TABLE 7-2 The Time Spent Studying by Students in the Week Before

question 6

Short Answer

TABLE 7-2
The time spent studying by students in the week before final exams follows a normal distribution with a standard deviation of 8 hours. A random sample of 4 students was taken in order to estimate the mean study time for the population of all students.
-Referring to Table 7-2, what is the probability that the sample mean exceeds the population mean by more than 2 hours?

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