Central Limit Theorem

The amount of fuel used by jumbo jets to take off is normally distributed with a mean of 4000 gallons and a standard deviation of 125 gallons.  What is the probability that the mean number of gallons of fuel needed to take off for a randomly selected sample of 40 jumbo jets will be less than 3950 gallons?

• .006

• .025

• .345

• .781

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CCSS.HSS.ID.A.4

Suppose the teenagers that attend public high schools get an average of 5.7 hours of sleep each night with a standard deviation of 1.7 hours.  What is the probability that a randomly selected group of 35 high school students get more than 6 hours of sleep each night?

• .430
• .148
• .281
• .087

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CCSS.HSS.ID.A.4

Researches found that boys playing high school football absorb an average of 355 hits to the head with a standard deviation of 80 hits during a season.  What is the probability on a randomly selected team of 48 players that the average number of head hits per player is between 340 and 360?

• .236
• .429
• .571
• .614

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CCSS.HSS.ID.A.4

The mean and standard deviation of a population are 400 and 40, respectively. Sample size is 25. 
What is the standard error of the sampling distribution?

• 400
• 40
• 25
• 8