A University Has 1,000 Computers Available for Students to Use

question 49

Essay

A university has 1,000 computers available for students to use. Each computer has a 250-gigabyte hard drive. The university wants to estimate the space occupied on the hard drives. A random sample of 100 computers showed a mean of 115 gigabytes used with a standard deviation of 20 gigabytes. What is the probability that a sample mean is greater than 120 gigabytes?

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