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Songs on an iPod David's iPod has about 10000songs. The distribution of the play times for these songs is heavily skewed to the right with a mean of 225seconds and a standard deviation of60 seconds.

(a) Explain why you cannot safely calculate the probability that the mean play time xis more than 4minutes 240seconds for an SRS of 10songs.

(b) Suppose we take an SRS of 36songs instead. Explain how the central limit theorem allows us to find the probability that the mean playtime is more than 240 seconds. Then calculate this probability. Show your work.

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(a) Population is neither normally distributed nor sample size is above 30

(b) The probability is0.0668

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Part (a) Step-1 Given Information

Given in the question that,

Population mean=225

Population standard deviation=60

Sample size(n)=10

we have to find the probability that the mean play time xis more than 4minutes 240seconds for an SRS of 10songs.

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Part (a) Step-2 Explanation 

To calculate the probability either the sample size must be above 30or the population must be normally distributed. Here, neither the original population is normally distributed nor the sample size is above 30Thus, the required probability cannot be calculated here.

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Part (b) Step-1 Given Information 

Given in the question that we take an SRS of 36songs instead we have to Explain how the central limit theorem allows us to find the probability that the mean playtime is more than 240seconds and calculate probability.

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Part (b) Step-2 Explanation 

The central limit theorem states that sampling distribution of sample mean follows the normal distribution if the sample size is at least 30, without considering of the nature of the distribution.

The sample size is higher than 30. Thus, the required probability can be calculated here.

The probability that mean play time of song is above 240seconds is calculated as follows:

PX>240=Px-n>240-n

=PZ>240-2556036 PZ>240-2256036

=P(Z>1.50)Fromstandardnormaltable=PZ>1.50Fromstandardnormaltable

=0.0668

Thus, the required probability is 0.0668

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