Solutions


Problem Part Solution
1 - There are many possible sample means that could be obtained from a population. For example, if you draw a simple random sample of size 100 you will get a sample mean for that sample. However, if you drew a different random sample of size 100, you would get a different sample mean. Many different samples of size 100 could be drawn from a population and each of these samples will have its own sample mean. All of these possible sample means make up the sampling distribution.
2 - z=0.186
3 - 0.426
4 - Mean = 529
5 - Standard Deviation = 20.631
6 - Normal
7 - z = 1.018
8 - 0.154
9 - Normal, with mean of 3.5 and standard deviation of 0.078
10 - 0.005
11 - 0.319
12 - 0.068
13 - z = -1.25
14 - 0.106
15 - z = -3.536
16 - 0.0002
17 - Probability shrinks as the z-score moves further away from the mean. This is happening because we are shading in the applet only to the left of the z-score since the problems ask for the probability of an event being ‘less than’. Therefore, as our z-score gets further away from the center, the smaller the probability will be on the left tail.