The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 146414253X
ISBN 13: 978-1-46414-253-6

Chapter 15 - Sampling Distributions - Chapter 15 Exercises - Page 369: 15.28c

Answer

The probability that the mean score of your sample is between 20 and 30 is 0.9996.

Work Step by Step

Here we have n = 25, μ = 25, x̅ = 20 & 30, σ = 6.5 $σ_{x̅} = \frac{σ}{\sqrt n} = \frac{25 }{\sqrt 6.5} = 1.3$ Using the z-value approach, we have: $z = \frac{x̅ - μ_{x̅}}{σ_{x̅}} = \frac{20-25}{1.3} = -3.486$ $z = \frac{x̅ - μ_{x̅}}{σ_{x̅}} = \frac{30-25}{1.3} = 3.486$ Using Table A of the book, we have: P(-3.486 < z < 3.486) = 0.9996
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