Applied Statistics in Business and Economics
5th Edition
ISBN: 9780077837303
Author: David Doane, Lori Seward Senior Instructor of Operations Management
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 8, Problem 70CE
Dave the jogger runs the same route every day (about 2.2 miles). On 18 consecutive days, he recorded the number of steps on his Fitbit. The results were
(a) Construct a 95 percent confidence interval for the true mean number of steps Dave takes on his run. (b) What
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Applied Statistics in Business and Economics
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