The bank manager wants to show that the new system reduces typical customer wait

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The bank manager wants to show that the new system reduces typical customer waiting times to less than 6 minutes. One way to do this is to demonstrate that the mean of the population of all customer waiting times is less than 6. Letting this mean be mu, in this exercise we wish to investigate whether the sample of 106 waiting times provides evidence to support the claim that mu is less than 6. For the sake of argument, we will begin by assuming that mu equals 6, and we will then attempt to use the sample to contradict this assumption in favor of the conclusion that mu is less than 6. Recall that the mean of the sample of 106 waiting times is x = 5.37 and assume that sigma, the standard deviation of the population of all customer wailing times, is known to be 2.25. (a) Consider the population of all possible sample means obtained from random samples of 106 waiting times. What is the shape of this population of sample means? That is, what is the shape of the sampling distribution of x? Normal because the sample is (b) Find the mean and standard deviation of the population of all possible sample means when we assume that mu equals 6. (Round your answer to 4 decimal places.) (c) The sample mean that we have actually observed is x = 5.37. Assuming that p equals 6, find the probability of observing a sample mean that is less than or equal to x = 5.37. (Round your answer to 4 decimal places.) (d) If mu equals 6, what percentage of all possible sample means are less than or equal to 5.37? What do you conclude about whether the new system has reduced the typical customer waiting time to less than 6 minutes? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

Explanation / Answer

a) sample is >30

b) std error =std deviation/(n)105 =0.2185

c)P(X<5.37)= P(Z<(5.37-6)/0.2185)=P(Z<-2.883)=0.0020

d)99.80% conclude that mean is less then 6

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