SOLUTION: Question 10 options: The average teacher's salary in a certain state is $37,764. Assume a normal distribution with σ = $5100. a) What is the probability that a randomly selec

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Question 1191672: Question 10 options:
The average teacher's salary in a certain state is $37,764. Assume a normal distribution with σ = $5100.
a) What is the probability that a randomly selected teacher's salary is greater than $46,800?
For a sample of 75 teachers, what is the probability that the sample mean is greater than $38,900?

Answer by Theo(13342) About Me  (Show Source):
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the population mean = 37,764.
the population standard deviation = 5,100.

the z-score formula is z = (x - m) / s

z is the z-score
x is the sample score.
m is the mean
s is the standard deviation if you are looking at a sample element.
s is the standard error if you are looking at the mean of a sample of a number of sample elements.

your questions are answered below.
i assigned b) to the second question, since you assigned a) to the first question.

a) What is the probability that a randomly selected teacher's salary is greater than $46,800?

here, you are dealing with a sample element, so the standard deviation is used.

the z-score formula becomes:

z = (46,800 - 37,764) / 5,100.

solve for z to get z = 1.771764706.

using the ti-84 plus calculator, i get the area to the right of that z-score equals .0382167637.

if you are dealing with a z-score rounded to 2 decimal places and an area to the right of that z-score rounded to 5 decimal places, then your z-score would be equal to 1.77 and you would get the area to the right of that z-score equal to .03836.

here's the table that i used.
it gives you the area to the left.
the area to the right is equal to 1 minus that.
the area to the left was .96164 and the area to the right was 1 minus that = .03836.

https://www.rit.edu/academicsuccesscenter/sites/rit.edu.academicsuccesscenter/files/documents/math-handouts/Standard%20Normal%20Distribution%20Table.pdf


b) For a sample of 75 teachers, what is the probability that the sample mean is greater than $38,900?

since you are dealing with the mean of a sample of 75 teachers, you would use the standard error, rather than the standard deviation.

in that case, s = standard deviation divided by square root of sample size.
that would be 5,100 / sqrt(75) = 588.8972746.

the z-score would be equal to (38,900 - 37,764) / 588.8972746 = 1.929029135.

using the ti-84 plus calculator, the area to the right of that would be equal to .0268635538.

if you were using the z-score rounded to 2 decimal places, and you were using the z-score table referenced above, then you would get the area to the left of a z-score of 1.93 that is equal to .97320 which would lead to an area to the right of that z-score equal to 1 - .97320 = .02680.

i confirmed with the ti-84 plus that the z-score table results were accurate.