Activity 7 – Sampling Distribution and Point Estimation of Parameters

1. A certain type of thread is manufactures with a mean tensile strength of 78.3 kg and a
standard deviation of 5.6 6 kg. How is the variance of the sample mean changed when
the sample size is
σ =5.6 kg
2
σ =31.6 kg

a) Increased from 64 to 196

2
2 σ 31.36
S= = =0.49
n1 64

σ 2 31.36
S2= = =0.16
n1 196
The variance of the sample mean decreases.

b) Decreased from 784 to 49

2
σ 31.36
S2= = =0.04
n1 784

2 σ 2 31.36
S= = =0.64
n1 49
The variance of the sample mean increases.

2. The average of a bread-making machine is 7 years width a standard deviation of 1

year. Assuming that the lives of these machines follow approximately a normal
distribution,
a) Find the probability that the mean life of a random sample number of 9
machines fall between 6.4 and 7.2 years
N=life of machine
μ N =7 years
σ N =1 years
n=9

√
2 2 2
2 σ σ σ 1 1
S= = = = =
n n √ n √9 3
P=6.4< Ẍ <7.2
6.4−μ N 6.4−7
¿ = =−1.8=−0.0359
S 1
3
 7.2−μ N 7.2−7
¿ = =0.600=0.7257
S 1
3
¿ 0.7257−0.0359
P=0.6898

b) Find the value of Ẍ to the right of which 15% of the means computed
from random samples of size 9 would fall.
P¿

P¿

1.0365
Ẍ =7+ =7.3455
3

Ẍ =7.35