Question

The owner of a gasoline station wants to study gasoline purchasing habits of motorists at his station. He selects a random sample of 60 motorists during a certain week with the following data. The average amount purchased is 11.3 gallons with a standard deviation of 3.1 gallons. At a 5

1) 1.645
2) 1.96
3) 2.326
4) 2.576

Answer 1

The distribution to use for the average cost of gasoline for the 16 gas stations is the normal distribution.

Step-by-step explanation:

The distribution to use for the average cost of gasoline for the 16 gas stations is the normal distribution. This is because the problem states that the cost of unleaded gasoline follows an unknown distribution, and the normal distribution is commonly used to model such data. The problem provides the mean and standard deviation, which are the parameters required to define a normal distribution.