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Chapter 8: Q. 59 (page 518)
59.Blood pressure A medical study finds that and for the seated systolic blood pressure of the members of one treatment group. What is the standard error of the mean? Interpret this value in context.
The standard error of the mean is .
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Losing weight A Gallup Poll in November found that of the people in its sample said 鈥淵es鈥� when asked, 鈥淲ould you like to lose weight?鈥� Gallup announced: 鈥淔or results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the margin of (sampling) error is percentage points.鈥�
(a) Explain what the margin of error means in this setting.
(b) State and interpret the confidence interval.
(c) Interpret the confidence level.
One reason for using a distribution instead of the standard Normal curve to find critical values when calculating a level C confidence interval for a population mean is that
(a) can be used only for large samples.
(b) requires that you know the population standard deviation .
(c) requires that you can regard your data as an SRS from the population.
(d) the standard Normal table doesn't include confidence levels at the bottom.
(e) a critical value will lead to a wider interval than a critical value.
confidence Find confidence interval using Table A or your calculator. Show your method.
In each of the following situations, discuss whether it would be appropriate to construct a one-sample interval to estimate the population mean.
(a) We want to estimate the average age at which U.S. presidents have died. So we obtain a list of all U.S. presidents who have died and their ages at death.
(b) How much time do students spend on the Internet? We collect data from the members of our AP Statistics class and calculate the mean amount of time that each student spent on the Internet yesterday.
(c) Judy is interested in the reading level of a medical journal. She records the length of a random sample of words from a multipage article. The Minitab histogram below displays the data.
An online poll posed the following question:
It is now possible for school students to log on to Internet sites and download homework. Everything from book reports to doctoral dissertations can be downloaded free or for a fee. Do you believe that giving a student who is caught plagiarizing an F for their assignment is the right punishment?
Of the people who responded, clicked 鈥淵es.鈥� That鈥檚 of the sample. Based on this sample, a confidence interval for the percent of the population who would say 鈥淵es鈥� is . Which of the three inference conditions is violated? Why is this confidence interval worthless?
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