UNDERSTANDING BASIC STAT LL BUND >A< F
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Chapter 8.1, Problem 11P
Basic Computation: Confidence Interval Suppose x has a
(a)Check Requirements Is it appropriate to use a normal distribution to compute a confidence interval for the population mean
(b) Find a 90% confidence interval for ft.
(c) Interpretation Explain the meaning of the confidence interval you computed.
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