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Confidence Intervals 

Fill in the blank: 

  1. As the level of confidence increases, the accuracy of your estimate_________
  2. If I am dealing with 45 degrees of freedom (df) and a one sample t-test, then I can assume that my sample size is n=_____
  3. If my sample size n=6, then I am dealing with how many degrees of freedom?_______
  4. Using the Table Family of T-distributions, answer the following:
  5. Working at 95% confidence with two-tails and n=6, identify the corresponding critical value_______
  6. Woking at 95% confidence with one tail and n=130, identify the corresponding critical value_______
  7. Woking at 99% confidence with two tails and n=59, identify the corresponding critical value_______

Build a confidence Interval: 

Five hundred (500) people attended the Montreal Art Fair. Information was collected from a random sample of 29 visitors and indicates an average amount of money spent per person of $38.75, with a sample standard deviation of $6.33.

Based on this information, develop a 99% confidence interval to provide an estimate of the mean expenditure per person for the entire population of visitors.

  1. Show All of your calculations
  2. Answer: The estimate of the true mean of the population expenditure per person falls somewhere between $______ and $_______ . 
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