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Week 09 PT 2
Week 09 PT 2
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?
An application
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 . . .
.
is which is 0.01
Lower limit:
Upper limit:
Calculations