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A bank manager would like the know the mean wait time for his customers. He randomly selects 25 customers and record the amount of time wait to see a teller. The sample mean is 7.25 minutes with a standard deviation of 1.1 minutes. Construct a 99% confidence interval for the mean wait time. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.
Lower Limit =
Upper Limit =
Write a summary sentence for the confidence interval you calculated
Given that,
= 7.25
s =1.1
n = 25
Degrees of freedom = df = n - 1 =25 - 1 =24
At 99% confidence level the t is ,
= 1 - 99% = 1 - 0.99 = 0.01
/ 2 = 0.01 / 2 = 0.005
t /2 df = t0.005,24 = 2.797 ( using student t table)
Margin of error = E = t/2,df * (s /n)
= 2.797* ( 1.1/ 25) = 0.62
The 99% confidence interval estimate of the population mean is,
- E < < + E
7.25 - 0.62< < 7.25+ 0.62
6.63 < < 7.87
( 6.63 , 7.87)
Lower Limit =6.63
Upper Limit =7.87