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Listed below are the amounts of net worth (in millions of dollars) of the ten wealthiest celebrities in a country. Construct a 90% confidence interval. What does the result tell us about the population of all celebrities? Do the data appear to be from a normally distributed population as required? 267 198 192 169 163 153 147 147 147 147 What is the confidence interval estimate of the population mean u?
Answer:
Given that,
Listed below are the amounts of net worth (in millions of dollars) of the ten wealthiest celebrities in a country.
Construct a 90% confidence interval. What does the result tell us about the population of all celebrities? Do the data appear to be from a normally distributed population as required:
267,198, 192, 169, 163, 153, 147, 147, 147, 147
Sample size = n= 10
Sample mean= =173
Standard deviation=s=38.067
We have to construct 90% confidence interval,
Formula is,
Here E is a margin of error.
The degrees of freedom =n-1=10-1=9
The level of significance =0.10
tc=1.833 (Using t-table)
=36.7768/3.1623
E=11.6298
So the confidence interval is (173-11.6298, 173+11.6298)
=(161.3702, 184.6298)
=(161.37, 184.63)