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Author: Neil A. Weiss

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Chapter 8.2, Problem 71E

Preliminary data analyses indicate that you can reasonably apply the z-interval procedure (Procedure 8.1 on page 339) in Exercises 8.69–8.74.

8.71 Toxic Mushrooms? Cadmium, a heavy metal, is toxic to animals. Mushrooms, however, are able to absorb and accumulate cadmium at high concentrations. The Czech and Slovak governments have set a safety limit for cadmium in dry vegetables at 0.5 part per million (ppm). M. Melgar et al. measured the cadmium levels in a random sample of the edible mushroom Boletus pinicola and published the results in the paper “Influence of Some Factors in Toxicity and Accumulation of Cd from Edible Wild Macro fungi in NW Spain (Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Vol. B33(4), pp. 439–455). Here are the data obtained by the researchers.

Chapter 8.2, Problem 71E, Preliminary data analyses indicate that you can reasonably apply the z-interval procedure (Procedure

Find and interpret a 99% confidence interval for the mean cadmium level of all Boletus pinicola mushrooms. Assume a population standard deviation of cadmium levels in Boletus pinicola mushrooms of 0.37 ppm. (Note: The sum of the data is 6.31 ppm.)

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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Solution Summary: The author analyzes the 99% confidence interval of the population mean cadmium level for 12 randomly selected edible mushroom Boletus pinicola.

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