Intro Stats, Books a la Carte Edition (5th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134210285
Author: Richard D. De Veaux, Paul Velleman, David E. Bock
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 14, Problem 30E
Parking Hoping to lure more shoppers downtown, a city builds a new public parking garage in the central business district. The city plans to pay for the structure through parking fees. During a two-month period (44 weekdays), daily fees collected averaged $126, with a standard deviation of $15.
- a) What assumptions must you make in order to use these statistics for inference?
- b) Write a 90% confidence interval for the
mean daily income this parking garage will generate. - c) Interpret this confidence interval in context.
- d) Explain what “90% confidence” means in this context.
- e) The consultant who advised the city on this project predicted that parking revenues would average $130 per day. Based on your confidence interval, do you think the consultant was correct? Why?
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