Asked by The Gibson Family on Jun 12, 2024

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Some real estate specialists estimate that the length of time people live in a house has a mean of 10 years and a standard deviation of 3 years.A random sample of 200 families was chosen and surveyed.Let y‾\overline{ y}y represent the mean number of years that those families had lived in their house.Describe the sampling distribution model of this mean.

A) Binom(10,3)
B) N(10,1.5)
C) N(10,3)
D) N(10,0.12)
E) There is not enough information to describe the distribution.

Years

Units of time equal to 365 days, or 366 in a leap year, used as a measure of time duration in relation to the Earth's orbit around the Sun.

Families

Groups of individuals related by blood, marriage, or other legal ties, often living together and providing mutual support.

Sampling Distribution

The probability distribution of a statistic based on a large number of samples from the same population.

  • Implement the ideas of sampling distribution to characterize and foretell occurrences in practical scenarios.
  • Understand the appropriate circumstances for utilizing a Normal model in the depiction of sampling distributions.
  • Gain an understanding of the role standard deviations play in sampling distributions.
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Israel ManrriquezJun 15, 2024
Final Answer :
D
Explanation :
The sampling distribution of the mean for a large sample size (n=200) can be approximated by a normal distribution due to the Central Limit Theorem. The mean of the sampling distribution ( μy‾\mu_{\overline{y}}μy ) is equal to the population mean ( μ\muμ ), which is 10 years. The standard deviation of the sampling distribution ( σy‾\sigma_{\overline{y}}σy ) is equal to the population standard deviation ( σ\sigmaσ ) divided by the square root of the sample size ( nnn ), which is 3200\frac{3}{\sqrt{200}}2003 , approximately equal to 0.21, not 0.12 as stated. However, given the options, D is the closest to the correct calculation, acknowledging a mistake in the calculation presented in the answer choices.