document.write( "Question 1071705: The mean amount purchased by a typical customer at Churchill's Grocery Store is $26.00 with a standard deviation of $6.00. Assume the distribution of amounts purchased follows the normal distribution. For a sample of 62 customers, answer the following questions.
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document.write( "What is the likelihood the sample mean is at least $27.00? (Round z value to 2 decimal places and final answer to 4 decimal places.)
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document.write( "What is the likelihood the sample mean is greater than $25.00 but less than $27.00? (Round z value to 2 decimal places and final answer to 4 decimal places.)
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document.write( "Within what limits will 90 percent of the sample means occur? (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)
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Algebra.Com's Answer #686654 by stanbon(75887)![]() ![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! The mean amount purchased by a typical customer at Churchill's Grocery Store is $26.00 with a standard deviation of $6.00. Assume the distribution of amounts purchased follows the normal distribution. For a sample of 62 customers, answer the following questions. \n" ); document.write( "a. \n" ); document.write( "What is the likelihood the sample mean is at least $27.00? (Round z value to 2 decimal places and final answer to 4 decimal places.) \n" ); document.write( "z(27) = (27-26)/(6/sqrt(62)) = 1.31 \n" ); document.write( "P(x-bar >=27) = P(z > 1.31) = normalcdf(1.31,100) = 0.0951 \n" ); document.write( "------------------------------------- \n" ); document.write( "b. \n" ); document.write( "What is the likelihood the sample mean is greater than $25.00 but less than $27.00? (Round z value to 2 decimal places and final answer to 4 decimal places.) \n" ); document.write( "z(25) = (25-26)/(6/sqrt(62)) = -1.31 \n" ); document.write( "P(25< x-bar < 27) = P(-1.31< z < 1.31) = normalcdf(-1.31,1.31) = 0.8098 \n" ); document.write( "---------------------- \n" ); document.write( "c. \n" ); document.write( "Within what limits will 90 percent of the sample means occur? (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) \n" ); document.write( "---------------- \n" ); document.write( "Left tail of that interval has 0.05 of the area under the curb \n" ); document.write( "Left boundary of the interval:: z = invNorm(0.05) = -1.6449 \n" ); document.write( "Right boundary of the interval:: z = invNorm(0.95) = 1.6449 \n" ); document.write( "--- \n" ); document.write( "Corresponding sample mean interval :: \n" ); document.write( "x-bar = -1.6449*(6/sqrt(62)) + 26 = $24.75 \n" ); document.write( "x-bar = +1.6449*(6/sqrt(62))+26 = $27.25 \n" ); document.write( "Ans: (24.75,27,25) \n" ); document.write( "----------------- \n" ); document.write( "Cheers, \n" ); document.write( "Stan H. \n" ); document.write( "------------ \n" ); document.write( " |