Exam 7: Sampling and Sampling Distributions

A manufacturer of power tools claims that the mean 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 mean of the sampling distribution of the sample mean is ________ minutes.

Which of the following yields a simple random sample?

To gather opinions on the efficacy of U.S. foreign policies, a sample of 50 faculty members is selected from the pool of university professors who have taught political science at the graduate level. This is an example of a judgment sample.

The professor of a business statistics class wanted to find out the mean amount of time per week her students spent studying for the class. Among the 50 students in her class, 20% were freshmen, 50% were sophomores and 30% were juniors. She decided to select 2 students randomly from the freshmen, 5 randomly from the sophomores and 3 randomly from the juniors. This is an example of a systematic sample.

TABLE 7-4 The lifetimes of a certain brand of light bulbs are known to be normally distributed with a mean of 1,600 hours and a standard deviation of 400 hours. A random sample of 64 of these light bulbs is taken. -Referring to Table 7-4, the probability is 0.20 that the sample mean lifetime differs from the population mean lifetime by at least how many hours?

For air travelers, one of the biggest complaints is of the waiting time between when the airplane taxis away from the terminal until the flight takes off. This waiting time is known to have a right skewed distribution with a mean of 10 minutes and a standard deviation of 8 minutes. Suppose 100 flights have been randomly sampled. Describe the sampling distribution of the mean waiting time between when the airplane taxis away from the terminal until the flight takes off for these 100 flights.

The fact that the sample means are less variable than the population data can be observed from the standard error of the mean.

To find out the potential impact of a new zoning law on a neighborhood, the legislators conduct a focus group interview by inviting the members of the housing owners association of that neighborhood. This is an example of a

The standard error of the sampling distribution of a sample proportion is where ρ is the sample proportion.

If the population distribution is skewed, in most cases the sampling distribution of the mean can be approximated by the normal distribution if the samples contain at least 30 observations.

A manufacturer of power tools claims that the mean 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 ________.

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?

Suppose μ = 50 and σ = 10 for a population. In a sample where n = 100 is randomly taken, 90% of all possible sample means will fall between 49 and 51.

The standard error of the mean for a sample of 100 is 30. In order to cut the standard error of the mean to 15, we would

The professor of a business statistics class wanted to find out the mean amount of time per week her students spent studying for the class. She divided the students into the left, right and center groups according to the location they sat in the class that day. One of these 3 groups was randomly selected and everyone in the group was asked the mean amount of time per week he/she spent studying for the class. This is an example of a cluster sample.

To demonstrate a sampling method, the instructor in a class picked the first 5 students sitting in the last row of the class. This is an example of a

The sample proportion is an unbiased estimate of the population proportion.

Major league baseball salaries averaged $3.26 million with a standard deviation of $1.2 million in a recent year. Suppose a sample of 100 major league players was taken. What was the standard error for the sample mean salary?

Which of the following is not a reason for the need for sampling?

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 probability that the mean of the sample is less than 36.03 is ________.