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The average telephone bill in a locality is $70, with a standard deviation of $40. In a sample of 50 randomly selected phone connections, what is the probability that the sample average will exceed $75?

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Using the normal distribution, there is a 0.1894 = 18.94% probability that the sample average will exceed $75.

Normal Probability Distribution

The z-score of a measure X of a normally distributed variable with mean [tex]\mu[/tex] and standard deviation [tex]\sigma[/tex] is given by:

[tex]Z = \frac{X - \mu}{\sigma}[/tex]

  • The z-score measures how many standard deviations the measure is above or below the mean.
  • Looking at the z-score table, the p-value associated with this z-score is found, which is the percentile of X.
  • By the Central Limit Theorem, the sampling distribution of sample means of size n has standard deviation [tex]s = \frac{\sigma}{\sqrt{n}}[/tex].

The parameters for this problem are given as follows:

[tex]\mu = 70, \sigma = 40, n = 50, s = \frac{40}{\sqrt{50}} = 5.66[/tex]

The probability that the sample average will exceed $75 is one subtracted by the p-value of Z when X = 75, hence:

[tex]Z = \frac{X - \mu}{\sigma}[/tex]

By the Central Limit Theorem

[tex]Z = \frac{X - \mu}{s}[/tex]

Z = (75 - 70)/5.66

Z = 0.88

Z = 0.88 has a p-value of 0.8106.

1 - 0.8106 = 0.1894.

0.1894 = 18.94% probability that the sample average will exceed $75.

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