Question

The number of violent crimes committed in a day possesses a distribution with a mean of 2.8 crimes per day and a standard deviation of 4 crimes per day. A random sample of 100 days was observed, and the sample mean number of crimes for the sample was calculated. Describe the sampling distribution of the sample means.

Answer 1

Answer:

The distribution is approximately normal with mean = 2.8 and standard error = 0.4

Step-by-step explanation:

We are given;

Mean; μ = 2.8

Standard deviation; σ = 4

Sample size; n = 100

Now, the central limit theorem states that the sample mean with a sample size(n) from a population mean (μ) and population standard deviation(σ) will, for large value of n, have an approximately normal distribution with mean μ and standard error as (σ/√n)

The sample size is 100 and thus it's very large because it's bigger than minimum of 30 for approximate distribution.

Thus, SE = (σ/√n) = 4/√100 = 4/10 = 0.4

Thus,from the central limit theorem I described, we can say that the distribution is approximately normal with mean = 2.8 and standard error = 0.4