A manufacturer produces paper that has a mean iength of 10 inches and a standard deviation of 0.1. Twenty-five papers are sampled and measured with a mean paper length of 9.50 in. QUESTION SOLUTION a. What is the best point estimate for the true mean length of the paper? b. What is the standard crror of this point estimate? c. What is the maximunm error of this point estimate? d. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the true mean length of paper produced by this company.

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A manufacturer produces paper that has a mean length of i0 inches and a standard deviation of 0.1. Twenty-five
papers are sampled and measured with a mean paper length of 9.50 in.
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SOLUTION
a. What is the best point estimate for
the true mean length of the paper?
b. What is the standard crror of this
point estimate?
c. What is the maximum error of this
point estimate?
d. Construct
95% confidence
interval for the true mean length of
paper produced by this company.
Transcribed Image Text:A manufacturer produces paper that has a mean length of i0 inches and a standard deviation of 0.1. Twenty-five papers are sampled and measured with a mean paper length of 9.50 in. QUESTION SOLUTION a. What is the best point estimate for the true mean length of the paper? b. What is the standard crror of this point estimate? c. What is the maximum error of this point estimate? d. Construct 95% confidence interval for the true mean length of paper produced by this company.
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