Suppose that weekly income of migrant workers doing agricultural labor in Florida has a distribution with a mean of $520 and a standard deviation of $90. A researcher randomly selected a sample of 100 migrant workers. What is the probability that sample mean is less than $500

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Answer:

[tex] z = \frac{500-520}{\frac{90}{\sqrt{100}}}= -2.22[/tex]

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

[tex] P(z<-2.22) =0.0132[/tex]

Step-by-step explanation:

For this case we have the foolowing parameters given:

[tex] \mu = 520[/tex] represent the mean

[tex] \sigma =90[/tex] represent the standard deviation

[tex] n = 100[/tex] the sample size selected

And for this case since the sample size is large enough (n>30) we can apply 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]

And we want to find this probability:

[tex] P(\bar X <500)[/tex]

We can use the z score formula given by:

[tex] z = \frac{500-520}{\frac{90}{\sqrt{100}}}= -2.22[/tex]

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

[tex] P(z<-2.22) =0.0132[/tex]