The weights of beagles have a mean of 25 pounds and a standard deviation of 3 pounds. A random sample of 50 beagles is collected. What is the probability that a sample of this size has a mean weight below 26 pounds?

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Answer:

[tex] z =\frac{26-25}{\frac{3}{\sqrt{50}}}= 2.357[/tex]

And we can find the probability using the normal distribution table and we got:

[tex] P(z<2.357) =0.9908[/tex]

Step-by-step explanation:

Let X the random variable of interest and we can find the parameters:

[tex] \mu =25, \sigma= 3[/tex]

And for this case we select a sample size n =50. And since the sample size is higher than 30 we can use the central limit theorem and the distribution for the sample mean would be given by:

[tex] \bar X \sim N(\mu, \frac{\sigma}{\sqrt{n}})[/tex]

We want to find the following probability:

[tex] P(\bar X <26)[/tex]

And we can use the z score formula given by:

[tex] z =\frac{\bar X -\mu}{\frac{\sigma}{\sqrt{n}}}[/tex]

And replacing we got:

[tex] z =\frac{26-25}{\frac{3}{\sqrt{50}}}= 2.357[/tex]

And we can find the probability using the normal distribution table and we got:

[tex] P(z<2.357) =0.9908[/tex]