25-pound lifting weight? What are the mean and
standard deviation?
b. What is the distribution for the mean weight of 100 25-pound lifting weights?
c. Find the probability that the mean actual weight for the 100 weights is less than 24.9.

20. Find the probability that the mean actual weight for the 100 weights is greater than 25.2.

21. Find the 90th percentile for the mean weight for the 100 weights.

22.

a. What is the distribution for the sum of the weights of 100 25-pound lifting weights?
b. Find P(Σx < 2450).

23. Find the 90th percentile for the total weight of the 100 weights.

Use the following information to answer the next four exercises: The length of time a particular
smartphone's battery lasts follows an exponential distribution with a mean of ten months. A sample of
64 of these smartphones is taken.

24.

a. What is the standard deviation?


b. What is the parameter m?

25. What is the distribution for the mean length of time 64 batteries last?

26. Find the probability that the sample mean is between 7 and 11.

27. Find the interquartile range (IQR) for the mean amount of time 64 batteries last.

Use the following information to answer the next three exercises: A uniform distribution has a minimum
of six and a maximum of ten. A sample of 50 is taken.

28. Find P(Σx > 420).


29. Find the 15th percentile for the sums.

30. Find the third quartile for the sums.

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