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Students took n = 35 samples of water from the east basin of Lake
Macatawa and measured the amount of sodium in parts per
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Alex
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A university dean wishes to estimate the average number of hours his part-time instructors teach per week. The standard
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1. Past experience indicates that the variance, ¦Ò2x, of the scores, X, obtained on the verbal portion of a test is 5,625.
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Tian
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A statistics practitioner would like to estimate a population mean to within 50 units with 99% confidence given that the
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Tom
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Biologists studying the healing of skin wounds measured the rate at which new cells closed a razor cut made in the skin of an
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Natasha
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There are 250 computer programmers employed at Computers.com, Inc. A sample of 50 programmers revealed that 30 graduated with a
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Ann
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Confidence interval Concept Check
1 point possible (graded) As in the previous section, let X1,…,Xn∼iidexp(λ) . Let
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Sammu
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Construct a 90% confidence interval for the population mean. Assume the population has a normal distribution. A same of 15
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S
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A simple random sample of students is selected, and the students are asked how much time they spent
preparing for a test. The
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Brian
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A random sample of 50 households in community A has a mean household income of X- =Rs. 44,600 with a standard deviation s =Rs.
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Faheem
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An accelerated life test on a large number of type-D alkaline batteries revealed that the mean life for a particular use before
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Ryan
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A random sample of 150 towns in a western state had a mean annual precipitation of 2.86 inches. Assume that the population
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Kathy
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given the following information, determine the 68.3 percent, 95.5 percent, and 99.7 percent confidence intervals. Mean = 4.33,
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Anonymous
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I am having a lot of trouble with these questions can anyone help me please.
2. On September 2, 2004, a Dan Jones poll based on a
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penelope
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ten randomly selected people were asked how long they slept at night. The mean time was 7.1 hours and the (sample) standard
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Asia
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Lorraine was in a hurry when she computed a confidence interval for μ. Because σ was not known, she used a Student's t
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jr
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Suppose a random sample of 36 is selected from a population with a standard deviation of 12. If the sample mean is 98, the 99%
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mona
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Compare the results to those obtained in part a how does increasing the level of confidence affect the size of the margin of
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Wanda
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Construct a 99% confidence interval about if the sample size n is 34 lower bound upper bound
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Wanda
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Construct a 95% confidence interval about if the sample size is 34
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Wanda
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Construct a 95% confidence interval about null if the sample size n is 34 lower bound
Upper bound
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Wanda
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Suppose the following data are selected randomly from a population of normally distributed values.
40 51 43 48 44 57 54 39 42 48
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Mama
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The weight of luggage that a randomly selected airline passenger brings onto a flight has a mean of 35 lbs and a standard
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Allie
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A large school district would like to estimate the mean score for all of its 5th grade students on a certain mathematics
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ella
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A health care professional wishes to estimate the birth weights of infants. The standard deviation of the birth weights is known
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Api
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A random sample of 16 mid-sized cars tested for fuel consumption gave a mean of 26.4 kilometers per liter with a standard
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Kapaki Katea
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Forty-nine items are randomly selected from a population of 500 items. The sample mean is 40 and the sample standard deviation
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myke
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A Today/CNN/Gallup Poll of 1015 adults found that 13% approved of the job Congress was doing in 1995. Find the 95% confidence
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CJ
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A filling machine is designed to fill soda bottles with 16 ounces of soda. The distribution for the weight of the bottles is
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Leo Elvis
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Construct a 99% confidence interval for the population mean, ì. Assume the population has a normal distribution. A group of 19
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Anonymous
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use SPSS to calculate the 90%, 95% and 99% confidence intervals for the mean of the variable weight. Interpret the three
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love
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Assume that a standardized test is designed to have the mean score of 100 and the standard deviation of 15. At the 95%
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virginia
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A simple random sample of 60 items resulted in a sample mean of 96. The population standard deviation is 16.
a. Compute the 95%
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Mia
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The average cost per night of a hotel room in New York City is $273 (SmartMoney, March 2009). Assume this estimate is based on a
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Vanessa
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A study of 60 bolts of carpet showed that their average length was 180 yards. The standard deviation of the population is 6
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hassan
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A food manufacturer samples 7 bags of pretzels off the assembly line and weighs their contents. If the sample mean is 14.2 oz
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Anonymous
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Explaining confidence. A student reads that a 95% confidence interval for the mean ideal weight given by adult American women is
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Mimi
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Given the following information, determine the 68.3 percent, 95.5 percent, and 99.7 percent confidence intervals.
overbar above X
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Anonymous 11/24/13
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Exercise 8.92
Tony's Pizza guarantees all pizza deliveries within 30 minutes of the placement of orders. An agency wants to
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A study of generator related carbon monoxide deaths showed that a sample of 6 recent years had a variance of 16.8 deaths per
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Elise
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The U.S. Dairy Industry wants to estimate the mean yearly milk
consumption. A sample of 16 people reveals the mean yearly
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Jan
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Are there more broken bones in summer or winter? We get records about the number of fractures treated in January and July at a
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Katie
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1. A study of 40 people found that they could do on the average15 pull ups with a standard deviation of .6. Find the 99%
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Anonymous
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A study of 420,048 cell phone users found that 135 of them developed cancer of the brain or nervous system. prior to this study
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Rob
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Suppose x has a mound-shaped distribution with sigma = 9 . A random sample of size 36 has sample mean 20. Is it appropriate to
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Steph
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For each of the following confidence intervals, indicate how much of the distribution would be placed in the cutoff region for a
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jerry
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A random sample of 250 men yielded 175 who said they'd ridden a motorcycle at some time in their lives, while a similar sample
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John
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Answer the question Yes or No. Sam computed a 90% confidence interval for from a specific random sample of size n. He claims
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Desperate
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1) Construct a confidence interval of the population proportion at the given level of confidence.
x=60,n=300, 99% confidence. The
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Erin
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A sample of 352 subscribers to Wired magazine shows the mean time spent using the Internet is 13.4 hours per week, with a sample
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Annette
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