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Intro Stats
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ISBN: 9780321826275
Author: Richard D. De Veaux
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 18, Problem 17E

Meal plan After surveying students at Dartmouth College, a campus organization calculated that a 95% confidence interval for the mean cost of food for one term (of three in the Dartmouth trimester calendar) is ($1372, $1562). Now the organization is trying to write its report and is considering the following interpretations. Comment on each.

  1. a) 95% of all students pay between $1372 and $1562 for food.
  2. b) 95% of the sampled students paid between $1372 and $1562.
  3. c) We’re 95% sure that students in this sample averaged between $1372 and $1562 for food.
  4. d) 95% of all samples of students will have average food costs between $1372 and $1562.
  5. e) We’re 95% sure that the average amount all students pay is between $1372 and $1562.
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