In: Statistics and Probability
Suppose that the amount of time that Parsnip takes to eat his food follows an approximate normal distribution with mean 40.75 seconds and standard deviation 4.8 seconds. A simple random sample of 20 days is selected and the amount of time that Parsnip takes to eat his food is determined for each day. If appropriate, describe completely the sampling distribution of , the resulting mean amount of time that Parsnip takes to eat his food for this sample of 20 days.
Solution:
Given: the amount of time that Parsnip takes to eat
his food follows an approximate normal distribution with mean 40.75
seconds and standard deviation 4.8 seconds. thus
and
Sample size = n = 20
We have to describe completely the sampling distribution of the resulting mean amount of time that Parsnip takes to eat his food for this sample of 20 days.
Since the amount of time that Parsnip takes to eat
his food follows an approximate normal distribution, then sampling
distribution of sample means
also follows an approximate normal distribution with mean of
sample means:
and standard deviation of sample means is: