Question: Based on data from the 2010 major league baseball season, X = number of home runs the San Francisco Giants hits in a game has

Based on data from the 2010 major league baseball season, X = number of home runs the San Francisco Giants hits in a game has a mean of 1.0 and a standard deviation of 1.0.
a. Do you think that X has a normal distribution? Why or why not?
b. Suppose that this year X has the same distribution. Report the shape, mean, and standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the mean number of home runs the team will hit in its 162 games.
c. Based on the answer to part b, find the probability that the mean number of home runs per game in this coming season will exceed 1.50.

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