Question

The number of books sold over the course of the four-day book fair were 190, 100, 272, and 74. Assume that samples of size 2 are randomly selected with replacement from this population of four values. Identify the probability of each sample, and describe the sampling distribution of the sample means.

Answer 1

Answer:

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Step-by-step explanation:

We have the total number of possible samples = 4 * 4 = 16 (As 4 choices for each value)

in addition we have to as all sample occur with equal probability, probability of each sample = 1/16, below is samling distribution of mean

x1 x2 probabilityP(x1,x2) sample mean

190 190    1/16                 190

190 100    1/16                 145

190 272    1/16                 231

190 74    1/16                 132

100 190    1/16                 145

100 100    1/16                 100

100 272    1/16                 186

100 74    1/16                        87

272 190    1/16                 231

272 100    1/16                 186

272 272    1/16                 272

272 74    1/16                 173

74 190    1/16                 132

74 100    1/16                 87

74 272    1/16                 173

74 74    1/16                 74

Summarizing above with adding duplicate values

sample mean   probability

       74              1/16

      87               1/8

    100                1/16

    132                1/8

    145                1/8

    173                1/8

   186                1/8

   190               1/16

    231               1/8

   272               1/16