Homework Help: statistics

Posted by Mile on Sunday, November 27, 2011 at 8:53pm.

Assume that a population is normally distributed with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. Would it be unusual for the mean of a sample of 3 to be115 or more?

statistics - PsyDAG, Monday, November 28, 2011 at 11:41am
Z = (mean1 - mean2)/standard error of the mean (SEm)

SEm = SD/√n

Find table in the back of your statistics text labeled something like "areas under normal distribution" to find the proportion related to the Z score.

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