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  <name>Central Limit Theorem: Practice</name>
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  <md:version>1.8</md:version>
  <md:created>2008/06/06 15:08:52 GMT-5</md:created>
  <md:revised>2008/08/15 11:44:30.115 GMT-5</md:revised>
  <md:authorlist>
      <md:author id="billowsky">
      <md:firstname>Barbara</md:firstname>
      
      <md:surname>Illowsky</md:surname>
      <md:email>illowskybarbara@deanza.edu</md:email>
    </md:author>
      <md:author id="sdean">
      <md:firstname>Susan</md:firstname>
      
      <md:surname>Dean</md:surname>
      <md:email>deansusan@deanza.edu</md:email>
    </md:author>
  </md:authorlist>

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    <md:maintainer id="cnxorg">
      <md:firstname/>
      
      <md:surname>Connexions</md:surname>
      <md:email>cnx@cnx.org</md:email>
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  <md:keywordlist>
    <md:keyword>elementary</md:keyword>
    <md:keyword>statistics</md:keyword>
  </md:keywordlist>

  <md:abstract/>
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  <content>
    <section id="element-701"><name>Student Learning Outcomes</name>
<list id="element-167" type="bulleted"><item>The student will explore the properties of data through the Central Limit Theorem.
</item>
</list></section><section id="element-277"><name>Given</name>
<para id="element-808">
Yoonie is a personnel manager in a large corporation. Each month she must review 16 of the employees. From past experience, she has found that the reviews take her approximately 4 hours each to do with a population standard deviation of 1.2 hours. Let 
<m:math><m:semantics><m:mrow><m:mstyle fontsize="12pt"><m:mrow><m:mi>X</m:mi></m:mrow></m:mstyle><m:mrow/></m:mrow><m:annotation encoding="StarMath 5.0"> size 12{X} {}</m:annotation></m:semantics></m:math> be the random variable representing the time it takes her to complete one review. Assume 
<m:math><m:semantics><m:mrow><m:mstyle fontsize="12pt"><m:mrow><m:mi>X</m:mi></m:mrow></m:mstyle><m:mrow/></m:mrow><m:annotation encoding="StarMath 5.0"> size 12{X} {}</m:annotation></m:semantics></m:math> is normally distributed. Let 
<m:math><m:semantics><m:mrow><m:mstyle fontsize="12pt"><m:mrow><m:mover accent="true"><m:mi>X</m:mi><m:mo>¯</m:mo></m:mover></m:mrow></m:mstyle><m:mrow/></m:mrow><m:annotation encoding="StarMath 5.0"> size 12{ {overline  {X}} } {}</m:annotation></m:semantics></m:math> be the random variable representing the average time to complete the 16 reviews. Let 
<m:math><m:semantics><m:mrow><m:mstyle fontsize="12pt"><m:mrow><m:mi fontstyle="italic">ΣX</m:mi></m:mrow></m:mstyle><m:mrow/></m:mrow><m:annotation encoding="StarMath 5.0"> size 12{ΣX} {}</m:annotation></m:semantics></m:math> be the total time it takes Yoonie to complete all of the month’s reviews.
</para></section><section id="element-997"><name>Distribution</name>
<para id="element-309">Complete the distributions.
<list id="element-944" type="enumerated"><item><m:math><m:mi>X</m:mi></m:math> ~</item>

<item><m:math><m:apply><m:conjugate/><m:mi>X</m:mi></m:apply></m:math> ~</item>

<item><m:math><m:mi>ΣX</m:mi></m:math> ~</item>
</list>
</para>

</section><section id="element-86"><name>Graphing Probability</name>
<para id="element-691">For each problem below:
<?mark .?><list id="two" type="named-item"><item><name>a</name> Sketch the graph. Label and scale the horizontal axis. Shade the region corresponding to the probability.</item><item><name>b</name> Calculate the value.</item></list></para><exercise id="element-446"><problem>
  <para id="element-345">
   Find the probability that <emphasis>one</emphasis> review will take Yoonie from 3.5 to 4.25 hours.
<list id="sublist1346264" type="named-item"><?mark .?><item>
		<name>a</name>
					<media type="image/png" src="1a.png">
				<param name="alt" value="Empty normal distribution curve graph with x-axis of X."/>
                   
                                <param name="print-width" value="3in"/>
			</media></item>
	<item><name>b</name>
		<m:math><m:semantics><m:mrow><m:mstyle fontsize="12pt"><m:mrow><m:mrow><m:mi>P</m:mi><m:mo stretchy="false">(</m:mo></m:mrow></m:mrow></m:mstyle><m:mrow/></m:mrow><m:annotation encoding="StarMath 5.0"> size 12{P \( } {}</m:annotation></m:semantics></m:math> ________ 
<m:math><m:semantics><m:mtable><m:mtr><m:mrow><m:mrow/><m:mrow><m:mo stretchy="false">&lt;</m:mo><m:mi>X</m:mi><m:mo stretchy="false">&lt;</m:mo><m:mrow/></m:mrow><m:mrow/></m:mrow></m:mtr><m:mtr><m:mstyle fontsize="12pt"><m:mrow><m:mrow/></m:mrow></m:mstyle></m:mtr></m:mtable><m:annotation encoding="StarMath 5.0"> size 12{&lt;X&lt;} {}</m:annotation></m:semantics></m:math> ________ 
<m:math><m:semantics><m:mrow><m:mstyle fontsize="12pt"><m:mrow><m:mrow><m:mo stretchy="false">)</m:mo><m:mo stretchy="false">=</m:mo><m:mrow/></m:mrow></m:mrow></m:mstyle><m:mrow/></m:mrow><m:annotation encoding="StarMath 5.0"> size 12{ \) ={}} {}</m:annotation></m:semantics></m:math> _______</item>
</list>

  </para>
</problem>

<solution>
  <para id="element-875"><list id="sublist64236" type="named-item"><?mark .?><item><name>b</name> 3.5, 4.25, 0.2441</item></list></para>
</solution>
</exercise><exercise id="element-322"><problem>
  <para id="element-914">
   Find the probability that the <emphasis>average</emphasis> of a month’s reviews will take Yoonie from 3.5 to 4.25 hrs.
<list id="sublist27646547" type="named-item"><?mark .?>
	<item><name>a</name>
<media type="image/png" src="2a.png">
<param name="alt" value="Empty normal distribution curve graph for the average."/>
                                <param name="print-width" value="3in"/>
			</media></item>
	<item><name>b</name>
		<m:math><m:mi>P</m:mi><m:mtext>(         )</m:mtext><m:mo>=</m:mo></m:math>_______</item>
</list>
  </para>
</problem>

<solution>
  <para id="element-710"><list id="sublist7" type="named-item"><?mark .?><item><name>b</name> 0.7499</item></list></para>
</solution>
</exercise><exercise id="element-847"><problem>
  <para id="element-427">
   Find the 95th percentile for the <emphasis>average</emphasis> time to complete one month’s reviews.<list id="sublist376548" type="named-item"><?mark .?>
	<item><name>a</name><media type="image/png" src="2a.png">
<param name="alt" value="Empty normal distribution curve graph for the average."/>
                 
                                <param name="print-width" value="3in"/>
		</media></item>
<item><name>b</name>The 95th Percentile=</item></list>

  </para>
</problem>

<solution>
  <para id="element-865"><list id="sublist8" type="named-item"><?mark .?><item><name>b</name> 4.49 hours</item></list></para>
</solution>
</exercise><exercise id="element-491"><problem>
  <para id="element-436">
   Find the probability that the <emphasis>sum</emphasis> of the month’s reviews takes Yoonie from 60 to 	65 hours.<list id="sublist45437" type="named-item"><?mark .?>
	<item><name>a</name>
		<media type="image/png" src="4a.png">
<param name="alt" value="Empty normal distribution curve graph for Sum X."/>
     
                                <param name="print-width" value="3in"/>
		</media></item>
	<item><name>b</name> The Probability=
	</item>
</list>

  </para>
</problem>

<solution>
  <para id="element-219"><list id="sublist9" type="named-item"><?mark .?><item><name>b</name> 0.3802</item></list></para>
</solution>
</exercise><exercise id="element-620"><problem>
  <para id="element-555">
  Find the 95th percentile for the <emphasis>sum</emphasis> of the month’s reviews.<list id="sublist57648875" type="named-item"><?mark .?><item><name>a</name>
		<media type="image/png" src="4a.png">
<param name="alt" value="Empty normal distribution curve graph for Sum X."/>

                                <param name="print-width" value="3in"/>
		</media></item>
	<item><name>b</name> The 95th percentile=
	</item>
</list>

  </para>
</problem>

<solution>
  <para id="element-161"><list id="sublist10" type="named-item"><?mar .?><item><name>b</name> 71.90</item></list></para>
</solution>
</exercise></section><section id="element-46"><name>Discussion Question</name><exercise id="exerciselkjdsf">
<problem>
<para id="element-430">What causes the probabilities in <cnxn target="element-446"/> and <cnxn target="element-322"/> to differ?
</para>
</problem>
</exercise></section>   
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