EBK UNDERSTANDING BASIC STATISTICS
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Author: BRASE
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Chapter 3.1, Problem 13P
Critical Thinking Consider the numbers
23455
(a) Compute the
(b) If the numbers represent codes for the colors of T-shirts ordered from a catalog, which average(s) would make sense?
(c) If the numbers represent one-way mileages for trails to different lakes. which average(s) would nuke sense?
(d) Suppose the numbers represent survey responses from 1 to 5, with 1 = disagree strongly, 2 = disagree, 3 = agree, 4 = agree strongly, and 5 = agree very strongly. Which averages make sense?
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Sales personnel for Skillings Distributors submit weekly reports listing the customer contacts made during the week. A sample of 65 weekly reports showed a sample mean of 19.5 customer contacts per week. The sample standard deviation was 5.2. Provide 90% and 95% confidence intervals for the population mean number of weekly customer contacts for the sales personnel.
90% Confidence interval, to 2 decimals:
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EBK UNDERSTANDING BASIC STATISTICS
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