SOLUTION: The distribution of survival time of guinea pigs with cancer after treatment is typically strongly right-skewed. Assume that the mean of the guinea pig survival time for a populati

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Question 372430: The distribution of survival time of guinea pigs with cancer after treatment is typically strongly right-skewed. Assume that the mean of the guinea pig survival time for a population of guinea pigs with cancer is 100 days with standard deviation of 10 days. Suppose we take a random sample of size n = 49 guinea pigs with cancer from the population of guinea pigs with cancer. What is the approximate probability that the sample mean survival time will be less than 95 days?
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By the Central limit theorem, the sampling distribution of the means is normally distributed with mean mu+=+100 days with standard deviation (or standard error of the mean)sigma%2Fsqrt%28n%29+=+10%2Fsqrt%2849%29+=+10%2F7. Then . (Note that the distribution of the underlying population need not be normal: the sample size is sufficiently large, and the sampling came from identical and independent distributions.)