The scores of students on the SAT college entrance examinations at a certain hig

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The scores of students on the SAT college entrance examinations at a certain high school had a normal distribution with mean mu = 532.7 and standard deviation sigma = 25.8. (a) What is the probability that a single student randomly chosen from all those taking the test scores 537 or higher? For parts (b) through (d), consider a simple random sample (SRS) of 35 students who took the test. (b) What are the mean and standard deviation of the sample mean score x, of 35 students? The mean of the sampling distribution for x is: The standard deviation of the sampling distribution for x is: (c) What z-score corresponds to the mean score x of 537? (d) What is the probability that the mean score x of these students is 537 or higher?

Explanation / Answer

a) P(X>537)=1-P(X<537)=1-P(Z<(537-532.7)/25.8)=1-P(Z<0.1667)=1-0.5662=0.4338

b)mean =532.7

std deviation =25.8/(35)1/2 =4.361

c)z score =(X-mean)/std deviation =(537-532.7)/4.361=0.9860

d) P(X>537)=P(Z>0.9860)=0.1621

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