Suppose a Population Is Normally Distributed with a Mean 100

question 26

Essay

Suppose a population is normally distributed with a mean 100 and a standard deviation of 15. When a sample of size n = 36 is collected a sampling distribution is created. Explain which is larger: the probability of a value randomly selected from the population being larger than 120, or the probability of a sample mean being larger than 120.

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