Exam 7: Sampling and Sampling Distributions

TABLE 7-7 Online customer service is a key element to successful online retailing. According to a marketing survey, 37.5% of online customers take advantage of the online customer service. Random samples of 200 customers are selected. -Referring to Table 7-7, 95% of the samples proportions symmetrically around the population proportion will have between ________% and ________% of the customers who take advantage of online customer service.

TABLE 7-4 According to a survey, only 15% of customers who visited the web site of a major retail store made a purchase. Random samples of size 50 are selected. -Referring to Table 7-4, the average of all the sample proportions of customers who will make a purchase after visiting the web site is ________.

The amount of bleach a machine pours into bottles has a mean of 36 oz. with a standard deviation of 0.15 oz. Suppose we take a random sample of 36 bottles filled by this machine. The sampling distribution of the sample mean will be approximately normal only if the population sampled is normal.

Sales prices of baseball cards from the 1960s are known to possess a skewed-right distribution with a mean sale price of $5.25 and a standard deviation of $2.80. Suppose a random sample of 100 cards from the 1960s is selected. Describe the sampling distribution for the sample mean sale price of the selected cards.

Suppose a sample of n = 50 items is drawn from a population of manufactured products and the weight, X, of each item is recorded. Prior experience has shown that the weight has a probability distribution with μ = 6 ounces and σ= 2.5 ounces. Which of the following is true about the sampling distribution of the sample mean if a sample of size 15 is selected?

The owner of a fish market has an assistant who has determined that the weights of catfish are normally distributed, with mean of 3.2 pounds and standard deviation of 0.8 pound. If a sample of 64 fish yields a mean of 3.4 pounds, what is probability of obtaining a sample mean this large or larger?

TABLE 7-5 The manager of the customer service division of a major consumer electronics company is interested in determining whether the customers who have purchased a DVD player made by the company over the past 12 months are satisfied with their products. -Referring to Table 7-5, if a customer survey questionnaire is included in all the DVD players made and sold by the company over the past 12 months, this method of collecting data will most like suffer from

At a computer manufacturing company, the actual size of computer chips is normally distributed with a mean of 1 centimeter and a standard deviation of 0.1 centimeter. A random sample of 12 computer chips is taken. What is the probability that the sample mean will be between 0.99 and 1.01 centimeters?

You stand at the main entrance to a departmental store and pick the first 20 customers that enter the store after it has opened its door for business on a single day. This is an example of a systematic sample.

The amount of time required for an oil and filter change on an automobile is normally distributed with a mean of 45 minutes and a standard deviation of 10 minutes. A random sample of 16 cars is selected. What is the probability that the sample mean will be between 39 and 48 minutes?

TABLE 7-6 According to an article, 19% of the entire U.S. population have high-speed access to the Internet. Random samples of size 200 are selected from the U.S. population. -Referring to Table 7-6, among all the random samples of size 200, ________% will have between 14% and 24% who have high-speed access to the Internet.

For distributions such as the normal distribution, the arithmetic mean is considered more stable from sample to sample than other measures of central tendency.

Which of the following sampling methods will more likely be susceptible to ethical violation when used to form conclusions about the entire population?

TABLE 7-6 According to an article, 19% of the entire U.S. population have high-speed access to the Internet. Random samples of size 200 are selected from the U.S. population. -Referring to Table 7-6, the standard error of all the sample proportions is ________.

TABLE 7-4 According to a survey, only 15% of customers who visited the web site of a major retail store made a purchase. Random samples of size 50 are selected. -Referring to Table 7-4, the requirements for using a normal distribution to approximate a binomial distribution is fulfilled.

The professor of a business statistics class wanted to find out the average amount of time per week her students spent studying for the class. She divided the fifty students on her roster into ten groups starting from the first student on the roster. The first student was randomly selected from the first group. Then every tenth student was selected from the remaining students. This is an example of a cluster sample.

The standard error of the population proportion will become larger

TABLE 7-2 The mean selling price of new homes in a city over a year was $115,000. The population standard deviation was $25,000. A random sample of 100 new home sales from this city was taken. -Referring to Table 7-2, what is the probability that the sample mean selling price was between $113,000 and $117,000?

A manufacturer of power tools claims that the average amount of time required to assemble their top-of-the-line table saw is 80 minutes with a standard deviation of 40 minutes. Suppose a random sample of 64 purchasers of this table saw is taken. The probability that the sample mean will be greater than 88 minutes is ________.

Measurement error will become an ethical issue when the findings are presented without reference to sample size and margin of error.