In: Statistics and Probability
A research group conducted an extensive survey of 3147 wage and salaried workers on issues ranging from relationships with their bosses to household chores. The data were gathered through hour-long telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample. In response to the question, "What does success mean to you?" 1581 responded, "Personal satisfaction from doing a good job." Let p be the population proportion of all wage and salaried workers who would respond the same way to the stated question. Find a 90% confidence interval for p. (Round your answers to three decimal places.)
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The Wind Mountain archaeological site is located in southwestern New Mexico. Wind Mountain was home to an ancient culture of prehistoric Native Americans called Anasazi. A random sample of excavations at Wind Mountain gave the following depths (in centimeters) from present-day surface grade to the location of significant archaeological artifacts†.
85 | 45 | 120 | 80 | 75 | 55 | 65 | 60 |
65 | 95 | 90 | 70 | 75 | 65 | 68 |
(a) Use a calculator with mean and sample standard deviation keys to find the sample mean x and sample standard deviation s. (Round your answers to one decimal place.)
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(b) Compute a 80% confidence interval for the mean depth μ
at which archaeological artifacts from the Wind Mountain excavation
site can be found. (Round your answers to one decimal place.)
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