AP Exam Scores: Which School is Better?

Over 1,000 students at East Kentwood Mx

High School (EK) have taken
02
the AP Stats exam. The distribution
of scores is skewed left with a mean of 4.09 and standard deviation 0.83. At Rival High School (RHS) the
, ,

scores are approximately normal with a mean of 3.07 with a standard deviation of 1.12.
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1. We randomly select 40 students from EK who have taken the AP Stats exam and 20 students
from RHS who have taken the AP Stats exam. Use the information given to describe the sampling
distributions of the average AP score for the two samples.
ONE SAMPLE EK RHS

Approx normal if
approximately normal
approximately normal
because the sample because the population
Opop. dist normal Shape: size is large (40130)
distribution is
② n = 30 CLT
Central Limit Theorem approximately normal.

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30 131025 .

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Suppose we took a sample of 40 students from EK and a sample of 20 students from RHS and
students)
found the difference in the sample means. Describe the sampling distribution of the difference
in mean AP scores (EK – RHS).

approximately normal because each of the

Two SAMPLES Shape:
sampling
distributions above are
approximately normal .

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4 09 3 07
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Standard Deviation: 8 0 131 0 2502 = 0 282

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3. Calculate the probability that random sample of 40 EK students has a higher mean AP score than
the random sample of 20 RHS students. 0-1 02
3 62
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QuickNotes LT#1
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Check Your Understanding
1. Is it more expensive to live in California or Florida? Monthly cost of living expenses for California are
approximately normal with mean µC = $10,800 and standard deviation s C = $3,200. Monthly cost of
living expenses for Florida are approximately normal with mean µF = $8,500 and standard deviation s F
= $2,700. Suppose we select independent SRSs of 16 residents of California and 9 residents of Florida
and calculate the sample mean monthly cost of living, xC and xF .

a. What is the shape of the sampling distribution of xC - xF ? Why?

approximately normal because the population ,

distribution is

approximately normal for each state

b. Find the mean and standard deviation of the sampling distribution of xC - xF .
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8, 500 = 2 300
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E3002200$2041690%FordT
c. Calculate the probability that the average monthly cost of living expense of the 16 randomly selected
California residents is less than the average monthly cost of living expense of the 9 randomly selected
Florida residents. < P(Yc -Y, ) 0
Sampling Distribution of F -Yz ,

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2300 Mo ,
2 =
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