The Owner of a Fish Market Has an Assistant Who

question 1

Multiple Choice

The owner of a fish market has an assistant who has determined that the weights of catfish are
Normally distributed, with mean of 3.2 pounds and standard deviation of 0.8 pound.If a sample of
64 fish yields a mean of 3.4 pounds, what is probability of obtaining a sample mean this large or
Larger?

• A) 0.0001
• B) 0.0013
• C) 0.0228
• D) 0.4987

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