In: Statistics and Probability
Golden Bee Honey
Prompt: The Golden Bee Honey Company sells
honey in 50-pound cans to several large food processors.
Historically, the weight of the cans has been normally distributed.
One of their customers complained that they were not getting the
full weight they paid for. You were sent to the customer’s location
to investigate. You pulled 16 cans from their last shipment and
weighed them. The sample had a mean weight of 50.48 pounds with a
standard deviation of 0.42 pounds.
Response Parameters
Construct a confidence interval for the mean using the
sample mean, s, and n provided.
Which of the three confidence interval equations
should you use? Why?
What confidence level are you using? Why?
What are limits on your confidence interval?
What do they mean statistically?
What do they mean in terms of this problem?
Was the customer justified in their
complain?