A government agency is interested in coyote weights. They take a SRS of 34 coyotes from western states and find that they have a mean weight of 12.4 kilograms (kg) with a standard deviation of 2.1 kg. They also take a random sample of 41 coyotes from eastern states andfind they have a. mean weight of 13.6 kilograms (kg) with a standard deviation of 2.3 kg. Givela 80% confidence interval for the average extra amount that eastern coyotes weigh. Provide a 1-2 sentence explanation of what your results mean in addition to appropriately stating your results in a complete sentence.

Definition Definition Measure of central tendency that is the average of a given data set. The mean value is evaluated as the quotient of the sum of all observations by the sample size. The mean, in contrast to a median, is affected by extreme values. Very large or very small values can distract the mean from the center of the data. Arithmetic mean: The most common type of mean is the arithmetic mean. It is evaluated using the formula: μ = 1 N ∑ i = 1 N x i Other types of means are the geometric mean, logarithmic mean, and harmonic mean. Geometric mean: The nth root of the product of n observations from a data set is defined as the geometric mean of the set: G = x 1 x 2 ... x n n Logarithmic mean: The difference of the natural logarithms of the two numbers, divided by the difference between the numbers is the logarithmic mean of the two numbers. The logarithmic mean is used particularly in heat transfer and mass transfer. ln x 2 − ln x 1 x 2 − x 1 Harmonic mean: The inverse of the arithmetic mean of the inverses of all the numbers in a data set is the harmonic mean of the data. 1 1 x 1 + 1 x 2 + ...