SOLUTION: 4. The USDA Economics and Statistics System at Cornell University maintains a Poultry Yearbook in which they list monthly, quarterly, and annual facts about the poultry industry. T

Question 1134343: 4. The USDA Economics and Statistics System at Cornell University maintains a Poultry Yearbook in which they list monthly, quarterly, and annual facts about the poultry industry. The 2004 yearbook lists the annual consumption of turkey meat as 17.9 pounds per person. Suppose the standard deviation for the consumption of turkey per person is 6.4 pounds. The mean weight of turkey consumed for a random sample of 152 randomly selected people is one value of many that from the SDSM.
(a) What is the mean value for this sampling distribution? (Give your answer correct to two decimal places.)
pounds/person
(b) What is the standard deviation of this sampling distribution? (Give your answer correct to three decimal places.)

(c) Describe the shape of this sampling distribution. (Choose one)
-skewed right
-approximately normal
-skewed left
-uniform
-cannot be determined

Answer by Glaviolette(140) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
a. The mean of the sampling distribution is the same as the mean of the population, therefore 17.9 pounds.
b. The standard deviation of the sampling distribution is the standard deviation of the population divided by the square root of the sample size, 6.5/sq rt of 152 = .53
c. The shape of a sampling distribution is always expected to be approximately normal.
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