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ISBN: 9781337652551

Author: Charles Henry Brase, Corrinne Pellillo Brase

Publisher: Cengage Learning

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Chapter 7.1, Problem 11P

Basic Computation: Confidence Interval Suppose x has a normal distribution with σ = 6. A random sample of size 16 has sample mean 50.

(a) Check Requirements Is it appropriate to use a normal distribution to compute a confidence interval for the population mean μ? Explain.
(b) Find a 90% confidence interval for μ.
(c) Interpretation Explain the meaning of the confidence interval you computed.

Features Features Normal distribution is characterized by two parameters, mean (µ) and standard deviation (σ). When graphed, the mean represents the center of the bell curve and the graph is perfectly symmetric about the center. The mean, median, and mode are all equal for a normal distribution. The standard deviation measures the data's spread from the center. The higher the standard deviation, the more the data is spread out and the flatter the bell curve looks. Variance is another commonly used measure of the spread of the distribution and is equal to the square of the standard deviation.

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