The mean amount purchased by a typical customer at Churchill's Grocery Store is $23.59, with a standard deviation of $5.00. AsSsume the distribution of amounts purchased follows the normal distribution. For a sample of 56 customers, answer the following questions. a. What is the likelihood the sample mean is at least $25.00? b. What is the likelihood the sample mean is greater than $22.50 but less than $25.00?
Continuous Probability Distributions
Probability distributions are of two types, which are continuous probability distributions and discrete probability distributions. A continuous probability distribution contains an infinite number of values. For example, if time is infinite: you could count from 0 to a trillion seconds, billion seconds, so on indefinitely. A discrete probability distribution consists of only a countable set of possible values.
Normal Distribution
Suppose we had to design a bathroom weighing scale, how would we decide what should be the range of the weighing machine? Would we take the highest recorded human weight in history and use that as the upper limit for our weighing scale? This may not be a great idea as the sensitivity of the scale would get reduced if the range is too large. At the same time, if we keep the upper limit too low, it may not be usable for a large percentage of the population!
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