Introductory Statistics
Introductory Statistics
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ISBN: 9781938168208
Author: Barbara Illowsky, Susan Dean
Publisher: OpenStax College
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Chapter 8, Problem 29P

Use the following information to answer the next 14 exercises: The mean age for all Foothill College students for a recent Fall term was 33.2. The population standard deviation has been pretty consistent at 15. Suppose that twenty-five Winter students were randomly selected. The mean age for the sample was 30.4. We are interested in the true mean age for Winter

Foothill College students. Let X = the age of a Winter Foothill College student.

As a result of your answer to Exercise 8.26. state the exact distribution to use when calculating the confidence interval.

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