Question

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The lengths of human pregnancies are normally distributed with a mean of 268 days and a standard deviation of 15 days.


1.a) If one pregnant woman is randomly selected, find the probability that her pregnancy lasts less than 260 days. Round your result to 4 decimal places.

a. 0.2969

b. 0.7031

c. 0.5000

d. 0.2742


1.b) Is it unusual for one woman to have a pregnancy that lasts less than 260 days?

a. No, the probability is greater than 0.05.

b. Yes, the probability is greater than 0.05.

c. Yes, the probability is less than 0.05.

d. No, the probability is less than 0.05.


1.c) Complete the following sentence: If we looked at a random sample of 100 pregnant women would expect ____  to have pregnancies lasting less than 100 days.

a. 29 or 30

b. 27 or 28

c. about 50

d. 71 or 72


1. d) A researcher chooses a sample of 25 pregnant women and wants to look at the mean length of the pregnancies for the sample. Does the Central Limit Theorem Apply? Briefly explain why or why not.


1.e) What is the probability that a randomly selected sample of 25 pregnant women have a mean length of pregnancy less than 260 days? Round your response to 4 decimal places.


1.f) Based on your response to the previous question, is it unusual for a random sample of 25 women to have a mean length of pregnancy of less than 260 days? Explain your response in a full sentence.


1.g) If a random sample of 25 pregnant women had a mean length of pregnancy of less than 260 days, does that mean that all 25 women had a pregnancy that lasted less than 260 days? Explain your response in a full sentence.

Answer 1