document.write( "Question 314741: I have been working on my homework all day and this may be the simplest of problems but I am confusing myself and I was wondering if I could get a little help figuring it out. Can you show me how you get the answer.\r
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document.write( "Suppose on a highway with a speed limit of 65 mph, the speed of cars are independent and normally distributed with an average speed = 65 mph and standard deviation = 5 mph. What is the expected value of the sample mean speed in a random sample of n = 100 cars?
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document.write( "A) 13 mph
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document.write( "B) 0.65 mph
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document.write( "C) 6.5 mph
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document.write( "D) 65 mph\r
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document.write( "Thanks,
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document.write( "Dave
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Algebra.Com's Answer #225101 by stanbon(75887)![]() ![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! Suppose on a highway with a speed limit of 65 mph, the speed of cars are independent and normally distributed with an average speed = 65 mph and standard deviation = 5 mph. \n" ); document.write( "-------------------------- \n" ); document.write( "What is the expected value of the sample mean speed in a random sample of \n" ); document.write( "n = 100 cars? \n" ); document.write( "----------------------- \n" ); document.write( "The distribution of ALL samples of size \n" ); document.write( "100 has a mean of 65 and std=5/sqrt(100). \n" ); document.write( "---- \n" ); document.write( "Expected value of the sample mean speed = 65 mph. \n" ); document.write( "================================= \n" ); document.write( "Cheers, \n" ); document.write( "Stan H. \n" ); document.write( "======================== \n" ); document.write( "A) 13 mph \n" ); document.write( "B) 0.65 mph \n" ); document.write( "C) 6.5 mph \n" ); document.write( "D) 65 mph \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " |