I'm having trouble solving this problem:
From past experience, a professor knows that the test score of a
student taking her final examination is a random variable with mean
$75$.
How many students would have to take the examination to ensure with
probability at least $.9$ that the class average would be within $5$ of
$75$? Use the central limit theorem.
The professor knows that the variance of a student's test score is $25$.
I'm not entirely sure on how to solve this problem.
Right now this is what I have:
We know: $\mu = 75$ and $\sigma^2 = 25$.
This is what I set up (by defn C.L.T): $\mathbb{P}(\frac{X_1+\cdots+X_n - n75}{5\sqrt{n}}\le\frac{.9-n75}{5\sqrt{n}}) = 1-\mathbb{P}(\frac{X_1+\cdots+X_n - n75}{5\sqrt{n}}>\frac{.9-n75}{5\sqrt{n}})$
I'm not sure how to solve for $n$. Thanks.
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