Census data from a city of 150,000 residents produced the income distribution shown here: A distribution curve of income in thousands of dollars. The curve is right skewed with a mean between 50 and 100. Suppose that we were to take random samples of 100 residents from this population and calculate ˉ x as the sample mean income of the residents in each sample.

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Using the Central Limit Theorem, it is found that the shape of [tex]\bar{x}[/tex] is approximately normal.

The Central Limit Theorem establishes that, for a normally distributed random variable X, with mean [tex]\mu[/tex] and standard deviation [tex]\sigma[/tex], the sampling distribution of the sample means with size n can be approximated to a normal distribution with mean [tex]\mu[/tex] and standard deviation [tex]s = \frac{\sigma}{\sqrt{n}}[/tex].

  • For a skewed variable, the Central Limit Theorem can also be applied, as long as n is at least 30.

In this problem, the distribution is not normal, however the sample size is of 100 > 30, hence the Central Limit Theorem is applicable and the shape of [tex]\bar{x}[/tex] is approximately normal.

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