SOLUTION: The mean age of students at a high school is 16.5 with a standard deviation of 0.7. You use the Standard Normal Table to help you determine that the probability of selecting one st
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Question 1132379: The mean age of students at a high school is 16.5 with a standard deviation of 0.7. You use the Standard Normal Table to help you determine that the probability of selecting one student at random and finding his or her age to be more than 17.5 years is about 8%. What is the error in this problem? Answer by rothauserc(4718) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The error is - the assumption that the student population is normally distributed.
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The central limit theorem doesn't apply, since the sample is size 1
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