Question: According to the Sacramento Bee (April 2, 1998, p. F5), Americans get an average of 6 hours and 57 minutes of sleep per night. A survey of a class of 190 statistics students at a large university found that they averaged 7.1 hours of sleep the previous night, with a standard deviation of 1.95 hours.
a. Assume that the population average for adults is 6 hours and 57 minutes, or 6.95 hours of sleep per night, with a standard deviation of 2 hours. Draw a picture illustrating the sampling distribution of the sample mean for random samples of 190 adults.
b. Would the mean of 7.1 hours of sleep obtained from the statistics students be a reasonable value to expect for the sample mean of a random sample of 190 adults? Explain.
c. Can the sample taken in the statistics class be considered a representative sample of all adults? Explain.