Elementary Statistics 12th Edition

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CHAPTER 6: ANSWERS
VOCABULARY AND SYMBOL CHECK
1. symmetric about its middle
mean=median=mode
total area under the curve = 1
curve lies entirely above the horizontal axis
both tails are asymptotic to the horizontal axis
68% of data lies within one standard deviation of the mean
95% of the data lies within two standard deviations of the mean
99.7% of the data lies within three standard deviations of the mean

2. =µ 0,=
σ 1
3. µx
4. µ x = µ ; mean of the means is equal to the mean of the original population
5. σx
σ
6. σx =
n
7. Unbiased estimators are sample statistics that target the corresponding population parameter.
Biased estimators are sample statistics that do not target the corresponding population parameter.
8. mean, proportion, variance
9. standard deviation, median, mode
10. Look at histogram
Look at a quantile plot
Look at a boxplot
Check for outliers

SHORT ANSWERS
1. 0.104
2. 0.409
3. 0.888
4. 0.345
5. –1.04
6. 60.9
7. 14
8. 0.094
9. TRUE. This is one of the conclusions of the Central Limit Theorem
10. FALSE. Total area under the normal distribution is always exactly 1.
11.

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12.

PRACTICE PROBLEMS
1. 0.656
2. 0.091
3. 0.983
4. 10.5 years which we round to 11 years.

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