VARIANCE OF THE SAMPLING DISTRIBUTION OF THE

SAMPLE MEANS

A. PRACTICE TASK:

Compute for the variance and standard deviation of the sample means.
A group of students got the following scores in a test: 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, and
21. Use the sample size 3.
Sample Mean ( x́ ) Frequency Probability
P( x́ ) μ=
9 1 1/20 or 0.05 6+9+12+15+18+ 21
10 1 1/20 or 0.05 6
11 2 2/20 or 1/10 or 0.1 81
12 3 3/20 or 0.15 μ=
6
13 3 3/20 or 0.15
μ = 13.5
14 3 3/20 or 0.15
15 3 3/20 or 0.15
16 2 2/20 or 1/10 or 0.1
17 1 1/20 or 0.05
18 1 1/20 or 0.05
20 1

Sample Probability x́−μ ( x́−μ )2 P ( x ) ⋅ ( x́−μ )2

Mean ( P( x́ )
x́ )
9 1/20 or 0.05 9 – 13.5 -4.5 (-4.5)2 20.25 20.25/20 1.0125
10 1/20 or 0.05 10 – 13.5 -3.5 (-3.5)2 12.25 12.25/20 0.6125
11 2/20 or 1/10 11 – 13.5 -2.5 (-2.5)2 6.25 6.25/10 0.625
or 0.1
12 3/20 or 0.15 12 – 13.5 -1.5 (-1.5)2 2.25 2.25(3)/20 0.3375
13 3/20 or 0.15 13 – 13.5 -0.5 (-0.5)2 0.25 0.25(3)/20 0.0375
14 3/20 or 0.15 14 – 13.5 0.5 (0.5)2 0.25 0.25(3)/20 0.0375
15 3/20 or 0.15 15 – 13.5 1.5 (1.5)2 2.25 2.25(3)/20 0.3375
16 2/20 or 1/10 16 – 13.5 2.5 (2.5)2 6.25 6.25/10 0.625
or 0.1
17 1/20 or 0.05 17 – 13.5 3.5 (3.5)2 12.25 12.25/20 0.6125
18 1/20 or 0.05 18 – 13.5 4.5 (4.5)2 20.25 20.25/20 1.0125
σ 2= 1.0125 + 0.6125 + 0.625 + 0.3375 + 0.0375 + 0.0375 + 0.3375 + 0.625 + 0.6125 +
1.0125
σ 2 = 5.25; variance
σ = √ 5.25 = 2.29; standard deviation
B. EVALUATION:
Answer each problem.

1. Present a complete process in computing the mean of the sampling

distribution of the sample means given the General Mathematics 20- item
quiz result of 6 students; 12, 16, 18, 20, 10, 15. Consider a sample size of 5.
Steps Process
1. Determine the number of The population size is 6 since there are 6 elements in the given and
possible samples using the the sample size is 5.
formula NCn where N is the We can compute the number of possible samples by using the
size of the population and n formula:
is the size of the sample. N!
C =
6 5
n ! ( N −n ) !
6! 6 ⋅5 ⋅4 ⋅3 ⋅2 ⋅1 720
6C5 = = = =6
5! (6−5 ) ! 5⋅ 4 ⋅3 ⋅2 ⋅1 ( 1 ) 120

There are 6 possible samples of size 5 that can be drawn from the
given population.
2. List all the possible Possible samples Mean of each sample
samples and compute the 12, 16, 18, 20, 10 15.2
mean of each sample. 12, 16, 18, 20, 15 16.2
12, 16, 18, 10, 15 14.2
12, 16, 20, 10, 15 14.6
12, 18, 20, 10, 15, 15
16, 18, 20, 10, 15 15.8
3. Construct a frequency and Sample Mean ( x́ ) Frequency Probability
probability distribution of P( x́ )
the sample means obtained 15.2 1 1/6 or 0.17
in Step 2. 16.2 1 1/6 or 0.17
14.2 1 1/6 or 0.17
14.6 1 1/6 or 0.17
15 1 1/6 or 0.17
15.8 1 1/6 or 0.17
6 1
4. Multiply the sample mean Sample Mean ( Probability x́ ⋅ P ( x́ )
by the corresponding x́ ) P( x́ )
probability. 15.2 1/6 or 0.17 15.2/6 2.53
16.2 1/6 or 0.17 16.2/6 2.7
14.2 1/6 or 0.17 14.2/6 2.37
14.6 1/6 or 0.17 14.6/6 2.43
15 1/6 or 0.17 15/6 2.5
15.8 1/6 or 0.17 15.8/6 2.63
Add the results in step 4. x́ x́ = 2.53+ 2.7 + 2.37 + 2.43 + 2.5 + 2.63
x́ x́ = 15.16
The mean of the sampling distribution of the sample means is
15.16.
 2. What is the variance and standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the
sample means of the given table below.
P( X́ x́−μ ( x́−μ )2 P ( x ) ⋅ ( x́−μ )
2
X́
)
2.13 -1.7475 (- 3.0537562 (0.46) 1.404727875
2.13 0.46
-3.8775 1.7475)2 5 (3.05375625)
3.12 -0.7575 (- 0.5738062 (0.12) 0.06885675
3.12 0.12
-3.8775 0.7575)2 5 (0.57380625)
5.68 1.8025 (1.8025)2 3.2490062 (0.02) 0.064980125
5.68 0.02
-3.8775 5 (3.24900625)
4.58 0.7025 (0.7025)2 0.4935062 (0.40) 0.1974025
4.58 0.40
-3.8775 5 (0.49350625)

σ 2= 1.404727875 + 0.06885675 + 0.064980125

+ 0.1974025
2
σ = 1.73596725 or 1.74; variance
σ = √ 1.7 4 = 1.319091 or 1.32; standard deviation

μ=
2.13+3.12+5.68+4.58
4
15.51
μ=
4
μ = 3.8775