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Question:
The average college major requires 34 credit hours to complete, with a standard deviation of 3 hours. A college's academic advisors conduct a study to see how many credit hours a sample size of 50 students will need to take to complete their majors.
They calculate:
μx = μ = 34
σx = μ/√n = 34/√50 = 4.81
What did they do wrong?
Answer:
The sample mean will be the same as the population mean
μx = μ = 34
Whereas the standard deviation of the sample would be
σx = σ/√n
σx = 3/√50
σx = 0.424
Therefore, the college's academic advisors wrongly calculated the standard deviation of the sampling distribution.
Explanation:
From the given information we know that,
The population mean is
μ = 34 credit hours
The population standard deviation is
σ = 34 credit hours
The college's academic advisors take a sample size of 50 students so
sample size = n = 50
Since the sample size is quite large then according to the central limit theorem,
The sample mean will be the same as the population mean
μx = μ = 34
Whereas the standard deviation of the sample would be
σx = σ/√n
σx = 3/√50
σx = 0.424
Therefore, the college's academic advisors wrongly calculated the standard deviation of the sampling distribution.