In: Statistics and Probability
The GPAs of all 5540 students enrolled at a university has a distribution with a mean of 3.02 and a standard deviaiton of 0.29. Let x-bar be the mean GPA of a random sample of 48 students selected from this university.
a. Find the mean and standard deviation of x-bar and comment on the
shape of its sampling distribution (1 point for each).
b. What is the probability that the sample mean of such a sample
will be greater than 3.10?
Solution :
Given that,
mean = = 3.02
standard deviation = = 0.29
n=48
mean = = =3.02
standard deviation = = / n = 0.29/ 48 = 0.04186
P( > 310) = 1 - P( < 3.10)
= 1 - P[( - ) / < (3.10-3.02) / 0.04186 ]
= 1 - P(z < 1.91)
Using z table
= 1 - 0.9719
= 0.0281
probability=0.0281