In: Statistics and Probability
In a survey, 25 people were asked how much they spent on their
child's last birthday gift. The results were roughly shaped as a
normal curve with a mean of $40 and standard deviation of $6.
Construct a confidence interval at a 98% confidence level.
Give your answers to one decimal place.
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Karen wants to advertise how many chocolate chips are in each
Big Chip cookie at her bakery. She randomly selects a sample of 75
cookies and finds that the number of chocolate chips per cookie in
the sample has a mean of 17.5 and a standard deviation of 2.4. What
is the 90% confidence interval for the number of chocolate chips
per cookie for Big Chip cookies? Enter your answers accurate to 4
decimal places.
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If n=370 and ˆpp^ (p-hat) = 0.41, construct a 90% confidence
interval.
As in the reading, in your calculations:
--Use z = 1.645 for a 90% confidence interval
--Use z = 2 for a 95% confidence interval
--Use z = 2.576 for a 99% confidence interval.
Give your answers to three decimals
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