The effectiveness of a blood-pressure drug is being investigated. An experimenter finds that, on average, the reduction in systolic blood pressure is 72.5 for a sample of size 25 and standard deviation 9.3. Estimate how much the drug will lower a typical patient's systolic blood pressure (using a 80% confidence level). Assume the data is from a normally distributed population. Enter your answer as a tri-linear inequality accurate to three decimal places. <µ<

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The effectiveness of a blood-pressure drug is being investigated. An experimenter finds that, on average, the
reduction in systolic blood pressure is 72.5 for a sample of size 25 and standard deviation 9.3. Estimate how
much the drug will lower a typical patient's systolic blood pressure (using a 80% confidence level). Assume the
data is from a normally distributed population.
Enter your answer as a tri-linear inequality accurate to three decimal places.
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Transcribed Image Text:The effectiveness of a blood-pressure drug is being investigated. An experimenter finds that, on average, the reduction in systolic blood pressure is 72.5 for a sample of size 25 and standard deviation 9.3. Estimate how much the drug will lower a typical patient's systolic blood pressure (using a 80% confidence level). Assume the data is from a normally distributed population. Enter your answer as a tri-linear inequality accurate to three decimal places. <H<
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Obtain the 80% confidence interval for the reduction of a typical patient's systolic blood pressure.

 

The 80% confidence interval for the reduction of a typical patient's systolic blood pressure is obtained below:

Statistics homework question answer, step 1, image 1

Use EXCEL Procedure for finding the critical value of z.

Follow the instruction to obtain the critical value of z:

  1. Open EXCEL
  2. Go to Formula bar.
  3. In formula bar enter the function as“=NORMINV”
  4. Enter the probability as 0.90.
  5. Enter the mean as 0 and the Standard deviation as 1.
  6. Click enter

EXCEL output:

From the EXCEL output, the critical value of z at the 80% confidence level is 1.282.

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