Defining Sampling Distribution of

Sample Mean for Normal Population

when the Variance is Known and
Unknown
Distribution of the Sample Mean for Normal
Population
Determine whether the following statements have a known or
unknown population variance. Identify also the formula to be
used to estimate the standard error of the mean.

1. Consider a population consisting of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9,

and 11. Samples of size 3 are drawn from this
population.
Given: N=9 and n=3
Sampling distribution when the variance is known.
The standard error formula:
2. Given the population mean of 12, and a sample
standard deviation of 3 in a sample size of 125.
Given:
The population variance is unknown.
The standard error formula:
3. A population composed of 10 items whose
measurements are 12, 11, 15, 8, 20, 23, 18, 13, 22,
and 10. samples of 6 items are drawn at random
without replacement.
Given: N= 10 and n =6
Sampling distribution when the variance is
known.
The standard error formula:
4. An SHS teacher claims that the average time it takes a group
of students to complete the Mathematics examination is 50.5
minutes with a variance of 17.64 She randomly selected 45
students and found to have a mean of 52 minutes and a
standard deviation of 3.5 minutes. She then used the z-
distribution to find out if the group can complete the exam
faster than the population.
Given:
The population variance is known.
The standard error formula:
5. A manufacturer of lightbulbs produces bulbs that last
a mean of 800 hours with a standard deviation of 100
hours. To assess the claim of the manufacturer, a random
sample of 12 of these bulbs was tested and found to have
a mean of 790 hours. He then used the test variate
Given:
The population variance is unknown.
The standard error formula:
CENTRAL
LIMIT
THEOREM
CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM
If random samples of size n are
drawn from a population, then as n
becomes larger, the sampling
distribution of the mean approaches the
normal distribution, regardless of the
shape of the population distribution.
Illustrating Central Limit Theorem
Given a die, it has 6 faces in which each face
has either dot/s of x = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.
compute the following:
1. Population mean
2. Population variance
3. Population standard deviation
4. Illustrate the probability histogram of the
sampling distribution of the means.
Compute the Population Mean

𝜇=
∑ 𝑋 1+ 2+3+ 4 +5+ 6 21
= = =3.5
𝑁 6 6
Compute the Population Variance

𝜎 =∑ ¿ ¿ ¿
2
Compute the Population Standard Deviation

√ ∑ ( 𝑋 − 𝜇) 2

𝜎= =√ 2.92=1.71
𝑁
Construct the Histogram
The population mean and sampling
distribution means are both equal which is
3.5. it has a variance of approximately
2.92 and a standard deviation of
approximately 1.71. since all samples
have the same probability of 1/6 or 16.666
the trend of the histogram is like a flat line
horizontally.