Some Experts Estimate That the Length of Time People Live

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Essay

Some experts estimate that the length of time people live in a house has a mean of 7.3 years and a standard deviation of 2.2 years.Explain why you could estimate the probability that 100 people selected at random had lived in their houses for an average of 9 years or more,but you could not estimate the probability that an individual had done so.

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