In 1905, R. Pearl published the article "Biometrical Studies on Man. 1. Variation and Correlation in Brain Weight" (Biometrika, Vol. 4, pp13-104). According to the study, brain weights of Swedish men are normally distributed with a mean of 1.4 kg and a standard deviation of 0.11 kg.
A.) What is the probability a randomly selected swedish man will have a brain weighing more than 1.5 kg?
B.) Determine the sampling distribution of the sample mean brain weight for the samples of n = 3 Swedish men.
C.) What is the probability that the sample mean from such a sample will be larger than 1.5 kg?
D.) Repeat part b. For sample size n = 12.
E.) What is the probability that the sample mean from the sample of this size (n = 12) will be larger than 1.5 kg?
F.) Explain why the probabilities calculated in parts a., c., and e. become progressively smaller.
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