In: Statistics and Probability
The times that college students spend studying per week have a distribution that is skewed to the right with a mean of 7.0 hours and a standard deviation of 2.4 hours. Find the probability that the mean time spent studying per week for a random sample of 45 students would be
a. between 7.4 and 8.2 hours.
b. less than 7.4 hours
. Note 1: Round your z values to 2 decimal places before looking them up in the table or using them in a calculator. Note 2: Keep 4 decimal places in your final answers.
Solution :
Given that,
mean = = 7.0
standard deviation = = 2.4
n = 45
= 7.0
= / n = 2.4 45 = 0.3578
a ) P (7.4 < < 8.2 )
P ( 7.4 - 7.0 /0.3578) < ( - / ) < 8.2 - 7.0 / 0.3578)
P (0.4 /0.3578 < z < 1.2 / 0.3578)
P (1.12 < z < 3.35)
P ( z < 3.35 ) - P ( z < 1.12 )
Using z table
= 0.9996 - 0.8686
= 0.1310
Probability = 0.1310
b ) P( < 7.4 )
P ( - / ) < ( 7.4 - 7.0 / 0.3578 )
P ( z < 0.4 / 0.3578 )
P ( z < 1.12)
Using z table
= 0.8686
Probability = 0.8686