Question: The time that people have to wait for an elevator in an office building has a uniform distribution over the interval from 0 to 1

The time that people have to wait for an elevator in an office building has a uniform distribution over the interval from 0 to 1 minute. For this distribution, μ = 0.5 and σ = 0.289.
a. Let  be the average waiting time for a random sample of 16 waiting times. What are the mean and standard deviation of the sampling distribution of ?
b. Answer Part (a) for a random sample of 50 waiting times. Draw a picture of the approximate sampling distribution of  when n = 50. Sect ion 12.1 Exercise Set 2

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