Exam 5: Sampling Distributions

During the summer months,the prices of nonsmoking rooms with a king-sized bed in hotels in a certain area are roughly Normally distributed with a mean of $131.80 and a standard deviation of $29.12.What percentage of nonsmoking rooms with a king-sized bed cost more than $150?

Suppose you want to determine if there are differences in the average prices among items at three local supermarket chains.To reduce bias,how should you select the items to use in your study?

Let X represent the SAT total score of an entering freshman at University X.The random variable X is known to have a N(1200,90)distribution.Let Y represent the SAT total score of an entering freshman at University Y.The random variable Y is known to have a N(1215,110)distribution.A random sample of 100 freshmen is obtained from each university.Let = the sample mean of the 100 scores from University X,and = the sample mean of the 100 scores from University Y.What is the probability that will be greater than ?

Which of the following statements best describes a sampling distribution?

A researcher is planning to carry out a sample survey in order to estimate the proportion of people in a very large population of interest who have shopped online in the previous 6 months.A simple random sample is to be selected but there is debate about whether to select an SRS of size 500 or of size 1000.With respect to the sample proportion,which statement best describes what can be expected to happen using these two different sample sizes?

The scores of individual students on the American College Testing (ACT),college readiness assessment,have a Normal distribution with a mean of 18.6 and a standard deviation of 6.0.At Northside High,36 seniors take the test.Assume the scores at this school have the same distribution as national scores.What is the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the sample mean score for a random sample of 36 students?

Should you have a cup of coffee to make you more alert when studying for a big test? A study on the effect of caffeine involved asking volunteers to take a memory test 20 minutes after drinking cola.Some volunteers were randomly assigned to drink caffeine-free cola,some were assigned regular cola (with caffeine),and others were assigned a mixture of the two (getting a half dose of caffeine).For each volunteer,a test score (the number of items recalled correctly)was recorded.The volunteers were not told which type of cola they had been given,but the researchers for the study prepared the cups of cola right on the spot (out of sight of the volunteers).The memory test had a total of 25 items on it.The average number of items recalled was 15 for the caffeine-free group,17 for the mixture group,and 16 for the regular cola group.Are the values 15,16,and 17 statistics or parameters?

A population variable has a distribution with a mean of  = 50 and a variance of ² = 225.From this population a simple random sample of n observations is to be selected and the mean of the sample values calculated.If the population variable is known to be Normally distributed and the sample size used is to be n = 16,what is the probability that the sample mean will be between 48.35 and 55.74,that is,P(48.35   55.74)?

The length of time it takes to get through the security checks at a very large urban airport is a random variable with a mean of 20.6 minutes and a standard deviation of 11ec949d_bc0d_7f39_be2b_43474a185cb2_TB5065_00 8.4 minutes.A simple random sample of 36 airline passengers is to be observed going through security.For the passengers in the SRS,what is the approximate probability that the mean length of time for them to get through security will be less than 18 min?

A random variable X is Normally distributed with mean = 75 and = 8.Let Y be a second Normally distributed random variable with mean = 70 and = 12.It is also known that X and Y are independent of one another.Let W be a random variable that is the difference between X and Y (i.e. ,W = X - Y).What can be said about the distribution of W?

A study,conducted by Jackson et al.and published in the journal Cancer Causes and Control in 2009,examined 33,938 women aged 40 to 84 years old who resided in California and who reported having had a mammogram within the last 2 years.The researchers were interested in characteristics of women who routinely obtain mammograms,as suggested by the American Cancer Society,to detect breast cancer.The table below provides a column that refers to the sample size and provides characteristics of the 33,938 women who were included in the study who reported having had a mammogram. What proportion of the sample had a household income below $35K?

Let X represent the SAT total score of an entering freshman at University X.The random variable X is known to have a N(1200,90)distribution.Let Y represent the SAT total score of an entering freshman at University Y.The random variable Y is known to have a N(1215,110)distribution.A random sample of 100 freshmen is obtained from each university.Let = the sample mean of the 100 scores from University X,and = the sample mean of the 100 scores from University Y.What is the distribution of the difference in sample means between University X and University Y: - ?

A gasoline tank for a certain car is designed to hold 15 gallons of gas.Suppose that the actual capacity of a randomly selected tank has a distribution that is approximately Normal with a mean of 15.0 gallons and a standard deviation of 0.15 gallons.The manufacturer of this gasoline tank considers the largest 2% of these tanks too large to put on the market.How large does a tank have to be to be considered too large?

Let X represent the SAT total score of an entering freshman at University X.The random variable X is known to have a N(1200,90)distribution.Let Y represent the SAT total score of an entering freshman at University Y.The random variable Y is known to have a N(1215,110)distribution.A random sample of 100 freshmen is obtained from each university.Let = the sample mean of the 100 scores from University X,and = the sample mean of the 100 scores from University Y.What is the probability that will be less than 1190?

During the summer months,the prices of nonsmoking rooms with a king-sized bed in hotels in a certain area are roughly Normally distributed with a mean of $131.80 and a standard deviation of $29.12.A travel agent randomly selects prices of nonsmoking rooms with a king-sized bed from 15 hotels in the area.What is the probability that their average cost will be more than $150?

The figure below shows the Poisson distribution with a mean of 4.The Poisson distribution is an example of _________.

Which histograms display a sampling distribution that is unbiased for estimating the proportion of women at a large university,which is known to be 45%?

In the construction industry,compressive strength of concrete is a crucial characteristic.Suppose for a particular residential construction job the concrete tested after 3 days should have a mean compression strength of  = 3000 psi with a standard deviation of  = 50 psi.It is known that compressive strength of concrete is Normally distributed.On a construction site,a sample of n = 5 specimens is selected and tested after 3 days.If the concrete has the desired characteristics,what is the probability that the sample mean will be larger than 3060 psi?

The number of undergraduates at Johns Hopkins University is approximately 2000,while the number at Ohio State University is approximately 40,000.Suppose the actual proportion of undergraduates at Johns Hopkins University who feel drinking is a problem among college students is 67%.What is the mean of the sampling distribution of the percentage of students who feel drinking is a problem in repeated simple random samples of 50 Johns Hopkins undergraduates?

The length of time it takes to get through the security checks at a very large urban airport is a random variable with a mean of  = 20.6 minutes and a standard deviation of  = 8.4 minutes.A simple random sample of 36 airline passengers is to be observed going through security.What is the variance of the sampling distribution of the sample mean ?