Statistics: 5.4 Central Limit Thm

What is the relationship between the mean of the population and the mean of the sampling distribution of the sample means?

• the mean of the population is greater than the mean of the sampling distribution of the sample means.

• the mean of the population is lesser than the mean of the sampling distribution of the sample means.

• the mean of the population is equal to the mean of the sampling distribution of the sample means.

• the mean of the population is not equal to the mean of the sampling distribution of the sample means.

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CCSS.6.SP.A.2

What have you observed with the histogram of the sampling distribution of the sample mean?

• The histogram is skewed to the left, regardless of the shape of the population.

• It will tend to have an abnormal distribution, regardless of the shape of the population.

• The bars in the histogram will be all the same heights

• It will tend to have a normal distribution, regardless of the shape of the population.

According to the Central Limit Theorem, For a sample to be large enough, the sample size should be ______.

• half of the population

• 75% of the population size

• at least 30

• at most 100

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CCSS.HSS.ID.A.4

Which of the following symbol describes the population mean?

Which of the following symbol describes the population standard deviation?

• 50

• 25

• 20

• 5

• 5

• 0.91

• 0.71

• 0

The population mean age of the residents in a certain city is 56.12 years with a standard deviation of 15.3 years. A group of 2000 residents from a certain barangay in the city is taken as a sample. If the population of the city 150 000, find the mean of the sampling distribution of the sample mean of the residents’ ages.

• 150 000

• 2 000

• 15.3

• 56.12

The population mean age of the residents in a certain city is 56.12 years with a standard deviation of 15.3 years. A group of 2000 residents from a certain barangay in the city is taken as a sample. If the population of the city 150 000, find the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the sample mean of the residents’ ages.

• 150 000

• 0.34

• 0.5

• 56.12

The amount of fuel used by jumbo jets to take off is normally distributed with a mean of 4000 gallons and a standard deviation of 125 gallons.  What is the probability that the mean number of gallons of fuel needed to take off for a randomly selected sample of 40 jumbo jets will be less than 3950 gallons?

• .0057
• .025
• .345
• .781

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CCSS.HSS.ID.A.4