1.42 Sleeping in college: A recent article in a college newspaper stated that college students
get an average of 5.5 hrs of sleep each night. A student who was skeptical about this value decided
to conduct a survey by randomly sampling 25 students. On average, the sampled students slept
6.25 hours per night. Identify which value represents the sample mean and which value represents
the claimed population mean.
a) What is the sample mean? hours
b) What is the claimed population mean? hours