(a)
\Americas chew an average of sticks of gum per year.
Therefore, .
Standard deviation is sticks.
Find the probability that people chew an average of
sticks or more per year.
Here .
Find .
Standard deviation of a sample mean is .
Substitute and
in the formula.
.
Use the -value formula for a sample mean to find the
-value for
.
-value formula:
.
Substitute ,
and
.
.
Find the probability.
\Using score table:
The area for is
.
.
Probability that people chew an average of
sticks or more per year is
.
(b)
\Sample size is .
Find the probability that an average number of sticks is between and
per year.
Find .
Standard deviation of a sample mean is .
Substitute and
in the formula.
.
Use the -value formula for a sample mean to find the
-value for
and
.
Find -value for
.
-value formula:
.
Substitute ,
and
.
.
Using -score calculator:
The area for is
.
Find -value for
.
-value formula:
.
Substitute ,
and
.
.
Using score calculator:
The area for is
.
Find the probability.
\ \ \
. \ \
Probability that an average number of sticks is between and
per year is
.
(a) Probability that people chew an average of
sticks or more per year is
.
(b) Probability that an average number of sticks is between and
per year is
. \ \