Problem 1CQ Find each probability using the standard normal distribution. (a) P(z > -2.54) (b) P(z<3.09) (c) P(-0.88<z<0.88) (d) P(z<-1.445 or z > -0.715)
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Textbook Solutions for Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World
Question
The mean amount of money that U.S. adults spend on food in a week is $151 and the standard deviation is $49. Random samples of size 50 are drawn from this population and the mean of each sample is determined.
(a) Find the mean and standard deviation of the sampling distribution of sample means.
(b) What is the probability that the mean amount spent on food in a week for a certain sample is more than $160?(c) What is the probability that the mean amount spent on food in a week for a certain sample is between $135 and $150?
Solution
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Given, the mean amount that U.S. adults spend on food in a week is $151 and the standard deviation is $49. We have a sample of 50 from the population and the mean of each is determined.
Let X follows the Normal distribution with density
\(\mathrm{P}(\mathrm{X}=\mathrm{x})=\frac{1}{\sigma \sqrt{2 \Pi}} \exp \left\{\frac{(x-\mu)^{2}}{2 \sigma^{2}}\right\}\)
With parameters \(\mu\) and \(\sigma\)
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