Normal Distributions and Sampling Distributions

According to the Center for Disease Control, 93% of children entering kindergarten in the U.S. are vaccinated. A school district has 180 incoming kindergarten children.

Which of the following is true concerning the shape of the sampling distribution?

• The sampling distribution is normal because n > 30

• The sampling distribution is not normal because nq is < 30

• The sampling distribution is normal because 93% of 180 is > 10

• The sampling distribution is normal because np and nq are both > 10

What is the standard deviation of the distribution?

• 1010

• 20

• 60

• √20

Your mail-order company advertises that it ships 90% of its orders within three working days. You select an SRS of 100 of the 5000 orders received in the past week for an audit.

What is the standard deviation?

• 0.04

• 0.004

• 0.3

• 0.03

Your mail-order company advertises that it ships 90% of its orders within three working days. You select an SRS of 100 of the 5000 orders received in the past week for an audit.
What Is the probability that more than 95% of the orders are delivered within three working days?

• 0.0228

• 0.4779

• 0.0478

• 0.9522

According to government data, 22% of American children under the age of six live in households with incomes less than the official poverty level. A study of learning in early childhood chooses an SRS of 300 children.

Are the conditions/assumptions for normality met?

• Yes, all of them are met.

• No, the sample is not random

• No, we have less than 10 successes

• No, 300 is more than 10% of all children

According to government data, 22% of American children under the age of six live in households with incomes less than the official poverty level. A study of learning in early childhood chooses an SRS of 400 children. What is the probability that between 15% and 25% of children live in households with less than the official poverty level?

• 0.9998

• 0.0007

• 0.9259

• 1

• 0

According to government data, 22% of American children under the age of six live in households with incomes less than the official poverty level. A study of learning in early childhood chooses an SRS of 400 children. What is the probability that at most 16% of children live in households with less than the official poverty level?

• 0.0003

• 0.0019

• 0.9968

• 0.9999

• 0

The Gallup Poll asked a random sample of 1785 adults whether they attended church during the past week.  Let p-hat be the proportion of people in the sample who attended church.  A newspaper report claims that 40% of all U.S. adults went to church last week. What is the probability that 38.56% or fewer went to church last week?

• 0.9999998

• 0.8929

• 0.1071

• 0.3541

The average speed of 1500 vehicles traveled on a stretch of highway that day is 67 miles per hour with a standard deviation of 3.5 miles per hour. If 100 vehicles are randomly selected as samples, what would be the mean of the resulting sampling distribution of sample means?

• 63.5

• 67

• 70.5

• 74

The mean weight of potato chip bags is 10.5 ounces with a standard deviation of 3 ounces. A random sample of 40 bags of potato chips is selected. What is the probability that the mean of the sample is less than 10 ounces?

• -1.05

• .146

• .020

• .853