Chu Hai College of Higher Education ABA102 Business Statistics

In-class Exercise

Chapter 5: Sampling Distributions

Solve the problem.

1) Consider the population described by the probability distribution below. 1)

x 2 5 7
p(x) .2 .5 .3

The random variable x is observed twice. The observations are independent. The different
samples of size 2 and their probabilities are shown below.

Sample Probability Sample Probability Sample Probability

2, 2 .04 5, 2 .10 7, 2 .06
2, 5 .10 5, 5 .25 7, 5 .15
2, 7 .06 5, 7 .15 7, 7 .09

Find the sampling distribution of the sample mean x.

2) The probability distribution shown below describes a population of measurements that can 2)
assume values of 3, 6, 9, and 12, each of which occurs with the same frequency:

x 3 6 9 12
1 1 1 1
p(x)
4 4 4 4

Consider taking samples of n = 2 measurements and calculating x for each sample.

Construct the probability histogram for the sampling distribution of x.

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3) Consider the probability distribution shown here. 3)

x 9 11 13
1 1 1
p(x)
3 3 3

Let x be the sample mean for random samples of n = 2 measurements from this
distribution. Find E(x) and E(x).

4) A random sample of size n is to be drawn from a population with = 800 and = 200. 4)
What size sample would be necessary in order to reduce the standard error to 10?

5) Suppose a random sample of n = 64 measurements is selected from a population with 5)

mean = 65 and standard deviation = 12. Find the values of x and x.

6) The weight of corn chips dispensed into a 10-ounce bag by the dispensing machine has 6)
been identified as possessing a normal distribution with a mean of 10.5 ounces and a
standard deviation of .2 ounce. Suppose 100 bags of chips are randomly selected. Find the
probability that the mean weight of these 100 bags exceeds 10.45 ounces.

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Answer Key
Testname: EXERCISE CHAPTER5

1) x 2 3.5 4.5 5 6 7
p(x) .04 .20 .12 .25 .30 .09
2)

3 4.5 6 7.5 9 10.5 12

1 1 1
3) E(x) = = (9)( ) + (11)( ) + (13)( ) = 11
3 3 3
1 2 3 2 1
E(x) = (9)( ) + (10)( ) + (11)( ) + (12)( ) + (13)( ) = 11
9 9 9 9 9

4) The standard error is x = . If the standard error is desired to be 10, we get:
n
200 200
10 = / n = n 10 = 200 n= = 20 n = 400
n 10
12 12
5) x = = 65; x = = = 1.5
64 8

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Answer Key
Testname: EXERCISE CHAPTER5

10.45 - 10.50
6) P(x > 10.45) = P z >
.2/ 100

= P (z > -2.5) = .5 + .4938 = .9938