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Chapter 5: Sampling Distributions: Solve The Problem

This document provides an exercise with 6 problems related to sampling distributions and statistics. The problems involve calculating sampling distributions, determining expected values, standard errors, and probabilities related to sample means. Key concepts covered include sampling distributions, standard error, normal distributions, and finding probabilities of sample means.

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Chapter 5: Sampling Distributions: Solve The Problem

This document provides an exercise with 6 problems related to sampling distributions and statistics. The problems involve calculating sampling distributions, determining expected values, standard errors, and probabilities related to sample means. Key concepts covered include sampling distributions, standard error, normal distributions, and finding probabilities of sample means.

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Chu Hai College of Higher Education ABA102 Business Statistics

In-class Exercise

Chapter 5: Sampling Distributions

Solve the problem.


1) Consider the population described by the probability distribution below. 1)

x 2 5 7
p(x) .2 .5 .3

The random variable x is observed twice. The observations are independent. The different
samples of size 2 and their probabilities are shown below.

Sample Probability Sample Probability Sample Probability


2, 2 .04 5, 2 .10 7, 2 .06
2, 5 .10 5, 5 .25 7, 5 .15
2, 7 .06 5, 7 .15 7, 7 .09

Find the sampling distribution of the sample mean x.

2) The probability distribution shown below describes a population of measurements that can 2)
assume values of 3, 6, 9, and 12, each of which occurs with the same frequency:

x 3 6 9 12
1 1 1 1
p(x)
4 4 4 4

Consider taking samples of n = 2 measurements and calculating x for each sample.


Construct the probability histogram for the sampling distribution of x.

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3) Consider the probability distribution shown here. 3)

x 9 11 13
1 1 1
p(x)
3 3 3

Let x be the sample mean for random samples of n = 2 measurements from this
distribution. Find E(x) and E(x).

4) A random sample of size n is to be drawn from a population with = 800 and = 200. 4)
What size sample would be necessary in order to reduce the standard error to 10?

5) Suppose a random sample of n = 64 measurements is selected from a population with 5)


mean = 65 and standard deviation = 12. Find the values of x and x.

6) The weight of corn chips dispensed into a 10-ounce bag by the dispensing machine has 6)
been identified as possessing a normal distribution with a mean of 10.5 ounces and a
standard deviation of .2 ounce. Suppose 100 bags of chips are randomly selected. Find the
probability that the mean weight of these 100 bags exceeds 10.45 ounces.

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Answer Key
Testname: EXERCISE CHAPTER5

1) x 2 3.5 4.5 5 6 7
p(x) .04 .20 .12 .25 .30 .09
2)

3 4.5 6 7.5 9 10.5 12

1 1 1
3) E(x) = = (9)( ) + (11)( ) + (13)( ) = 11
3 3 3
1 2 3 2 1
E(x) = (9)( ) + (10)( ) + (11)( ) + (12)( ) + (13)( ) = 11
9 9 9 9 9

4) The standard error is x = . If the standard error is desired to be 10, we get:
n
200 200
10 = / n = n 10 = 200 n= = 20 n = 400
n 10
12 12
5) x = = 65; x = = = 1.5
64 8

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Answer Key
Testname: EXERCISE CHAPTER5

10.45 - 10.50
6) P(x > 10.45) = P z >
.2/ 100

= P (z > -2.5) = .5 + .4938 = .9938

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