Suppose that an accounting firm does a study to determine the time needed to complete one person's tax forms. It randomly surveys 100 people. The sample mean is 22.4 hours. There is a known population standard deviation of 6.4 hours. The population distribution is assumed to be normal. NOTE: If you are using a Student's t-distribution, you may assume that the underlying population is normally distributed. (In general, you must first prove that assumption, though.)
NOTE: If you are using a Student's t-distribution, you may assume that the underlying population is
1. In words, define the random variables X and X
-The level of confidence would be larger because we have collected a smaller sample, obtaining less accurate information.
-The level of confidence would be smaller because we have collected a smaller sample, obtaining less accurate information.
-There would be no change.
3. Suppose that the firm decided that it needed to be at least 96% confident of the population mean length of time to within one hour. How would the number of people the firm surveys change? Why?
-The number of people surveyed would decrease because more accurate information requires a smaller sample.
-The number of people surveyed would increase because more accurate information requires a larger sample.
-There would be no change.
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