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David’s iPod has about 10,000songs. The distribution of the play times for these songs is heavily skewed to the right with a mean of 225seconds and a standard deviation of 60seconds.

a. Describe the shape of the sampling distribution of xfor SRSs of size n=5from the population of songs on David’s iPod. Justify your answer.

b. Describe the shape of the sampling distribution of x for SRSs of size n=100 from the population of songs on David’s iPod. Justify your answer.

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a. The sample mean's sampling distribution is substantially skewed to the right.

b. The sampling distribution of the sample mean is approximately Normal.

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Part (a) : Step 1 : Given information

Given :

Mean : 225seconds

Standard deviation : 60seconds.

Size :n:5

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Part (a) : Step 2 : Simplification

The distribution of the population is substantially biased to the right.

n=5

The central limit theorem states that if the sample size is big (30or more), the sample mean xsampling distribution is approximately normal.

The central limit theorem cannot be applied since the sample size of5is less than 30.

The sample mean's sampling distribution has the same shape as the population distribution in this example, hence the sample mean's sampling distribution is substantially skewed to the right.

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Part (b) : Step 1 : Given information

Given :

Mean : 225seconds

Standard deviation : 60seconds.

Size :n=100

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Part (b) : Step 2 : Simplification

The distribution of the population is substantially biased to the right.

(n=100)

The central limit theorem states that if the sample size is large enough (30or more), the sampling distribution of the sample mean will be close to normal.

Because the sample size of 100is greater than 30, the central limit theorem can be used, and the sampling distribution of the sample mean is approximately Normal.

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a. List all 10 possible SRSs of size n=3,n=3, calculate the median number of pages for each sample, and display the sampling distribution of the sample median on a dotplot.

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c. Construct the sampling distribution of the sample median for samples of size n=4. n=4. Does this sampling distribution support your answer to part (b)? Explain your reasoning.

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