E370

1/5/2017
Sampling Distribution
Applications
Week 09 Part 2
 Jimmy Johns counted the number of customers
in the store weekdays between noon and 1:00
for a sample of 100 days. The standard
deviation was 50. Approximately how likely is
it that the sample mean number of customers
will be within 10 customers of the population
mean?

Some thoughtful problems

 The weight of Twix candy bars is normally
distributed with a mean of 2.20 ounces and a
standard deviation of 0.4 ounces. One sample
of 49 Twix candy bars yielded a mean of 2.13
ounces. Is this sample mean an outlier?
.

An outlier is an observation more than 3

standard deviations from its mean.

Twix Candy Bars

 The amount of time it takes a student to
complete a quiz is uniformly distributed
between 2 and 6 minutes. A sample of 81
students took the quiz. Within what two values
should the mean of the sample be 93% of the
time?
X~U(2, 6)

 The standard deviation of a test is about 12

points. For a random sample of 36 students,
approximately how likely is it that the sample
mean will differ from the population mean by
more than 6 points?

 The standard deviation of spending on food at

the movies is $1.08. For a random sample of
81 moviegoers, approximately how likely is it
that the sample mean spending will be more
than 24 cents above the population mean?

 Dr. Gupta of CNN's "Paging Dr. Gupta"

reported that according to a national poll 48%
of American adults report exceeding the
recommended dose of over-the-counter (non-
prescription) drugs. Assuming 48%is the
population proportion, for samples of 49
adults, between what two values will
approximately 95% of sample proportions
symmetric around 48% lie?
. .

An application


95% is 2 from the mean

is which is 0.071

Lower limit:

Upper limit:

Calculations
 The Cherry Farmer's Co-op on the peninsula in
Grand Traverse Bay in Michigan is responsible for
packing and shipping the annual cherry harvest.
The coordinator took a random sample of 100 Bing
cherries, measured the diameter of each and
calculated the mean diameter of the sample to be
1.1 inches and the standard deviation to be 0.1
inches. Assuming that 1.1 inches is the population
mean, within what two values will the sample
mean diameter of Bing cherries lie 95% of the
time, for samples of this size?

and another . . .
 .

95% is 2 from the mean

is which is 0.01

Lower limit:

Upper limit:

Calculations