In: Statistics and Probability
John measured the total playing time of 35 randomly chosen CDs from his very large collection and found a mean of 79.7 minutes and a standard deviation of 9.8 minutes. Give the 93% confidence interval for the population mean, assuming that the population is approximately normally distributed. Round the endpoints to two decimal places.
Solution :
Given that,
= 79.7
= 9.8
n = 35
At 93% confidence level the z is ,
= 1 - 93% = 1 - 0.93 = 0.07
/ 2 = 0.07 / 2 = 0.035
Z/2 = Z0.035 = 1.81
Margin of error = E = Z/2* ( /n)
= 1.81 * (9.8 / 35)
= 3.00
At 93% confidence interval estimate of the population mean is,
- E < < + E
79.7 - 3.00 < < 79.7 + 3.00
76.70 < < 82.70
(76.70 , 82.70)