Given a normal distribution with mean = 100 and standard deviation = 10, if you select a sample of n = 25, what is the probability that x-bar is between 95 and 97.5?

1 Answer
Sep 19, 2017

=0.0994

Explanation:

ifX~N(100,102)

then the sampling distribution of the mean with sample size n

¯¯¯X~N(100,102n)

in this case

¯¯¯X~N(100,10225)

¯¯¯X~N(100,4)

we want

P(95<¯¯¯X<97.5)

standardising

P(951002<Z<97.51002)

where Z~N(0,1)

P(2.5<Z<1.25)

by symmetry of the Normal distribution

=P(2.5<Z<1.25)

=P(z<2.5)P(Z<1.25)

from tables

#=0.9938-0.8944

=0.0994