Statistics : Sampling Didtributions and Probabilities
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Americans have become increasingly concerned about the rising cost of Medicare. In 1990, the average annual Medicare spending per enrollee was $3267; in 2003, the average annual Medicare spending per enrollee was $6883 (Money, Fall 2003). Suppose you hired a consulting firm to take a sample of fifty 2003 Medicare enrollees to further investigate the nature of expenditure. Assume the population standard deviation for 2003 was $2000.
a. Show the sampling distribution of the mean amount of Medicare spending for a sample of fifty 2003 enrollees.
b. Determine the probability the sample mean will be within ±$300 of the population mean.
c. Determine the probability the sample mean will be greater than $7500. If the consulting firm tells you the sample mean for the Medicare enrollees they interviewed was $7500, would you question whether they followed correct simple random sampling procedures? Why or why not?
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