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The Twister Roller Coaster always has a long line of thrill seekers waiting to take a ride on it. A random sample of 60 riders waited in line a mean time of 42 minutes with a standard deviation of 12 minutes. Find a 90% confidence interval for the population mean waiting time in the Twister line.
Solution:
Given that:
= 42 minutes
s = 12 minutes
n = 60
Degrees of freedom = df = n - 1 =60 - 1 = 59
At 90% confidence level the t is ,
= 1 - 90% = 1 - 0.90 = 0.1
/ 2 = 0.1 / 2 = 0.05
t /2,df = t0.05,59 = 1.671
Margin of error = E = t/2,df * (s /n)
= 1.671 * ( 12/ 60)
= 2.5887
The 90% confidence interval estimate of the population mean is,
- E < < + E
42 - 2.5887 < < 42 + 2.5887
39.4113 < < 44.5887
(39.4113,44.5887)