Intro Stats, Books a la Carte Edition (5th Edition)
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Author: Richard D. De Veaux, Paul Velleman, David E. Bock
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 14.2, Problem 1JC
Every 10 years, the United States takes a census. The census tries to count every resident. There have been two forms, known as the “short form,” answered by most people, and the “long form,” slogged through by about one in six or seven households chosen at random. (For the 2010 Census, the long form was replaced by the American Community Survey.) According to the Census Bureau (www.census.gov), “. . . each estimate based on the long form responses has an associated confidence interval.”
1. Why does the Census Bureau need a confidence interval for long-form information but not for the questions that appear on both the long and short forms?
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Chapter 14 Solutions
Intro Stats, Books a la Carte Edition (5th Edition)
Ch. 14.2 - Every 10 years, the United States takes a census....Ch. 14.2 - Prob. 2JCCh. 14.2 - Prob. 3JCCh. 14.2 - Every 10 years, the United States takes a census....Ch. 14.2 - Prob. 5JCCh. 14.3 - Prob. 6JCCh. 14 - Salmon A specialty food company sells whole King...Ch. 14 - LSAT The LSAT (a test taken for law school...Ch. 14 - Prob. 3ECh. 14 - Prob. 4E
Ch. 14 - More tips The waiter in Exercise 3 usually waits...Ch. 14 - More groceries Suppose the store in Exercise 4 had...Ch. 14 - Prob. 7ECh. 14 - t-models, part II Using the t tables, software, or...Ch. 14 - t-models, part III Describe how the shape, center,...Ch. 14 - Prob. 10ECh. 14 - Prob. 11ECh. 14 - Home sales again In the previous exercise, you...Ch. 14 - Prob. 13ECh. 14 - Salaries A survey finds that a 95% confidence...Ch. 14 - Cattle Livestock are given a special feed...Ch. 14 - Prob. 16ECh. 14 - Prob. 17ECh. 14 - Student survey revisited Chapter 2, Exercise 86...Ch. 14 - Prob. 19ECh. 14 - Prob. 20ECh. 14 - Meal plan After surveying students at Dartmouth...Ch. 14 - Prob. 22ECh. 14 - Prob. 23ECh. 14 - Crawling Data collected by child development...Ch. 14 - Prob. 25ECh. 14 - Credit card charges A credit card company takes a...Ch. 14 - Prob. 27ECh. 14 - Pulse rates In the latest National Health and...Ch. 14 - Prob. 29ECh. 14 - Parking Hoping to lure more shoppers downtown, a...Ch. 14 - Prob. 31ECh. 14 - Prob. 32ECh. 14 - Speed of light In 1882, Michelson measured the...Ch. 14 - Michelson After his first attempt to determine the...Ch. 14 - Prob. 35ECh. 14 - Prob. 36ECh. 14 - Prob. 37ECh. 14 - Hot dogs A nutrition lab tested 40 hot dogs to see...Ch. 14 - Prob. 39ECh. 14 - Prob. 40ECh. 14 - Prob. 41ECh. 14 - Computer lab fees The technology committee has...Ch. 14 - Prob. 43ECh. 14 - CEO compensation The total compensation of the...Ch. 14 - Prob. 45ECh. 14 - CEOs, revisited In Exercise 44, you looked at the...Ch. 14 - GPAs A colleges data about the incoming freshmen...Ch. 14 - Prob. 48ECh. 14 - Lucky spot? A reporter working on a story about...Ch. 14 - Prob. 50ECh. 14 - Pregnancy Assume that the duration of human...Ch. 14 - Rainfall Statistics from Cornells Northeast...Ch. 14 - Prob. 53ECh. 14 - Prob. 54ECh. 14 - Prob. 55ECh. 14 - Doritos Some students checked 6 bags of Doritos...Ch. 14 - Prob. 57ECh. 14 - Prob. 58ECh. 14 - Chips Ahoy! In 1998, as an advertising campaign,...Ch. 14 - Yogurt Consumer Reports tested 11 brands of...Ch. 14 - Prob. 61ECh. 14 - Prob. 62ECh. 14 - Prob. 63ECh. 14 - Wind power Should you generate electricity with...
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