Adults aged 16 or older were assessed in three types of literacy: prose, document, and quantitative. The scores in document literacy were the same for 19- to 24-year-olds and for 40- to 49-year-olds. A random sample of scores from a later year showed the following statistics.Age groupMean scorePopulation standard deviationsample size19-2427256.64040-4931852.231Construct a 95% confidence interval for the true difference in mean scores for these two groups. What does your interval say about the claim that there is no difference in mean scores?

From given data we have : Age group Mean score Population standard deviation sample size 19-24…

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Adults aged 16 or older were assessed in three types of literacy: prose, document, and quantitative. The scores in document literacy were the same for 19- to 24-year-olds and for 40- to 49-year-olds. A random sample of scores from a later year showed the following statistics.

Age group	Mean score	Population standard deviation	sample size
19-24	272	56.6	40
40-49	318	52.2	31

Construct a 95% confidence interval for the true difference in mean scores for these two groups. What does your interval say about the claim that there is no difference in mean scores?

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