E370

5/13/17
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
 TheCherry 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