One of the Nation's Biggest Regional Airlines Has Tracked 4,000

question 82

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One of the nation's biggest regional airlines has tracked 4,000 landings and take-offs during the past month. Treating these data as the population of interest, the company found that the average time the planes spent on the ground (called the turn time) was 17.23 minutes with a standard deviation of 3.79 minutes. Further, they determined that the distribution of turn times is normally distributed. If a sample of size n = 16 turn times was selected at random from the population, the chances of the mean of this sample exceeding 20 minutes is 0.2327.

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