The EPA wants to test a randomly selected sample of nn water specimens and estimate the mean daily rate of pollution produced by a mining operation. If the EPA wants a 90.3% confidence interval with a margin of error of 1 milligram per liter (mg/L), how many water specimens are required in the sample? Assume prior knowledge indicates that pollution readings in water samples taken during a day have been approximately normally distributed with a standard deviation of 4 (mg/L). n=

The EPA wants to test a randomly selected sample of nn water specimens and estimate the mean daily rate of pollution produced by a mining operation. If the EPA wants a 90.3% confidence interval with a margin of error of 1 milligram per liter (mg/L), how many water specimens are required in the sample? Assume prior knowledge indicates that pollution readings in water samples taken during a day have been approximately normally distributed with a standard deviation of 4 (mg/L). n=

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Chapter10: Statistics

Section10.5: Comparing Sets Of Data

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Features Features Normal distribution is characterized by two parameters, mean (µ) and standard deviation (σ). When graphed, the mean represents the center of the bell curve and the graph is perfectly symmetric about the center. The mean, median, and mode are all equal for a normal distribution. The standard deviation measures the data's spread from the center. The higher the standard deviation, the more the data is spread out and the flatter the bell curve looks. Variance is another commonly used measure of the spread of the distribution and is equal to the square of the standard deviation.

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