Intro Stats, Books a la carte Plus NEW MyLab Statistics with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (5th Edition)
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Chapter CR, Problem 21E
PVA The Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) is a Congressionally chartered veterans’ service organization that represents the interests of paralyzed veterans. The agency provides a
- a) Describe the distribution of the donors’ ages, including any unusual features. Give a 95% confidence interval for the
mean age of all donors in the database. - b) The average age at which people buy homes in the United States is about 34. So, in general, homeowners are older than non-homeowners. Test whether homeowners, on average, are older than non-homeowners in this data set. Explain the discrepancy.
- c) Are men more likely than women to own homes? Use the data set to test a hypothesis and comment on the result.
- d) Describe the distribution of Current Gift for these donors.
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