Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (7th Edition)
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Author: Ron Larson, Betsy Farber
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 6, Problem 6.1.3RE
(a)
To determine
To construct and interpret: The 90% confidence interval for the population
(b)
To determine
To check: Whether it seems possible that the population mean could be within 10% of the sample mean or not.
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Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (7th Edition)
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