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Please help with statistics?

16 ft length of chain has an average of 2650 lbs and a standard deviation of 520 lbs. If a retailer receives an order of 75 chains, what is the probability that the sample mean will be greater than 2800 lbs?

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  • Ja Ma
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
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    2800-2650 = 150 lbs

    sample size = 75

    square root of sample size = 8.66

    standard deviation of the distribution of sample means = 520/8.66 = 60

    150/60 = 2.5 std devs

    from microsoft excel normdist(2.5) = 0.99379

    probability that the sample mean will be less than 2800 = 99.379%

    probability that it will be greater than 2800 = 100 - 99.379 = 0.621%

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