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Chapter 8: Q 37. (page 522)
More online sales Refer to Exercise 35. Calculate and interpret the standard error of for these data.
The value of standard error is.
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Age and September 11 Refer to Exercise 42. The study also reported that of
millennials included in their top-10 list and of baby boomers included .
a. Explain why you do not have enough information to give confidence intervals for
millennials and baby boomers separately.
b. Do you think a confidence interval for baby boomers would have a larger or smaller margin of error than the estimate from Exercise 42? Explain your answer.
Running red lights A random digit dialing telephone survey of 880 drivers asked, 鈥淩ecalling the last ten traffic lights you drove through, how many of them were red when you entered the intersections?鈥� Of the 880 respondents, 171 admitted that at least one light had been red.37
a. Construct and interpret a 95% confidence interval for the population proportion.
b. Nonresponse is a practical problem for this survey鈥攐nly 21.6% of calls that reached a live person were completed. Another practical problem is that people may not give truthful answers. What is the likely direction of the bias: Do you think more or fewer than 171 of the 880 respondents really ran a red light? Why? Are these sources of bias included in the margin of error?
More prayer in school Refer to Exercise . Interpret the confidence level.
A quality control inspector will measure the salt content (in milligrams) in a random
sample of bags of potato chips from an hour of production. Which of the following would result in the smallest margin of error in estimating the mean salt content ?
a. confidence;
b. confidence;
c. confidence;
d. confidence;
e. n = 100 at any confidence level
Going to the prom Tonya wants to estimate the proportion of seniors in her school who plan to attend the prom. She interviews an SRS of of the seniors in her school and finds that plan to go to the prom.
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