The Distribution of Scores for the 1000 Final Exams in a Statistics

question 72

Essay

The distribution of scores for the 1000 final exams in a statistics course has a mean of 74 and a standard deviation of 15. A random sample of 36 exam papers is selected. What is the probability that the sample mean is higher than 77?

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Definitions:

Hippocampus

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Spacing Effect

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Memory Consolidation

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Deep Processing

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