POPULATION MEAN
1. You have a six sided die with faces numbered 1
through 6, and each face is equally likely to come up on
4. Noise levels at various area urban hospitals were
any given roll. Suppose you rolled the die five times and
measured in decibels. The mean of the noise levels in 84
got the values of 3, 4, 6, 3 and 5. If all samples of size 2
corridors was 61.2 decibels, and the standard deviation
are taken, find
of the population was 7.9.
a) The best Point estimate 61.2
a) How many possible samples can be drawn?
b) The 95% confidence interval of the population
b) List all possible samples and the corresponding
mean.59.5<u<62.9
means
c) Construct a sampling distribution of the sample
Minimum sample size needed for an interval estimate
means
of the population mean
d) Compute the mean of the sampling distribution of
the sample means
5) A university dean of students wishes to estimate the
e) Compute the variance of the sampling distribution of
average number of hours students spend doing
the sample means.
homework per week. The standard deviation from a
f) Compute the standard deviation of the sampling
previous study is 6.2 hours. How large a sample must be
distribution of the sample mean.
selected if he wants to be 99% confident of finding
whether the true mean differs from the sample mean
CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM
by 1.5 hours? 114
(SOLVING PROBLEMS INVOLVING SAMPLING
DISTRIBUTION OF THE SAMPLE MEANS)
CONFIDENCE INTERVALS FOR THE POPULATION MEAN
WHEN POPULATION STANDARD DEVIATION IS
2) The average number of pounds of meat that a person
UNKNOWN
consumes per year is 218.4 pounds. Assume that the
standard deviation is 25 pounds and the distribution is
6) A sample of six college wrestlers had an average
approximately normal. If a sample of 40 individuals is
weight of 276 pounds with a sample standard deviation
selected, find the probability that the mean of the
of 12 pounds. Find the 90% confidence interval of the
sample will be less than 224 pounds per year. 92.22%
true mean weight of all college wrestlers.