Answered: To assess the precision of a laboratory…

MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications

6th Edition

ISBN:9781119256830

Author:Amos Gilat

Publisher:Amos Gilat

Chapter1: Starting With Matlab

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To assess the precision of a laboratory scale, we measure a block known to have a mass of 1 gram. We measure the block n times and record the mean ??̅of the measurements. Suppose the scale readings are normally distributed with unknown mean μ and standard deviation σ= 0.001 g. How large should n be so that a 95% confidence interval for μ has a margin of error of ± 0.0001?

A. 20

B. 385

C. 10,000

D. 66,358

E. 384

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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